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Published in final edited form as: Arch Neurol. 2011 Dec 12;69(4):453–460. doi: 10.1001/archneurol.2011.2200

Table 3.

Ultrastructural Analysis of Neuromuscular Junctions (Mean ± SEM)

Immunization	Junctional segments per muscle fiber length (um) (n)	Endplate Index^* (n)	Secondary clefts per primary cleft length (um) (n)	Nerve Terminal Area (um²) (n)
Adjuvant Control	0.15±0.013 (18)	5.80±0.49 (23)	2.08±0.18 (23)	0.064±0.011 (23)
MuSK	0.25±0.002 (15) P<0.0001	1.67±0.11 (43) P<0.0001	0.37±0.001 (43) P<0.0001	7.74±0.52 (43) P<0.0001

Length of post-synaptic membrane/length of apposed pre-synaptic membrane