So, you have both the diversity in the physical connections, any one cell is potentially contacting lots of other cells.

所以 神经系统既有多样性的物理连接,即每个细胞都可能与其他许多细胞连接

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The synapse is just this anatomical region of contact between two adjacent cells in the nervous system.

突触是解剖学上,神经系统相邻两细胞的连接区域

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Part of the complexity of the nervous system is the complexity of this interconnection of cells.

神经系统的复杂性部分地,体现在神经细胞间相互连接的复杂性

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Cells of the epithelium are actually "welded" to one another through these junctions called tight junctions.

上皮细胞通过称为紧密连接的胞间连接,"焊接"在一起

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That cells that form tissues often have junctions that hold them together so that they don't fall apart and they exist as a solid piece of tissue.

组织细胞通常通过,细胞连接而联系在一起,所以它们不会分散开来,而保持坚固的组织形态

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It's this tube-like structure, which is made of many, many epithelial cells all directly adjacent to each other, is what separates the outside world from our internal bodies.

这些管状结构,也是由许许多多上皮细胞,互相连接而成的,它使体内和体外,区分开来

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You want decisions to be made there so you need some additional mechanism for decision making at the point of contact between the axon of one cell and the dendrite of another.

而想要做出决定,在一个细胞的轴突和下一个细胞的树突,的连接点上 需要额外的决策机制

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So one way that neurons, in particular, are able to communicate with other cells in the nervous system, share information, integrate information, decide what to do next is that they are physically connected to other different cells.

所以神经细胞之所以能够,与神经系统中其他细胞通讯,分享信息,整合信息,从而决定下一步该做什么,是由于不同细胞间,是彼此连接在一起的

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These junctions, these red dots here are actually made up of proteins, some are synthesized by one cell, some are synthesized by each other, and they lock together to form a very tight barrier, to form a tight junction between the two cells.

这些红点表示细胞连接,实际上是由蛋白质构成的,有些是由一个细胞单独生成的,有些是由两个细胞共同生成,使这两个细胞紧锁在一起形成紧密的屏障,并在两细胞间形成紧密连接

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