frownfree
29-06-2006, 07:42 AM
1. How does Botox Work?
Botox is a protein produced by a type of bacteria called /Clostridium
botulinum/. This protein works by stopping the communications between
the neurons (nerve cells) and the muscles.
Neurons conduct information in the form of an electric current. When
the current reaches the end of the long tail, where it meets the muscle
(the Neuromuscular junction), small parcels acetylcholine
(neuromuscular
transmitters) are released from the tail. Receptors on the muscle
membrane pick up these chemical signals, and the muscle contracts.
What Botox does is stopping the release of the acetylcholine. Botox
doesn’t affect the conduction of electricity of the neurons, or the
production or storage of the acetylcholine
Neurons have a body and a long tail, which joins the muscles at the/
neuromuscular junction/. The neurons conduct signals in the form of an
electric current running down their long tails. The terminal of the
tail contains little vesicles carrying neuromuscular transmitters.
When
the electric current reaches the terminal, these little vesicles bind
to
the presynaptic membrane and the neuromuscular transmitters are
released
into the neuromuscular junction.
Botox is a protein produced by a type of bacteria called /Clostridium
botulinum/. This protein works by stopping the communications between
the neurons (nerve cells) and the muscles.
Neurons conduct information in the form of an electric current. When
the current reaches the end of the long tail, where it meets the muscle
(the Neuromuscular junction), small parcels acetylcholine
(neuromuscular
transmitters) are released from the tail. Receptors on the muscle
membrane pick up these chemical signals, and the muscle contracts.
What Botox does is stopping the release of the acetylcholine. Botox
doesn’t affect the conduction of electricity of the neurons, or the
production or storage of the acetylcholine
Neurons have a body and a long tail, which joins the muscles at the/
neuromuscular junction/. The neurons conduct signals in the form of an
electric current running down their long tails. The terminal of the
tail contains little vesicles carrying neuromuscular transmitters.
When
the electric current reaches the terminal, these little vesicles bind
to
the presynaptic membrane and the neuromuscular transmitters are
released
into the neuromuscular junction.