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neurological disease

• In nervous system disease: Motor end plate

  Where fatigue and weakness are the symptoms, the underlying cause of disease may be a failure of motor nerve impulses to cross to the muscle end plate at the neuromuscular junction.

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neuromuscular junction

• In neuromuscular junction

  …of muscle fibre called the end plate. Embedded in the end plate are thousands of receptors, which are long protein molecules that form channels through the membrane. Upon stimulation by a nerve impulse, the terminal releases the chemical neurotransmitter acetylcholine from synaptic vesicles. Acetylcholine then binds to the receptors, the…

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• In muscle: The neuromuscular junction

  …the muscle to form the end plate that occupies only a small region of the total surface area of the muscle. The narrow (50 nm) synapse separates the nerve from the muscle and contains the basement membrane (basal lamina). In the subneural region the muscle membrane is deeply folded, forming…

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transmission of nerve impulse

• In nervous system: Axon

  This receptor, called the end plate, is a glycoprotein composed of five subunits. Other neurotransmitter receptors do not have the same structure, but they are all proteins and probably have subunits with a central channel that is activated by the neurotransmitter.

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