Tag: Similarities

The United States of America may not be the oldest nation in the world. However, it is a country shaped by history. A country younger than four centuries has risen to global leadership in a brief period of evolution. The founding fathers would probably never have achieved the glory we live by today ...

Hormones and neurotransmitters are different chemical messengers, the former produced by the endocrine glands and the latter by the nervous system. Hormones are usually secreted from the endocrine system and released into the bloodstream, but they act on distant target cells. Some hormones, like ...

n the other hand, neurotransmitters are released from the presynaptic nerve terminal in the brain. They move across the synaptic cleft, a small space between two adjacent neurons, and move to the next neuron (known as a postsynaptic neuron). There they bind to specific receptors, causing changes in ...