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Transformation of the Histochemical Profile of Skeletal Muscle by “Foreign” Innervation

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EVIDENCE that long term neuronal influence has a decisive role in determining the cytochemical features of skeletal muscle cells is presented in this report.

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  • 01 October 1967

    In the communication "Transformation of the Histochemical Profile of Skeletal Muscle by 'Foreign' Innervation", by G. Karpati and W. K. Engel (Nature, 215, 1509; 1967), the two photographs appeared in reverse order, so that Fig. 2 was printed above the legend to Fig. 1 and vice versa.

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KARPATI, G., ENGEL, W. Transformation of the Histochemical Profile of Skeletal Muscle by “Foreign” Innervation. Nature 215, 1509–1510 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2151509a0

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