Motor nerve terminal defect following tenotomy.
Post-tetanic potentiation and the underlying post-tetanic repetition in cat soleus muscle require normal motor nerve terminals. These indices of nerve terminal viability are depressed 10 days and absent 15 days after tenotomy of the soleus muscle.
D000125:Achilles Tendon / Q000502:physiology*; D000200:Action Potentials; D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009119:Muscle Contraction