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Motor neurons innervate muscles through structures containing calcium channels and vesicles poised to release transmitter. A newly described protein organizes these structures.
The author is in the Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada. E-mail: h.atwood{at}utoronto.ca
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