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Fig. 1. Neuron and myelinated axon, with signal flow from inputs at dendrites to outputs at axon terminals. The signal is a short electrical pulse called action potential or 'spike'. Fig 2. Time course of neuronal action potential ("spike"). Note that the amplitude and the exact shape of the action potential can vary according to the exact ...
An axo-axonic synapse is a type of synapse, formed by one neuron projecting its axon terminals onto another neuron's axon. [1]Axo-axonic synapses have been found and described more recently than the other more familiar types of synapses, such as axo-dendritic synapses and axo-somatic synapses.
The model is based on data from the squid giant axon and consists of nonlinear differential equations that approximate the electrical characteristics of a neuron, including the generation and propagation of action potentials. The model is so successful at describing these characteristics that variations of its "conductance-based" formulation ...
[6] [7] One function of the initial segment is to separate the main part of an axon from the rest of the neuron; another function is to help initiate action potentials. [8] Both of these functions support neuron cell polarity , in which dendrites (and, in some cases the soma ) of a neuron receive input signals at the basal region, and at the ...
Illustration of the major elements in chemical synaptic transmission. An electrochemical wave called an action potential travels along the axon of a neuron.When the wave reaches a synapse, it provokes release of a puff of neurotransmitter molecules, which bind to chemical receptor molecules located in the membrane of another neuron, on the opposite side of the synapse.
In a compartment model of an axon, the activating function of compartment n, , is derived from the driving term of the external potential, or the equivalent injected current f n = 1 / c ( V n − 1 e − V n e R n − 1 / 2 + R n / 2 + V n + 1 e − V n e R n + 1 / 2 + R n / 2 + . . .
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[1] This phenomenon is known as an excitatory postsynaptic potential (EPSP). It may occur via direct contact between cells (i.e., via gap junctions), as in an electrical synapse, but most commonly occurs via the vesicular release of neurotransmitters from the presynaptic axon terminal into the synaptic cleft, as in a chemical synapse. [2]