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Question 1

How is neurotransmitter stored in the axon terminal before it is released?

Answer 1

Contained in the synaptic vesicles

Question 2

Are neurotransmitters molecules released one at a time or in packets?

Answer 2

In packets

Question 2

With normal extracellular Ca2+ , when the AP reaches the axon terminal it triggers?

Answer 2

Release of neurotransmitters by exocytosis

Question 3

Comparing the low intensity stimulus to the high intensity stimulus, the high stimulus causes?

Answer 3

more synaptic vesicles to undergo exocytosis

Question 5

Neurotransmitter are released into the synaptic gap by?

Answer 5

Exocytosis

Question 5

The end of the axon is called?

Answer 5

Axon terminal

Question 5

Exocytosis of neurotransm,itter from the axon terminal is triggered by an increase in the intracellular concentration of?

Answer 5

Ca2+

Question 6

Neurotransmitters released to the synaptic gap reaches the target cell

Answer 6

Diffusion