Introduction In veterinary medicine, intervertebral disk surgery is limited to the herniated intervertebral disk which may be situated at any level of the vertebral column, with surgical treatment differing according to the level. At the cervical level of the vertebral column, a ventral corpectomy is the technique of choice as the hernia is most often ventral. When the hernia is lateralized, a ...

Diskospondylitis is defined as concurrent intervertebral diskinfection and vertebral osteomyelitis of contiguous vertebrae.(29, 30, 35-38) In the dog, the infection has been attributed to Staphylococcus aureus, Brucella Canis, Nocardia-like organisms, Corynebacterium spp, Paecilo-myces varioti, and grass-seed foreign body penetration with secondary infection.(26,31,3538,40,44-52) Other organism...

The purpose of this study was to examine the characteristics of centre of pressure (COP) and centre of mass (COM) fluctuations in ballet dancers standing quietly. Ten healthy young women performing classic ballet dance as recreational exercise (dancer group) and 10 healthy non-ballet dancers young women who were not ballet dancers (control group) participated in this study. Participants were in...

A proneural cluster of dorsocentral bristles forms adjacent to the dorsal side of wg-expressing cells in the notum region of the wing imaginal disc. It has been shown that wg activity is required for these structures to form. However, the restriction of this proneural cluster to the dorsal posterior side of the wg expression domain in the anterior compartment of the wing imaginal disc has sugge...

The segmental body plan of vertebrates arises from the metameric organization of the paraxial mesoderm into somites. Each mesodermal somite is subdivided into at least two distinct domains: rostral and caudal. The segmental pattern of dorsal root ganglia, sympathetic ganglia and nerves is imposed by differential properties of either somitic domain. In the present work, we have extended these st...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this research was to evaluate the influence of autologous mononuclear stem cells injections on histological changes of collagen in the fibrous annulus of the intervertebral disk after experimental injury. METHODS 32 New Zealand rabbits were submitted to intervertebral disk puncture, followed by intradiscal injection of mononuclear cells from the iliac crest versus s...