Sensory nerve terminals (orange) of a muscle spindle. Credit: University of Basel, Biozentrum After an incomplete spinal cord injury, the body can partially recover basic motor function.

VINCRISTINE sulphate, a purified indole alkaloid of the periwinkle plant, has been used widely in clinical and experimental cancer chemotherapy since its activity in acute leukaemia was first ...

In addition to their well-known immune functions, macrophages in muscle spindles perform two newly identified roles: they modulate neural activity to control movement and couple the body's ...

These researchers found that there were no significant differences in the number, size, or electrophysiological function of reinnervated muscle spindles between the two experimental groups.

Paper: Bace1 and Neuregulin-1 cooperate to control formation and maintenance of muscle spindles. This is a scientifically exciting story that is genetically well controlled, including the conditional ...