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4, hatched open bars). Taken together, these results show that, for the therapeutically relevant dose employed, pyridostigmine acted in a muscle-selective way to potentiate http://www.selleckchem.com/products/bmn-673.html the anti-MuSK-induced disassembly of AChR clusters at endplates in the diaphragm muscle. Mice injected with 45 mg day?1 AM4.2 IgG or 25 mg day?1 AM4.5 IgG for 15 days did not develop overt weakness but displayed, as expected, lower EPP amplitudes than naive control mice (Figs 5B and 6A). This could be explained by a comparable reduction in quantal amplitude (Figs 5A and 6B; mEPP amplitude was reduced by 27%, EPP amplitude by 25%). Importantly, when mice injected with AM4.2/4.5 IgG were treated for 1 week with pyridostigmine, both EPP and mEPP amplitudes were further reduced (Figs 5, and 6A and B; mEPP amplitude was reduced by 45%, EPP amplitude by 47% compared to naive http://www.selleck.cn/products/AZD6244.html controls). There was no significant difference in resting membrane potential amongst the treatment groups that might account for the observed EPP and mEPP changes (Table 1). The results suggest that pyridostigmine exacerbated reductions in synaptic potentials by lowering the postsynaptic sensitivity to each quantum of ACh. Compared to the marked loss of postsynaptic AChRs, presynaptic effects of anti-MuSK IgG and pyridostigmine were relatively modest. Synaptophysin-stained nerve terminals appeared largely intact in mice injected with anti-MuSK IgG with or without pyridostigmine treatment (Fig. 3). In mice injected with AM5 or AM4.2 we found no significant quantitative changes to the size or staining intensity of nerve terminals, whether the mice received pyridostigmine or not. The only exception was for NMJs in the TA muscle of those mice that were injected with AM4.4 and treated with pyridostigmine. Nerve terminal area in this particular treatment group was significantly lower than for naive control mice (P http://www.selleckchem.com/products/lee011.html of AM4.2/4.5 IgG (33.7 �� 1.4) but the combination of injections of AM4.2/4.5 IgG and treatment with pyridostigmine produced a significant reduction in quantal content when compared to naive mice (29.4 �� 2.3; P