Spindle representation relative to distribution of muscle fiber types in the cat capsularis muscle

Acta Anatomica

Volumn 159, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 114-126

  Roy, Roland R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cat capsularis muscle; Distribution of muscle fiber types; Representation of muscle spindles

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; FAST MUSCLE; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HYPOTHESIS; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE SPINDLE; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMERE LENGTH; SLOW MUSCLE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE SECTION;

ANIMALS; CATS; FEMALE; GLYCOLYSIS; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE SPINDLES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; THIGH;

EID: 0031448062     PISSN: 00015180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (89)

1. Ansved, T. (1995) Effects of immobilization on thc rat soleus muscle in relation to age. Acta Physiol Scand 154 291-302.
2. Arendt, K.-W., G. Asmussen (1974) Enzymhistochemische Untersuchungen an Muskelspindeln verschiedener Species. Anz Bd 136:213-228.
3. Ashmore, C.R., D.W. Robinson, P. Rattray, L. Doerr (1972) Biphasic development of muscle fibers in the fetal lamb. Exp Biol 37:241-255.
4. Baldwin, K.M., R.R. Roy, R.D. Sacks, C. Blanco, V.R. Edgerton (1984) Relative independence of metabolic enzymes and neuromuscular activity. J Appl Physiol 56:1602-1607.
5. Baldwin, K.M., V. Valdez, R.E. Herrick, A.M. Macintosh, R.R. Roy (1982) Biochemical properties of over-loaded fast-twitch skeletal muscle. J Appl Physiol 52:467-172.
6. Balice-Gordon, R.J., W.J. Thompson (1988) The organization and development of compartmentalized innervation in rat digitorum longus muscle. J Physiol (Lond) 398:211-231.
7. Barnard, R.J., V.R. Edgerton, J.B. Peter (1970) Effect of exercise on skeletal muscle. I. Biochemical and histochemical properties. J Appl Physiol 28:762-766.
8. Bennett, M.R., N.A. Lavidis (1984) Development of the topographical projection of motor neurons to a rat muscle accompanies loss of polyneuronal innervation. J Neurosci 4:2204-2212.
9. Bodine, S.C., A. Garfinkel, R.R. Roy, V.R. Edgerton (1988) Spatial distribution of motor unit fibers in the cat soleus and tibialis anterior muscles. J Neurosci 8:2142-2152.
10. Bottennan, B.R., M.D. Binder, D.G. Stuart (1978) Functional anatomy of the association between motor units and muscle receptors. Am Zool 18:135-152.
11. Botterman, B.R., E. Eldred (1982) Static stretch sensitivity of la and II afferents in the cat gastrocnemius. Pflügers Arch 395:204-211.
12. Boyes, G., I. Johnston (1979) Muscle fiber composition of rat vastus intermedius following immobilization at different muscle lengths. Pflügers Arch 381:195-200.
13. Brown, J.M.C., J. Henrikkson, S. Salmons (1989) Restoration of fast muscle characteristics following cessation of chronic stimulation: Physiological, histochemical and metabolic changes during slow-to-fast transformation. Proc R Soc Lond [B] 235:321-346.
14. Buller, A.J., J.C. Eccles, R.M. Eccles (1960a) Differentiation of fast and slow muscles in the cat hind limb. J Physiol (Lond) 150:399-4416.
15. Buller, A.J., J.C. Eccles, R.M. Eccles (1960b) Interactions between motoneurones and muscles in respect to the characteristic speeds of their responses. J Physiol (Lond) 750:417-439.
16. Burke, R.E., P.L. Strick, K. Kanda, C.C. Kim, B. Walmsley (1977) Anatomy of medial gastrocnemius and soleus motor nuclei in cat spinal cord. J Neurophysiol 40:667-680.
17. Burke, R.E., P. Tsairis (1973) Anatomy and innervation ratios in motor units of cat gastrocnemius. J Physiol (Lond) 234:749-765.
18. Caiozzo, V.J., M.J. Baker, R.E. Herrick, M. Tao, K. Baldwin (1996) Effect of spaceflight on skeletal muscle. J Appl Physiol 76:1764-1773.
