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A synapse is the connection between neurons, allowing them to pass signals between each other. A synapse may also be between a neuron and a non-neuron cell, such as a muscle cell, to trigger a reaction.Helping to send messages to and from the brain.

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A synapsis can be described as the part of the nervous system that allows a neuron to pass a chemical or electrical signal from one cell to another.

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Where does synapses take place?

The synapses take place in the spinal cord


How many synapses does the brain have?

The brain is estimated to have around 100 trillion synapses. These synapses are the connections between neurons that allow them to communicate with each other.


Are there synapses in peripheral nervous system?

There are synapses between each and every neuron in the entire nervous system; so yes, there are synapses in the peripheral section of the nervous system.


What are the reaction that having a great time leaping across synapses?

There are no reactions, the end of a nerve produces a gas that goes across the synapses and creates the electrical impulse on the other side of the synapses and continues the message!


What has the author U Sandbank written?

U. Sandbank has written: 'The development of synapses' -- subject(s): Nervous system, Synapses


Which system involves a synapse?

All nerves have synapses, which are where the nerve junctions are located, so the nervous system involves synapses.


The venom of the black widow spider causes violent muscle contractions by flooding synapses with?

It floods the synapses with Acetycholine or ACh.


What reactions leap across synapses?

Reactions don't leap across synapses but neurotransmitters will diffuse across the synaptic cleft.


Where are electrical synapses found?

Synapse is located, where two neurons meet each other. One cubic cm of brain cortex have about one billion synapses, probably.


What make us think?

Synapses.


What OPEN do?

Neurotransmitters act on synapses.


Why do you have synapses?

I do not know nor do i want to