Morphological changes in the masseter mu
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Miyata, Hirofumi ;Sugiura, Takao ;Wada, Naomi ;Kawai, Yosuke ;Shigenaga, Yoshio
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Background: It has been suggested that the morphological properties of the masseter muscle are changed by the masticatory activity pattern. In the rat, the activity pattern of the muscle alters from sucking to biting around 3 weeks after birth. The working hypothesis in this study is that the unique