Abstract：
:The pattern of gamma-efferent innervation of the muscle spindle was investigated in the peroneus tertius muscle of the cat. A number of spindle group Ia afferents were isolated and monitored during tetanic stimulation of isolated gamma-axons. The sample was dominated by efferents producing a static fusimotor effect on the afferent. An individual static axon normally projected to less than five but at times as many as seven muscle spindles. Each spindle normally received innervation from three to five static gamma-efferents but occasionally up to eight. The number of spindles innervated by a static gamma-axon was directly related to the efferent axonal conduction velocity. For each experiment, a probability distribution of the number of fusimotor effects was constructed from all available connections between the muscle spindles and static gamma-efferents considered in matrices of four afferents and four efferents. This distribution was then compared to a random binomial distribution. In each of the ten experiments, statistically significant differences (p less than 0.01) were noted between the experimental and random distributions. In order to interpret such deviations from the random distributions, similar analyses were performed on various combinations of afferents and efferents in simulated sets displaying grouping of effects. It was concluded that the observed differences between experimental and random distributions may be produced by a grouping of fusimotor innervation limited to a small set of spindles.
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Exp Brain Resjournal_title
Experimental brain researchauthors
Petit J,Cameron WE,Murthy KS,Barone LAdoi
10.1007/BF00236812subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1983-01-01 00:00:00pages
146-52issue
1eissn
0014-4819issn
1432-1106journal_volume
51pub_type
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