The synaptic cleft in an electrical synapse is much smaller, making it possible for neurons to pass ion currents directly through gap junctions. For this reason, electrical synapses work faster than ...

To make their model more realistic, they measured SIE in the presence of a high level of background synaptic activity, and used increasingly complex models of the postsynaptic neuron. Finally ...

Between impulses the transmitter molecules are rapidly removed from the synaptic cleft to prevent continuous ... reabsorbed back into the presynaptic neuron and restored inside a vesicle ready ...

Serafini and colleagues provide evidence that neuroligin acts as a trans-neuronal signal to induce presynaptic differentiation at neuron–neuron connections in vitro. To form a synaptic ...

This results in enough neurotransmitter being diffused across the synaptic cleft to trigger the impulse in the postsynaptic neuron. This process is called summation.