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How are muscle spindle receptors stimulated?

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the striated portions of the intrafusal fiber contract to keep the spindle taut at different muscle lengths. If the whole muscle is stretched, the muscle spindle is also stretched, triggering sensory nerve impulses on its nerve fiber. These sensory fibers synapse in the spinal chord with lower motor neurons leading back to the same muscle. Impulses triggered by stretch of the muscle spindle contract the skeletal muscle.

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