Measuring Neuromuscular Junction Functionality

Neuromuscular Junction Effects Does Pb Produce Neuromuscular Junction Changes?

Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors, including PB, produce acute destructive changes at the neuromuscular junction, the site of connection between nerve cells and muscle fibers, at which nerve cells signal muscles to contract. Because studies of the neuromuscular junction require microscopic inspection of muscle tissue and tests of electrical and chemical properties of the neuromuscular junc...

Plastin 3 ameliorates spinal muscular atrophy via delayed axon pruning and improves neuromuscular junction functionality.

F-actin bundling plastin 3 (PLS3) is a fully protective modifier of the neuromuscular disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the most common genetic cause of infant death. The generation of a conditional PLS3-over-expressing mouse and its breeding into an SMA background allowed us to decipher the exact biological mechanism underlying PLS3-mediated SMA protection. We show that PLS3 is a key regu...

The neuromuscular junction disorders.

Neuromuscular junction (NMJ) disorders result from destruction, malfunction or absence of one or more key proteins involved in neuromuscular transmission, illustrated diagrammatically in fig 1. The most common pathology is antibody mediated damage or down regulation of ion channels or receptors, resulting in myasthenia gravis (MG), Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS), and acquired neuromyo...

SnapShot: Neuromuscular Junction

The Neuromuscular Junction

If such a nerve fiberwere to be directly joined to amuscle fiber of, say, 50μmin diameter, then as the propagating action potential reached the nerve–muscle junction, the local circuit current density set up in the muscle would be considerably reduced from that in the nerve. This reduction would occur because the nerve and muscle must have the same total current, a consequence of current conser...