T. Clark Brelje, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
6-160 Jackson Hall
321 Church St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Robert L. Sorenson, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
6-160 Jackson Hall
321 Church St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
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The neuromuscular junction (or motor end plate) includes the axon terminal and a specialized region of the sacrolemma.
Skeletal muscle cells after removal of collagen and the basal lamina (SEM). Nerve fibers can be seen ending in two motor end plates.
Motor End Plates (#1 and #2; dark green) - an axon forms branches that end as terminal swellings occupying recesses in the sacrolemma of the muscle fiber
Nerve (light green) - bundles of axons from motor neurons in the spinal cord