The DOI matches its Crossref record.
The relationship between the dimensions of the fibres and the number of nuclei during normal growth of skeletal muscle in the domestic fowl
Abstract
Between 0 and 266 days of age the weight of the pectoral and gastrocnemius muscles of chickens increased 300–600‐ and 40–90‐fold respectively depending on the breed and sex. In both muscles the mean cross‐sectional area of the fibres and the total number of nuclei (estimated from DNA determination) maintained a constant ratio during growth. This suggests that for individual fibres the cross‐sectional area increased in proportion to the number of nuclei. This phenomenon is discussed in relation to current knowledge concerning the mode of growth and multinucleation of skeletal muscle fibres. In the pectoral muscle, between 0 and 266 days, the cross‐sectional area of the fibres increased in proportion to the two‐thirds power of the muscle weight, which suggests that the length and diameter of the fibres maintained a constant ratio. The same relationship existed for the gastrocnemius for two months, after which the fibre cross‐sectional area increased in proportion to the muscle weight, which suggests that the fibre length was then constant.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cited by
Folland, J. P., & Williams, A. G. (2007) · Sports Medicine · doi:10.2165/00007256-200737020-00004 · Cited by 1,347
Skeletal Muscle Adaptability: Significance for Metabolism and Performance
Saltin, B., & Gollnick, P. D. (1983) · Comprehensive Physiology · doi:10.1002/cphy.cp100119 · Cited by 890
Longitudinal growth of striated muscle fibres
Williams, P. E., & Goldspink, G. (1971) · Journal of Cell Science · doi:10.1242/jcs.9.3.751 · Cited by 375
Nature of dividing nuclei in skeletal muscle of growing rats
Moss, F. P., & Leblond, C. P. (1970) · The Journal of Cell Biology · doi:10.1083/jcb.44.2.459 · Cited by 289
Self-citationMuscle memory and a new cellular model for muscle atrophy and hypertrophy
Gundersen, K. (2016) · Journal of Experimental Biology · doi:10.1242/jeb.124495 · Cited by 169
Metadata
- Authors
- Moss, F. P.
- Venue
- American Journal of Anatomy
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1968-05
- Volume
- 122
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 555-563
- ISSN
- 0002-9106 (ISSN-L)
- 1553-0795
- OpenAlex
- W1996166524
- Cited by
- 182
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 1.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: The relationship between the dimensions of the fibres and the number of nuclei during normal growth of skeletal muscle in the domestic fowl. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1002/aja.1001220308
- The paper
- Moss, F. P. (1968). The relationship between the dimensions of the fibres and the number of nuclei during normal growth of skeletal muscle in the domestic fowl. American Journal of Anatomy. https://doi.org/10.1002/aja.1001220308
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
