A functional innervation of skeletal muscles is essential for their contraction ... between muscle and nerve is paramount. The aims of our research program are 1) to identify processes or effectors ...

Motor nerves found in the spinal cord project out to the periphery, where they contact muscles, forming specialised connections or synapses called neuromuscular junctions. Electrical signals are ...

Select the journal/section where you want your idea to be submitted: The signal for muscle contraction is transmitted by motoneurons and passed on to skeletal muscles at the neuromuscular junction ...

The consequence of the combined loss of AChRs and sodium channels is that the safety factor for neuromuscular transmission is reduced, and transmission at many endplates fails. Although it has long ...

Normally when impulses travel down the nerve, the nerve endings release a neurotransmitter substance called acetylcholine, which travels through the short neuromuscular junction and results in the ...

Abstract: We examined the overall morphology of subneural apparatuses (SNAs) at neuromuscular junctions by scanning electron microscopy in the extensor digitorum longus muscle of aged (18 months) rats ...

Muscle contraction occurs when these myofilaments move closer together when stimulated ... Nerves communicate with muscles through the release of neurotransmitters at the neuromuscular junction, the ...