Excitatory synapses are located in confined chemical spaces ... tens to a few hundreds of synaptic vesicles filled with the neurotransmitter glutamate. Each time a terminal receives an electrical ...

This explainer outlines how neurons and glial cells coordinate electrical and chemical signals to form complex brain networks that govern thought, behavior, and consciousness. It also explores how ...

2 Chemical synapses communicate by releasing neurotransmitters—signaling molecules that are stored and released from neurons via synaptic vesicles in response to action potentials and voltage-gated ...

Our long-term goal is to construct a dynamic molecular and architectural map for the chemical synapse that will help to understand synaptic formation, transmission and plasticity ...

Those signals have traveled all the way down the axon to the terminal ... into the synaptic cleft. This is the gap between the receiving dendrites of one neuron and the releasing synapse of ...