Strategies to manipulate gut microbiota in infancy have been considered to prevent the development of allergic diseases later in life. We previously demonstrated that maternal dietary supplementation with fructo-oligosaccharide (FOS) during pregnancy and lactation modulated the composition of gut microbiota and diminished the severity of spontaneously developing atopic dermatitis-like skin lesi...

Calcification or ossification of the auricle, also referred to as petrified ear, is a rare diagnosis in dermatology. In medical literature, it has most often been attributed to trauma, hypothermia and frostbite, or hypercalcemia secondary to a metabolic or endocrine disorder, such as Addison's disease. Here, we report the clinical and radiologic findings of a 79-year-old African American male w...

To cite: Hamzelou S, Jafari M, Aminizadeh E, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014203758 DESCRIPTION An 80-year-old man presented with erythema, scales and some yellow pustules on his left ear auricle (figure 1), most prominent on his helix (figure 2). His symptom was itchiness with no discharge. The patient was a farmer. He mentioned that th...

Come with us to read a new book that is coming recently. Yeah, this is a new coming book that many people really want to read will you be one of them? Of course, you should be. It will not make you feel so hard to enjoy your life. Even some people think that reading is a hard to do, you must be sure that you can do it. Hard will be felt when you have no ideas about what kind of book to read. Or...

After the failure of a composite graft in patient with complete auricle amputation, we successfully reconstructed severely gashed using two-stage cartilage preservation surgery. We removed skin amputee and buried under postauricular scalp. The end right ear was sutured to A separation surgery performed on 14th day after burying removing suture, along scalp carefully separated from donor site lo...

P REVIOUS reports have given a description of the cyclic changes in excitability of both auricle and ventricle of the dog’s heart (I, 2). It was found that the dog’s auricle is ‘vulnerable’ to fibrillation throughout the major dip area of the excitability-recovery curve (3). A study of ventricular vulnerability has now been made. Cats and turtles were used almost exclusively in this investigati...

Baingio Pinna’s article “New Gestalt principles of perceptual organization: An extension from grouping to shape and meaning” won the 2009 Metzger Award of the Society for Gestalt !eory and its Applications. In this article, Pinna presented a variety of novel images that probe the way in which local and global factors interact to generate the percepts that we consciously see. As Pinna noted at t...

The aim of this letter is to address a little understood question in sound source localization: Can the distance of a near sound source affect our own perception of its elevation? The issue is studied by means of an objective analysis of a database of distance-dependent head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) of a KEMAR (Knowles Electronic Manikin for Acoustic Research) mannequin with different...

P REVIOUS reports have given a description of the cyclic changes in excitability of both auricle and ventricle of the dog’s heart (I, 2). It was found that the dog’s auricle is ‘vulnerable’ to fibrillation throughout the major dip area of the excitability-recovery curve (3). A study of ventricular vulnerability has now been made. Cats and turtles were used almost exclusively in this investigati...

To achieve mass customization and collaborative product design, human factors and ergonomics should play a key development role. The purpose of this study was to provide product designers with the anthropometic dimensions of outer ears for different demographic data, including gender and age. The second purpose was to compare the dimensions of various ear-related products (i.e., earphone, bluet...