Limitations in the servo-regulation of soleus muscle stiffness in premammillary cats
Limitations in the servo-regulation of soleus muscle stiffness in premammillary cats
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前乳头猫比目鱼肌硬度伺服调节的局限性
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-349-06022-1_34
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发表时间:
1981
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通讯作者:
S. Andreassen
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作者:
J. Hoffer;S. Andreassen
It has recently been proposed that proprioceptive reflexes may regulate muscle stiffness. To test this hypothesis, we have studied the effects of the amplitude, shape and velocity of length perturbations, as well as the reflex response to muscle potentiation, in the soleus muscle of cats decerebrated at the premammillary level. A twenty-fold increase in stretch amplitude (from 0.1 to 2.0 mm) caused a two-fold decrease in the reflex-mediated incremental stiffness. Although the intrinsic muscle stiffness doubled for triangular ramp stretches (0.5–5.0 mm/sec) compared to rectangular stretches of the same amplitude (1.0 mm), the net reflex component of stiffness was unaltered. The only singularity was observed using 10 Hz perturbations, a frequency that was presumed to cause resonance around the segmental reflex loop. The intrinsic stiffness of soleus potentiated by 32–66% during prolonged muscle activation, whereas the reflex component was essentially unchanged. These data suggest that in the premammillary decerebrate the gain of Golgi tendon organ feedback is negligibly low; the observed reflex effects are attributed to spindle group Ia and II feedback.