{"id":8266,"date":"2019-05-22T16:05:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/intrafusal_muscle_fibers\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:05:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:05:50","slug":"intrafusal_muscle_fibers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/intrafusal_muscle_fibers\/","title":{"rendered":"Intrafusal muscle fibers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Specialized, skeletal muscle fibers found within muscle spindles that detect muscle stretch and become innervated by gamma motoneurons during early development (see figure below).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Intrafusal-fiber-1.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"\">Intrafusal fibers in muscle spindles relative to extrafusal fibers and gamma motoneurons that innervate infrafusal fibers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"actin\">Actin<\/a>, <a href=\"alpha_----_motoneuron\">Alpha (\u03b1) motoneuron<\/a>, <a href=\"extrafusal_muscle_fibers\">Extrafusal muscle fibers<\/a>, <a href=\"gamma_----_motoneuron\">Gamma (\u03b3) motoneuron<\/a>, <a href=\"hypotonia\">Hypotonia<\/a>, <a href=\"motor_cortex\">Motor cortex<\/a>, <a href=\"muscle_fiber\">Muscle fiber<\/a>, Muscle spindle <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specialized, skeletal muscle fibers found within muscle spindles that detect muscle stretch and become innervated by gamma motoneurons during early development (see figure below).&nbsp; Intrafusal fibers in muscle spindles relative to extrafusal fibers and gamma motoneurons that innervate infrafusal fibers.&nbsp; See Actin, Alpha (\u03b1) motoneuron, Extrafusal muscle fibers, Gamma (\u03b3) motoneuron, Hypotonia, Motor cortex, Muscle &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/intrafusal_muscle_fibers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Intrafusal muscle fibers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}