FoundationalConceptsNeuroscience

Voltage-gated

Nat and K*

channels

Presynaptic neuron

(^)
Voltage-gated
A Ca** channels
Presynaptic
neurotransmitter
receptors -/ Reuptake

transporters
eethiokey: + Neurotransmitter

• release into
  synaptic cleft
  (^) neurotransmitter
  Postsynaptic. neuron receptors
  Figure 6.2. Chemical synapse between the terminal of a presynaptic neuron’s
  axon and a dendrite of a postsynaptic neuron.