Tendon organs:

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Tendon organs:

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Lie alongside muscle fibres so are ideally placed to signal muscle length.

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Generate impulses which are thought to inhibit motoneurones supplying the muscle in which they lie.

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Are there to monitor dangerously high levels of tension in the muscle.

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Are served by small myelinated or unmyelinated nerve fibres which signal the soreness from unaccustomed exercise.

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Provide the central nervous system with information about the accumulation of exercise metabolites like lactic acid.

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