... provide a new, 4D anatomical characterisation of the developing human upper limb muscles between Carnegie stages 18 and 22 using optical projection tomography. We show that muscles develop in a progressive wave, from proximal to distal and from superficial to deep. We show that some muscle bundles undergo...

... muscles and/or on limited developmental stage(s) (e.g. Butler-Browne et al., 1990 ; Edom-Vovard et al., 1999 ; see also more examples of such studies in Belle et al., 2017 ). Development Embryo Fetus Human Limb muscles Lower limb Phylogeny versus ontogeny Upper limb Variants...