Transmission across Electrical Synapses (Homo sapiens)

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Description

Electrical transmission across nerve cells is accomplished when the current generated in the upstream neuron spreads to the downstream neuron through a path of low electrical resistance. In neurons this is accomplished at gap junctions. Electrical synapses are found in neuronal tissue where the activity of neurons must be highly synchronized. The neurons responsible for hormone secretion from the mammalian hypothalamus are a class of highly synchronized electric neurons. Gap junctions connecting the presynaptic cell with the postsynaptic cell allow current generated in the presynaptic cell to flow directly into the postsynaptic cell. Transmission speed is dramatically increased in such a system. The junction itself is composed of two hemichannels, one each on the pre- and postsysnaptic cells. These channels are composed of members of the connexin family of proteins.

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DataNodes

NameTypeDatabase referenceComment
Connexin

36/Connexin 45 Gap Junction Complex

ComplexREACT_17318 (Reactome)
Connexin 36 Gap

Junction Complex

ComplexREACT_17249 (Reactome)
Connexin 62 Gap

Junction Complex

ComplexREACT_17390 (Reactome)
Pannexin 1/Pannexin 2

Gap Junction Complex

ComplexREACT_17586 (Reactome)
Potassium Metabolite29103 (ChEBI)

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