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Sensory Endings of Living Isolated Mammalian Muscle Spindles

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Alpha and Gamma Motor Systems

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We report here studies which are still in progress on the structure of living muscle spindle sensory endings, as visualised by differential interference contrast (Nomarski) microscopy and by fluorescence of vital dyes that are taken up by the sensory endings. Confocal microscopy has been used to create a 3-dimensional image of the sensory endings. Banks (1986) has previously used serial electronmicroscopic sections to reconstruct a 3-dimensional view of the sensory region of a cat tenuissimus muscle spindle.

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  1. Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

    Michael Chua & Carlton C. Hunt

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  1. Sherrington School of Physiology, UMDS, St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, England

    Anthony Taylor  & Rade Durbaba  & 

  2. Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland

    Margaret H. Gladden

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Chua, M., Hunt, C.C. (1995). Sensory Endings of Living Isolated Mammalian Muscle Spindles. In: Taylor, A., Gladden, M.H., Durbaba, R. (eds) Alpha and Gamma Motor Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1935-5_54

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