Abstract
The ultrastructure of normal human facial muscles from 25 nonparalytic and 17 paralytic patients revealed normal features in nondenervated human facial muscles, identical to the fine structure of other normal human and mammalian cross-striated muscle fibers. However, in denervated facial muscle, a broad spectrum of ultrastructural lesions had affected sarcomeres, abnormal inclusions, and organelles. A large variety of inclusion bodies, some of which have not been described, were also found. The spectrum of ultrastructural changes showed no dependence on the length of the denervation period. There were no inclusion bodies in all the normal facial muscle biopsies. To our knowledge, this study represents the first systematic electron microscopic investigation of normal and denervated human facial muscles.
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