Example sentences for: neurotransmission

How can you use “neurotransmission” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) is a ligand-gated ion channel that mediates neurotransmission at the neuromuscular junction, autonomic ganglia and at some sites in the central nervous system.

  • Abnormalities in the PLD-mediated release of choline would be expected to result in an impairment of cholinergic neurotransmission and/or in a generalized malfunction of cholinergic cells.

  • Fluoxetine also results in a significant reduction in OCD severity that takes several weeks to realize [ 31 32 ] . This therapeutic delay has been related to a down-regulation of serotonin autoreceptors with chronic exposure to elevated serotonin [ 33 34 ] . Together, these data have been used to link OCD with a dysfunction in serotonin neurotransmission [ 35 ] . Of course, it is unclear whether prolonged treatment with these re-uptake inhibitors is restricted to serotonin alone or impact on the activity of other neurotransmitter systems.

  • Unlike benzodiazepines that cause musculoskeletal relaxation, non-depolarizing, neuromuscular, end plate neurotransmission antagonists affect therapeutic musculoskeletal paralysis.

  • Possibly, it could occur through the release of free molecules, in a similar manner to synaptic neurotransmission, or shedding of vesicles as exosomes followed by endocytosis by the recipient cell.


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