Sentences with 'synapse'
Example sentences and phrases with the word synapse and other words derived from it.
• « Smell information does not travel through the intricate rational regions of the brain as does, for example, information related to sight or hearing, but reaches the central limbic region, the place of emotions and memory, immediately - once detected in the nose - through a single connection or synapse. »
• « The chemical synapse, on the other hand, is unique to the nervous system of higher mammals and requires the intermediation of hormones to distribute the message. The neurotransmitters lodged in the axon of one neuron are secreted by it and taken up by a neighbouring cell - located at a distance of about 20 nanometres - which in turn secretes them for absorption by another, resulting in a perfect, uninterrupted chain of communication. »
• « As a result of the chemical synapse, the action of catecholamines spreads rapidly throughout the nervous system and the body's response is not long in coming. »