Muscle biopsy is a minor surgical procedure that involves making an incision in the skin to obtain a few small pieces of the underlying muscle for detailed histologic, histochemical, or biochemical ...

This is a cross section of a muscle biopsy: Blood vessels (red) between the muscle fibers and laminin-α2 (green), which surrounds each muscle fiber. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

A nerve biopsy involves the process of removing a small length of a peripheral nerve for histologic examination under the ... In addition to routine histology, a properly processed nerve biopsy must ...