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11 years ago Edited: 11 years ago, Sayshell
I get how peptide neurotransmitters are synthesized in the cell body, but with classic neurotransmitters their are no ribosomes or rna in the dendrites (I think) so how can it just make neurotransmitters? Are they simply absorbed and endocytosed externally from the matrix, or are they actually constructed inside the cell?
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11 years ago
Good question.

In general, classical (non-peptide) neurotransmitters are synthesized in presynaptic cytosol and are packaged into synaptic vesicles by means of vesicular transporters specific for each neurotransmitter.

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11 years ago
wait so how is that different than peptide then? Maybe I got them mixed up.
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