Neurotransmitters, Their Effects on the Human Organism

Abstract

The synapse is a specialized intercellular junction between neurons or between a neuron and an effector cell (almost always glandular or muscular). It is a process by which the nervous system connects and controls all systems of the body. In these contacts the transmission of the nervous impulse is carried out, which begins with a chemical discharge that causes an electric current in the membrane of the presynaptic cell (emitter cell); Once this nervous impulse reaches the end of the axon (the connection with the other cell), the neuron itself secretes a type of chemical compound or neurotrasmisor that is deposited in the synaptic space (space between this transmitting neuron and the postsynaptic neuron or Recipient). These secreted substances are responsible for exciting or inhibiting the action of the other cell called post-synaptic cell.