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Increase in Length of Skeletal Muscle during Normal Growth

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RECENTLY I attempted to answer the question of how mammalian striated muscle fibres increase in length during normal post-natal growth. Aronson1 has shown that the length of the sarcomeres of the muscles of the tarsonemid mite increase during development. He also suggests that the exceptionally long sarcomeres in this mite result from an early determination of the number of sarcomeres in a given fibre.

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GOLDSPINK, G. Increase in Length of Skeletal Muscle during Normal Growth. Nature 204, 1095–1096 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2041095a0

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