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What does an axon release when an impulse reaches the end of it?
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Neurotransmitters to the synapse and the neurotransmitters bind with the receptors releasing the second messengers.
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Neurotransmitters to the synapse and the neurotransmitters bind with the receptors releasing the second messengers.
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∙ 14y agoIt realeases a neurotransmitter eg noradrenaline, dopamine, acetylcholine.
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∙ 14y agoNeurotransmitters to the synapse and the neurotransmitters bind with the receptors releasing the second messengers.
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When a nerve impulse reaches the end of the axon the tiny sacs that store the neurotransmitters move to the surface and release the neurotranmistters These tiny sacs that store the neurotransmitters?
sacs are Synaptic vesicle.
During neurotransmission when the electrical impulse reaches the end of the axon it crosses a gap called a?
The impulse itself does not actually cross the gap, which is called a synapse by the way, instead it stimulates the realease of a neurotransmitter from vesicles. When the neurotransmitter reaches the other side of the synapse it binds proteins on the opposing membrane and in doing so stimulates the membrane to continue the action potential on the mect cell.
What is the function of synaptic knob of axon terminal?
"When a nerve impulse reaches the synaptic knob at the end of an axon, synaptic vesicles release a neurotransmitter that diffuses across the synaptic cleft and binds to specific receptors on the postsyanptic membrane" Above From:Hole's essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology (tenth edition) page=220, figure9.9 Quick definition of the "Synaptic knob- Tiny enlargement at the end of an axon that secretes a neurotransmitter." Above From: Same book as before (Hole's essentials of Human...) page= 584 (Glossary)
When signals come into the soma from the many dendrites they are added together. When the sum of these signals reaches a critical point a signal is fired down the axon. When it reaches the end of the?
threshold
How do impulses travel throughout the nervous system?
An impulse travels from one nerve to another by release & subsequent diffusion of chemicals called neurotransmitters across a very small gap between neurons, called a synapse.How neurotransmitters are released: As an impulse reaches an end of a neuron (the axon terminal), the impulse opens ion pores in that axon terminal which allows Calcium ions to enter, which cause the movement of small membrane bounded packets of neurotransmitter chemicals, called vesicles (like tiny water balloons), to move to the cell membrane, where the vesicles fuse into the cell membrane, thus releasing the contents, the neurotransmitters, into the small space (the synaptic cleft) between the axon terminal and the dendrite of the post-synaptic neuron (the neuron the impulse is traveling to).What neurotransmitters do when they reach the post-synaptic neuron: The post-synaptic neuron has many receptor structures each of which are like a combination of a "well", and an open-and-closeable tunnel or pore. The "well" (or hole with a bottom surface) is a RECEPTOR for the neurotransmitter chemical, in that the neurotransmitter FITS into that well like a key into a lock. And when a neurotransmitter diffuses to and enters that well, it affects the shape of the companion tunnel (ION PORE), such that the ion pore OPENS, thus allowing Sodium ions to enter the post-synaptic neuron (normally at a dendrite, the manifold tiny input structures for a neuron).A previous answer slightly improved: Nerve impulse travelingThe impulse is like an electrical current which 'flows' along the nerves cells, their inputs ('branches' called dendrites), their outputs (axons), and the junctions between nerves; but it is not so simple as a regular electrical wire, because a complex biochemical process is also involved. This process is responsible for the initial creation of the electrical current, to its re-creation some additional times along its passing (- otherwise it would have died out because of the long lengths such an impulse travels), and to its re-creation in any 'new' nerve cell it reaches.
What happens when an impulse reaches the end of an axon?
It reaches the synapse and sends neurotransmitters to start a new impulse to the next neuron
Why is the chemical synapses be release when a neural impulse reaches the end of an axon?
Neurotransmitters are released in order to transmit the message from the axon terminal to the other neuron by having said synapse "jump" to the neighboring dendrite.
What reaches the end of the axon when the neurotransmitter is released and diffuses to the muscle membrane to combine with receptors there?
nerve impulse
When a nerve impulse reaches the end of the axon the tiny sacs that store the neurotransmitters move to the surface and release the neurotranmistters These tiny sacs that store the neurotransmitters?
sacs are Synaptic vesicle.
When the what reaches the end of the axon the neurotransmitter is released?
When the _____________reaches the ends of the axon the neurotransmitter is released and it diffuses to the muscle cell membrane to combine with receptors there?Sarcolemma
What is the result of sodium ions moving across the axons membrane during an action potential?
a neural impulse(electrical impulse) is released and it travels down the axon of a neuron to the axon terminals. At the axon terminal there are sacs called synaptic vesicles which contain chemicals called neurotransmitters. When the neural impulse reaches the terminal it causes the sacs to move closer to the membrane of the axon terminal and release the neurotransmitters inside. Then neurotransmitters travel across the synaptic gap and stimulate the dendrites of another neuron and the whole process starts again.
Neurotransmitters are released from what end of an axon?
synaptic vesicles
Where on a neuron does an impulse start and end?
the impulse starts at the dendrites which is located near the cell body and ends at the synaptic terminals which are at the end of the axon.
What is the functions of neurotransmitter?
The neurotransmitters are stored in tiny sac-like structures called vesicles at the end of axons. When an impulse, or nerve signal, reaches the end of the axon, the vesicles release a neurotransmitter into the small space between the adjoining cells (synaptic gap). Neurotransmitters diffuse across the synapse and bind to receptors in the receiving cell that are specific for the neurotransmitter.
When an impulse reaches the end of a neuron it tiggers the releases of?
Neurotransmitters
What happens at the synapse between two neuron?
At the synapse, the electrical impulse between the two neutrons at synapse set of chain chemical reactions which create a chemical impulse at the synapse.
What happens when an impulse reaches the synapse?
When the action potential reaches the end of an axon, it causes special chemical messages called neurotransmitters to be released across the space between the neurons (the synapse).
