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Changes in synaptic potential properties during acetylcholine receptor accumulation and neurospecific interactions in Xenopus nerve-muscle cell culture.

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In nerve-contacted muscle cells where spontaneous synaptic activity could not be detected, extensive acetylcholine receptor accumulation was not found at sites of nerve contact and the presence of miniature endplate potentials were strongly correlated.
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This article is published in Developmental Biology.The article was published on 1980-08-01. It has received 124 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Acetylcholine receptor & Neuromuscular junction.

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Neurotrophins promote maturation of developing neuromuscular synapses.

TL;DR: Results suggest that BDNF and NT- 3 promote functional maturation of synapses in Xenopus nerve-muscle cocultures, primarily through a presynaptic mechanism.
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Aggregates of acetylcholine receptors are associated with plaques of a basal lamina heparan sulfate proteoglycan on the surface of skeletal muscle fibers.

TL;DR: In this article, hybridoma techniques have been used to generate monoclonal antibodies to an antigen concentrated in the basal lamina at the Xenopus laevis neuromuscular junction.
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The perinatal reorganization of the innervation of skeletal muscle in mammals.

TL;DR: The perinatal reorganization of muscle innervation is executed in a setting established by the earlier embryonic developmental processes, leading to the generation of a stereotyped set of skeletal muscles, each innervated in an orderly fashion from an appropriate pool of spinal motoneurons.
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Expression of a Putative Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter Facilitates Quantal Transmitter Packaging

TL;DR: A putative vesicular acetylcholine transporter (VAChT) was overexpressed in developing Xenopus spinal neurons by injection of rat VAChT cDNA or synthetic mRNA into Xenopus embryos.
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Normal Table of Xenopus Laevis (Daudin)

Pieter D. Nieuwkoop, +1 more
- 21 Feb 1958 - 
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The binding of acetylcholine to receptors and its removal from the synaptic cleft

TL;DR: Acetylcholine noise and miniature end‐plate potentials were recorded with focal external micro‐electrodes to study the response of ACh to EMT in EMT‐naïve mice.
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The formation of synapses in striated muscle during development.

TL;DR: A study has been made of the formation of synapses in developing striated muscles which receive either a focal (the rat hemidiaphragm) or a distributed innervation using histological, ultrastructural and electrophysiological techniques.
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Nerve-induced and spontaneous redistribution of acetylcholine receptors on cultured muscle cells.

TL;DR: It is concluded that ACh receptors aggregate within the sarcolemma, spontaneously as well as in response to innervation, thereby contributing to the development of high receptor density in the subneural muscle membrane.
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Synapse formation between dissociated nerve and muscle cells in low density cell cultures

TL;DR: Some of the neurons dissociated from embryonic chick spinal cord and maintained in low density cell cultures establish functional contacts with muscle fibers that had formed in vitro from previously plated myoblasts.
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