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What does synaptic mean?

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  1. (cytology) Of or relating to a synapse—the junction between the terminal of a neuron and another cell.
  2. (cytology) Of or relating to a synapsis—the association of homologous maternal and paternal chromosomes during the initial part of meiosis.
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From a screen of 24,000 mutagenized flies, 17 mutants with presynaptic defects in synaptic transmission were recovered.
Depolarization of the presynaptic membrane causes release of acetylcholine into the synaptic cleft.
A variety of experiments indicate that single synaptic connections exhibit a broad distribution of presynaptic release probabilities.
Such tendon jerks are tested as part of a routine neurological examination, to assess the state of synaptic connections.
But this is not to suggest that Hebb's influence was just his postulates related to synaptic change.
When postsynaptic receptors are saturated, a quantum of synaptic current corresponds to the response evoked in a single synaptic bouton.

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