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Muscle Receptors and Movement

Proceedings of a Symposium held at the Sherrington School of Physiology, St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London, on July 8th and 9th, 1980

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1981

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  1. A. Taylor

    1. Sherrington School of Physiology, St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK

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  2. A. Prochazka

    1. Sherrington School of Physiology, St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK

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Table of contents (47 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Muscle Spindle Structure and Sensitivity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Overview

      • A. Taylor, A. Prochazka
      Pages 3-3

    3. Structural aspects of fusimotor effects on spindle sensitivity

      • R. W. Banks, D. Barker, M. J. Stacey
      Pages 5-16

    4. The action of the three types of intrafusal fibre in isolated cat muscle spindles on the dynamic and length sensitivities of primary and secondary sensory endings

      • I. A. Boyd
      Pages 17-32

    5. Nature of the dynamic response and its relation to the high sensitivity of muscle spindles to small changes in length

      • J. C. Houk, W. Z. Rymer, P. E. Crago
      Pages 33-43

    6. A critique of the paper by Houk, Rymer and Crago

      • P. B. C. Matthews
      Pages 45-50

    7. Fusimotor actions on the sensitivity of spindle secondary endings

      • L. Jami, J. Petit
      Pages 51-66

    8. Muscle stretch as a way of detecting brief activation of bag1 fibres by dynamic axons

      • F. Emonet-Dénand, Y. Laporte
      Pages 67-76

    9. Security of driving of Ia afferents by vibration that simultaneously elicits a tonic vibration reflex

      • F. J. Clark, P. B. C. Matthews, R. B. Muir
      Pages 77-81

  3. CNS Control of Fusimotor Neurons

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. Overview

      • A. Taylor, A. Prochazka
      Pages 85-86

    3. Electrophysiological characteristics of spinal gamma motoneurons in the cat

      • D. R. Westbury
      Pages 87-96

    4. Selective central control of dynamic gamma motoneurons utilised for the functional classification of gamma cells

      • B. Appelberg
      Pages 97-108

    5. The activity of intrafusal muscle fibres during central stimulation in the cat

      • M. H. Gladden
      Pages 109-122

    6. A critique of the papers by Westbury, Appelberg and Gladden

      • K. S. K. Murthy
      Pages 123-128

    7. A critique of the papers by Westbury and by Appelberg

      • P. H. Ellaway
      Pages 129-135

    8. Autogenetic effects from spindle primary endings and tendon organs on the discharge of gamma motoneurons in the cat

      • P. H. Ellaway, P. R. Murphy, J. R. Trott
      Pages 137-148

    9. Reflex activation of dynamic fusimotor neurons by natural stimulation of muscle and joint receptor afferent units

      • B. Appelberg, M. Hulliger, H. Johansson, P. Sojka
      Pages 149-161

    10. Functional roles of fusimotor and skeletofusimotor neurons studied in the decerebrate cat

      • W. Z. Rymer, E. M. Post, F. R. Edwards
      Pages 163-177
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Sherrington School of Physiology, St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK

    A. Taylor, A. Prochazka

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Muscle Receptors and Movement

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of a Symposium held at the Sherrington School of Physiology, St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London, on July 8th and 9th, 1980

  • Editors: A. Taylor, A. Prochazka

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06022-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The contributors 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-06024-5Published: 01 January 1981

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-06022-1Published: 18 June 1981

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 446

  • Topics: Zoology

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