nanocolumn

Etymology

From nano- + column.

nanocolumn means A nanoscale column. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.

noun

A nanoscale column
A putative nanoscale molecular ensemble within the bounds of a glutamatergic synapse in the brain. The concept stems from the observation using super-resolution imaging that proteins involved in neurotransmitter release in the presynaptic active zone cluster in close trans-cellular alignment with clusters of neurotransmitter receptors in the postsynaptic density. The use of the word "column" thus refers to the extended structure of this protein accumulation, which stretches axially across the sy