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Neuromuscular Junction

Neuromuscular Junction is a specialized cholinergic chemical synapse in the peripheral motor system that connects a somatic motor neuron terminal to a skeletal muscle fiber and thereby transduces presynaptic action potentials into postsynaptic muscle excitation that initiates contraction.

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Myoneural Junction

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Ultrastructural Characterization of the Lower Motor System in a Mouse Model of Krabbe Disease

Valentina Cappello, Laura Marchetti, Paola Parlanti et al. · Scientific Reports · 2016 · 13.3K citations · Full text

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The structure of the nervous system of the nematode <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i>

Eileen Southgate, J. Nichol Thomson, Sydney Brenner · Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 1986 · 5.8K citations

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Dystrophin: The protein product of the duchenne muscular dystrophy locus

Eric P. Hoffman, Robert H. Brown, Louis M. Kunkel · Cell · 1987 · 4.7K citations

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Voltage oscillations in the barnacle giant muscle fiber

Catherine E. Morris, Harold Lecar · Biophysical Journal · 1981 · 2.3K citations · Full text

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EVIDENCE FOR RECYCLING OF SYNAPTIC VESICLE MEMBRANE DURING TRANSMITTER RELEASE AT THE FROG NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION

John E. Heuser, Thomas S. Reese · The Journal of Cell Biology · 1973 · 2.1K citations · Full text

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    Joshua R. Sanes

    Harvard University, United States

    85 publications · 15.4K citations

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    Ricardo Miledi

    University of California, Irvine, United States

    87 publications · 12.4K citations

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  3. AG
    Andrew G. Engel

    Mayo Clinic, United States

    77 publications · 6.8K citations

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  4. ST
    S. Thesleff

    Lund University, Sweden

    66 publications · 6.7K citations

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    Angela Vincent

    John Radcliffe Hospital, United Kingdom

    63 publications · 6.5K citations

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  1. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    90 h-index

    619 publications

    76.4K citations

  2. Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    Chevy Chase, United States

    87 h-index

    467 publications

    98K citations

  3. Washington University in St. Louis

    St Louis, United States

    85 h-index

    517 publications

    67.7K citations

  4. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    78 h-index

    825 publications

    51.3K citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    73 h-index

    1.3K publications

    79K citations

  6. National Institutes of Health

    Bethesda, United States

    66 h-index

    459 publications

    36.4K citations

  7. Inserm

    Paris, France

    65 h-index

    1.1K publications

    69.6K citations

  8. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    61 h-index

    432 publications

    46.9K citations

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  1. The Journal of Physiology

    808 publications · 90.1K citations

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  2. Nature

    459 publications · 56.4K citations

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  3. The Journal of Cell Biology

    JCB · 258 publications · 34K citations

    106

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  4. Journal of Neuroscience

    520 publications · 40.3K citations

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  5. Neuron

    124 publications · 21.6K citations

    90

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