This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract To determine the time course of synaptic differentiation, we made successive observations on identified, nerve-contacted muscle cells ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – For decades, scientists thought acetylcholine was the only neurotransmitter responsible for controlling how muscles and nerves are wired together during development. Turns out, they ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Hybridoma techniques have been used to generate monoclonal antibodies to an antigen concentrated in the basal lamina at the Xenopus laevis ...

A recent review article titled "The Role of Rapsyn in Neuromuscular Junction and Congenital Myasthenic Syndrome" has been published by researchers from Nanchang University in China. Led by first ...

The muscle transmembrane protein Vangl2 helps organize the development and maintenance of connections between muscles and motor neurons, a study concludes. A skeletal muscle isn’t much use without a ...

James F. Howard Jr, MD, professor of neurology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, explains how nerve and muscle signaling in the neuromuscular junction go awry in myasthenia gravis.

Congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMSs) are a heterogeneous group of disorders that affect the safety margin of neuromuscular transmission — the depolarization that is required for propagation of the ...

How are autoimmune neuromuscular disorders diagnosed? A neurologist, especially one specializing in neuromuscular medicine, typically leads the diagnostic process. Their goal is to find out where the ...

This week we are going to discuss a topic that we had briefly touched on earlier, the neurologic autoimmune conditions: myasthenia gravis and Lambert Eaton Syndrome (LEMS). To review: Myasthenia ...

THURSDAY, Oct. 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Autoimmune neuromuscular diseases may sound complex, but understanding them is the first step to getting the right care and support. Conditions such as ...