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The observations supporting the view that bag1 fibres of cat muscle spindles can be excited by stretch are briefly reviewed in this paper.
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Laporte, Y., Emonet-Dénand, F., Hunt, C.C. (1985). Does stretch excite the bag1 fibre?. In: Boyd, I.A., Gladden, M.H. (eds) The Muscle Spindle. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07695-6_24
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