Electron microscopy had also given researchers a glimpse of the tiny bubble - like containers
called synaptic vesicles that hold thousands of molecules of neuro - transmitter close to the pre-synaptic membrane.
Not exact matches
We now know that each quantum, consisting of a collection of around 5000 transmitter molecules, is contained in a little round organelle in the presynaptic terminal that Sanford Palay and George Palade had earlier discovered and
called the «
synaptic vesicl.e» Neurotransmitter is released from these
synaptic vesicles to the outside of the neuron in response to the influx of Ca2 + into the presynaptic terminal.
While neurotransmitters are created in the interior of the cell, they are pumped, in large quantity, into
synaptic vesicles tucked into the wall of a nerve cell's so -
called «terminal,» the launch pad from which chemical messages are released from the cell.