Electrical synapses facilitate direct current flow due to narrow synaptic clefts (0.2nm) or gap junctions, enabling rapid neuronal communication.
Electrical synapses have a very small synaptic cleft (0.2nm) allowing action potentials to directly depolarize the next neuron, or they feature gap junctions connecting cytoplasms.
| Front | Electrical synapses |
|---|---|
| Back | The synaptic cleft is of only 0.2nm so the action potential of the previous neuron can sufficiently depolarize the next one. OR They might have gap-junctions that join their cytoplasms. |
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