The Release of Neural Transmitter Substances

ACh packets ACh-potential action potential activity amplitude applied axon membrane axon terminal axoplasm Boyd and Martin calcium calcium ions calcium pipette Castillo and Katz chemical choline concentration curare depolarization depolarizing pulses discharge edrophonium effect efflux electric electrode Elmqvist end-plate potential end-plate response evoked frog giant synapse hypothesis intracellular ionophoretic junctional region Katz and Miledi latency Liley magnesium mammalian membrane potential micro-electrode micro-pipette miniature end-plate potentials molecules motor axon motor end-plate motor nerve motor nerve endings motor nerve terminals msec muscle fibre muscle membrane myelin myoneural junction nerve impulse nerve spike neuromuscular junction neuromuscular transmission non-myelinated terminal occur packet of ACh Physiol pipette postsynaptic response potential change presynaptic produces quantal components quantal packet quantal release release of transmitter Schwann cell Sherrington shows sodium spontaneous miniature potentials spontaneous potentials statistical synaptic cleft synaptic delay synaptic potential synaptic vesicles TAKEUCHI tetrodotoxin THESLEFF Total number toxin transmitter release vesicular voltage step