"gap" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The nerve impulse does indeed travel from one neuron to the next, but how does it travel across the synaptic gap?
- Communication requires the exchange of chemical substances in the synaptic gap, called neurotransmitters.
- These molecules cross the synaptic gap and bind to receptors on the next neuron.
- Like cocaine, amphetamines increase the concentration of dopamine in the synaptic gap, but by a different mechanism.
- A piece of information comes into that little neuron - whoop - and they've immediately got to pass it across the synaptic gap.
- Cocaine, for example, blocks the reuptake of dopamine, leaving these neurotransmitters in the synaptic gap longer.
- Receptors on the opposite side of the synaptic gap bind neurotransmitter molecules.
- This, together with the development of better quality microscopes, led to the discovery of the synaptic gap between nerve cells.
- The first cell releases a chemical called a neurotransmitter into the synaptic gap.
- These neurotransmitters traverse the tiny synaptic gap and pass the impulse on to the next cell.
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