{"id":196,"date":"2016-11-15T19:29:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T19:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/?p=196"},"modified":"2016-12-08T03:32:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T03:32:33","slug":"neurotransmitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/15\/neurotransmitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Neurotransmitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Neurotransmitters<\/strong> are chemicals released by a <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/13\/neuron\/\">neuron<\/a> to send a signal on to the next cell in line. Neurotransmitters are collected into vesicles following the firing of an <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/13\/action-potential\/\">action potential<\/a> and are transported out into the <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/15\/synaptic-cleft\/\">synaptic cleft<\/a>. Once in the synaptic cleft, the neurotransmitter diffuses across the gap and binds to receptor proteins on the receiving cell. Acetylcholine is an example of a neurotransmitter. Acetylcholine is involved in stimulating muscles to contract.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-193 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5864\/2016\/11\/Synaptic-Cleft-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"synaptic-cleft\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5864\/2016\/11\/Synaptic-Cleft-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5864\/2016\/11\/Synaptic-Cleft-768x547.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5864\/2016\/11\/Synaptic-Cleft-1024x730.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5864\/2016\/11\/Synaptic-Cleft-360x257.jpg 360w, https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5864\/2016\/11\/Synaptic-Cleft.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.6667px\">(&#8220;Nervous system&#8221;)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/glossary-of-terms\/\">Back to Glossary.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neurotransmitters are chemicals released by a neuron to send a signal on to the next cell in line. Neurotransmitters are collected into vesicles following the firing of an action potential and are transported out into the synaptic cleft. Once in <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/15\/neurotransmitter\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":734,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}