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Introduction

Summary

This animation presents the major ionic and molecular events at the origin of the synaptic transmission of an action potential from the pre-synaptic to the postsynaptic neuron.

Goals

• To understand how an action potential can be transmitted from a pre-synaptic to a postsynaptic neuron.
• To analyze the ionic and molecular phenomena involved in synaptic transmission.
• To illustrate the chronology of events that ensures synaptic transmission.
• To understand how degradation enzymes are at the origin of the cessation of synaptic transmission.
• To clarify the role of pre-synaptic transporters in the recapture of certain products of enzymatic degradation.

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Action-potential Nerve-influx synaptic-knob Neurotransmitter Vesicle Calcium Sodium depolarization reenzyme Synaptic-gap Synapse Transmission