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New Motor End-plates and their Relationship to Muscle Fibre Injury

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IT has been shown by Guth and Zalewski1, Hofmann et al.2, Koenig3 and Miledi4 that new motor end-plates will form in denervated skeletal muscle or muscle devoid of its original motor end-plates in mammals and amphibians following implantation of a motor nerve. However, in all these experiments the muscle suffered considerable damage, either during implantation of the nerve or in transecting the muscle to remove the original motor end-plate zone.

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GWYN, D., AITKEN, J. New Motor End-plates and their Relationship to Muscle Fibre Injury. Nature 203, 651–652 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/203651a0

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