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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Future Neurol. 2014 Jan 1;9(1):49–65. doi: 10.2217/fnl.13.58

Figure 2. Neuromuscular junction defects are a characteristic feature of spinal muscular atrophy.

Figure 2

The motor endplates (postsynapse) of the SMA patient are smaller and less complex than those of a control individual (arrowheads). Tissue was obtained from autopsies and stained as whole-mount preparations with fluorescently labeled α-bungarotoxin. Scale bar: 30 μM.

SMA: Spinal muscular atrophy.