IDENTIFICATION OF INTRAFUSAL MUSCLE-FIBERS ACTIVATED BY SINGLE FUSIMOTOR AXONS AND INJECTED WITH FLUORESCENT DYE IN CAT TENUISSIMUS SPINDLES
IDENTIFICATION OF INTRAFUSAL MUSCLE-FIBERS ACTIVATED BY SINGLE FUSIMOTOR AXONS AND INJECTED WITH FLUORESCENT DYE IN CAT TENUISSIMUS SPINDLES
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DOI:
10.1113/jphysiol.1978.sp012182
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
STACEY, MJ
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作者:
BARKER, D;BESSOU, P;STACEY, MJ
Intrafusal muscle fibers of cat tenuissimus spindles were injected with the fluorescent dye Procion Yellow [PY] and identified histologically after recording their changes in membrane potential during 1/s stimulation of single static or dynamic .gamma. axons. Intrafusal muscle fibers (13) innervated by static .gamma. axons were identified as 8 bag2 and 5 chain fibers. No bag1 fibers were identified. In 1 spindle PY was injected into 2 intrafusal muscle fibers activated by the same static .gamma. axon; they were identified as a bag2 and a chain fiber. Nine intrafusal muscle fibers innervated by dynamic .gamma. axons were identified as seven bag1 fibers, 1 bag2 fiber and 1 long chain fiber. In 1 spindle 2 bag fibers were injected, 1 activated by a dynamic .gamma. axon, the other by a static .gamma. axon; the former apparently was a bag1 fiber, the latter a bag2 fiber. Stimulation of static .gamma. axons elicited junctional potentials in 7 bag2 fibers and 1 damaged chain fiber and action potentials in 1 bag2 and 4 chain fibers. In the whole sample of impaled intrafusal muscle fibers (identified and unidentified) activated by static axons, junctional potentials were recorded from 23 (62.2%) and action potentials from 14 (37.8%). Stimulation of dynamic .gamma. axons always elicited junctional potentials. The ultrastructure of motor endings belonging to the stimulated .gamma. axon was examined. Myoneural junctions of trail endings supplied by static .gamma. axons to bag2 and chain fibers were smooth and folded; the deepest and most regular folding occurred on chain fibers. Terminals of p2 plates supplied to bag1 fibers by dynamic .gamma. axons had smooth myoneural junctions.