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AN important feature of vertebrate neuromuscular transmission is that acetylcholine is released from the nerve terminals in ‘packets’. At rest, a spontaneous discharge of these packets gives rise to ‘miniature end-plate potentials’1. We were therefore interested whether this mechanism of transmitter release also occurs at a non-cholinergic crustacean neuromuscular junction.
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DUDEL, J., ORKAND, R. Spontaneous Potential Changes at Crayfish Neuromuscular Junctions. Nature 186, 476–477 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186476a0
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