Translations:Synapse/10/en
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The physical connection is called a gap junction, and because of the size of the gap junction, ionic current is able to flow freely from one cell to the other. While chemical synapses are unidirectional, electrical synapses are bidirectional, so either cell could transfer a signal to the other cell.