synaptic junction

Workers with repeated exposure suffer severe convulsions resulting from degradation of the synaptic junctions.

It is transported within the axon and across synaptic junctions until it reaches the central nervous system.

Alpha-neurexins interact with neurexophilins and possibly function in the synaptic junctions of the vertebrate nervous system.

At the ganglia the fibers form synaptic junctions with the dendrites of as many as twenty different cell bodies.

Repetition of stimuli strengthens the synaptic junctions between the cells - and hence the formation of the nerve pathways.

Sponges have no cells connected to each other by synaptic junctions, that is, no neurons, and therefore no nervous system.

Roughly, a greater preponderance of receptor sites at the synaptic junctions indicated greater connectivity and, in turn, greater intelligence.

Some synaptic junctions appear partway along an axon as it extends-these are called en passant ("in passing") synapses.

Protocadherins, a member of the cadherin family, mediate the adhesion of neurons to their target cells at synapses otherwise known as synaptic junctions.

Homomeric glycine receptors composed exclusively of alpha-1 subunits exhibit normal ion channel electrophysiology, but are not sequestered at the synaptic junction.

Synaptic junctions between neurons lie in the ganglionic neuropile (especially the glomeruli), where associations occur between axon branches or dendrites.

Processes of each neuron put it into contact by synaptic junctions with other nerve cells (Chiarodo et al., 1970) or with sensory structures or effector organs.

Other neurotransmitters such as dopamine are able to diffuse away from their targeted synaptic junctions and are eliminated from the body via the kidneys, or destroyed in the liver.

Gephyrin is essential for glycine receptor clustering at synaptic junctions through its action of binding both the glycine receptor beta subunit and internal cellular microtubule structures.

Some are not; and it is possible for a preganglionic fiber to go right through the sympathetic trunks, making no synaptic junction there at all, joining instead with ganglia located in front of the vertebrae.

In order to for communication to occur between a neuron and its target cell, a wave of depolarization travels the length of the neuron and causes neurotransmitters to be released into the synaptic junction.

The majority of these axons are considered to be "round shaped" or type R. These R axons are mostly glutamatergic and contain round synaptic vesicles and form asymmetric synaptic junctions.

Gerlach summed up his theory by stating: The reticular theory predominated until the 1890s when Ramon y Cajal brought forth his neuron doctrine of synaptic junctions, which in essence replaced the reticular theory.

(Neurotransmitters are naturally produced molecules that may be sequestered following the propagation of an action potential down a nerve towards the axon terminal, which in turn may cross the synaptic junction between neurons, enabling neurons to communicate in a variety of ways.)

Manfred mumbles incoherently: "a mass of propagating decision trees, fractal compression, lots of synaptic junctions lubricated with friendly endorphins-" Across the room, the bootleg pharmacopoeia is cranking up to manufacture some heavy tranquillisers: Monica heads for the kitchen to get something for him to drink them in.

He presses her hand, takes a final turn into a deep blue cavern free of traffic except for the two of them, and pulls her closer as their speed increases, synaptic junctions flashing past until they blur, only the absence of wind rush destroying the illusion of traveling some mad highway at supersonic speeds.

Transmission across the callosum takes time and necessitates crossing at least one synaptic junction, during which the information is said to undergo some degree of transformation such that it arrives at the second hemisphere in a comparatively degraded state (McKeever and Huling, 1971a; Gross, 1972; Gibson, Dimond and Gazzaniga, 1972).