Well, both are foods, depending on your definition, but both are foods. Both have nutrients, both have things your body can make use of.

根据普遍的定义,两种都是食物,都是食物,都有营养素,都含有人类身体可吸收利用的物质

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In some cells they're recycled, that is the cell is able to take up the neurotransmitter after it's released and restore it, but most often there are enzyme systems inside the pre-synaptic membrane where those neurotransmitters are synthesized.

在一些细胞中神经递质可以循环利用,这些细胞可以吸收,已经释放出的神经递质并重新储存起来,但更常见的是突触前膜中含有酶系统,在此合成神经递质

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