postnatal development of the nerve endings of the muscle spindles in temporal muscle of albino mice

ABSTRACT

A total number of thirty albino mice were used in this study. The animals were taken at birth, seven, fourteen, twenty-one, thirty and sixty days after birth. Each age group comprised five animals. The temporal muscle was chosen as an example of mandibular elevator. The specimens were fixed in 4% neutral formalin and embedded in paraffin. The specimens were sectioned longitudinally at a thickness of 12 microns and stained by Holme's silver method and examined under a light microscope. The results were given