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AUTONOMIC NEUROSCIENCE-BASIC & CLINICAL
Volume 234, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2021.102816
Keywords
Smooth muscle; Autonomic axons; Neuromuscular transmission
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- NIH
- Virtual Stomach [1OT2OD030538]
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Smooth muscle tissue is composed of numerous small, electrically connected muscle cells, each influenced by multiple axons. While the probability of an individual varicosity releasing transmitter onto adjacent muscle cells is low, multiple axons can influence a single muscle cell.
This review traces the history of the discovery and subsequent understanding of smooth muscle cells and their motor innervation. Smooth muscle tissue is made up of thousands of very small, individual, electrically connected, muscle cells. Each axon that enters a smooth muscle tissue branches extensively to form a terminal arbour that comes close to hundreds of smooth muscle cells. The branches of the terminal arbour are varicose, and each varicosity, of which there can be thousands, contains numerous transmitter storage vesicles. However, the probability of an individual varicosity releasing transmitter onto the adjacent muscle cells when an action potential passes is low. Many axons influence each muscle cell, some because they release transmitter close to the cell, and some because the events that they cause in other cells are electrically coupled to the cell under investigation. In tissues where this has been assessed, 20 or more axons can influence a single smooth muscle cell. We present a model of the innervation and influence of neurons on smooth muscle.
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