ReviewJournal of anatomy2015
The innervation of the muscle spindle: a personal history.
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- Revisiting the muscle spindle in ALS: Implications for spinal motor network dysfunction.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2026Review
- Histomorphological Effects of Repeated Administration of the TRPA1 Antagonist HC-030031 on Intrafusal and Extrafusal Muscle Fibers in Healthy Young Rats.Muscles (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Whole-Mount Optical Clearing of Rabbit Tenuissimus Muscle for Assessment of Muscle Spindle Morphology.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Whole-mount optical clearing of rabbit tenuissimus muscle for assessment of muscle spindle morphology.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Muscle spindle afferent neurons preferentially degenerate with aging.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Quantity and Distribution of Muscle Spindles in Animal and Human Muscles.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- There and back again: 50 years of wandering through terra incognita fusorum.Experimental physiology · 2024Review
- Knee movements cause changes in the firing behaviour of muscle spindles located within the mono-articular ankle extensor soleus in the rat.Experimental physiology · 2024Article
- The making of a proprioceptor: a tale of two identities.Trends in neurosciences · 2023Review
- Expression of MyHC-15 and -2x in human muscle spindles: An immunohistochemical study.Journal of anatomy · 2023Article
- The association between muscle architecture and muscle spindle abundance.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Muscle spindles and their role in maintaining robust locomotion.The Journal of physiology · 2023Review
- Skeletal muscle function underpins muscle spindle abundance.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Molecular determinants of mechanosensation in the muscle spindle.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2022Review
- Vertical ground reaction force oscillation during standing on hard and compliant surfaces: The "postural rhythm".Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Distribution Heterogeneity of Muscle Spindles Across Skeletal Muscles of Lower Extremities in C57BL/6 Mice.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2022Article
- Control of Mammalian Locomotion by Somatosensory Feedback.Comprehensive Physiology · 2021Article
- Consequences of ankle joint immobilisation: insights from a morphometric analysis about fibre typification, intramuscular connective tissue, and muscle spindle in rats.Histochemistry and cell biology · 2021Article
- Methodological advances for studying gamma motor neurons.Current opinion in physiology · 2021Article
- Regulating muscle spindle and Golgi tendon organ proprioceptor phenotypes.Current opinion in physiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
I present a brief review of current understanding of the innervation of the mammalian muscle spindle, from a personal historical perspective. The review begins with comparative studies on the numbers of spindle afferents and considers how their relative abundance may best be assessed. This is followed by an examination of the distribution and some functional properties of the motor innervation. The primary ending is the subject of the final section, in particular, I look at what can be learned from serial sectioning and volumetric reconstruction, and present new results on a model and simulations concerning sensory terminal deformation during stretch.
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