During restricted periods of development (embryonic day (E) 14.5-E15.5 in mice 1), peripheral innervation of a subset of type I myotubes by group Ia sensory (but not motor 9) axons provides ...

Scattered throughout skeletal muscle, the muscle spindles are composed of connective tissue capsules containing bundles of specialized muscle fibers called intrafusal fibers. Wrapped around the middle ...

IN the past 30 years many experiments have been carried out on the structure and function of muscle spindles in both amphibia and mammals. There have been no accounts of experiments concerned with the ...

A new study from Umeå University, Sweden, shows that the body's muscles sense mechanical pressure. This new discovery has important implications for movement neuroscience and may improve the design of ...