"Synapses" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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 via direct electrical coupling with ELECTRICAL SYNAPSES. Several other non-synaptic chemical or electric signal transmitting processes occur via extracellular mediated interactions.
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D013569
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.850 A11.284.149.165.420.780
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| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Synapses" by people in Profiles.
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Dedicated macrophages organize and maintain the enteric nervous system. Nature. 2023 Jun; 618(7966):818-826.
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DNA Methylation-Mediated Modulation of Endocytosis as Potential Mechanism for Synaptic Function Regulation in Murine Inhibitory Cortical Interneurons. Cereb Cortex. 2020 06 01; 30(7):3921-3937.
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Evidence for bidirectional and trans-synaptic parasympathetic and sympathetic propagation of alpha-synuclein in rats. Acta Neuropathol. 2019 10; 138(4):535-550.
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Rapid Conversion of Fibroblasts into Functional Forebrain GABAergic Interneurons by Direct Genetic Reprogramming. Cell Stem Cell. 2015 Dec 03; 17(6):719-734.
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Overexpression of the calpain-specific inhibitor calpastatin reduces human alpha-Synuclein processing, aggregation and synaptic impairment in [A30P]aSyn transgenic mice. Hum Mol Genet. 2014 Aug 01; 23(15):3975-89.
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Exonic microdeletions of the gephyrin gene impair GABAergic synaptic inhibition in patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy. Neurobiol Dis. 2014 Jul; 67:88-96.
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Selective loss of noradrenaline exacerbates early cognitive dysfunction and synaptic deficits in APP/PS1 mice. Biol Psychiatry. 2013 Mar 01; 73(5):454-63.
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Deep sequencing reveals 50 novel genes for recessive cognitive disorders. Nature. 2011 Sep 21; 478(7367):57-63.
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The immune protein CD3zeta is required for normal development of neural circuits in the retina. Neuron. 2010 Feb 25; 65(4):503-15.
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