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Motor nerve terminal morphologic plasticity induced by small changes in the locomotor activity of the adult rat
1Unitat d'Histologia, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Reus, Spain.
Neuroscience Letters
|November 20, 1989
Abstract:
The possible existence of plastic changes in the branching pattern and the complexity of silver-impregnated motor nerve terminals was studied in the extensor digitorum longus muscle of adult rats housed in metabolic cages or trained to walk. Results indicate a precise inverse relation between the amount of locomotor activity and the complexity finally attained by the motor nerve terminals.