Abstract
Summary
Starvation of the albino rat is fatal within 8 to 15 days and produces a structural detachment of about 20% of the motor nerves in skeletal muscle, morphologically manifested by: (1) progressive retraction and eventual uprooting of the hypolemmal end plate from within the atrophic muscle fiber and loss of the granular sole plate of Kühne, and (2) enormous distention of the epilemmal axons which stain very intensely with gold chloride.
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