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THE lateral rectus muscle and sixth nerve have been studied in four young pigs ranging in age from three to six weeks. Fixation of the orbital contents and brain stem was ensured by ante-mortem perfusions. The muscle was examined in frozen sections taken through longitudinal and trans verse planes, and stained by the diammine silver ion technique1. A block of the brain stem extending from the upper medulla to mid-brain was treated by the Bielschowsky pyridine–silver process, and sections, namely, dorso-ventral, longitudinal and transverse, were examined. The trunk of the sixth nerve was studied in preparations stained by hæmatoxylin and eosin and by methylene blue.
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LAW, M., FITZGERALD, M. The Lateral Rectus Muscle and Sixth Cranial Nerve in the Pig. Nature 178, 798–799 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178798b0
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