{"id":218,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","slug":"receptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Receptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 102, 153);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Receptors<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">When a signal reaches the end of the axon it may stimulate tiny sacs. These sacs release <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">chemicals<\/span> known as <a href=\"?p=187\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">neuro-transmitters<\/span><\/a><strong> <\/strong>into a synapse. They cross the <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">synapse<\/span> and attach to <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">receptors<\/span> on the neighboring cell. If this cell is a neuron, the signal may continue to the following cell.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">With electrical synapses, 2 cells touch + connect via tiny holes, which let the nerve impulse pass directly from one neuron to the other. Our body has <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">tens of trillions synapses<\/span> that connect <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">tens of billions of neurons<\/span> with each other.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/synapse-schema.gif\" style=\"width: 233px; height: 228px;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong><a href=\"?p=216\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Receptors When a signal reaches the end of the axon it may stimulate tiny sacs. These sacs release chemicals known as neuro-transmitters into a synapse. They cross the synapse and attach to receptors on the neighboring cell. If this cell is a neuron, the signal may continue to the following cell. With electrical synapses, 2&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}