Title Nerve terminal distribution in the human tongue intrinsic muscles : An immunohistochemical study using midterm fetuses
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Nerve terminal distribution in the human tongue intrinsic muscles: An immunohistochemical study using midterm fetuses.
Intrinsic tongue muscles, especially the transverse and vertical (T&V) muscles, regulate the shape of the tongue. However, little information is available on the nerve distribution pattern in human T&V muscles. Using S100 protein immunohistochemistry for paraffin-embedded histology, we investigated semiserial sagittal or frontal sections of eight human fetal tongues (180-240 mm crown-rump lengt...
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