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Neuromuscular Junction
Known as:
Myoneural Junctions
, Junctions, Neuromuscular
, NMJ
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The junction between the axon of a motor neuron and a muscle fiber. In response to the arrival of action potentials, the presynaptic button releases…
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Blood supply aspects
Cholinergic Receptors
Microbiological
Motor Neurons
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Broader (2)
Chemical synapse
Synapses
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Motor Endplate
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Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Immunohistochemical evidence for the coexistence of calcitonin gene-related peptide- and choline acetyltransferase-like immunoreactivity in neurons of the rat hypoglossal, facial and ambiguus nuclei
K. Takami
,
Y. Kawai
,
+6 authors
M. Tohyama
Brain Research
1985
Corpus ID: 1962824
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Peptide cotransmitter at a neuromuscular junction.
M. Adams
,
M. O’Shea
Science
1983
Corpus ID: 43539965
The neuropeptide proctolin (H-Arg-Tyr-Leu-Pro-Thr-OH) is present in the nerve terminals of an identified slow skeletal motoneuron…
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Review
1980
Review
1980
The action of batulinum toxin at the neuromuscular junction.
L. Sellin
Medical biology
1980
Corpus ID: 36962917
Botulism results from the action of a protein neurotoxin (mol. wt. congruent to 150,000) produced by the bacterium Clostridium…
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Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Quantitation of junctional and extrajunctional acetylcholine receptors by electron microscope autoradiography after (125)I-α-bungarotoxin binding at mouse neuromuscular junctions
H. Fertuck
,
M. Salpeter
Journal of Cell Biology
1976
Corpus ID: 15099925
The distribution and quantitation of (125)I-α-bungarotoxin (α- BTX) binding sites and thus acetylcholine receptor (AChR) were…
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Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
THE MOTOR END‐PLATE SPECIFIC FORM OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE: APPEARANCE DURING EMBRYOGENESIS AND RE‐INNERVATION OF RAT MUSCLE
M. Vigny
,
J. Koenig
,
F. Rieger
Journal of Neurochemistry
1976
Corpus ID: 45628324
Abstract– We have solubilized three active molecular forms of AChE from rat muscle and have confirmed the presence of one of…
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Highly Cited
1968
Highly Cited
1968
An electron-microscopic study of zinc iodide-osmium impregnation of neurons. I. Staining of synaptic vesicles at cholinergic junctions.
K. Akert
,
C. Sandri
Brain Research
1968
Corpus ID: 45058922
Highly Cited
1967
Highly Cited
1967
Tetrodotoxin and neuromuscular transmission
B. Katz
,
R. Miledi
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London…
1967
Corpus ID: 6334714
1. The puffer fish poison, tetrodotoxin (T. T.) was applied to eliminate impulse propagation in nerve and muscle fibre, and the…
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Highly Cited
1965
Highly Cited
1965
Presynaptic action of hemicholinium at the neuromuscular junction
D. Elmqvist
,
D. Quastel
Journal of Physiology
1965
Corpus ID: 33062508
Abstract : By the use of intracellular electrodes a presynaptic effect of HC-3, hemicholinium no. 3, was shown at the mammalian…
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Highly Cited
1962
Highly Cited
1962
THE FINE STRUCTURAL LOCALIZATION OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE AT THE MYONEURAL JUNCTION
R. Barrnett
Journal of Cell Biology
1962
Corpus ID: 18213226
A study of the cytochemical localization of acetylcholiriesterase activity, combining histochemistry with electron microscopy…
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Highly Cited
1958
Highly Cited
1958
Observations on the Fine Structure of the Turtle Atrium
D. Fawcett
,
C. Selby
The Journal of Biophysical and Biochemical…
1958
Corpus ID: 12484839
The general fine structure of the atrial musculature of the turtle heart is described, including; the nature of the sarcolemma…
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