I have Googled like mad, but can't find a clear answer on this! I bought a spaghetti squash about 5 weeks ago meaning to cook it and never got around to it.I have never eaten it before, and my husband was skeptical, so I kept putting it off. Anyway, everything I read says that it will keep a long time..eople used to keep squash and other foods in their cellars for long periods of time. If it's been kept cool, has no soft or dark spots on, and looks okay when you cut into it (today or tomorrow!!), I'd say go ahead and eat it.
1 Because alpha motor neurons are the only way to stimulate extrafusal muscle fibers, the loss of these neurons causes a decrease in muscle tone. 2  Hyporeflexia. 3  The myotatic (stretch) reflex is weak or absent with lower motor neuron disorders, because the alpha motor neurons that cause muscle contraction are damaged. When alpha motor neurons die, the muscle fibers that they innervate become deprived of necessary trophic factors and eventually the muscle itself atrophies. 2  Weakness. 3  Because of the damage to alpha motor neurons and the atrophy of muscles, weakness is profound in lower motor neuron disorders.
As a result of this reflex, activation of the Ib afferent causes the muscle to cease contraction, as the alpha motor neuron becomes inhibited. Because this reflex contains an interneuron between the sensory afferent and the motor neuron, it is an example of a disynaptic reflex.For many years, it was thought that the function of the autogenic inhibition circuit was to protect the muscle from excessive amounts of force that might damage it.hus, when a muscle spindle is stretched and the stretch reflex is activated, the opposing muscle group must be inhibited to prevent it from working against the resulting contraction of the homonymous muscle (Figure 2.2). This inhibition is accomplished by an inhibitory interneuron in the spinal cord.