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Studies on frog skin-pectoris muscle preparations using vital fluorescent microscopy showed that stimulation of transmitter secretion using high-potassium solutions with the endocytosis marker FM 1–43 induced bright spots in all motor nerve terminals, these representing accumulations of vesicles undergoing the exoendocytic cycle in the active zones of nerve endings. Stimulation of transmitter secretion with caffeine evoked bright spots only in some nerve terminals and only in some parts of the terminals. In summer, the number of bright spots on stimulation of transmitter secretion by caffeine increased sharply. Extracellular recording of spontaneous synaptic signals showed that high-potassium solutions, like caffeine, produced dose-dependent increases in the frequency of miniature endplate currents. However, while high-potassium solutions always increased the frequency, this occurred with caffeine in only a proportion of experiments. This leads to the conclusion that exoendocytosis processes can occur both because of the influx of Ca2+ ions into nerve endings as a result of depolarization (high-potassium solutions) and because of the release of Ca2+ ions from the endoplasmic reticulum (caffeine). The possible spatial localization of the endoplasmic reticulum in nerve endings is discussed. The endoplasmic reticulum is suggested to have a role in synapse remodeling processes.
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Translated from Rossiiskii Fiziologicheskii Zhurnal imeni I. M. Sechenova, Vol. 91, No. 7, pp. 821–831, July, 2005.
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Zefirov, A.L., Abdrakhmanov, M.M. & Grigor’ev, P.N. Effects of high-potassium solutions and caffeine on synaptic vesicle exoendocytosis processes in the frog neuromuscular junction. Neurosci Behav Physiol 36, 781–788 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-006-0088-7
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