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  • Title: Bursts of miniature end-plate potentials can be released from localized regions of the frog motor nerve terminal.
    Author: Cohen IS, van der Kloot W, Barton SB.
    Journal: Brain Res; 1981 Sep 28; 221(2):382-6. PubMed ID: 7284774.
    Abstract:
    We examined spontaneous transmitter release by simultaneously recording from end-plates with both an intracellular electrode and a focal extracellular electrode. In normal Ringer's solution the focal releases appear to be a near random portion of the pooled output. But in elevated [Sr2+]out bursts of miniature end-plate potentials (m.e.p.p.s.) occur, and these can be localized at a portion of the presynaptic terminal. The bursts are not artifacts caused by the focal recording technique. In some conditions, sections of the nerve terminal can exhibit an enhanced probability of quantal release that persists for seconds. We occasionally observe extracellular events that must be generated by m.e.p.p.s. in adjacent fibers.
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