In contrast to mEPCs of twister mutants, mEPCs in nrd−/− embryos are normal.
In both intracellular and extracellular recordings, the decay of miniature endplate currents (mEPCs) in slow fibers has a longer time constant than in fast fibers.
A comparison of the SSEs (Fig. 6B) shows that a double exponential fit is significantly better than a single fit for the mEPCs from nrd−/− larvae (P< 0.05), suggesting that there is a change in the off-kinetics of mEPCs in nrd−/− larvae.
Even though we detected a change in muscle physiology, where the decay times of mEPCs in the mutants differed from siblings, this difference did not compare with the differences in decay times documented for twister mutants and stage-matched twister siblings (see Lefebvre et al., 2004; Figure 6).
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In that study, decay time differences were of the order of 100 ms, whereas in nrd−/− larvae, the differences in mEPC decay times was about 0.08 ms (see Table 2 for summary).
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Recent studies have shown that the differences in mEPC kinetics between slow and fast muscle cells are a result of the distinct molecular compositions of acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) in each fiber type [ 36] (Fig. 2).
MEPC amplitudes were reduced in the presence of a pH = 6.0 acid saline solution and presented significantly faster decay times compared with physiological pH = 7.4 (Fig. 7).
