Myoneural synapses were studied in embryos and tadpole of Xenopus laevis on different stages of development using light and electron microscopy. On embryonal stages, during hatching and on stages of tadpole myoneural synapses vary in in appearance, number of organelles and extent of formation of different synaptic specialisations. During the process of myoneural contacts forming in the development of amphibians, terminal is the first to form, followed by the Schwann cell, that covers it, and postsynaptic plication forms in the last turn.
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