Correlated histological and physiological observations on a case of common sensory output and motor input of the bag1 fibre and a chain fibre in a cat tenuissimus spindle

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 373-381

  Banks, R W ^a   Hulliger, M ^b   Scheepstra, K A ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fusimotor axons; Muscle spindles; Primary sensory endings

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; HISTOLOGY; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE SPINDLE; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CATS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLES;

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 0031786672     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021878298004002     Document Type: Article

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