On the effect of muscle activity on the end-plate membrane in denervated mouse muscle.

AUTOR(ES)

Brenner, H R

RESUMO

1. Mouse soleus muscles were denervated and some of them were chronically stimulated. Sixteen to twenty-one days later, the number of junctional acetylcholine receptors (AChR) and their metabolic stability were examined by measuring binding of 125I-alpha-bungarotoxin, their gating properties by analysis of acetylcholine-induced current fluctuations and the ultrastructure of the end-plate membrane by electron microscopy. 2. In agreement with other studies on inactive muscles, no effect of denervation on junctional AChR number could be resolved. However, some of the fast-gating 'adult' AChR channels had been replaced by slowly gating fetal AChRs, their half-life was lowered to 38 h and the folding of the end-plate membrane was reduced. 3. These changes were prevented in denervated but stimulated active muscles: the junctional AChR population remained homogeneously 'adult', the half-life of junctional AChRs was 13 days and folding of the end-plate membrane remained comparable to that in control muscles. 4. The significance of these results is discussed with respect to the role of muscle activity in end-plate development.

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