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Nervous System > Peripheral Nervous System > Nerve Endings > Neuroeffector Junction > Neuromuscular Junction
Nervous System > Synapses > Neuroeffector Junction > Neuromuscular Junction
... > Cells > Cellular Structures > Cell Membrane > Cell Membrane Structures > Intercellular Junctions > Synapses > Neuroeffector Junction > Neuromuscular Junction

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Neuromuscular Junction  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Junction, Myoneural
  • Junctions, Myoneural
  • Myoneural Junction
  • Myoneural Junctions

Note

  • /drug eff: consider also NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENTS or NEUROMUSCULAR DEPOLARIZING AGENTS; neuromusc transm = NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION /physiol + NEURAL TRANSMISSION; dis = NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION DISEASES

Scope note

  • The synapse between a neuron and a muscle.

History note

  • 68; was MYONEURAL JUNCTION 1963-67

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D009469

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