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Which type of sensory receptors provide the CNS with information concerning degrees of stretch and tension within the musculoskeletal system?
Which type of sensory receptors provide the CNS with information concerning degrees of stretch and tension within the musculoskeletal system?
- Extrafusal fibers
- Muscle spindles (correct)
- Tendon organs
- Intrafusal fibers
Which type of muscle fibers have very few myofibrils and can have their nuclei either closely aligned or piled in a central dilation?
Which type of muscle fibers have very few myofibrils and can have their nuclei either closely aligned or piled in a central dilation?
- Intrafusal fibers (correct)
- Muscle satellite cells
- Sensory nerve axons
- Extrafusal fibers
What are the afferent sensory and efferent motor nerve fibers associated with the intrafusal fibers?
What are the afferent sensory and efferent motor nerve fibers associated with the intrafusal fibers?
- Sensory nerve axons
- Extrafusal fibers
- Tendon organs
- Muscle spindles (correct)
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