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Growth of human muscle spindles in vitro

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STRIKING histological, histochemical and physiological differences between intrafusal and extrafusal muscle have been observed in a large number of species. Enzyme profiles, for instance, of intrafusal muscle not only fail to reflect the extrafusal pattern but show considerable interspecies variation1,2.

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ELLIOTT, B., HARRIMAN, D. Growth of human muscle spindles in vitro. Nature 251, 622–624 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/251622a0

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