Stretch receptors are mechanoreceptors responsive to distention of the thorax, which are neurologically linked to the medulla via efferent nerve cells, joining them to the expiratory cells present there. Stretch receptors are also found in other organs and muscles, such as bowel wall.

Types include:

• Golgi organ
• Muscle spindle
• Pulmonary stretch receptors

[edit] External links

• stretch+receptors at eMedicine Dictionary
• Stretch receptor at Dorland's Medical Dictionary
• MeSH Stretch+receptor

v • d • e Nervous system, receptors: somatosensory system (GA 10.1059) Medial lemniscus Touch/mechanoreceptors: Pacinian corpuscles – vibration • Meissner's corpuscles – light touch • Merkel's discs – pressure • Ruffini endings - stretch • Free nerve endings – pain • Hair cells • Baroreceptor Proprioception: Golgi organ – tension/length • Muscle spindle – velocity of change (Intrafusal muscle fiber • Nuclear chain fiber • Nuclear bag fiber) Spinothalamic tract Pain: Nociception and Nociceptors Temperature: Thermoreceptors

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