Neuromuscular Junctions

Neuromuscular Junctions

What you see histologically is a group of motor end plates. They appear as raised plaques on the surface of myofibers.

Each end plate has large numbers of nuclei associated with it; some are nuclei of the Schwann cells around the end of the neuron, and others are nuclei of the underlying muscle fiber.

An end plate is only associated with one myofiber,

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