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What is the difference between synaptic and nerve impulse transmission?
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Synaptic transmission is chemical, while nerve impulse or axonal transmission is electrical.
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What is the difference between the axon and axonal terminal and synaptic knob?
Axon is branch of neuron that conducts impulse , axonal terminal and synaptic knob are same , it is bulb like and makes a synapse .
What is the difference in transmission between myelinated and unmyelinated fibers?
Impulse transmission on an unmyelinated nerve fiber is much slower than the impulse transmission on a myelinated nerve fiber.
Is it correct that synaptic clefts prevents an impulse from being transmitted directly from one neuron to another?
Yes, that is correct. The synaptic cleft is a small gap between neurons, and it prevents direct transmission of impulses. When an impulse reaches the end of a neuron, it triggers the release of chemical messengers called neurotransmitters into the synaptic cleft. These neurotransmitters then bind to receptors on the adjacent neuron, allowing the impulse to be transmitted indirectly.
Which neuron function is most likely affected by diisopropyl flurophosphate?
Synaptic Transmission...concerns impulse condution
How does an impulse cross a synaptic gap between two nerve cells?
Neurotransmitters send the impulse across the synapse
Functional connection between two neurons is a?
functional connection between two neurons is the transmission of electrical signals from one neuron to another through a synapse. When an electrical impulse reaches the axon terminal of the pre-synaptic neuron, it triggers the release of neurotransmitters into the synaptic cleft. These neurotransmitters then bind to receptors on the post-synaptic neuron, allowing the electrical signal to be transmitted and continue the communication between neurons.
What is the difference between impulse conduction and transmission?
Impulse conduction refers to passage of impulse within the same cell. Where as transmission as the name implies, is concerned about passage of impulses either chemical or electrical from one cell to another.
How exitatory and inhibitory interact in normal nerve function?
propagation of impulse pre synaptic to post synaptic
When a presynaptic neuron is stimulated in a patients body by an electrical current neurotransmitters are released from the?
The synapse between pre synaptic and post synaptic neuron. Here the acetylcholine is released. It is destroyed by the enzyme acetylcholinesterase in milliseconds, once the impulse is passed to the post synaptic neuron
Neurotransmitters are released from what end of an axon?
synaptic vesicles
How is the message caried from one neuron to another it there is a space between them?
The synaptic gap is the space between the dendrites of one neuron and the axon of the next. The impulse is carried across this space by chemicals called neurotransmitters which conduct the electrical impulse.
What is the normal sequence of events that occur during synaptic transmission at a motor end plate?
1. Nerve impulse reaches synaptic terminal. 2. Synaptic vesicles move to and merge with the presynaptic cell membrane of the motor neuron. 3. Acetylcholine is released into and diffuses across the synaptic cleft. 4. Acetylcholine binds to receptors on the postsynaptic cell membrane of the muscle fiber.
