Mechanoreceptors: Developments, Structure, and Function

Hnik, Pavel; Soukup, Tomas; Vejsada, Richard; Zelena, Jirina

ISBN 10: 0306428326 / ISBN 13: 9780306428326

Published by Springer, 1988

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mechanoreceptors: Developments, Structure, and Function
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306428326
• ISBN 13: 9780306428326
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Morphogenetic Interactions in Receptor Development.- Morphogenetic Interactions in the Development of Avian Cutaneous Sensory Receptors.- Critical Periods in the Development of Mechanoreceptors.- Taste Bud Development in Rat Vallate and Foliate Papillae.- Do Developing Merkel Cells in Vibrissal Tactile Receptors Provide a Template for Pattern Formation in the Trigeminal System?.- Coated Vesicles in Developing Muscle Spindles.- The Ontogenetic Development of Sensory Corpuscles.- Development of Muscle Spindles.- Human Muscle Spindle Development.- Early Type-Differentiation of Intrafusal Fibers.- Innervation of Immature Muscle Spindles in the Rat.- The Motor Innervation of Newborn Kitten Muscle Spindles.- Developmental Aspects of Muscle Stretch Receptor Function in the Rat and the Cat.- Functional Maturation of Muscle Spindles in the Tenuissimus Muscles of Kittens.- The Dynamic Sensitivity of Muscle Spindles in the Kitten.- Postnatal Development and Aging of Muscle Spindles in the Mouse Masseter Muscle and Effects of a Fine-Grained Diet on Them.- Postnatal Development of Muscle Spindles and Extrafusal Muscle Fibers in the Mouse Temporal Muscle and Dietary Effect.- Age Related Changes of Muscle Spindles of Rat Soleus Muscle.- Regeneration and Grafting.- Significance of the Extracellular Matrix for the Regeneration of Sensory Corpuscles, with Special Reference to Pacinian Corpuscles.- Reinnervation of Grafted Pacinian Corpuscles by Dorsal Root and Dorsal Column Axons.- Evidence for Transdifferentiation of Alpha Motoneuron Terminals during Reinnervation of Muscle Spindles.- Regeneration of Muscle Spindles in Grafted Extensor Digitorum Longus Muscle of the Rat.- Muscle-Spindle Recovery in Orthotopic Grafts of Cat Muscles.- Investigation of Mechanoreceptors in the Skeletal Muscles of Rats under Different Experimental Conditions.- Sensory Nerve Endings in Minced Muscle of Young and Old Rats.- Mechanoreceptors in Irradiated Traumatized Skeletal Muscle under Stimulated Regeneration.- Reinnervation.- Loss of Sensory and Motor Neurons After Nerve Injury in Young and Adult Rats.- Sensory Innervation of Atypical Spindles After Nerve Crush in Newborn Rats.- Functional Properties of Atypical Muscle Spindles After Nerve Crush in Newborn Rats.- Late Effects of Early Hind-Limb Denervation and Reinnervation in An EMG Study.- Branching of Myelinated and Unmyelinated Fibers During Nerve Regeneration.- Abnormalities of Cutaneous Sensory Receptors Following Peripheral Nerve Regeneration.- Reinnervation of Cutaneous Mechanoreceptors.- Hyperinnervation of Rat Pacinian Corpuscles in a Toxic Distal Axonopathy.- The Effect of Opioid Peptides on the Functional Recovery of Damaged Neuronal Structures.- Intrinsic Mechanisms of Mechanoreceptor Function.- Dense Cored Vesicles in SAI Merkel Cells and Their Role in Mechano-Electric Transduction.- Electrophysiological Studies on Merkel Cells Isolated from Rat Vibrissal Mechanoreceptors.- Effects of Intracellular Ca2+ on the Frog Muscle Spindle in Relation to Cyclic AMP Action.- Transduction Mechanisms in Pacinian Corpuscles.- The Role of Cytoskeleton in Mechanoreceptor Activity of Pacinian Corpuscles.- Structure and Function of Mature Muscle Receptors.- Stroboscopic Cinematographic and Videorecording of Dynamic Bag1 Fibres During Rapid Stretching of Isolated Cat Muscle Spindles.- Fusimotor Endings Responsible for Chain Fibre 'Driving' of Primary Sensory Endings in Cat Muscle Spindles.- Long-Chain Fibres in Spindles of Cat Superficial Lumbrical Muscles.- Fusimotor Induced Phase Differences Between Responses of Primary and Secondary Endings from the Same Muscle Spindle.- Neural Control of ACh Sensitivity of Muscle Spindles in Cats.- Fluorescent Labelling of Nerve Terminals in the Living Isolated Mammalian Muscle Spindle.- Scanning Electron Microscopic Identification of Motor and Sensory Endings on Teased Intrafusal Muscle Fibers.- Sensory 'Cross-Terminals' Between Dymamic and Static Intrafusal Fibers in Ra