Electrotonic transmission

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Electrotonic transmission is the tranmissions of action potentials over electrical synapses (gap junctions).

  • Two pairs of hemichannels (or connexin; singular: connexon) form the bridge at the gap junction.
    • Has a diameter around 1.5 nm.
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth desease causes demylination by removing the gap junctions that connect the layers of the Schwann cells.

[edit] References

Kandel, Eric R.; Jessell, Thomas M., eds (2000). Principles of Neural Science (4th ed.). The MIT Press. 

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