Mechanoreceptors Development, Structure, and Function [Paperback]

Morphogenetic Interactions in Receptor Development.- Morphogenetic Interactions in the Development of Avian Cutaneous Sensory Receptors.- Critical Periods in the Development of Mechanoreceptors.- Taste Bud Development in Rat Vallate and Foliate Papillae.- Do Developing Merkel Cells in Vibrissal Tactile Receptors Provide a Template for Pattern Formation in the Trigeminal System?.- Coated Vesicles in Developing Muscle Spindles.- The Ontogenetic Development of Sensory Corpuscles.- Development of Muscle Spindles.- Human Muscle Spindle Development.- Early Type-Differentiation of Intrafusal Fibers.- Innervation of Immature Muscle Spindles in the Rat.- The Motor Innervation of Newborn Kitten Muscle Spindles.- Developmental Aspects of Muscle Stretch Receptor Function in the Rat and the Cat.- Functional Maturation of Muscle Spindles in the Tenuissimus Muscles of Kittens.- The Dynamic Sensitivity of Muscle Spindles in the Kitten.- Postnatal Development and Aging of Muscle Spindles in the Mouse Masseter Muscle and Effects of a Fine-Grained Diet on Them.- Postnatal Development of Muscle Spindles and Extrafusal Muscle Fibers in the Mouse Temporal Muscle and Dietary Effect.- Age Related Changes of Muscle Spindles of Rat Soleus Muscle.- Regeneration and Grafting.- Significance of the Extracellular Matrix for the Regeneration of Sensory Corpuscles, with Special Reference to Pacinian Corpuscles.- Reinnervation of Grafted Pacinian Corpuscles by Dorsal Root and Dorsal Column Axons.- Evidence for Transdifferentiation of Alpha Motoneuron Terminals during Reinnervation of Muscle Spindles.- Regeneration of Muscle Spindles in Grafted Extensor Digitorum Longus Muscle of the Rat.- Muscle-Spindle Recovery in Orthotopic Grafts of Cat Muscles.- Investigation of Mechanoreceptors in the Skeletal Muscles of Rats under Different Experimental Conditions.- Sensory Nerve Endings in Minced Muscle of Young and Old Rats.- Mechanoreceptors in Irradiated Traumatized Skeletal Muscle under Stimulated Regenerl3Ä