Human muscle spindles : complex morphology and structural organisation

Muscle spindles are skeletal muscle mechanoreceptors that mediate the stretch reflex and provide axial and limb position information to the central nervous system. They have been proposed to play a major role in the pathophysiology of muscle pain. Knowledge about the normal human muscle spindles is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liu, Jing-Xia
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Umeå universitet, Anatomi 2004
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