The Muscle Spindle

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-22
Morphological aspects of the muscle spindle capsule and its functional significance....Pages 23-28
Immunohistochemical identification of spindle fibre types in mammalian muscle using type-specific antibodies to isoforms of myosin....Pages 29-34
Variation of the T-system in different types of intrafusal muscle fibre of cat spindles....Pages 35-38
Fusimotor innervation in the rat: Evidence for taxonomic differences in the organization of spindles....Pages 39-43
Selective and nonselective motor innervation of intrafusal muscle fibres in the cat....Pages 45-49
Two ultrastructural types of fusimotor ending on typical chain fibres in cat muscle spindles....Pages 51-56
Axon terminal indentation and postsynaptic folding as criteria for classifying fusimotor nerve endings....Pages 57-62
Structure and classification of cat intrafusal motor endings....Pages 63-68
On the classification of motor endings in mammalian muscle spindles....Pages 69-74
Gaps in spindle physiology: Why the tandem spindle?....Pages 75-81
Distribution and 3-D reconstruction of muscle spindles in mouse skeletal muscles....Pages 83-88
Distribution of muscle spindles in primate skeletal muscles....Pages 89-93
Heterogeneous intrafusal fibre composition of the human masseter muscle: Morphological and enzyme-histochemical characteristics....Pages 95-100
Ultrastructural features of baboon muscle spindles....Pages 101-106
Morphology and morphometry of human muscle spindles....Pages 107-114
Movement convergence and motor end plate location in a human muscle spindle....Pages 115-120
Adrenergic innervation of baboon and human muscle spindles....Pages 121-126
Front Matter....Pages 127-150
Passive and active properties of mammalian intrafusal fibres....Pages 151-152
Analysis of primary and secondary afferent responses to stretch during activation of the dynamic bag1 fibre or the static bag2 fibre in cat muscle spindles....Pages 153-158
Films on the muscle spindle....Pages 159-160
Front Matter....Pages 127-150
Efferent control of human muscle spindles....Pages 161-166
Relation between intrafusal muscle mechanics and the sensitivity of spindle sensory endings....Pages 167-171
Dynamic fusimotor action can maintain Ia firing during rapid muscle shortening....Pages 173-175
Does stretch excite the bag1 fibre?....Pages 177-179
The effect of conditioning stretches on the responses of cat muscle spindles....Pages 181-185
Fusimotor after-effects on bag1 contraction....Pages 187-188
Enhancement of stretch sensitivity of cat primary spindle afferents by low-rate static gamma-action....Pages 189-193
The effect of chain fibre ‘driving’ on the length sensitivity of primary sensory endings in the tenuissimus, peroneus tertius and soleus muscles....Pages 195-199
Driving of spindle primary endings by static β axons....Pages 201-205
The origin of the increase in the length sensitivity of secondary sensory endings produced by some fusimotor axons....Pages 207-214
Active force and sensory response of single isolated cat muscle spindles....Pages 215-220
Cervical sympathetic nerve stimulation can induce an intrafusal muscle fibre contraction in the rabbit....Pages 221-226
Muscle stretch receptor function in the neonatal rat....Pages 227-231
Sensitivity of intrafusal fibres to ACh....Pages 233-237
Rapidly adapting properties in some primary endings of cat muscle spindles....Pages 239-240
Front Matter....Pages 241-254
The influence of muscle mechano-receptors on homonymous gamma motoneurones....Pages 255-260
Group II (muscle spindle?) afferent action on different classes of γ-motoneurones....Pages 261-265
Group I and II effects on extensor gamma motoneurones revealed by repetitive muscle nerve stimulation in the cat....Pages 267-271
Convergence in segmental reflex pathways from group II muscle afferents to α-motoneurones....Pages 273-278
Reflex action on triceps surae fusimotor neurones evoked by stretch of contralateral hind limb muscles....Pages 279-283
Front Matter....Pages 241-254
Modulations of fusimotor discharge induced by tension changes during reflex muscle contraction....Pages 285-289
Cumulative changes in fusimotor discharge rate during repeated short-lasting muscle vibration....Pages 291-295
Reflex integration in the γ-motor system....Pages 297-301
Reflex consequences of muscle afferent input to beta and gamma motoneurones....Pages 303-307
Phasic and tonic modulation of impulse rates in γ motoneurones during locomotion in the premammillary cat and their implications for control of locomotion....Pages 309-310
Simulations reveal large variations in fusimotor action in normal cats: ‘fusimotor set’....Pages 311-315
Proprioceptive and other reflexes of fusimotor neurones of jaw muscles....Pages 317-324
Front Matter....Pages 325-352
Ionic channels in the sensory terminal of the frog muscle spindle....Pages 353-358
Evidence for the importance of calcium activated potassium conductance in frog muscle spindle sensory endings....Pages 359-363
The response of cat muscle spindle primary endings to FM muscle vibration during fusimotor stimulation or following local injection of tetanus toxin....Pages 365-369
Regular vs irregular fusimotor firing: The likely effects on Ia discharge during normal movement....Pages 371-375
Estimation of generator potential waveform elicited in muscle spindles by various inputs....Pages 377-383
Random muscle stretch and peri-spike averaging in the analysis of muscle spindle stretch response....Pages 385-390
Testing a gamma-activated multiple spike-generator hypothesis for the Ia afferent....Pages 391-395
Spectral composition of muscle spindle Ia responses to combined length and fusimotor inputs....Pages 397-402
Quality of signal transmission from α-motoneurones to spindle afferents in the cat....Pages 403-407
Optimal control principles for sensory transducers....Pages 409-415