Plastination, developed by Gunther von Hagens in 1977 is described as a technique to preserve bodies or body parts in anatomy. During this process, the water is replaced by certain plastics that can be easily touched and do not cause decay, and even retain most properties of the original sample. Plastination is therefore, been proved to be very useful in anatomy as well as serving as models in ...

introduction: plastination is a unique technique for preservation of biological specimens used for teaching purposes. the protocol of flexible sheet plastination includes fixation, slicing, dehydration, force impregnation, casting, and curing (hajian, rabiei, fatollahpour & esfandiary, 2008). the procedure is done by using p87 flexible unsaturated polyester resin and provides heavy, gross, frag...

Plastination is a process of tissue preservation by embedding tissues with synthetic materials, as silicone polymers and epoxy resins to produce dry, durable, handy and natural looking specimens useful as a unique tool for teaching of anatomy, pathology, radiology and surgery. Since 1980s, (when it was invented by Professor Gunther Von Hagens experimentally), plastination technique, quality and...

Objectives: The role of intra-articular meniscoids in spinal pathology is unclear, and their anatomy not well understood. Spinal meniscoids have been identified in research using dissection and imaging. No previous studies have identified these structures using E12 sheet plastination; such methods of visualising meniscoids are likely of value in research and education. Our aim was to examine th...

BACKGROUND For many years, researchers have been interested in investigating airflow and aerosol deposition in the nasal cavities. The nasal airways appear to be a complex geometrical system. Thus, in vitro experimental studies are frequently conducted with a more or less biomimetic nasal replica. AIM This study is devoted to the development of an anatomically realistic nose model with bilate...

Body Worlds [4] is an exhibition featuring plastinates, human bodies that have been preserved using a plastination process. First displayed in 1995 in Tokyo, Japan, this collection of anatomical specimens has since been displayed around the world. Although the exhibition debuted in Japan, the idea for the displays began at Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, Germany, where anatomist Gunther vo...

. Tendon sheaths are complex tubes wrapped completely around tendons. They are placed between two movable tissues to diminish friction when tendons pass either under ligaments or retinacula or pass through fascial slings or osseofibrous tunnels. The aim of this study was to show that the El2 plastination technique is a useful research tool for demonstrating different anatomical structures, e.g....

1 Department of Anatomy, Dalian Medical University. No.9 west section, Lushun South Road, Dalian 116044, China ABSTRACT: Objective: To explore the procedure of preparation of a whole plastinated equine specimen to be used in veterinary education. Methods: A formalin-preserved horse was dissected to display the brain, spinal cord and the superficial muscles complete with their innervation. The s...

Histology of biological specimens is largely limited to investigating two-dimensional structure because of the sectioning required to produce optically thin samples for conventional microscopy. With the advent of three-dimensional optical imaging technologies such as optical coherence tomography (OCT), diffuse optical tomography (DOT), and multiphoton microscopy (MPM), methods of tissue prepara...