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What is the chemical secreted into a gap between neurons at a synapse?
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There is not just one chemical secreted into synapses (the gaps between neurons); instead, there are many chemicals secreted from the terminal buttons of neurons into the synapses. They are called "neurotransmitters."
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What is snapse?
A "synapse" is the gap between neurons in the brain. Since the brain is not hard wired, and the neurons are only connected by a chemical synapse, the brain can be "re-wired" to act in a way it did not before. This is how we are able to learn and perfect new skills.
What word is used to describe a gap between two neurones?
The term used to describe the gap between two neurons is synapse, or synaptic junction.
What is the space between two neurons called?
The space between the ending of one neuron and the communication with the next neuron is called the synapse, or sometimes it is called the synaptic gap or synaptic cleft. But synapse is the common term.
Once a sympathetic preganglionic axon reaches a trunk ganglion what can it do?
it can 1. synapse with a ganglionic neuron in the same trunk ganglion, 2. ascend or descend the sympathetic trunk to synapse in another trunk ganglion or 3. pass through the trunk ganglion and emerge from the sympathetic trunk without synapsing The answer: Synapse with a parasympathetic neuron in the same trunk ganglion
What are the tiny gaps between adjacent schwann cells called?
Remember that the Schwann cells are made of myelin sheath which insulate the impulse, but also block the sodium ion/potassium ion channels. Therefore there has to be a point where the action potential 'jumps' to, and these are the gaps between the Schwann cells, they are called the Nodes of Ranvier.
What is the chemical secreted into the gap between neurons at the synapse?
The answer is NEUROTRANSMITTER.
How do impulses cross synapse between neurons?
By a chemical released by an axon.
What is the small space between one neuron and the next is called?
A synapse, chemical signals called neurotransmitters cross these gaps, carrying on the signal.
What is the area between neurons across which nerve impulses travel?
no, synapse. node of ranvier is between axon and dendrites
Which is the space that separates two neurons?
Synapses
What is the junction point between neurons?
A synapse is the junction or a point of close contact between two neurons.
What is the difference between Neuron and synapse?
A neuron is a nerve cell. A synapse is a gap between the sending and receiving neurons, where there are neurotransmitters responsible for transporting chemicals to the receiving neuron. (A neurotransmitter is a chemical messenger.)
What is the connection between neurons called?
A synapse.
The point of communication between two neurons?
Interneurons are multipolar neurons that connects afferent and efferent neurons.
The site of intercellular communication between neurons is the?
the synapse
What is the space between neurons?
Synapse
The space between two neurons or between a neuron and a receptor is known as a?
A Synapse is the space between two neurons or between a neuron and a receptor organ. A single neuron can have a few, or several hundred synapses.
