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Responses of muscle spindles of tenotomized and hypertrophied muscles to stretching and vibration were investigated. During constant stretching of the muscles with a load of 100 g the spontaneous activity of the primary endings in the control muscle was 17±1.5 spikes/sec, in the hypertrophied muscle it was unchanged, and after tenotomy it was increased to 26±1.5 spikes/sec. The discharge frequency of the secondary endings was unchanged under these circumstances. Responses of primary and secondary endings of spindles of the tenotomized muscle during the dynamic and static phases of stretching were higher in frequency than responses of spindles of normal muscles. The discharge frequency of the primary endings in the hypertrophied muscle also was increased during both phases of stretching. Responses of secondary endings of the spindles of the hypertrophied muscle were indistinguishable under these circumstances from responses of normal muscles. Primary endings of spindles of tenotomized and hypertrophied muscles, just as normally, reproduced frequencies of vibration stimulation up to 2000 Hz, but some increase in the discharge frequency was observed in the secondary endings at this time.
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I. M. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 311–317, September, 1976.
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Arutyunyan, R.S. Responses of muscle spindles of tenotomized and hypertrophied muscles to stretching and vibration. Neurophysiology 8, 240–245 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01064623
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