Abstract:The muscle spindle is a sensory organ located in the skeletal muscle that is critical for motor control and proprioception. The muscle spindle is innervated by stretch sensitive muscle spindle afferents and gamma motor neurons that control the length of the intrafusal muscle fibers and therefore the sensitivity of the stretch sensitive afferents. However, it has been challenging to study the gamma motor neurons since it is hard to specifically stimulate the gamma but not the alpha motor neurons that control th… Show more
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