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Electrical Synapses

Known as: Electrical Synapse, Synapse, Electrical, Synapses, Electrical 
Specialized junctions between NEURONS which connect the cytoplasm of one neuron to another allowing direct passage of an ion current.
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Combined effect of chemical and electrical synapses in Hindmarsh-Rose neural networks on synchronization and the rate of information.
In this work we studied the combined action of chemical and electrical synapses in small networks of Hindmarsh-Rose (HR) neurons… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Protein kinase A mediates regulation of gap junctions containing connexin35 through a complex pathway.
Review
2001
Review
2001
Regularization mechanisms of spiking-bursting neurons
1989
1989
Steps in the development of chemical and electrical synapses by pairs of identified leech neurons in culture
  • Y. LiuJ. Nicholls
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B…
  • 1989
  • Corpus ID: 6931104
Experiments have been made to follow the development of chemical and electrical transmission between pairs of leech neurons in… 
1987
1987
Single sensory neurons activate excitatory amino acid receptors in the lamprey spinal cord
1982
1982
Electrotonic synapses are formed by fetal rat sympathetic neurons maintained in a chemically-defined culture medium
1980
1980
Synapse regeneration and signals for directed axonal growth in the central nervous system of the leech.
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
A regenerating neurone in the leech can form an electrical synapse on its severed axon segment
WHEN the nervous system develops, its constituent neurones establish connections with certain selected elements while rejecting… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
An electrophysiological study of chemical and electrical synapses on neurones in the parasympathetic cardiac ganglion of the mudpuppy, Necturus maculosus: evidence for intrinsic ganglionic…
1. The cardiac ganglion of the mudpuppy is situated on a thin sheet of tissue. Two nerve cell types can be distinguished readily… 
1976
1976
Gap junctions in ventral cochlear nucleus of the rat. A possible new example of electrotonic junctions in the mammalian C.N.S.
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