Synaptic transmission (A-level only)

Biology · A-Level · AQA · AQA A-Level Biology - (7402) · Specification point · 3.6.2.2 · Organisms respond to changes in their internal and external environments (A-level only) · Nervous coordination (A-level only)

Cholinergic synaptic transmission

Neuromuscular junction

Synaptic summation

Inhibitory synaptic transmission

Predicting drug effects on synapses

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3.6.2.2 Synaptic transmission (A-level only)

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$The detailed structure of a synapse and of a neuromuscular junction. The sequence of events involved in transmission across a cholinergic synapse in sufficient detail to explain: unidirectionality temporal and spatial summation inhibition by inhibitory synapses. A comparison of transmission across a cholinergic synapse and across a neuromuscular junction. Students should be able to use information provided to predict and explain the effects of specific drugs on a synapse. (Recall of the names and mode of action of individual drugs will not be required.)$

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The detailed structure of a synapse and of a neuromuscular junction. The sequence of events involved in transmission across a cholinergic synapse in sufficient detail to explain: unidirectionality temporal and spatial summation inhibition by inhibitory synapses. A comparison of transmission across a cholinergic synapse and across a neuromuscular junction. Students should be able to use information provided to predict and explain the effects of specific drugs on a synapse. (Recall of the names and mode of action of individual drugs will not be required.)

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