What diffuses across the narrow synaptic cleft between the presynaptic axon and the postsynaptic cell to transmit a nerve impulse? 

A. neurotransmitter
B. electrical impulse
C. Na+ ion
D. vesicle
E. action potential


A. neurotransmitter

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