Neck muscles in the rhesus monkey. I. Muscle morphometry and histochemistry.

Morphometric methods were used to describe the musculotendinous lengths, fascicle lengths, pennation angles, and cross-sectional areas of neck muscles in adult Macaca mulatta monkeys. Additionally, muscles were frozen, sectioned, and stained for ATPase activity to determine fiber-type composition. Individual rhesus muscles were found to vary widely in their degree of similarity to feline and human muscles studied previously. Suboccipital muscles and muscles supplied by the spinal accessory nerve were most similar to human homologs, whereas most other muscles exhibited architectural specializations. Many neck muscles were architecturally complex, with multiple attachments and internal aponeuroses or tendinous inscriptions that affected the determination of their cross-sectional areas. All muscles were composed of a mixture of type I, IIa, and IIb fiber types the relative proportions of which varied. Typically, head-turning muscles had lower proportions of type II (fast) fibers than homologous feline muscles, whereas extensor muscles contained higher proportions of type II fibers. The physical and histochemical specializations described here are known to have a direct bearing on functional properties, such as force-developing capacity and fatigue-resistance. These specializations must be recognized if muscles are to be modeled accurately or studied electrophysiologically.

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