synapse

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"How a calcium signal gets translated into long-lasting changes in the molecular composition and function of the synapse is a central question in synaptic plasticity and in neuroscience in general," said Ehlers.

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  1. noun The junction across which a nerve impulse passes from an axon terminal to a neuron, muscle cell, or gland cell.
  2. intransitive verb To form a synapse.
  3. intransitive verb To undergo synapsis.

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  • ( "Synapse" originally referred to tiny gaps that enable signals to pass between nerve cells; a viral synapse, in contrast, transfers virus, not nerve signals.) —  The Why Files
  • There is growing recognition in the field that autism and mental retardation are diseases of the synapse, the basic unit of information exchange and storage in the brain. —  EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  • Gene expression pattern in synapse-rich and synapse-free sites of wild-type and We hypothesized that muscles of meltrin β − / − mice would exhibit aberrant gene expression patterns related to their defects in NMJ formation. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • (A) Schematic diagram of synapse-rich (synaptic) (B, marked by a square) and synapse-free —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Ezrin - / - T cells exhibited normal immunological synapse organization based upon localization of protein kinase C-theta, talin, and phospho-ZAP70. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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  1. Greek sunapsis, point of contact, from sunaptein, to join together : sun-, syn- + haptein, to fasten.
 

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