Presynaptic Nerve Terminal with Action Potentials

This video shows the arrival of action potentials in a simulated presynaptic terminal of a nerve cell. The action potentials arrive at 0:10 and 0:40, causing the clusters of vesicles (green) and synapsins (blue) to break up. Note that vesicles dock at sites in the active zone (red). More information on tethered particle system models like this one can be found at http://www.sce.carleton.ca/~rhys.

Further information about the methodology can be found here:

http://cell-devs.sce.carleton.ca/publications/?author=&title=&year=-1...

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• impulse-based
• dynamic
• simulation
• presynaptic
• neuron
• nerve
• cell
• vesicle
• synapsin
• action
• potential