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单词 neurotransmission
释义

neurotransmission

noun

neu·​ro·​trans·​mis·​sion ˌnu̇r-ō-tran(t)s-ˈmi-shən How to pronounce neurotransmission (audio)
-tranz-,
ˌnyu̇r-
: the transmission of nerve impulses across a synapse

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web In middle age, Efim had turned to biophysics, focussing on neurotransmission, and had won the U.S.S.R. State Prize, the highest honor for a Soviet scientist. Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022 In a final set of experiments, as an indirect test that HVC was inhibited while hearing the partner, the birds were anesthetized with a substance that blocks inhibitory neurotransmission in the brain. Melissa J. Coleman, Scientific American, 13 July 2021 To the discerning pharmacologist, LSD is a diamond without equal — a notoriously psychoactive drug with muted physiological effects that is capable of potent and prolonged activation of serotonin and dopamine neurotransmission receptors. Shlomi Raz, STAT, 7 Jan. 2020 Research has shown that your brain undergoes a natural detoxifying process in the wee hours of the night, removing harmful byproducts—like the amyloid plaques that cause Alzheimers—produced during a normal day of neurotransmission. Donavyn Coffey, Popular Science, 1 Jan. 2020 In one study, when researchers increased serotonin neurotransmission in the brain, either through diet or drugs, people’s food intake and mood went back to normal. Sara Twogood, Quartz, 7 Aug. 2019

Word History

First Known Use

1961, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

neurotransmission

noun

neu·​ro·​trans·​mis·​sion -tran(t)s-ˈmish-ən, -tranz- How to pronounce neurotransmission (audio)
: the transmission of nerve impulses across a synapse
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