Name the three main components of a typical synapse. Which direction is communication/information flowing? How are...

Name the three main components of a typical synapse. Which direction is communication/information flowing? How are neurotransmitters involved at a typical synapse? You may include a drawing here if you wish.

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A synapse consists of

Presynaptic membrane
Synaptic cleft
Postsynaptic membrane.

A synapse is the junction where two neurones meet and transfer signal from one to the other.

In a synapse a axon arrives with a signal. The axon terminal of that axon becomes the presynaptic membrane. The neurotransmitter is related from the presynaptic membrane by the fusion of vescicles carrying neurotransmitter to the presynaptic membrane. The neurotransmitter now reach the synaptic cleft. From there the neurotransmitter binds to the receptor on the motor end plate of the post synaptic memberane of the adjacent axon. The post sympathetic membrane is the dendrites of the new axon. The signal flows from presynaptic membrane to post synaptic memberane.

Sydney Mullin answered 10 months ago

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