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Term:
Parent Terms Term With Siblings Child Terms
asymmetric, glutamatergic, excitatory synapse +   
mossy fiber rosette  
muscle cell postsynaptic specialization 
postsynaptic density +   
An electron dense network of proteins within and adjacent to the postsynaptic membrane of an asymmetric, neuron-neuron synapse. Its major components include neurotransmitter receptors and the proteins that spatially and functionally organize them such as anchoring and scaffolding molecules, signaling enzymes and cytoskeletal components.
postsynaptic specialization membrane +   
postsynaptic specialization of symmetric synapse +   
postsynaptic specialization, intracellular component +   
spine synapse  

Synonyms
Exact Synonyms: neuronal postsynaptic density ;   post synaptic density
Narrow Synonyms: postsynaptic density of dendrite
Alternate IDs: GO:0097481 ;   GO:0097483
Xrefs: NIF_Subcellular:sao1196688972 ;   Wikipedia:Postsynaptic_density
Definition Sources: GOC:BHF, GOC:dos, GOC:ef, GOC:jid, GOC:pr, GOC:sjp, http://molneuro.kaist.ac.kr/psd, PMID:14532281, Wikipedia:Postsynaptic_density

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