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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 3. Mixing of synaptic and nonsynaptic AChRs.

Figure 3

(a) Shown are AChRs sites that are synaptic (associated with green axons) and nonsynaptic (red only). (b) After bleaching of synaptic AChRs (rectangle), nonsynaptic AChRs on the same cell (circle) lost fluorescence more rapidly than nonsynaptic AChRs on neighboring cells (arrows) suggesting that bleached synaptic receptors moved into nonsynaptic regions of the same cell. (c) Quantification of the experiment shown in b. Green diamonds represent nonsynaptic AChR fluorescence (fl.) on the bleached cell, and blue diamonds represent nonsynaptic AChR intensity on neighboring cells. Purple diamonds represent synaptic AChR fluorescence in the bleached region. Error bars, s.e.m. Scale bar, 5 µm.