[1]see literature in Pietsch, P. The effects of retinoic on mitosis during tail and limb regeneration in the axolotl larva, Ambystoma mexicanum. Roux's Arch. Dev. Biol. 196: 169-178, 1987.

[2]Pietsch, P. Effects of retinoic acid on the muscle patterns produced during forelimb regeneration in larval salamanders (Ambystoma). Cytobios 66: 41-61, 1991.


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{Again: the white arrows are the ulno-carpalis muscles.}:

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Note: Members of the genus Ambystoma normally have four-fingered hands and lack the counterpart of the human thumb, which in anatomical convention is designated as digit I; the corresponding hand and wrist cartilages, and later bones, bare the numerical designation of the digit; thus carpale II is on the lateral, or radial side of the wrist (or would be if the limb were straightened out like that of a cadaver in the dissecting room). Carpale V is on the limb's ulnar side. Additional details can be found in reference 2.


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