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  • Title: Receptor potential and spike initiation in two varieties of snake muscle spindles.
    Author: Fukami Y.
    Journal: J Neurophysiol; 1978 Nov; 41(6):1546-56. PubMed ID: 153386.
    Abstract:
    1. Receptor potentials, in response to ramp-and-hold stretch, have been recorded from two varieties of snake muscle spindles. 2. The two types of spindles have a similar sensitivity of impulse discharge to amplitude of receptor potential during the static phase of stretch. 3. Receptor potentials from short-capsule spindles show a high dynamic sensitivity to velocity of stretch. Amplitude of dynamic receptor potentials is well related to frequency of dynamic discharge except beyond a certain velocity of stretch where the frequency deviates progressively more than expected from linearity. 4. Receptor potentials from long-capsule spindles show a low dynamic sensitivity to velocity of stretch and amplitude of dynamic receptor potentials is well correlated with dynamic firing frequency. 5. The threshold level of receptor potential for initiating spike discharge varies with the velocity of stretch, the relation being similar for the two types of spindles. 6. It is concluded that the basis for functional differentiation of snake spindles may lie in the mechanism by which deformation of sensory endings is transformed into receptor potential. 7. Late adaptation of impulse discharge, a characteristic feature of the response of the short-capsule spindle to maintained stretch, has been related to length changes of the sensory region measured directly with Nomarski optics. The linear relation found between the slow adaptive fall of impulse discharge and the simultaneous shortening of the sensory region strongly suggests a mechanical basis for the late adaptation.
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