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It can be controlled by hormonal or neuronal (from the nervous system) input. To increase the heart rate, during a fight or flight situation for example, adrenaline may be released from the adrenal glands...
An impulse travels along the pre-synaptic neurone, and when it reaches the axon ending it stimulates calcium channles to open on the pre-synaptic membrane. This allows calcium ions to rush into the neuron...
An action potenial reaches the synaptic bouton causing depolarisation which opens calcium voltage gated channels. Calcium moves into the cell and causes the movement of vesicles containing acetylcholine t...
Inside a cell of a living organism, the information stored in the DNA in the form of genes is first read and translated into an intermediate molecule, RNA, inside of the nucleus. This molecule of RNA, whi...
Other ways that substances can cross the plasma membrane include facilitated transport, where molecules or ions must interact with a channel/carrier protein to be transported across the membrane, down a c...
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