Term Information

Accession
GO:0097467
Name
type III terminal bouton
Ontology
cellular_component
Synonyms
type III terminal button
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
Terminal inflated portion of the axon of a non-glutamatergic neuron, containing the specialized apparatus necessary to release neurotransmitters at a regulatory synapse. The axon terminus is considered to be the whole region of thickening and the terminal bouton is a specialized region of it. Type III terminal boutons are larger than type II ones. Source: PMID:10218156, GOC:mc
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0097467 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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