Correlation between nerve terminal size and muscle fibers diameter in urodela extrinsic eye muscle.
Extrinsic eye muscles of newts and salamanders were investigated by means of electron microscope. It was possible to distinguish two types of muscle fiber tonic-slow and twitch-fast acting ones. It was shown that mioneural junctions in both types of fibers differ in their ultrastructural organization because of lack of post-synaptic infoldings on the surface of slow tonic fibers. After "cholinesterase" "staining" it was possible to measure the surface of junctional area and correlate it with the diameter of particular muscle fiber. The results show a positive correlation.
D000818:Animals; D009469:Neuromuscular Junction / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D012455:Salamandridae / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D014319:Triturus / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D014562:Caudata / Q000033:anatomy & histology*