Signal transmission from motor nerves to skeletal muscle at the neuromuscular junction

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Normally has a high ‘safety factor’, ensuring that each nerve action potential always produces a muscle action potential

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Is highly efficient because each muscle cell receives simultaneous input from several nerve axons

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Requires temporal summation of several end plate potentials to trigger a muscle action potential

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Is faster than at other synapses because of direct contacts between the nerve terminal membrane and the motor end plate membrane on the muscle cell

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Is excitatory when the muscle is required to contract and inhibitory when the muscle is required to relax

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