Excitatory postsynaptic potential - Wikipedia

... Larger EPSPs result in greater membrane depolarization and thus increase the likelihood that the postsynaptic cell reaches the threshold for firing an action potential. ... When an active presynaptic cell releases...
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CELL BIOLOGY: ON CRYSTAL STRUCTURES OF ION CHANNELS

Web ScienceWeek / Subscriptions Archives Contact Us Home Advertising / ScienceWeek / Crossing Barriers Since 1997 ... Binding of neurotransmitter causes the channels to open, allowing ions to flood across the...
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Serotonin as a neurotransmitter

Site Designer: / Claire Rosling / Email: / cr2704@bristol.ac.uk / Serotonin as a neurotransmitter ... The serotonin molecules can then bind to receptor proteins within the postsynaptic cell, which causes a change in the...
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Research in the Department of Biochemistry

Dr Sarah Lummis / University of Cambridge > School of the Biological Sciences > Department of Biochemistry Staff email list Phone ... Here the incoming action potential triggers calcium influx and a release of neurotransmitter; this stimulates...
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Cannabinoids modulate autonomic and sensory neurotransmission

The definitive marijuana guide from CannabisUK ... In the central nervous system, cannabinoids function as retrograde signalling molecules, inhibiting via presynaptic cannabinoid CB(1) receptors the release of classical transmitter following release...
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Cannabinoids modulate autonomic and sensory neurotransmission

Cannabinoid modulation of peripheral autonomic and sensory neurotransmission by ... In the central nervous system, cannabinoids function as retrograde signalling molecules, inhibiting via presynaptic cannabinoid CB(1) receptors the release of...
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Neurobiology Glossary S - Z, Blackwell Science

NEUROBIOLOGY Molecules, Cells and Systems / Gary G. Matthews ... Summation of postsynaptic responses in a postsynaptic cell from two or more synaptic inputs that are active at about the same time. ... The extracellular space...
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Oxford University Press |Online Resource Centre |Chapter 06

Oxford University Press, Online Resource Centre, Chapter 06. Skip navigation / About OUP How to order Help / Search / « Home / Home » Medicine » Pocock & Richards: Human Physiology 3e » Student resources » Multiple Choice Questions »...
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The Autonomic Nervous System (page 2)

Issue 5 (1995) Article 6: Page 2 of 2 Go to page: 1 2 / The autonomic nervous system (Continued) / Sympathetic Nervous System ... In situations involving physical or psychological stress, much larger quantities are released. The actions of...
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Vision - 6f

Vision - 6f / 1 / Strabismus is / a failure of the two eyes to focus on the same thing at the same time. a blurring of vision caused by asymmetrical curvature of the eye. the amount of vision present in an infant. ... has more receptors funneling...
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