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Synapses
Known as:
Synaptic junction
, Synapsis
, neuron-neuron junction
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The junction between a nerve fiber of one neuron and another neuron or muscle fiber or glial cell; the site of interneuronal communication. As the…
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Chemical synapse
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Neuroeffector Junction
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Intercellular Junctions
Nerve Endings
intercellular connection
neuron structure
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1999
1999
Stochastic model of central synapses: slow diffusion of transmitter interacting with spatially distributed receptors and transporters.
Julia Trommershäuser
,
J. Marienhagen
,
Annette Zippelius
Journal of Theoretical Biology
1999
Corpus ID: 15872787
A detailed mathematical analysis of the diffusion process of neurotransmitter inside the synaptic cleft is presented and the…
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1988
1988
Recruitment of ineffective synapses after injury.
Wall Pd
1988
Corpus ID: 77033369
This paper describes three ways in which cells may expand their receptive fields with no concurrent change of morphology. (a) The…
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1984
1984
The search for principles of neuronal organization.
M. Burrows
Journal of Experimental Biology
1984
Corpus ID: 19777968
To say that the brain is complex is to state the obvious, and yet from that statement inevitably comes the realization that there…
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1982
1982
Chemoreception and mechanoreception in the gastropod molluscPleurobranchaea californica
Gerd Bicker
,
W. Davis
,
E. M. Matera
,
M. Kovac
,
D. J. StormoGipson
Journal of Comparative Physiology
1982
Corpus ID: 27765910
Summary1.Sensory reception in the molluscPleurobranchaea californica was studied in whole animals and surgically reduced…
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1978
1978
Beneficial Action of a New Angiotensin‐ Converting Enzyme Inhibitor (SQ 14,225) in Hemorrhagic Shock in Cats
G. Trachte
,
Allan M. Lefer
Circulation Research
1978
Corpus ID: 8265230
A new angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (CEI), SQ 14,225, was infused at 0.5 mg/kg per hr, iv, into cats to determine its…
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1976
1976
The formation of synapses between chick embryo skeletal muscle and ciliary ganglia grown in vitro.
W. Betz
Journal of Physiology
1976
Corpus ID: 23344117
1. Chick embryo ciliary ganglia (explanted) and skeletal muscle (dissociated) were grown together in vitro for up to 3 weeks…
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1975
1975
Pharmacological and ultrastructural maturation of serotonergic synapses during ontogeny.
Tissari Ah
1975
Corpus ID: 89126536
: Studies were made on the course of maturation of serotonergic synapses during ontogeny in rat brain. Mature synaptosomes…
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Review
1973
Review
1973
Biochemical physiology of central synapses.
and R J Baldessarine
,
M. Karobath
Annual Review of Physiology
1973
Corpus ID: 22723598
The complexity and relative inaccessibility of the central nervous system have greatly impeded the study of synaptic physiology…
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1962
1962
Sensory transmission in visual pathway in various arousal states of cat.
Norio Taira
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Junji Okuda
Tohoku journal of experimental medicine
1962
Corpus ID: 28227492
Transmission of sensory messages under reticular activation was investigated at the three levels of the visual pathway in locally…
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1961
1961
Pharmacological Studies on the Auditory Synapses in a Grasshopper
N. Suga
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Y. Katsuki
1961
Corpus ID: 22504651
1. Picrotoxin, eserin, butyrylcholine and acetylcholine bring about increase of impulse discharges on the T large fibre in the…
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