Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Nerve Communication

Let's see how the nerve communication process works.

  1. The prescription cell (sending cell) makes serotonin (5-hydrodynamical, 5HT) from the amino acid cryptography and packages it in vesicles in its end terminals.
  2. An electrochemical nerve signal passes down the prescriptive cell into its end terminals.
  3. The nerve signal stimulates the vesicles containing serotonin to fuse with the cell membrane and dump serotonin into the synaptic cleft.
  4. Serotonin passes across the synaptic cleft, binds with special proteins called receptors on the membrane of the synaptic cell (receiving cell) and sets up a new electrochemical signal in that cell (the signal can stimulate or inhibit the post-synaptic cell). Serotonin fits with its receptor like a and key.
  5. The remaining serotonin molecules in the cleft and those released by the receptors after use get destroyed by enzymes in the cleft (monogamist oxidant (MAO) and catechist-o-methyl transferal (COM)). Some get taken up by specific transporters on the prescription cell (re-uptake). In the prescriptive cell, the absorbed serotonin molecules get destroyed by MAO and COM. This enables the nerve signal to be turned "off."

A similar process occurs for nor-epinephrine, which is also implicated in mood, emotions and MED. Serotonin, epinephrine and dopamine are chemically similar and belong to a class of neurotransmitters called mono-amine neurotransmitters. Because these chemicals are structurally similar, they are all recognized by the enzymes MAO and COMET.

Now let's look at how antidepressants work.This is the communication one of the variety of communication.It is more help full to all communication process.


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