Electromyography of the muscle spindle [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 In needle electromyography, there are two spontaneous waveforms, miniature end plate potentials and “end plate spikes”, appearing usually together.
Juhani V. Partanen +2 more
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The association between muscle architecture and muscle spindle abundance [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Across the human body, skeletal muscles have a broad range of biomechanical roles that employ complex proprioceptive control strategies to successfully execute a desired movement.
Roger W. P. Kissane +3 more
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Diverse and complex muscle spindle afferent firing properties emerge from multiscale muscle mechanics [PDF]
eLife, 2020 Despite decades of research, we lack a mechanistic framework capable of predicting how movement-related signals are transformed into the diversity of muscle spindle afferent firing patterns observed experimentally, particularly in naturalistic behaviors.
Kyle P Blum +6 more
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Molecular characterization of the intact mouse muscle spindle using a multi-omics approach [PDF]
eLife, 2023 The proprioceptive system is essential for the control of coordinated movement, posture, and skeletal integrity. The sense of proprioception is produced in the brain using peripheral sensory input from receptors such as the muscle spindle, which detects ...
Bavat Bornstein +9 more
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Attenuation of muscle spindle firing with artificially increased series compliance during stretch of relaxed muscle [PDF]
Experimental PhysiologyMuscle spindles relay vital mechanosensory information for movement and posture, but muscle spindle feedback is coupled to skeletal motion by a compliant tendon.
Emily M. Abbott +7 more
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Biophysical model of muscle spindle encoding [PDF]
Experimental PhysiologyMuscle spindles encode mechanosensory information by mechanisms that remain only partially understood. Their complexity is expressed in mounting evidence of various molecular mechanisms that play essential roles in muscle mechanics, mechanotransduction ...
Stephen N. Housley +7 more
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Intrafusal cross‐bridge dynamics shape history‐dependent muscle spindle responses to stretch [PDF]
Experimental PhysiologyComputational models can be critical to linking complex properties of muscle spindle organs to the sensory information that they encode during behaviours such as postural sway and locomotion where few muscle spindle recordings exist.
Surabhi N. Simha, Lena H. Ting
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Muscle spindle function in healthy and diseased muscle [PDF]
Skeletal Muscle, 2021 Almost every muscle contains muscle spindles. These delicate sensory receptors inform the central nervous system (CNS) about changes in the length of individual muscles and the speed of stretching. With this information, the CNS computes the position and
Stephan Kröger, Bridgette Watkins
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Intrafusal-fiber LRP4 for muscle spindle formation and maintenance in adult and aged animals [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 Muscle spindles sense muscle tension to coordinate body movement. This paper reveals a mechanism of spindle formation and maintenance and to better understanding changes in movement in muscle disorders and ageing.
Rangjuan Cao +10 more
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Diet induced obesity alters muscle spindle afferent function in adult mice. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Populations with obesity are more likely to fall and exhibit balance instability. The reason for this is likely multifactorial, but there is some evidence that sensory function is impaired during obesity.
Lubayna S Elahi +6 more
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