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A specialised muscle fibre found in tetrapod vertebrates. A bundle of muscle fibres is innervated by sensory neurones. Stretching the muscle causes the neurones to fire, the muscle spindle thus functions as a stretch receptor.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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