19. Canon, F., A.X. Bigard, D. Merino, F. Lienhard, C.Y. Guezennec (1995) Effects of chronic stimulation on structural and metabolic properties of hindlimb suspended rat soleus muscle. Eur J Appl Physiol Occup Physiol 70:528-535.
20. Condon, K., L. Silberstein, L. Blau, H.M. Thompson (1990) Differentiation of fiber types in aneural musculature of the prenatal rat forelimb. Dev Biol 138:275-295.
21. Cope, T.C., S.C. Bodine, M. Foumier, V.R. Edgerton (1986) Soleus motor units in chronic spinal transected cats: Physiological and morphological alterations. J Neurophysiol 55:1202-1220.
22. Cramer, K.S., D.C. Van Essen (1995) Lack of topography in the spinal cord projection to the rabbit soleus muscle. J Comp Neurol 35:404-414.
23. Davis, C.J.F., A. Montgomery (1977) The effect of prolonged activity upon the contraction characteristics of fast and slow mammalian twitch muscle. J Physiol (Lond) 270:581-594.
24. Edgerton, V.R., L. Gerchman, R. Carrow (1969) Histochemical changes in rat skeletal muscle after exercise. Exp Neurol 24:110-123.
25. Eken, T., K. Gundersen (1988) Electrical stimulation resembling motor unit activity: Effects on denervated fast and slow rat muscles. J Physiol (Lond) 402:651-669.
26. Elder, G.C.B., A.J. McComas (1987) Development of rat muscle during short- and long-term hindlimb suspension. J Appl Physiol 62:1917-1923.
27. Eldridge, L., O.K. Dhoot, W.F.H.M. Mommaerts (1984) Neural influences on the distribution of troponin I isotopes in the cat. Exp Neurol 83:328-348.
28. Engel, W.K., M. Brooke, P.O. Nelson (1966) Histochemical studies of denervated or tenotomized cat muscle: illustrating difficulties in relating experimental animal conditions to human neuromuscular diseases. Ann NY Acad Sci 138:160-185.
29. Fischbach, G.D., N. Robbins (1969) Changes in contractile properties of disused soleus muscles. J Physiol (Lond) 207:305-320.
30. Gallego, R., M. Kuno, R. Nunez, W.D. Snider (1979) Dependence of motoneurone properties on the length of immobilized muscle. J Physiol (Lond) 297:179-189.
31. Gates, HJ., W.J. Betz (1993) Spatial distribution of muscle fibers in a lumbrical muscle of the rat. Anat Rec 236:381-389.
32. Gladden, M.H. (1974) Elastic fibres in muscles spindles of the cat. J Physiol (Lond) 227:45-46P.
33. Gonyea, H., D.C. Van Essen (1985) Specific innervation of muscle fiber types in a developmentally polyinnervated muscle. Dev Biol 111:42-50.
34. Gordon, T., R. Perry, T. Srihari, G. Vrbova (1977) Differentiation of slow and fast muscles in chickens. Cell Tiss Res 180:211-222.
35. Gorza, L., K. Gundersen, T. Lomo, S. Schiaffino, R.H. Westgaard (1988) Slow-to-fast transformation of denervated soleus muscles by chronic high-frequency stimulation in the rat. J Physiol (Lond) 402:627-649.
36. Graham, S.C., R.R. Roy, E.O. Hauschka, V.R. Edgerton (1989a) Effects of periodic weight support on medial gastrocnemius fibers of suspended rats. J Appl Physiol 67:945-953.
37. Graham, S.C., R.R. Roy, S.P. West, D. Thomason, K. Baldwin (1989b) Exercise effects on the size and metabolic properties of soleus fibers in hindlimb-suspended rats. Aviat Space Med 60:226-234.
38. Grim, M. (1972) On the problem of irregular distribution of muscle spindles. Folio Morphol 20:119-120.
39. Gundersen, K., E. Leberer, T. Lomo, D. Pette, R.S. Staron (1988) Fibre types, calcium-sequestering, and metabolic enzymes in denervated and chronically stimulated muscles of the rat. J Physiol (Lond) 398:177-189.
40. Guth, L., J.B. Wells (1972) Physiological and chemical properties of the soleus muscle after denervation of its antagonists. Exp Neurol 36:463-471.
41. Harada, Y. (1983) Experimental study of denervated rat muscle. II. The effects of electrical stimulation on the denervated rat muscles. J Jpn Orthop Assoc 57:859-866.
42. Hauschka, E.G., R.R. Roy, V.R. Edgerton (1987) Size and metabolic properties of single muscle fibers in rat soleus after hindlimb suspension. J Appl Physiol 62:2338-2347.
