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The response to vibration of the end organs of mammalian muscle spindles

R. Bianconi, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1963 - 
- Vol. 26, Iss: 1, pp 177-190
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This article is published in Journal of Neurophysiology.The article was published on 1963-01-01. It has received 197 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tonic vibration reflex & Free nerve ending.

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Kinaesthetic role of muscle afferents in man, studied by tendon vibration and microneurography

TL;DR: The characteristics of the vibration-induced illusory movements and the muscle spindle responses to tendon vibration and to active and passive joint movements strengthened the possibility of the contribution of primary endings to kinaesthesia, as suggested by several previous works.
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The responses of human muscle spindle endings to vibration of non‐contracting muscles.

TL;DR: The responses of primary endings to tendon taps were reduced during muscle vibration, a reduction which probably contributes to vibration‐induced suppression of tendon jerks.
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Vibration as an exercise modality: how it may work, and what its potential might be.

TL;DR: Evidence suggests that acute vibration exercise seems to elicit a specific warm-up effect, and that vibration training seems to improve muscle power, although the potential benefits over traditional forms of resistive exercise are still unclear.
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The relative sensitivity to vibration of muscle receptors of the cat.

TL;DR: Vibration was applied to the de‐efferented soleus muscle of anaesthetized cats while recording the discharge of single afferent fibres from the proprioceptors within the muscle to define conditions under which vibration can be used to excite selectively the primary endings of muscle spindles without exciting the secondary endings of Muscle spindle or Golgi tendon organs.
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Normal variability of tonic vibration reflexes in man

TL;DR: This tonic vibration reflex, which probably depends upon excitation of primary spindle endings, is analyzed in the present study and technical and physiological factors determining the strength of the reflex are described.
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