noun
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The junction between the terminal of a neuron and either another neuron or a muscle or gland cell, over which nerve impulses pass.
verb
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To form a synapse.
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To undergo synapsis.
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The association of homologous maternal and paternal chromosomes during the initial part of meiosis.
Examples of synapses in a Sentence
Transmitters activate the synapses, electrical junctions in the body that stimulate the brain, nerves, and muscle cells to become active and communicate.
A neurotransmitter is a chemical produced by the body that conveys nerve impulses across the gaps (synapses) between nerve cells.
We conclude that from their early functioning, synapses from sensory neurons are strong and from sensory pathway interneurons are weak.
There are probably many subtle factors to consider beyond sheer size, including neurotransmission and the number of synapses per neuron.
Here, the neuron terminal forms fine branches, which make a network of close contacts, called synapses, with other neurons.
These neurons form synapses with properties indistinguishable to primary cultured mouse neurons.
Once the brain no longer has excess synapses to play with, it loses much of its plasticity.
After injury many of these silent synapses become active, leading to a readjustment of CNS function.
Undamaged axons can sprout to make new synapses to fill these vacated sites.
Explain nerve to nerve synapses, during a specific body movement.
It has been urged that the neurons retract during sleep, and that thus at the synapses the gap between nerve cell and nerve cell becomes wider, or that the supporting cells expand between the nerve cells and tend to isolate the latter one from the other.
His electrophysiological studies aim to determine the mechanisms by which new synapses form.
Each pad is also connected to many others, like branches on a tree (or synapses in the brain).
Crucial to this process is a protein called the NMDA receptor, which sits at synapses in the central nervous system.
Motor neurones also form specialized synapses with secretory cells.
Detoxification using adrenergic alpha-2 agonists An excess of noradrenaline at the synapses is responsible for many of the withdrawal symptoms.
Both mechanisms are shown to prefer globally synchronous states for slow synapses as long as the strength of coupling is sufficiently large.
The rhythm depends on fast inhibitory synapses interconnecting the inhibitory neurons.
A continuous lesser "change" or stream of changes sets through the neuron, and is distributed by it to other neurons in the same direction and by the same synapses as are its nerve impulses.