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Around that time, the muscle’s golgi tendon organs—spindles of neurons that sit on the muscle fibers—kick in and inhibit muscle contractions, allowing your muscles to relax and lengthening the stretching you can do.
WHY CAN’T WE ALL TOUCH OUR TOES?CLAIRE MALDARELLISEPTEMBER 30, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEMuscles contain special sensory receptor cells called muscle spindles.
YOU CAN INJURE YOURSELF STRETCHING—BUT IT’S NOT EASYEMPIREJULY 8, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEThe author, an art curator and educator who has developed curriculums on animals, speculates that hippo empathy may derive from their brains being well-stocked with spindle neurons, which are associated in many species with social emotions.
EYE-OPENING ACTS OF EMPATHY IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOMRICHARD SCHIFFMANAPRIL 9, 2021WASHINGTON POSTHyman became interested in understanding the formation of mitotic spindles during his graduate studies in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the University of Cambridge in the 1980s.
A NEWFOUND SOURCE OF CELLULAR ORDER IN THE CHEMISTRY OF LIFEVIVIANE CALLIERJANUARY 7, 2021QUANTA MAGAZINENo sooner had she picked up the spindle, than she pricked her hand with it, and fell swooning.
THE STORY OF THE DUCHESS OF CICOGNE AND OF MONSIEUR DE BOULINGRINANATOLE FRANCEBehind the bride were carried the distaff and spindle, emblems of domestic life.
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THE ROMANSHAROLD WHETSTONE JOHNSTONA very convenient method of keeping shipping tags at hand is to slip them on a desk spindle.
THE BOY MECHANIC, BOOK 2VARIOUSIn the thick shade of a fig-tree, by a running spring, sat a blind woman unrolling the last gold and silver thread from a spindle.
LABOULAYE'S FAIRY BOOKVARIOUSHe lifted a spindle-legged table in the air and went on talking.
PATCHWORKANNA BALMER MYERSEach taste bud consists of a collection of spindle-shaped neurones, each cell tipped at its outer end with a hairlike projection.
A CIVIC BIOLOGYGEORGE WILLIAM HUNTERWORDS RELATED TO SPINDLE
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