43. Herbert, M.E., R.R. Roy, V.R. Edgerton (1988) Influence of one-week hindlimb suspension and intermittent high-load exercise on rat muscles. Exp Neurol 702:190-198.
44. Hoffmann, S.J., R.R. Roy, C.R. Blanco, V.R. Edgerton (1990) Enzyme profiles of single muscle fibers never exposed to normal neuromuscular activity. J Appl Physiol 69:1150-1158.
45. Jarvis, C.J., T. Mokrusch, M.M.N. Kwende, H. Sutherland, S. Salmons (1996) Fast-to-slow transformation in stimulated rat muscle. Muscle Nerve 19:1469-1480.
46. Jiang, B., R.R. Roy, V.R. Edgerton (1990) Enzymatic plasticity of medial gastrocnemius fibers in the adult chronic spinal cat. Am J Physiol 259:C507-C514.
47. Johnson, D.J., L.A. Smith, E. Eldred, V.R. Edgerton (1982) Exercise-induced changes of biochemical, histochemical, and contractile properties of muscle in cordotomized kittens. Exp Neurol 76:414-427.
48. Kovanen, V., H. Suominen, E. Heikinen (1984) Collagen of slow twitch and fast twitch muscle fibers in different types of rat skeletal muscle. Eur J Appl Physiol 52:235-242.
49. Kucera, J., J.M. Walro (1994) Sequences of intrafusal fiber formation are muscle dependent in rat hindlimbs. Anat Embryo 190:273-286.
50. Leterme, D., M. Falempin (1994) Compensatory effects of chronic electrostimulation on unweighted rat soleus muscle. Pflügers Arch 426:155-160.
51. Lomo, T.R. (1989) Long-term effects of altered activity on skeletal muscle. Biomed Biochim Acta 48:S432-S444.
52. Lomo, T., R.H. Westgaard, H.A. Dahl (1974) Contractile properties of muscle: control by pattern of muscle activity in the rat. Proc Roy Soc Lond[B] 187:99-103.
53. Luff, A.R., U. Proske, S.N. Webb (1984) The transformation of cross-innervated slow-twitch muscle after deafferentation in the cat. Exp Brain Res 55.- 152-157.
54. Maier, A., E. Eldred, V.R. Edgerton (1972) The effects on spindles of muscle atrophy and hypertrophy. Exp Neurol 37:100-123.
55. Maier, A., D.R. Simpson, V.R. Edgerton (1976) Histological and histochemical comparisons of muscle spindles in three hind limb muscles of the guinea pig. J Morphol 148:185-192.
56. Malamud, J.G., R.E. Godt, T.R. Nichols (1996) Relationship between short-range stiffness and yielding in type-identified, chemically skinned muscle fibers from the cat triceps-surae muscles. J Neurophysiol 76:2280-2289.
57. Matthews, P.B.C. (1972) Mammalian Muscle Receptors and their Central Actions. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, pp 140-194.
58. Meyer-Lohmann, J., W. Riebold, D. Rorecht (1974) Mechanical influence of the intrafusal muscle on the static behaviour of deefferented primary muscle spindle endings in the cat. Pflügers Arch 352:267-278.
59. Munson, J.B., R.C. Foehring, L.M. Mendell. T. Gordon (1997) Fast-to-slow conversion following chronic low-frequency activation of medial gastrocnemius muscle in cats. II. Motoneuron properties. J Neurophysiol 77:2605-2615.
60. Mutungi, G., K.W. Ranatunga (1996) The viscous, viscoelastic and elastic characteristics of resting fast and slow mammalian (rat) muscle fibres. J Physiol (Lond) 496:827-835.
61. Peck, D., D.F. Buxton, A. Nitz (1984) A comparison of spindle concentrations in large and small muscles acting in parallel combinations. J Morphol 180:243-252.
62. Peter, J.B., R.J. Barnard, V.R. Edgerton, C.A. Gillespie, K.E. Stempel (1972) Metabolic profiles of three fiber types of skeletal muscle in guinea pigs and rabbits. Biochemistry 11:2627-2633.
63. Petit, J., G.M. Filippi, F. Emonet-Denand, C.C. Hunt, Y. Laporte (1990) Changes in muscle stiffness produced by motor units of different types in peroneus longus muscle of cat. J Neurophysiol 63:190-197.
64. Pette, D., G. Vrbova (1985) Neural control of phenotype expression in mammalian muscle fibers. Muscle Nerve 8:676-689.
65. Poppele, R.E., D.C. Quick (1985) Effect of intrafusal muscle mechanics on mammalian muscle spindle sensitivity. J Neurosci 5:1881-1885.
66. Poppele, R.E., W.R. Kennedy, D.C. Quick (1979) A determination of static mechanical properties of intrafusal muscle in isolated cat muscle spindles. Neuroscience 4:401-411.
