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cleft
(redirected from synaptic cleft)

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cleft
1. a fissure or crevice
2. (of leaves) having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib


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This causes the neurotransmitter molecules inside the vesicles to enter the synaptic cleft.
The phosphorylated AChE cannot break down ACh and accumulation of acetylcholine in the synaptic cleft causes excess stimulation at cholinergic receptors throughout the central and peripheral nervous system.
The gap between the neuron and the hair cell is the synaptic cleft (see Figs.
 
 
 
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