Local and systemic effects of tetrodotoxin on the formation and elimination of synapses in reinnervated adult rat muscle

1. Polyneuronal innervation of normal and reinnervated fourth deep lumbrical muscle fibres was studied with tension measurements and intracellular recordings. From the tenth day after a complete crush of the muscle nerve, some of the reinnervated muscles were completely paralysed for up to 15 days by local application of tetrodotoxin (TTX) to the sciatic nerve. Other animals received only systemic infusion of TTX during the muscle reinnervation.

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