Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 118, No. 23 (June 8, 2021), pp. 1-12 (12 pages) The construction and maturation of the postsynaptic apparatus are ...

Quantal events have been analyzed at a neuro-neuronal synapse of Aplysia where the nature of the transmitter is established and both presynaptic and postsynaptic neurons are identified and can be ...

BOSTON (June 16, 2008) — Rapid information processing in the nervous system requires synapses, specialized contact sites between nerve cells and their targets. One particular synapse type, cholinergic ...

Chemical synapses and gap junctions (also known as electrical synapses) are the structural bases for neurons to communicate and to form functional circuits. Synaptic transmission at chemical synapses ...

The neuromuscular synapse, whereby neurons control muscle, requires the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. Muscle-specific receptor kinase (MuSK) ensures acetylcholine receptors on the muscle are densely ...