The histological changes occurring during the development of the bovine nuchal ligament have been observed in sections of formalin-fixed material from 21 animals ranging in age from 110 days of gestation to 10 yr. The elastic fibers which constitute the bulk of the adult ligament were initially few in number. During fetal development, the fibers showed a rapid increase both in number and in the...

During the course of an investigation of an epizootic occurred among glass eels** which were imported from Formosa as seed in the eel culture and stocked for a long time without feeding, the present authors noticed that not only diseased fish but also healthy ones had large empty spaces in their liver cells when observed in paraffin section. In some instances the majority of the liver cells wer...

Purpose: Analysis of ossification, bone marrow formation, perichondrium thickness, muscle fibers, collagen fibers and elastic fibers quantities of cricoid and arytenoid cartilages. Design: Correlation morphologic study. Methods: Twenty-four cricoarytenoid joints were obtained from Caucasian male fresh cadavers divided into three groups with eight specimens in each: group I – adolescents, from 1...

INTRODUCTION: The standard repertoire in the diagnosis of peripheral nervous system disorders includes clinical and electrophysiological examinations, supplemented by more invasive procedures, because peripheral nerves are difficult to delineate on conventional MRI due to their poor contrast with the surrounding tissues. Recently, the visualization of peripheral nerves using MRI has been attemp...

Testicular torsion and detorsion are important clinical problems for infertile man. In fact, torsion of the spermatic cord is an emergency that results from rotation of the testis and epididymis around the axis of the spermatic cord. Male factor infertility accounts for up to half of all cases of infertility and affects one man in 20 in the general population [1]. While the annual incidence of ...

This study sought to examine collagen and proteoglycan changes in the menisci of patients with osteoarthritis (OA). Collagens were examined using picrosirius red, and hematoxylin and eosin. Proteoglycans were examined using safranin-O and alcian blue. Types I and II collagens and aggrecan were examined using immunochemistry. Severe loss of collagens was observed to occur in OA menisci, particul...

1 Department of Nephrology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Kindai University Nara Hospital, Nara, Japan 2 Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, Kindai University, Nara, Japan 3 Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 4 Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kindai University, Nara...

Brucellosis is a disease that generally occurs in animals such as cows, pigs, dogs, cattles and goats. Brucella are gram negative, non-motile, non-spore forming coccobacilli bacteria (Dr Delia Skan, August 2004). The genus Brucella comprises at least 8 species named according to the preferred mammal hosts (Maria-Jesus Grillo, 2012). B.melitensis, B.abortus, B.suis and B.canis are the most impor...

It is well known that raising the temperature of the mammalian testis results in more or less extensive damage to the tubules. Such an effect is found almost irrespective of the species studied or the technic employed.18 There is unanimity of opinion regarding the general features of the degeneration resulting from heat, and of the course of the reparative processes. In only the guinea-pig, how...