title: Effects of fine-grained diet on annulospiral endings of muscle spindles in the masseter muscle in developing and adult mice.
abstract: In the masticatory muscles, neuromuscular spindles have a very important role in controlling the jaw movement since they act as stretch receptors in skeletal muscles. The continuous intake of fine-grained diet which is easily chewable leads to degeneration of the sensory endings of Ia fibers in many muscle spindles of the mouse masseter muscle in only 120 d after birth.
authors.affiliation: 1st Department of Oral Anatomy, Josai Dental University, Saitama, Japan.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Maeda
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kawasaki
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Osawa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sumida
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Masuda
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Suwa
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kumegawa
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004032:Diet; D008406:Masseter Muscle / Q000294:innervation* / Q000502:physiology; D008409:Mastication; D008410:Masticatory Muscles / Q000294:innervation*; D008465:Mechanoreceptors / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D051379:Mice; D008813:Mice, Inbred ICR; D009470:Muscle Spindles / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D009410:Nerve Degeneration