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The neuromuscular junction (NMJ) is altered in a variety of conditions that can sometimes culminate in synaptic failure. This report describes fluorescence microscope-based methods to quantify such structural changes.
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Tse, N., Morsch, M., Ghazanfari, N., Cole, L., Visvanathan, A., Leamey, C., Phillips, W. D. The Neuromuscular Junction: Measuring Synapse Size, Fragmentation and Changes in Synaptic Protein Density Using Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy. J. Vis. Exp. (94), e52220, doi:10.3791/52220 (2014).
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