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IN the past 30 years many experiments have been carried out on the structure and function of muscle spindles in both amphibia and mammals. There have been no accounts of experiments concerned with the function of muscle spindles in reptiles although their structure has been described1,2.
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PROSKE, U. Responses of Muscle Spindles in the Lizard. Nature 213, 1144–1146 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2131144a0
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