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. 2014 Dec 26;(94):52220. doi: 10.3791/52220
Study Muscle number of mice AChR area Synaptophysin area Overlap area
mean ±  SD (μm2) mean ±  SD (μm2) mean ±  SD (μm2)
Morsch et al. (2012)1 gastrocnemius 3 181  ±  7 163  ±  24 109  ± 29
diaphragm 3 130  ±  41 102  ±  21 76  ±  26
Morsch et al. (2013)1 tibialis anterior 3 166  ± 26 117  ± 21 n.d.
Cheng et al. (2013)2 tibialis anterior 4 226  ±  18 150  ±  44 110  ±  34
Tse (unpublished)2 tibialis anterior 7 213  ±  27 157  ±  23 111  ±  11
1 Imaged on a Zeiss LSM 510 Meta microscope but with fixed gain and offset levels. Thresholding and synaptic areas measurements used Metamorph software by MM. 
2 Imaged on a Leica DM IRE2 microscope and analyzed following current protocol by the indicated first author, blind to treatment group.
n.d. not determined.