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. 1967 Apr;189(3):545–550. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1967.sp008184

Fusimotor stimulation and the dynamic sensitivity of the secondary ending of the muscle spindle

M C Brown, I Engberg, P B C Matthews
PMCID: PMC1396122  PMID: 6040161

Abstract

The response of secondary endings of de-efferented muscle spindles in the soleus muscle of the anaesthetized cat was recorded during stretching of the muscle at velocities of 5-30 mm/sec. Stimulation of single fusimotor fibres, most and probably all of which were static fusimotor fibres, produced no appreciable change in the normally small dynamic sensitivity of these endings.

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