Nerve Tissue page 21

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Yves Clermont, Michael Lalli, Zsuzsanna Bencsath-Makkai
LIGHT-MICROSCOPIC HISTOLOGY ATLAS

4. Nerve Tissue

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4.21 Nerve terminal

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Longitudinal section of a skeletal muscle stained with silver to show motor end-plates at the surface of striated muscle fibres (*).

These nerve terminals are formed of several tortuous short branches closely applied at the surface of the muscle fibres within shallow trenches or clefts. One of these end-plates is seen in face view (P1). Two others (P2 and P3) are cut obliquely.

The lightly stained cross striations (*) of the myofibrils of muscle fibres can be identified.

Stain: Silver
Magnification: ×600

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