A note on the elimination of polyneuronal innervation of skeletal muscles in neonatal rats.
The elimination of the polyneuronal innervation was reinvestigated in normal rats from the tenth day after birth. The extent of polyneuronal innervation was measured by intracellular recordings in cut muscle fibre preparations. (Barstad 1962). This preparation has the advantage that it favours the recording of small signals. With this increased nerve terminal function in the course of elimination. These small potentials were always observed in fibres with an additional large end-plate potential and were occasionally present even in one-month old rats.
D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D009132:Muscles / Q000294:innervation*; D009411:Nerve Endings / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013569:Synapses / Q000502:physiology