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Or expressed scientifically, transmitter release to a motoric end plate. This is the subject of this picture and the following video. The expressive 3d animation is one of many images at medicalpicture, picking out the human nervous system as its central theme. The motoric end plate, also termed the neuromuscular end plate, is the point of transference of a nerve excitation to a muscle fibril.

A transmission medium (transmitter) called acetycholine is passed to the synaptic gap by a profound neural stimulation (action potential) of the synaptic knob. This modulates the ion channels in the post-synaptic membrane of the muscle fibril in such a way that it becomes stimulated (depolarized).