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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 22.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Neurosci. 2008 Jun 22;11(7):807–815. doi: 10.1038/nn.2145

Figure 2. Lateral mobility of AChRs in synaptic and nonsynaptic clusters.

Figure 2

(a) Similarly sized regions of synaptic (circle) and nonsynaptic (square) AChRs were photobleached (preganglionic axon, green; AChRs, red). (b) Time-lapse images of AChR labeling (intensity pseudocolored) before and after bleaching (hr:min). (c) Nonsynaptic receptor fluorescence recovered faster than synaptic AChRs. Asterisks indicate half-time of recovery. fl., fluorescence. (d) The half-life of recovery was slower for synaptic regions (circles) than for nonsynaptic regions (squares). Scale bars, 5 µm.