"Hey! It's too crowded in here! Stop shoving! Boy,I can't wait 'til I'm free! I'm going to flow across that synapse and find the perfect neural receptor for me and you guys won't fit." "Oh yeah! You'd better hope you connect soon or else you'll be sucked back into this crowded room again!" This conversation is taking place among ____.

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The conversation metaphorically describes neurotransmitter molecules in a vesicle, waiting to be released into the synaptic cleft to bind with receptors on the postsynaptic neuron. The mention of flowing across a synapse and finding a receptor fits the process of neurotransmission, where neurotransmitters are released from vesicles in the presynaptic neuron.

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