The role of such physicians as Rudolph A. Kolliker, Johann N. Czermak, Ludwig Tuerck, Friedrich E. Voltlini, Benjamin B. Loewenberg, Hubert v. Luschka in the building of the science on hypertrophy of pharyngeal tonsil are pointed out first of all. The specific significance of achievements of Wilhelm Meyer (1824-1895) of Copenhagen based on scrupulous examinations is described. In the Polish ter...

Introduction The essence of the mitochondria lies within their ability to generate energy, maintain metabolisms, and regulate signaling cascades. As fundamental constituents of numerous rudimentary cellular processes, the molecular architecture and the proteome of the mitochondria are critical to intracellular biochemistry. The behavior of the mitochondria is subjugated to the environment of th...

Introduction The essence of the mitochondria lies within their ability to generate energy, maintain metabolisms, and regulate signaling cascades. As fundamental constituents of numerous rudimentary cellular processes, the molecular architecture and the proteome of the mitochondria are critical to intracellular biochemistry. The behavior of the mitochondria is subjugated to the environment of th...

In the first half of the nineteenth century it was commonly supposed that new cells arose either exogenously, outside pre-existing cells, or endogenously, from small rudiments that appeared within pre-existing cells and gradually grew larger. The theory of exogeny had been founded by Wolff (1759), and was supported especially by Link (1807), Schwann (1839), and Vogt (1842). The theory of endoge...

The present series concerns the topographical organization of pneumotaxic neurons within the nucleus parabrachialis medialis and adjacent structures according to their respiratory subtype. Results presented were obtained from 1000 units recorded in a region 2.5 mm in height, 1.5 mm in width and 2.5 mm in length. During penetration in the postero-lateral part (mainly in Kolliker-Fuse nucleus) in...

human nervous system led to a major series of treatises on the sense organs. The present volume throws new light on S6mmerring's neuro-anatomical work, and at the same time places it against a wide panoramic backdrop of Sommerring's interaction with "forerunners", with successors such as Albert von Kolliker, and with contemporary friends and colleagues like Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Johann F...

Synaptophysin and synaptobrevin 2 associate closely with packaging and storage of synaptic vesicles and transmitter release, and both play important roles in the development of rat cochlea. We examined the differential expression of synaptophysin and synaptobrevin 2 in the developing Sprague-Dawley rat cochlea, and investigated the relationship between their expression and auditory development....

The goal of this study was to determine the role of the pontine lateral parabrachial nucleus (LPBN) in the compensatory responses to blood loss. Conscious unrestrained rats with complete, partial, or sham bilateral ibotenic acid lesions of the LPBN were subjected to a hypotensive 16-ml/kg blood withdrawal via arterial catheter. Complete lesions (LPBNx) encompassed the entire LPBN and extended i...

For many years, acetylcholine has been known to contribute to the control of breathing and sleep. To probe further the contributions of cholinergic rostral pontine systems in control of breathing, we designed this study to test the hypothesis that microdialysis (MD) of the muscarinic receptor antagonist atropine into the pontine respiratory group (PRG) would decrease breathing more in animals w...