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Category:GO:0032280 ! symmetric synapse
name: symmetric synapse
namespace: cellular_component
def: "A synapse that lacks an electron dense postsynaptic specialization. In vertebtrates, these occur primarily on dendrite shafts and neuronal cell bodies and involve persynapses containing clusters of predominantly flattened or elongated vesicles and are typically inhibitory." [GOC:dgh, GOC:ef]
comment: The term 'symmetric' in this name refers only to gross morphology. There is no implication of functional symmetry.
synonym: "Gray's type II synapse" EXACT []
is_a: GO:0098984 ! neuron to neuron synapse
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<GOterm>GO:0032280</GOterm>
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