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Synapse in sentence

26 examples of Synapse in a sentence

The point of connection, this space circled in red, is called the synapse.
The synapse is where neurotransmitters are released.
And the synapse is where Alzheimer's happens.
Let's zoom in on the synapse and look at a cartoon representation of what's going on.
During the business of communicating information, in addition to releasing neurotransmitters like glutamate into the synapse, neurons also release a small peptide called amyloid beta.
Too much is released, or not enough is cleared away, and the synapse begins to pile up with amyloid beta.
By mid-stage Alzheimer's, we have massive inflammation and tangles and all-out war at the synapse and cell death.
You have that single neural connection, that one synapse.
You have plaques and tangles and inflammation and microglia devouring that synapse.
Now when someone asks you, "Hey, who wrote 'Still Alice?'" you can't remember, because that synapse is either failing or gone.
And there's a protein on immune cells that grabs the sialic acid, and if that protein gets held at that synapse between the immune cell and the cancer cell, it puts that immune cell to sleep.
That process is called a synapse.
To detect a synapse, we’ll need to scan at a resolution of about a micron— a thousandth of a millimeter.
To distinguish the kind of synapse and precisely how strong each synapse is, we’ll need even better resolution.
Or is it the amplified sound of a synapse firing in the brain of a cockroach?
But as you do this, what you see is that the branches intersect actually in millions of locations, and at each of these intersections they can form a synapse.
And a synapse is a chemical location where they communicate with each other.
And when they get to the synapse, what they do is they effectively, literally, shock the synapse.
Let's zoom in on one synapse, and keep your eyes on the interior of the green neuron.
At the synapse, the two neurons are said to be connected like two friends talking on the telephone.
So you see how to find a synapse.
We color every neuron in, in a different color, and then we look through all of the images, find the synapses and note the colors of the two neurons involved in each synapse.
Someday, a fleet of microscopes will capture every neuron and every synapse in a vast database of images.
Again I made the mistake of buying the movie because the synapse on the back sounded cool and the front cover looked pretty cool too (After buying this and the movie "Malevolence" which I reviewed on here as well, I have learned my lesson).
I watched the Synapse DVD (absolutely awesome picture quality) and was delighted to see an adult tale, well told.
In general, the exchange of information between the billions of neurons that make up the neuronal forest takes place through two types of highly specialized structures: chemical synapses (the majority) and so-called gap junctions (a substrate of one class of electrical synapse).