Stretch Reflex (a.k.a. Monosynaptic Reflex or Myotatic Reflex)Stretch reflex is a neuromuscular reflex in which an increase in muscle length activates receptors known as muscle spindles, which signal ...

WITHIN the past decade, the use of electronic methods has laid bare much of the mechanism underlying the myotatic, or stretch, reflex of mammalian striated muscle. Outstanding among these advances are ...

LONDON. Royal Society, January 15.—Sir Charles Sherrington and E. G. T. Liddell: Further observations on myo-tatic reflexes. The myotatic reflex of the knee-extensor obtains after pre-collicular as ...

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