The sensory innervation of the shoulder joint of the mouse

Autor: Backenköhler, Ulrich, Halata, Zdenek, Strasmann, Thomas J.
Zdroj: Annals of Anatomy - Anatomischer Anzeiger; April 1996, Vol. 178 Issue: 2 p173-181, 9p
Abstrakt: The ultrastructure and location of sensory nerve endings in the shoulder-joint capsule, its tendinous reinforcements and in the periarticular connective and muscle tissue have been studied by means of light and electron microscopy in adult female white NMRI-F2laboratory mice, aged 2.5–13 months. Most of the sensory nerve endings were detected in the fibrous layer of the joint capsule or in the inserting tendons. The identified lamellated corpusclesof the Pacini type are small and sometimes associated with Golgi tendon-organs. Large Vater-Pacini corpuscles were not detected. Ruffini corpusclesare found in small numbers only in the moderately dense connective tissue of the joint capsule. Golgi tendon organswere found mainly at the muscle-tendon junction of the muscles surrounding the joint. Muscle spindleshave been identified mainly in periarticular muscles close to the muscle-tendon junctions.
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