loading...| Preferred Name |
Synapse |
| ID |
http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C13281 |
| ALT_DEFINITION |
The space between the end of a nerve cell and another cell. Nerve impulses are usually carried to the neighboring cell by chemicals called neurotransmitters, which are released by the nerve cell and are taken up by another cell on the other side of the synapse. The neighboring cell may be another nerve cell, a muscle cell, or a gland cell. |
| code |
C13281 |
| DEFINITION |
Specialized junctions at which a neuron communicates with a target cell. At classical synapses, a neuron's presynaptic terminal releases a chemical transmitter stored in synaptic vesicles which diffuses across a narrow synaptic cleft and activates receptors on the postsynaptic membrane of the target cell. The target may be a dendrite, cell body, or axon of another neuron, or a specialized region of a muscle or secretory cell. Neurons may also communicate through direct electrical connections which are sometimes called electrical synapses. |
| label |
Synapse |
| Legacy_Concept_Name |
Synapse |
| Preferred_Name |
Synapse |
| prefixIRI |
C13281 |
| prefLabel |
Synapse |
| Semantic_Type |
Anatomical Structure |
| UMLS_CUI |
C0039062 |
| subClassOf |