type II terminal button

id: GO:0061175
name: type II terminal button
namespace: cellular_component
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: Terminal inflated portion of the axon of a non-glutamatergic neuron, containing the specialized apparatus necessary to release neurotransmitters at a regulatory synapse. The axon terminus is considered to be the whole region of thickening and the terminal button is a specialized region of it.

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