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Fibers, Endplates and Acetylcholine Receptors in Limb, Abdominal, Laryngeal and Diaphragm Muscles in the Cat

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Muscle Relaxants

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The duration of action of muscle relaxant drugs is longer in muscles composed of large diameter fibers but the reasons are not clear.1 We investigated whether properties of the neuromuscular junction such as endplate size, the endplate to fiber size ratio, acetylcholine receptor (AChR) number or AChR density are related to fiber size to account for this finding.

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  1. British Journal of Anaesthesia 71: 732–733, 1993.

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  1. Departments of Anaesthesia, McGill University and Royal Victoria Hospital, 687 Pine Ave. West, Rm. S5.05, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1A1, Canada

    C. Ibebunjo & F. Donati

  2. Departments of Medicine, McGill University and Royal Victoria Hospital, 687 Pine Ave. West, Rm. S5.05, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1A1, Canada

    C. Srikant

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160, Japan

    Kazuaki Fukushima M.D., Ph.D (Professor and Chairman) & Ryoichi Ochiai M.D., Ph.D (Professor and Chairman) & 

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Ibebunjo, C., Srikant, C., Donati, F. (1995). Fibers, Endplates and Acetylcholine Receptors in Limb, Abdominal, Laryngeal and Diaphragm Muscles in the Cat. In: Fukushima, K., Ochiai, R. (eds) Muscle Relaxants. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-66896-1_58

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