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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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How do they find the correct synapses out of the hundreds or thousands on each neuron?
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Muscle paralyzing agents tend to interfere with the synapse between nerve and muscle.
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Something is known of the physical nature of the change in the synapse .
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The mechanisms are likely to involve changes at both sides of the synapse .
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The opening of these channels either directly inhibits a neuron from firing or reduces the amount of neurotransmitter released into the synapse .
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Then impulses travel down both branches, and so on, until shifting the presynaptic voltage at a thousand different synapses.
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This is useful as the path involves very few synapses.
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With repetition, these synapses become less effective in causing the motor neurones to fire.