Electrical and chemical synapses shape the dynamics of neural networks, and their functional roles in information processing have been a longstanding question in neurobiology. In this paper, we ...

Key Laboratory of Atomic and Molecular Physics and Functional Materials of Gansu Province, College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China ...

Most nervous systems combine both transmitter-mediated and direct cell–cell communication, known as ‘chemical’ and ‘electrical’ synapses, respectively. Chemical synapses can be identified by their ...

Bio-electrical synapses directly transmit neural signals, by enabling fast current flow between neurons. In contrast, bio-chemical synapses transmit neural signals indirectly, through ...

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Whether in the brain or in the muscles, wherever there are nerve cells, there are synapses. These contact points between neurons form the basis for the transmission of excitation, the ...

A chemical synapse between a motor neuron and a muscle cell is called a neuromuscular junction. They are thus crucial to the biological computations that underlie perception and thought.

New images capture unseen details of the synapse Date: June 14, 2023 Source: University of Rochester Medical Center Summary: Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D images of the ...

Years of research in molecular neurobiology have shown that nerve cells have developed strategies to optimize the processes of signal transmission at their synapses, the contacts between nerve cells.

Neurons communicate via synapses, small contact points at which chemical messengers transmit a stimulus from one cell to the next. We may remember this from biology class. However, that is not the ...

Neurons communicate via synapses, small contact points at which chemical messengers transmit a stimulus from one cell to the next. We may remember this from biology class. However, that is not the ...