What is likely to happen if neurons were exposed to a neurotoxin that destroyed synaptic vesicles?

a. Neurotransmitter levels would soon decrease because they could not be protected from enzymes by vesicles.
b. Neurotransmitters also would be destroyed by the neurotoxin.
c. Synthesis of neurotransmitters would decrease.
d. Neurotransmitters could not be stored in vesicles, but action potentials would produce neurotransmitter release.


Ans: A

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