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a receptor structure in a ligand-gated sodium-ion pore. The receptor is like a cave which is an outer part of a protein structure which also has a tunnel which can be open or closed, and the presence of the neurotransmitter causes the tunnel (pore) to open.

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What does an axon release when an impulse reaches the end of it?

Neurotransmitters to the synapse and the neurotransmitters bind with the receptors releasing the second messengers.


What releases neurotransmitters into the synapse?

Neurotransmitters are released into the synapse by the presynaptic neuron.


What goes from the synapse to the cell body?

Small chemicals called 'neurotransmitters' that are released into the synapse will diffuse across the synaptic cleft and bind to postsynaptic receptors (which may be on a cell body, or a dendrite). Examples of neurotransmitters are: adrenaline/epinephrine, acetylcholine, glutamate, serotonin, GABA, glycine and dopamine.


Where are neurotransmitters released by neurons?

The axon terminal, into a synapse.


The action potential causes neurotransmitters to be released into the?

synaptic cleft. This release allows the neurotransmitters to bind to receptors on the postsynaptic neuron, leading to changes in its membrane potential and potentially initiating a new action potential in the receiving neuron.


How do neurotransmitters travel within the brain and nervous system?

Neurotransmitters travel within the brain and nervous system by crossing the synapse, a small gap between neurons. They are released from the axon terminal of one neuron, travel across the synapse, and bind to receptors on the dendrites of the next neuron, transmitting signals between neurons.


What is a synapse and how is information transmitted at the synapse?

A synapse is a structure that allows communication between neurons. Information is transmitted across the synapse through the release of neurotransmitters from the presynaptic neuron, which then bind to receptors on the postsynaptic neuron, leading to changes in the postsynaptic neuron's electrical activity.


This contains neurotransmitters that allow a signal to cross from one neuron to another?

A synaspe.. something like that lol


What term refers to a neurotransmitter?

are endogenous chemicals which relay, amplify, and modulate signals between a neuron and another cell.[1] Neurotransmitters are packaged into synaptic vesicles that cluster beneath the membrane on the presynaptic side of a synapse, and are released into the synaptic cleft, where they bind to receptors in the membrane on the postsynaptic side of the synapse. Release of neurotransmitters usually follows arrival of an action potential at the synapse, but may follow graded electrical potentials. Low level "baseline" release also occurs without electrical stimulation.


Neurons transmit signals acrossed a?

Neurons transmit signals across a small gap called a synapse by releasing neurotransmitters from the axon terminal. These neurotransmitters bind to receptors on the membrane of the receiving neuron, allowing the signal to continue along the neural pathway. This process is crucial for communication within the nervous system.


What is the opening across which one neuron communicates with another neuron known as?

The opening across which one neuron communicates with another neuron is called a synapse. At the synapse, chemical signals called neurotransmitters are released from the presynaptic neuron, which then bind to receptors on the postsynaptic neuron to transmit the signal.


Neurotransmitters are released from vesicles located in knob-like terminals on the?

end of axons in the synapse.