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Spontaneous subthreshold activity at motor nerve endings
Author(s) -
Fatt P.,
Katz B.
Publication year - 1952
Publication title -
the journal of physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.802
H-Index - 240
eISSN - 1469-7793
pISSN - 0022-3751
DOI - 10.1113/jphysiol.1952.sp004735
Subject(s) - subthreshold conduction , citation , free nerve ending , medicine , computer science , physics , anatomy , library science , quantum mechanics , transistor , voltage
The present study arose from the chance observation that end-plates of resting muscle fibres are the seat of spontaneous electric discharges which have the character of miniature end-plate potentials. The occurrence of spontaneous subthreshold activity at an apparently normal synapse is of some general interest, and a full description will be given here of observations which have been briefly reported elsewhere (Fatt & Katz, 1950a).