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神经系统的突触传递

本页英文内容取自：经典教材医学生理学（第三版） (Medical Physiology, 3rd Edtion, Walter F Boron, published in 2016)

中文内容由 BH1RBH (Jack Tan) 粗糙翻译

蓝色 【注】 后内容为 BH1RBH (Jack Tan) 所加之注释

After meticulous study of spinal reflexes, Charles Sherrington N10-2 deduced that neurons somehow communicate information, one to the next, by a mechanism that is fundamentally different from the way that they conduct signals along their axons. Sherrington had merged his physiological conclusions with the anatomical observations (Fig. 13-1) of his contemporary, the preeminent neuroanatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal. N10-1 Ramón y Cajal had proposed that neurons are distinct entities, fundamental units of the nervous system that are discontinuous with each other. Discontinuous neurons must nevertheless communicate, and Sherrington in 1897 proposed that the synapse, a specialized apposition between cells, mediates the signals. The word synapse implies “contiguity, not continuity” between neurons, as Ramón y Cajal himself explained it. When the fine structure of synapses was finally revealed with the electron microscope in the 1950s, the vision of Ramón y Cajal and Sherrington was amply sustained. Neurons come very close together at chemical synapses (see p. 206), but their membranes and cytoplasm remain distinct. At electrical synapses (see p. 205), which are less common than chemical synapses, the membranes remain distinct, but ions and other small solutes can diffuse through the gap junctions, a form of continuity.

在对脊髓反射进行细致的研究后，Charles Sherrington [N10-2] 推断出神经元以某种方式将信息从一个传递到另一个，这种机制与它们沿轴突传导信号的方式根本不同。Sherrington 将他的生理学结论与他同时代杰出的神经解剖学家 Santiago Ramón y Cajal 的解剖观察（图 13-1）相结合[N10-1]Ramón y Cajal 提出神经元是不同的实体，是神经系统的基本单位，彼此不连续。然而，不连续的神经元必须进行交流，Sherrington 在 1897 年提出突触，即细胞之间的特殊并置，介导信号。突触这个词意味着神经元之间的“毗连性，而不是连续性”，正如 Ramón y Cajal 本人所解释的那样。当电子显微镜最终在 1950 年代揭示突触的精细结构时，Ramón y Cajal 和 Sherrington 的愿景得到了充分的支持。神经元在化学突触处非常靠近（见第 206 页），但它们的膜和细胞质仍然不同。在电突触（见第 205 页）处，比化学突触更不常见，膜保持清晰，但离子和其他小溶质可以通过间隙连接扩散，这是一种连续性形式。

1 Neuronal Synapses（神经元突触）

1.1 神经元突触的分子机制与神经肌肉接头的分子机制相似但不相同

The molecular mechanisms of neuronal synapses are similar but not identical to those of the neuromuscular junction

1.2 突触前末梢可能接触树突、体细胞或轴突处的神经元，并且可能包含透明囊泡和致密核心颗粒

Presynaptic terminals may contact neurons at the dendrite, soma, or axon and may contain both clear vesicles and dense-core granules

1.3 突触后膜包含递质受体和许多聚集在突触后致密区的蛋白质

The postsynaptic membrane contains transmitter receptors and numerous proteins clustered in the postsynaptic density

1.4 弥散分布的神经元系统使用一些递质来调节大脑的一般兴奋性

Some transmitters are used by diffusely distributed systems of neurons to modulate the general excitability of the brain

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