Scientific watercolor illustration of a chemical synapse: a pale blue presynaptic neuron in the upper-left with an axon terminal holding bright blue synaptic vesicles, a yellow action potential traveling along the axon, orange neurotransmitter molecules crossing a narrow synaptic cleft, purple receptor sites on a pale green postsynaptic dendrite in the lower-right.
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