Synapse. Computer artwork of a synapse,the junction between two nerve cells. Other nerve cell bodies are present. Synapses transmit electrical signals from one nerve cell to the next. When an electrical signal reaches a synapse it triggers the release of chemicals called neurotransmitters (blue spheres) from vesicles (pink) in the terminal swelling of the presynaptic cell. The vesicles burst through the membrane,& neurotransmitters cross a microscopic gap called the synaptic cleft,and bind to the receptor nerve cell. The neurotransmitter changes the permeability of the postsynaptic membrane,causing it to propagate an electrical impulse | |
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