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Muscle Development - Anatomy & Physiology (view source)
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<big><center>[[Developmental Biology - Anatomy & Physiology|'''BACK TO DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY]]</center></big>
<big><center>[[Developmental Biology - Anatomy & Physiology|'''BACK TO DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY]]</center></big>
==Introduction==
Muscle cells can come from two lineages in the somite. Limb and body muscle develop from hypaxial muscle in the lateral regions of the somite. Back muscle develops from epaxial muscle in the dorsal regions of the somite. Muscle fibres have hundreds of nuclei and function as a syncytium.