Summary
On excitation of the superior laryngeal nerve and the recurrent nerve with single square wave shocks in patients undergoing total exstirpation of the larynx for cancer, a reflex potential can be recorded from the vocal muscle. This potential shows the criteria characteristic of the reflex potential arising on excitation of muscle spindles or the afferents of muscle spindles (la-fibres) in limb muscles. The pathway of afferent fibres is for the main part via the sup. lar. nerve but there seems to be an indication of a small part of afferents in the recurrent nerve also.
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Esslen, E., Schlosshauer, B. Der elektrophysiologische Nachweis der propriozeptiven Muskelafferenz und des monosynaptischen Reflexbogens der inneren Kehlkopfmuskeln. Experientia 15, 117–119 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02166710
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