Nerve impulses cross a synapse through the action of neurotransmitters. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
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Normally, strengthening a synapse is a good thing. From Wordnik.com. [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference
T cells form what is called a synapse with the receptor. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
All messages cross a space between neurons called the synapse. From Wordnik.com. [You Raising Your Child] Reference
A synapse is the gap between one neuron and the dendrites of an adjacent neuron. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The final result will be an increased synthesis of new proteins and a growth of the main synapse. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2000] Reference
A synapse is the space between nerve cells, through which nerve impulses are transmitted from one cell to another. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - UPI.com] Reference
The gap is called a synapse (sih-naps '; "union" G, although a union in the true sense is exactly what it is not). From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
As two neurons fire at the same time the "bridge" between them (called a synapse) becomes more and more fortified. From Wordnik.com. [Being a Pavlov Dog in Holiday Season Shopping Spree] Reference
Neurotransmitters, like serotonin, are messages sent across the gap called the synapse between nerve cells in the brain. From Wordnik.com. [Newswise: Latest News] Reference
The dopamine is release into the space between the neurons (called the synapse), and then binds to the receptors on the other side. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
The message has to take a neurological leap of faith, if you will, by crossing the space between the two neurons, called the synapse. From Wordnik.com. [You Raising Your Child] Reference
What kind of synapse sludge would think the world is going to go boom in the next week or two?. From Wordnik.com. [Progressives are not Democrats!] Reference
The synapse is a unique spot and we know nothing about it. ". From Wordnik.com. [Destination Brain]
The Leicester research is exploring how brain cells communicate by examining the junctions between brain cells - termed the "synapse". From Wordnik.com. [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference
The relays are not unlike the synapse of the brain. From Wordnik.com. [The Ultimate Computer] Reference
An electrical pulse can not pass across the synapse. From Wordnik.com. [Neurotoxicity] Reference
What does serotonin say during its moment in the synapse?. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Help From Serotonin] Reference
What synapse snapped in the loofah-scrubbed mind of Bill O. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Yaki: Jennifer Aniston, Murphy Brown and Single Motherhood: Is O'Reilly the New Quayle?] Reference
But even a single synapse contains a small universe of complexity. From Wordnik.com. [Linking Brains, Computers] Reference
Every muscle fiber ached, every synapse quivered in exquisite agony. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
There is a synapse in the brain that connects brilliance to brutality. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Blind]
My cortex groped for its one remaining synapse and switched to oblivion. From Wordnik.com. [The Vatican Rip]
There are four basic steps involved in neurotransmission at the synapse. From Wordnik.com. [Neurotoxicity] Reference
Helva had the uncanny notion that the new synapse leads were burning hot. From Wordnik.com. [the ship who sang]
The information is moved across the synapse by chemicals (neurotransmitters). From Wordnik.com. [Neurotoxicity] Reference
He's suffering from neuro-synapse damage, as if his brain were short-circuited. From Wordnik.com. [Dagger Of The Mind] Reference
I shook my head, trying spastically to rattle two gray cells into the same synapse. From Wordnik.com. [DarklyDreamingDexter]
Neurons do not make actual contact with one another but have a gap, known as a synapse. From Wordnik.com. [Neurotoxicity] Reference
A tangled grid of metropolitan nerves stretched to the horizon, every synapse incandescent. From Wordnik.com. [Starfish] Reference
All three synapse attachments were self-activitating and did not appear on the pilot's board. From Wordnik.com. [the ship who sang]
Its job, after all, is to amplify serotonin's effect, by slowing its removal from the synapse. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Help From Serotonin] Reference
Agony rolled through her, a burning as if every synapse had been doused with gasoline and lit. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety]]
When a nerve impulse reaches a branch ending, the neuron releases serotonin into a tiny space, or synapse. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Help From Serotonin] Reference
Neurobiologists, he reports, say it's nonsense to compare a brain's neurons or synapse with a computer's transistors. From Wordnik.com. [Linking Brains, Computers] Reference
Dr. Sejnowski, for example, is widely regarded for his advanced work on a model aimed at simulating a single synapse. From Wordnik.com. [Linking Brains, Computers] Reference
It is the electricity of that moment, the synapse that fires between stage and audience - that keeps people in the business. From Wordnik.com. [replay 25 cents] Reference
At 3 months, synapse formation in the visual cortex peaks; the brain is fine-tuning connections allowing the eyes to focus on an object. From Wordnik.com. [How To Build A Baby's Brain] Reference
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