67. Roy, R.R., L. Acosta, Jr. (1986) Fiber type and fiber size changes in selected thigh muscles six months after low-thoracic spinal cord transection in adult cats: Exercise effects. Exp Neurol 92:675-686.
68. Roy, R.R., I.D. Meadows, K.M. Baldwin, V.R. Edgerton (1982) Functional significance of compensatory overloaded fast muscle. J Appl Physiol 52:473-478.
69. Roy, R.R., D.J. Pierotti, V. Flores, W. Rudolph, V.R. Edgerton (1992) Fiber size and type adaptations to spinal isolation and cyclical passive stretch in cat hindlimb. J Anat 180:491-499.
70. Roy, R.R., M.E. Roy, R.J. Talmadge, R. Mendoza, R.E. Grindeland, M. Vasques (1996) Size and myosin heavy chain profiles of rat hindlimb extensor muscle fibers after 2 weeks at 2 G. Aviat Space Environ Med 67:854-858.
71. Rubinstein, N.A., A.M. Kelly (1978) Myogenic and neurogenic contributions to the development of fast and slow-twitch muscles in rat. Dev Biol 62:473-485.
72. Sacks, R.D., R.R. Roy (1982) Architecture of hindlimb muscles of cats: Functional significance. J Morphol 173:185-195.
73. Salmons, S.,J. Henriksson (1981) The adaptive response of skeletal muscle to increased use. Muscle Nerve 4:94-105.
74. Salmons, S., G. Vrbova (1969) The influence of activity on some contractile characteristics of mammalian fast and slow muscles. J Physiol (Lond) 201:535-549.
75. Smith, L.A., E. Eldred, V.R. Edgerton (1993) Effects of age at cordotomy and subsequent exercise on contraction times of motor units in the cat. J Appl Physiol 75:2683-2688.
76. Snoj-Cvetko, E., J. Sketelj, I. Dolenc, S. Obreza, C. Jamot, A. d'Albis, I. Erzen (1996) Regenerated rat fast muscle transplanted to the slow muscle bed and innervated by the slow nerve exhibits an identical myosin heavy chain repertoire to that of the slow muscle. Histochem Cell Biol 700:473-480.
77. Spector, S.A. (1985) Trophic effects on the contractile and histochemical properties of rat soleus muscle. J Neurosci 5:2189-2196.
78. Swett, J.E., E. Eldred (1959) Relation between spinal level and peripheral location of afferents in calf muscles of the cat. Am J Physiol 796819-823.
79. Swett, J.E., E. Eldred, J.A. Buchwald (1970) Somatotopic cord-to-muscle relations in efferent innervation of cat gastrocnemius. Am J Physiol 219:762-766.
80. Sypert, G.W., J.W. Fleshman, J.B. Munson (1980) Comparison of monosynaptic actions of medial gastrocnemius group la and II muscle spindle afferents on triceps surae motoneurons. J Neurophysiol 44:726-738.
81. Syrovy, I., J. Zelena (1975) The onset and progress of transformation of avian slow into fast muscles under neural influence. Pflügers Arch 360:121-134.
82. Talmadge, R.J., R.R. Roy, V.R. Edgerton (1995) Prominence of myosin heavy chain hybrid fibers in soleus muscle of spinal cord-transected rats. J Appl Physiol 78:1256-1265.
83. Templeton, G.H., M. Padalino, J. Manton, M. Glasberg, C.J. Silver, P. Silver, G. DeMartino, T. Leconey, G. Klug, H. Hagler, J.L. Sutko (1984) Influence of suspension hypokinesia on rat soleus muscle. J Appl Physiol 56:278-286.
84. Tosney, K.W., L.T. Landmesser (1985) Growth cone morphology and trajectory in the lumbosacral region of the chick embryo. J Neurosci 5:2345-2358.
85. Tyc, F., G. Vrbova (1995) The effect of partial denervation of developing rat fast muscles on their motor unit properties. J Physiol (Lond) 482:651-660.
86. Voss, H. (1936) Ein besonders reichliches Vorkommen von Muskelspindeln in der tiefen Portion der M. masseter des Menschen und der Anthropoiden. Anat Anz 81:290-292.
87. Weeks, O.I., A.W. English (1985) Compartmentalization of the cat lateral gastrocnemius motor nucleus. J Comp Neural 235:255-257.
88. Yellin, H. (1969) A histochemical study of muscle spindles and their relationship to extrafusal fiber types in the rat. Am J Anat 125:31-46.
89. Zelena, J. (1964) Development, degeneration and regeneration of receptor organs. Prog Brain Res 75:175-213.