Excitatory is an English word with synonyms like stimulative. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Excitatory in a sentence
Excitatory meaning
- Stimulating, exciting or causing excitation; excitative.
- Of or relating to excitation.
Synonyms of Excitatory
Using Excitatory
- The main meaning on this page is: Stimulating, exciting or causing excitation; excitative. | Of or relating to excitation.
- Useful related words include: excitant, excitative, stimulative.
- In the example corpus, excitatory often appears in combinations such as: excitatory or, as excitatory, excitatory and.
Context around Excitatory
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Excitatory
- In this selection, "excitatory" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, increase, primary, exert, amino, effects and cells stand out and add context to how "excitatory" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include act as excitatory or inhibitory and activity of excitatory cells and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "excitatory" sits close to words such as abenaki, abstracted and addendum, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with excitatory
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Each neuron receives thousands of excitatory and inhibitory signals every second. (11 words)
Excitatory and inhibitory The synthesis, packaging, secretion, and removal of neurotransmitters. (11 words)
Serotonin (5-Hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) can act as excitatory or inhibitory. (11 words)
Receptors can be classified broadly as excitatory (causing an increase in firing rate), inhibitory (causing a decrease in firing rate), or modulatory (causing long-lasting effects not directly related to firing rate). (32 words)
A neurotransmitter influences trans-membrane ion flow either to increase (excitatory) or to decrease (inhibitory) the probability that the cell with which it comes in contact will produce an action potential. (31 words)
Integration of synaptic inputs main In general, if an excitatory synapse is strong enough, an action potential in the presynaptic neuron will trigger an action potential in the postsynaptic cell. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
They showed that these enhanced interneurons, when transplanted into the abnormal brain of Alzheimer mice, can properly control the activity of excitatory cells and restore brain rhythms.
A neurotransmitter influences trans-membrane ion flow either to increase (excitatory) or to decrease (inhibitory) the probability that the cell with which it comes in contact will produce an action potential.
Another mechanism of epilepsy may be the up-regulation of excitatory circuits or down-regulation of inhibitory circuits following an injury to the brain.
Binding of neurotransmitters may influence the postsynaptic neuron in either an inhibitory or excitatory way.
Depending on the type of ion, the effect on the target cell may be excitatory or inhibitory.
Depending on the type of receptor, the resulting effect on the postsynaptic cell may be excitatory, inhibitory, or modulatory in more complex ways.
Domoic acid is an excitatory amino acid analogue of glutamate; a neurotransmitter in the brain that activates glutamate receptors.
Each neuron receives thousands of excitatory and inhibitory signals every second.
Excitatory and inhibitory The synthesis, packaging, secretion, and removal of neurotransmitters.
Glutamate is one of two primary excitatory amino acid neurotransmitter, the other being Aspartate.
Granule cells use glutamate as their neurotransmitter, and therefore exert excitatory effects on their targets.
Here are a few examples of important neurotransmitter actions: * Glutamate is used at the great majority of fast excitatory synapses in the brain and spinal cord.
In its direct actions in influencing a neuron’s electrical excitability, however, a neurotransmitter acts in only one of two ways: excitatory or inhibitory.
In principle, a single neuron, releasing a single neurotransmitter, can have excitatory effects on some targets, inhibitory effects on others, and modulatory effects on others still.
Integration of synaptic inputs main In general, if an excitatory synapse is strong enough, an action potential in the presynaptic neuron will trigger an action potential in the postsynaptic cell.
Receptors can be classified broadly as excitatory (causing an increase in firing rate), inhibitory (causing a decrease in firing rate), or modulatory (causing long-lasting effects not directly related to firing rate).
Serotonin (5-Hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) can act as excitatory or inhibitory.
Synapses can be excitatory or inhibitory and either increase or decrease activity in the target neuron.
The different locations of type I and type II synapses divide a neuron into two zones: an excitatory dendritic tree and an inhibitory cell body.
The distinction between excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters is not absolute, however.
Common combinations with excitatory
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- excitatory or 6×
- as excitatory 4×
- excitatory and 4×
- of excitatory 3×
- or excitatory 3×
- be excitatory 3×
- an excitatory 3×
- excitatory neurotransmitter 2×
- excitatory circuits 2×
- excitatory neurons 2×