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MINIATURE end-plate potentials (m.e.p.p.s), first discovered at the frog neuromuscular junction, have now been detected at mammalian, avian, piscine, crustacean, and insect neuromuscular junctions, at frog and chick ganglionic synapses and at frog and cat spinal cord synapses1.
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GAGE, P., HUBBARD, J. Evidence for a Poisson Distribution of Miniature End-plate Potentials and some Implications. Nature 208, 395–396 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/208395a0
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