NERVE 



[Oil. VII. 



Termination of Nerves in Muscle. 



In the voluntary muscles the motor nerve-fibres have special 

 end-organs called end-plates (fig. 97). The fibre branches two or 

 three times, and each branch goes to a muscular fibre. Here the 



Fio. 97,-End-plates ; chloride of gold preparation to show the axis cylinders and their linal 

 ramihcations of fibrillw. x 170. (Szymonowicz.) 



neurilemma becomes continuous with the sarcolemma, the medullary 

 sheath stops short, and the axis cylinder branches several times. 



Fio. 98. Termination of medullated 

 nerve-fibres in tendon near the mus- 

 cular insertion. (Golgi.) 



FIG. 



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. One of the reticulated end-or"ans 

 of fig. 98, more highly magnified. . 

 Medullated nerve -fibre; b, reticulated 

 end-organ. (Golgi.) 



This ramification is imbedded in a layer of granular protoplasm con- 

 taining numerous nuclei. Considerable variation in shape of the 



