Objective- The current study was conducted to evaluate changes in the urinary bladder structure and leukocyte profile as an important index of the systemic inflammation response for two different types of spinal cord injury (SCI) in a rat model. Design- Experimental Study.Animals- Forty adult healthy female Sprague-Dawley rats.<br /...

The features of unlesioned and lesioned trochlear nerves of goldfish have been examined electron microscopically. Lesioned nerves were studied between 1 and 107 days after cutting or crushing the nerve. Unlesioned nerves contained, on average, 77 myelinated axons and 19 unmyelinated axons. The latter were found in 1-2 fascicles per nerve. A basal lamina surrounded each myelinated axon and fasci...

BACKGROUND Discectomies are a common surgical treatment for disc herniations in the canine spine. However, the effect of these procedures on intervertebral disc tissue is not fully understood. The objective of this study was to assess degenerative changes of cervical spinal segments undergoing discectomy procedures, in vivo. RESULTS Discectomies led to a 60% drop in disc height and 24% drop i...

Parachuting, be it static line or skydiving, places enormous stresses on the human spine. It is, therefore, important to determine the prevalence and severity of degenerative changes in the lumbar spine of subjects who practice this sport activity. Seventy four parachuting instructors, mean age 33 years and with an average of 410 static line and skydiving jumps, were included in the study. Past...

in this study we investigated histopathological changes of mice ovarian tissues following long-term administration of copper sulfate and induction of chronic copper poisoning. the study comprised of three different groups of twenty one mice as follows: the first group (group 100) which treated by gavage with copper sulfate at a dose of 100 mg kg-1 for 5 weeks. the second group (group 200), whic...

A caspase 8-deficient subline (JB6) of human Jurkat cells can be killed by the oligomerization of Fas-associated protein with death domain (FADD). This cell death process is not accompanied by caspase activation, but by necrotic morphological changes. Here, we show that the death effector domain of FADD is responsible for the FADD-mediated necrotic pathway. This process was accompanied by a los...