title: Myelinated fibre diameters of human inferior alveolar nerves.
abstract: These were examined in a series of 36 human post-mortem specimens. One unimodal, 32 bimodal and 1 trimodal diameter curves were demonstrated; group analysis of all samples gave a bimodal curve with 2-4 and 8-9 microns peaks.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008340:Mandibular Nerve / Q000166:cytology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009413:Nerve Fibers, Myelinated / Q000648:ultrastructure*