Simplified pictorial representation For better understanding the following illustration: A group of hikers (=action potentials) wants to cross a river (=synaptic cleft) with boats (=synaptic vesicles), but there is only one docking and undocking point per side (=pre- & postsynaptic membrane). If they have successfully crossed the flow, they can continue their migration on the … Simplified pictorial representation | Synaptic cleft
Definition A synapse is the contact point between two nerve cells. It is used to transmit a stimulus from one neuron to another. A synapse can also exist between neuron and muscle cell or sensory cell and gland. There are two fundamentally different types of synapses, the electrical (gap junction) and the chemical. Each of … Synapses
Synaptic cleft The synaptic cleft is a part of the synapse and names the area between two consecutive nerve cells. This is where signal transmission with action potentials takes place. If the synapse is a motor end plate, i.e. the transition between nerve cells and the synaptic cleft, the signal transmission takes place.and muscle cell … Synaptic cleft | Synapses
Synonym axial cyinder, Neurit General information The term axon is used to describe the tubular extension of a nerve cell that transmits impulses originating from the nerve cell body to the farthest reaches. Within the axon is a fluid, the axoplasm, which corresponds to the cell content (cytoplasm) of other cells. Here are cell organelles … Axon
Tasks An axon fulfils two important tasks: First, it is there to transmit the electrical impulses generated in the nerve cell body to the next nerve cell or to the target structure (muscle or gland cell). – In addition, some substances are transported along certain structures through the axon. This process, known as axonal transport, … Tasks | Axon
The axon mound is part of a nerve cell. A nerve cell, also known as a neuron, has the task of transmitting signals that are sent to it to the next nerve cell or to a muscle. Structure The nerve cell roughly consists of three sections. The central part is the cell body, the so-called … Axon Hill
