Neuromuscular synapse

Dear readers! If you are interested in knowing how our body works and how it functions, then our health and youth are in our hands. The neuromuscular system plays a major role in the functioning of our body: our muscles, their contraction and relaxation, and the nerves that transmit signals to the muscles. In this article we

Neuromuscular synapses (neuromuscular junction apparatus)

Neuromuscular synapses are contacts between the process or body of a motor neuron and a muscle or skeletal muscle group innervated. The neuromuscular synapse plays an important role in maintaining the transmission of excitatory impulses to the motor terminals of muscle fibers. Essentially, it is the endpoint of neuromuscular information processing. The neuromuscular junction is a functional unit of junction that connects the fibers or processes of neurons and certain types of muscle cells. Typically, this contact is presynaptic and involves one motor neuron and one muscle fiber or fiber group. In some muscles, especially in skeletal muscles, postsynaptic synaptic contacts are also found

Neuromuscular synapse is a functional structure on the terminal branch of the axon of a motor neuron, ensuring its contact with the innervated muscle. The structure is formed by the membrane of excitable postsynaptic and presynaptic membranes of the synapse, cytoplasm, tubules and auxiliary elements of the intercellular space.