Uploaded May 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Anatomy tutorial on the basic structure of the synapse. This video doesn't cover action potential generation or detailed mechanisms of neurotransmission - this will be covered in separate physiology videos.

The structures we look at in this video are:
- chemical synapse vs electrical synapse
- axon
- terminal bouton/synaptic bouton
- voltage-gated calcium channels
- synaptic vesicles
- neurotransmitter, acetylcholine
- exocytosis
- presynaptic membrane, postsynaptic membrane
- synaptic cleft
- postsynaptic receptors
- neuromuscular junction



This video tutorial was created using images from our partners at OpenStax College, these images can be downloaded free from: cnx.org/contents/14fb4ad7-39a1-4eee-ab6e-3ef2482e3e22@6.11

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