The study focuses on muscle spindles, which are the main sensory receptors for proprioception. This is the "hidden sixth sense" about the mechanical state of the body and is crucial for the proper ...

"Our study demonstrates a preparatory change in the sensitivity of muscle spindle receptors and the motor reflexes they enable," says Dr. Michael Dimitriou who headed this study and is a Research ...

and these "sensors" are called muscle spindles. Spindles differ from other sensory receptors as they also receive nerve fibers from the central nervous system itself, which acts to control spindle ...

Muscles have sensory organs called muscle spindles. Their task is to inform the brain of changes in muscle length. Muscle spindles therefore contain a special type of large diameter nerve ...

“Inside the core of all skeletal muscles are small sensory receptors called muscle spindles, which are sensitive to changes in the length of the muscles. This is important information for the brain so ...

This study reveals, for the first time, that macrophages within muscle spindles actively participate in motor control through fast neurotransmitter-mediated mechanisms, typically associated only ...