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How do cocaine, benzodiazepines, atropine, curare and Botox influence synaptic transmission?

2007-10-16 21:25:16 · 2 answers · asked by ½ÃÂù ± 2 in Social Science Psychology

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There is a tremendous amount of information about this subject. Each of the drug you mention would of course act differently depending on a persons age, frame of mind, and medical history.
The physiological mechanisms by which one nerve cell (neuron) influences the activity of an anatomically adjacent neuron with which it is functionally coupled. Brain function depends on interactions of nerve cells with each other and with the gland cells and muscle cells they innervate. The interactions take place at specific sites of contact between cells known as synapses. The synapse is the smallest and most fundamental information-processing unit in the nervous system. By means of different patterns of synaptic connections between neurons, synaptic circuits are constructed during development to carry out the different functional operations of the nervous system.
The simplest type of synapse is the electrical synapse, which consists of an area of unusually close contact between two cells packed with channels that span the two membranes and the cleft between them. Electrical synapses are also known as gap junctions. Electrical and metabolic communication between two cells is established by the components of the gap junctions. A variety of influences, including calcium ions, pH, membrane potential, neurotransmitters, and phosphorylating enzymes, may act on the channels to regulate their conductance in one direction (rectification) or both directions.
This question may have a better response in chemistry rather than the physologicial aspect...Sorry I could not be of more assistance. thank you!

2007-10-17 11:16:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

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2016-10-21 07:25:40 · answer #2 · answered by riedinger 4 · 0 0

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