DEPENDENCE OF DYNAMIC-RESPONSE OF SPINDLE RECEPTORS ON MUSCLE LENGTH AND VELOCITY
DEPENDENCE OF DYNAMIC-RESPONSE OF SPINDLE RECEPTORS ON MUSCLE LENGTH AND VELOCITY
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DOI:
10.1152/jn.1981.46.1.143
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
CRAGO, PE
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作者:
HOUK, JC;RYMER, WZ;CRAGO, PE
The dynamic responsiveness of primary and secondary muscle spindle receptors was studied using large (10 mm) ramp stretches applied to the cat soleus muscle at velocities in the range 0.4-100 mm/s. Decerebrate animals with substantially intact spinal roots were used to preserve spontaneous skeletomotor and fusimotor activity and reflex function; only a few fine filaments of dorsal root were dissected to obtain simultaneous recordings from 1-4 single afferents. Control observations on deefferented receptors were made after ventral root transection. Length dependence was assessed from dynamic trajectories (plots of average discharge rate vs. muscle length during stretch at constant velocity) and velocity dependence from plots of increment in discharge vs. velocity at a given stretch amplitude. The large dynamic responses of primary endings apparently are more suited for motion detection than for signaling the precise velocity of stretch. Subtraction of secondary-ending responses would not be expected to yield any greater dependence on velocity.