ArticleJournal of anatomy2023
Distribution and length of muscle spindles and their 3D visualisation in the medial gastrocnemius of male and female rats.
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- 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
- Quantity and Distribution of Muscle Spindles in Animal and Human Muscles.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Distribution and length of muscle spindles and their 3D visualisation in the medial gastrocnemius of male and female rats.Journal of anatomy · 2023Article
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Abstract
The spatial distribution of the medial gastrocnemius muscle spindles of 10 male and 10 female rats was analysed under a light microscope, and for the first time, visualised using a 3D model of the muscle. Serial cross-sections of the medial gastrocnemius muscles were separated into 10 divisions along with the proximo-distal axis. The muscle spindles of the rat medial gastrocnemius were predominantly distributed on the proximo-medial divisions of the muscle. There were no sex-related differences in the distribution of the studied receptors. A single division contained an average of 2.71 receptors for animals of both sexes. Moreover, the calculated lengths of male and female rat muscle spindles were comparable, and average lengths did not significantly differ (3.30 ± 1.47 mm for male and 3.26 ± 1.32 mm for female rats). Therefore, the present results fill gaps in recent observations concerning similarities in muscle spindle numbers between male and female animals, despite significant differences in muscle mass and size.
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