Briefly describe the transmission of a nervous impulse across a neuro-muscular junction.

      

Briefly describe the transmission of a nervous impulse across a neuro-muscular
junction.

  

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Eric
-Impulse arrives at synoptic knob and causes vesicle to move to the pre-synaptic
membrane
-Vesicle discharges transmitter substance into synaptic cleft
-Transmitter substance/acetylcholine diffuses across the cleft and attaches to post-synaptic
membrane
-The membrane is depolarized, generating the action potential

ericmunguti answered the question on October 9, 2018 at 05:22


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