Comment: unresolved questions concerning muscle afferents.
Some current questions regarding muscle afferent receptors are discussed. These include the significance of variable distribution patterns of muscle spindles in different muscles and of differences in intrinsic spindle morphology. The significance of the very large and variable population of small myelinated afferent fibres in muscle is also discussed.
D006801:Humans; D008465:Mechanoreceptors / Q000502:physiology; D009470:Muscle Spindles / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology; D009132:Muscles / Q000294:innervation*; D009413:Nerve Fibers, Myelinated / Q000502:physiology; D009475:Neurons, Afferent / Q000502:physiology*