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Muscle Spindles
Known as:
Spindle, Muscle
, Receptors, Muscle Stretch
, Stretch Receptors, Muscle
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The Muscle Spindle is composed of intrafusal fibers that are located within and run parallel to the extrafusal fibers of skeletal muscle. When the…
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Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Reflex influences on muscle spindle activity in relaxed human leg muscles.
S. Gandevia
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S. Miller
,
A. M. Aniss
,
David Burke
Journal of Neurophysiology
1986
Corpus ID: 19142377
The study was designed to determine whether low-threshold cutaneous and muscle afferents from the foot reflexly activate gamma…
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1983
1983
Ultrastructures of nerve fibers and muscle spindles in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.
W. Low
,
E. Chew
,
L.-S. Kung
,
L. Hsu
,
John C. Y. Leong
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
1983
Corpus ID: 21644931
Muscle biopsies were obtained from the erector spinae to investigate ultrastructural changes in nerve fibers and muscle spindles…
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1981
1981
Comment: unresolved questions concerning muscle afferents.
V. C. Abrahams
Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
1981
Corpus ID: 43297905
Some current questions regarding muscle afferent receptors are discussed. These include the significance of variable distribution…
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1981
1981
Fusimotor and stretch reflex functions studied in recordings from muscle spindle afferents in man
K. Hagbarth
1981
Corpus ID: 78142805
As compared with other techniques used in the study of muscle stretch receptors and their role in motor control, microelectrode…
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1972
1972
Increase in number of intrafusal muscle fibres during the development of muscle spindles in the rat.
D. Barker
,
A. Milburn
Journal of Physiology
1972
Corpus ID: 42145291
The morphogenesis of muscle spindles in rat lower hindlimb muscles has been investigated using the electron microscope. The…
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1969
1969
The response of isolated cat muscle spindles to passive stretch.
I. A. Boyd
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J. Ward
Journal of Physiology
1969
Corpus ID: 19494517
The response of isolated cat muscle spindles to passive stretch By I. A. BOYD and J. WARD. Institute of Physiology, University of…
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1965
1965
CENTRAL CONTROL OF STATIC AND DYNAMIC SENSITIVITIES OF MUSCLE SPINDLE PRIMARY ENDINGS.
B. Appelberg
,
F. Emonet-Dénand
Acta Physiologica Scandinavica
1965
Corpus ID: 1522069
In cats under light Nembutal/urethane anesthesia, electrical stimulation within a restricted area in the mesencephalon caused a…
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1963
1963
Fusimotor Function: Part I. Spinal Shock of the Cat and the Monkey
R. S. Hunt
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G. Meltzer
,
W. Landau
1963
Corpus ID: 74350280
Spinal shock was defined by Franz 1 as the "state of depression of spinal reflexes (hyporeflexia), generally transient in…
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1961
1961
Electromyography of experimentally immobilized skeletal muscles in cats.
John J. Fudema
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James A. Fizzell
,
E. Nelson
American Journal of Physiology
1961
Corpus ID: 34774737
The hind limbs of ten cats were bilaterally immobilized by external fixation without altering skeletal muscle innervation…
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1961
1961
The effect of acetylcholine and related substances on the isolated muscle spindle.
D. Ottoson
Acta Physiologica Scandinavica
1961
Corpus ID: 31204857
In studies on the action of various drugs on the isolated frog's muscle spindle it was found that ACh in concentrations below 1…
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