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Sympathetic activation and muscle spindle
C Nozzoli1, G Masi, E Ferrannini
1Department of Neurology, A. Di Summa Hospital, Brindisi, Italy.
Functional Neurology
|October 1, 1987
Abstract:
An adrenergic central control on fusimotor activity has been demonstrated since 1954. At peripheral level, a muscle spindle autonomic innervation is not clearly demonstrated in man, but several data seem to suggest a direct autonomic innervation of muscle spindle in cats and rabbits. Data obtained in patients with peripheral adrenergic denervation (Idiopathic Orthostatic Hypotension) suggest a prevalent control of central adrenergic pathways on muscle spindle sensitivity.