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Intrafusal muscle fibers are skeletal muscle fibers that serve as specialized sensory organs (proprioceptors) that detect the amount and rate of change in length of a muscle and are innervated by 2 axons one sensory and one motor and constitute the muscle spindle. Intrafusal muscle fibers are walled off from the rest of the muscle by a collagen sheath.

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