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Laboratory investigations Development of the connective tissue of the extraocular muscles and clinical significance

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Mesectodern is an accurate term to describe the cellular origin of the connective tissue of the eye other than the eye muscles and vascular endothelium. The present study demonstrates that the tendons of origin and insertion, as well as the belly of the extraocular muscle, develops at the same time.

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  1. Division of Ophthalmology, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, 10666 North Torrey Pines Road, 92037, La Jolla, California, USA

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Dedicated to Dr. G.K. von Noorden on the occasion of his 60th birthday

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Sevel, D. Laboratory investigations Development of the connective tissue of the extraocular muscles and clinical significance. Graefe's Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 226, 246–251 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02181190

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