An electrical impulse cannot directly cross the gap so a different mechanism has to be used. Between impulses the transmitter molecules are rapidly removed from the synaptic cleft to prevent ...

How does one nerve cell transmit the nerve impulse to another cell? Electron microscopy and other methods show that it does so by means of special extensions that deliver a squirt of transmitter ...

However, a series of weak stimuli can combine, increasing the amount of neurotransmitter that is released. This results in enough neurotransmitter being diffused across the synaptic cleft to ...

Perhaps the most unique feature of Synapses is that most chapters were written jointly by authors originating from different laboratories and representing diverse points of view. For example ...

Neurons or nerve cells are the fundamental components ... one neuron to another requires the establishment of a neuronal ...