What is a synaptic gap?

Answer 1

This is the junction between two neurons. At the one end you have the pre-synaptic membrane - the terminal end of the previous neuron, the pre-synaptic neuron - and on the other side you have the post-synaptic membrane, part of the post-synaptic neuron. Action potentials typically cross the cleft by the use of neurotransmitters. Examples include ACh (Acetyl Choline), often used in the synaptic clefts of parasympathetic neurons.

Answer 2

The synaptic cleft is a small gap that seperates the presynaptic neuron and the postsynaptic neuron. It creates a physical barrier for the electrical signal carried by one neuron to be transfered to another neuron.

Answer 3

Synaptic gaps are the tiny spaces in between the ending of one nerve cell and the beginning of another. The end of the nerve cell transmitting the signal is called the axon, whilst the end of the next cell which receives the signal is called the dendrite. The electrical signal crosses the synaptic gap by means of special biochemical called neurotransmitters, which are manufactured in cell organelles called synaptic vesicles and helped to 'jump' the gap by transporter organelles to the receivers in the dendrite.

Answer 4

The synaptic cleft prevents nerve impulses from directly going from one neuron to the next. In order for a nerve impulse to travel across a synpatic cleft, a chemical event must occur for its transmission. This depends on the release, diffusion, and receptor binding of neurotransmitters and ensures that communication between neurons is unidirectional.

Answer 5

Nerve impulses are transferred from one neuron to the next through synaptic transmission. The synapse is the junction between two neurons where a nerve impulse is transmitted. The two neurons do not touch. There is a gap between them called the synaptic cleft. The signal must cross the cleft by using one of many neurotransmitters.
Communication between neurons is achieved at synapses by the process of neurotransmission.

Answer 6

The Neurotransmitter diffuses across the Synaptic Cleft.a narrow gap that separates the pre-synaptic neuron from the post-synaptic cell.

Answer 7

The small space between one neurons axon and the next neuron. Vesicals of neurotransmitters cross this gap and extend the nerve signall chemically. This is very simplified.