When a normal innervated skeletal muscle is stretched, the initial response is contraction, but with increasing stretch, the muscle suddenly relaxes because:

• A. with strong stretch, the efferent discharge is decreased
• B. with strong stretch, the discharge from the annulospiral endings of afferent nerve fibres is inhibited
• C. with strong stretch, there is decreased activity in the afferent nerve fibres from the Golgi tendon organs
• D. with strong stretch, there is increased activity in the afferent nerve fibres from the Golgi tendon organs
• E. because of reciprocal innervation, there is increased discharge in the afferent nerve fibres from the antagonists to the stretched muscle