postsynapticadj.

1909 Ann. Bot. 23 21 The prophases of division naturally fall into two periods, the pre-synaptic and the post-synaptic phases.

1921 Ann. Bot. 35 366 During the period when the mother-cells are in synapsis and the postsynaptic spireme stages, the tapetal cells vary greatly in appearance.

1931 Cytologia 2 353 Secondary association..is a post-synaptic phenomenon.

1985 Genetica 67 21 Zygotene (presynaptic) and diplotene (postsynaptic) configurations are different from each other.

1937 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 122 113 The response is erratic in that by no means every pre-synaptic stimulus yields a post-synaptic response.

1965 G. H. Bell et al. Textbk. Physiol. & Biochem. (ed. 6) xxxix. 796 In general the presynaptic fibre divides up into numerous fine branches which then end in greatly expanded terminals, presynaptic knobs, which make intimate contact with part of the membrane of the cell body or dendrites of the postsynaptic cell.

1974 M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. v. 100 This interaction may produce one of two types of changes in the permeability of the postsynaptic membrane.

1989 Sci. Amer. July 29/1 The enzyme is concentrated at the so-called postsynaptic (signal-receiving) sites throughout the dendritic trees of the CA1 neurons.

1951 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 138 487 The ‘subsynaptic depression’..that ensues when synaptic knobs have been activated under conditions in which no propagated impulse is set up post-synaptically (i.e. in the absence of reflex discharge).

1978 Nature 22 June 674/1 These neurones lie postsynaptically to high densities of nerve terminals shown by immunohistochemical techniques to contain somatostatin-like material.

2004 Trends in Neurosci. 27 440 It is almost axiomatic in neuroscience that postsynaptically induced NMDA-dependent long-term potentiation..is a cellular substrate of memory.