Planteome: Term Details for "excitatory synapse" (GO:0060076)

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Term Information

Accession: GO:0060076
Name: excitatory synapse
Ontology: cellular_component
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A synapse in which an action potential in the presynaptic cell increases the probability of an action potential occurring in the postsynaptic cell. Source: GOC:dph, GOC:ef
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0060076 at QuickGO
Subset: None
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to excitatory synapse.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to excitatory synapse.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for excitatory synapse.
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GO:0005575 cellular_component
GO:0110165 cellular anatomical entity
GO:0030054 cell junction
GO:0045202 synapse
GO:0060076 excitatory synapse
GO:0098985 asymmetric, glutamatergic, excitatory synapse
GO:0098520 excitatory neuromuscular junction
GO:0098688 parallel fiber to Purkinje cell synapse

Parents of excitatory synapse (GO:0060076)

subject	relation	object
excitatory synapse	is_a	synapse (GO:0045202)

Children of excitatory synapse (GO:0060076)

subject	relation	object
asymmetric, glutamatergic, excitatory synapse (GO:0098985)	is_a	excitatory synapse
excitatory neuromuscular junction (GO:0098520)	is_a	excitatory synapse
parallel fiber to Purkinje cell synapse (GO:0098688)	is_a	excitatory synapse

Wikipedia: Excitatory_synapse