Alfred Maier

TL;DR: The association in jaw closers of spindles with extrafusal fibers high in oxidative enzyme activity is consistent with the view that spindle are the sensory component of a reflex system that recruits these fibers for finely-graded contractions in response to small internal length-changes of the muscle.

TL;DR: It is indicated that within a muscle complex characteristics of oxidative index or contractile properties may bear no relation to the incidence of muscle spindles, should muscle tissues of differing histochemical compositions require different sensory inputs to their related motoneuronal pools.

TL;DR: It is concluded that muscle fibre formation in this large muscle involves at least three generations of myotube, which are generated on a framework of primary myotubes and differentiate into the young myofibres which are observed at E76 to form rosettes.

TL;DR: The phenotype of homozygous mice without expression of an α2(XI) chain had a smaller body size, receding snouts, and deafness, which is consistent with similar mutations in the COL11A2 gene seen in patients with nonocular Stickler syndrome and some patients with otospondylomegaepiphyseal dysplasia, as well as with patients with a nonsyndromic form of deafness called DFNA13.

TL;DR: Serial cross sections of rat, rabbit and cat intrafusal fibers from muscle spindles of normal adult hindlimb muscles were incubated with a monoclonal antibody against embryonic myosin heavy chains to study the responses of nuclear bag and nuclear chain fibers in these species.