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Muscle spindles are found in nearly all the human skeletal muscles; however, other than their relative frequency in the intrinsic hand muscles, there are very few studies wherein the spindles from various muscles have been systematically examined (Cooper & Daniel, 1963; Swash & Fox, 1972). In this study, we report on the morphology and morphometry of muscle spindles from various skeletal muscles.
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Sahgal, V., Subramani, V., Sahgal, S., Kochar, H. (1985). Morphology and morphometry of human muscle spindles. In: Boyd, I.A., Gladden, M.H. (eds) The Muscle Spindle. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07695-6_15
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