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synaptic cleft

noun

Physiology.
  1. the small gap, measured in nanometers, between an axon terminal and any of the cell membranes in the immediate vicinity.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of synaptic cleft1

First recorded in 1975–80
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"And what the SSRIs tended to do is to regrow these neurons. But here was the rub: they did so on a timescale that correlated with their clinical efficacy, not with their ability to promote serotonin increases in the synaptic cleft."

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This synaptic cleft is a narrow gap that is not easily accessible to an antibody.

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Finger-like cellular processes extended from the cancer cells to reach existing mouse synapses between neurons, adopting the same typical position around a synapse as is adopted by glial cells that remove glutamate from the synaptic cleft.

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Forging this network is a dynamic process, involving proteins at the synaptic cleft that function in the formation, maturation, and remodeling of these connections.

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