Sensory Receptors + Reflexes

Question 1

In cutaneous sensory receptors, nerve endings are protected by what?

Answer 1

A capsule

Question 2

What do muscle spindles monitor?

Answer 2

Muscle length and the rate at which it changes

Question 3

Skeletal muscle is made of what two types of fibre?

Answer 3

Extrafusal

Intrafusal

Question 4

What golgi tendon organs monitor?

Answer 4

Muscle tension

Question 5

What controls intrafusal fibres?

Answer 5

Gamma motoneurones

Question 6

What is the name given to when the sensory information reaches consciousness?

Answer 6

Sensation

Question 7

When is the golgi-tendon organ reflex activated in the agonist muscle?

Answer 7

When the inhibitory interneurons to the agonist muscle are activated

Question 8

What is there an increased number of in the stretch reflex?

Answer 8

Number of APs in afferent nerves through the dorsal horn

Question 9

Golgi tendon organs produce what kinds of reflexes?

Answer 9

Inverse reflexes

Question 10

What are muscle spindles made of?

Answer 10

Specialised intrafusal fibres