Address for Correspondence: Dr. Subhra Mandal, M.B.B.S., M.D. (Anatomy), Associate Professor, Dept. of Anatomy, Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Contact No.: +919477458100 E-Mail: [email protected] Access this Article online Quick Response code Web site: *1Associate Professor, Dept. of Anatomy, Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. 2Post Graduate Resident in DNB ( PMR...

Operant discrimination learning has been extensively utilized in the study on the perceptual ability of animals and their higher order brain functions. We tested in this study whether American lobster Homarus americanus, which was previously found to possess ability of operant learning with claw gripping, could be trained to discriminate light stimuli of different intensities. For the current p...

Sir,?The case reported by Capt. Katdare in the June number of the Indian Medical Gazette (Congenital Absence of the Shaft of the Femur on Both Sides) is extremely interesting. In view of the rarity of the condition, it is rather depressing to read, 'The family history is of no importance\ Writers on heredity like Gates (1929), Baur, Fischer and Lenz (1931), and Snyder (1941), all agree that abs...

Nature has developed a wide range of functional microstructures with optimized mechanical properties over millions years evolution. By learning from nature’s excellent models and principles, biomimicry provides practicable strategy for designing fabricating the next smart materials enhanced properties. Nevertheless, complicated micro-structural constructions in nature are beyond ability convent...

In recent years, an increasing number of studies has reported the existence of single fibers expressing more than one myosin heavy chain (MHC) isoform at the level of fiber proteins and/or mRNA. These mixed phenotype fibers, often termed hybrid fibers, are currently being recognized as the predominant fiber type in many muscles, and the implications of these findings are currently a topic of gr...

a5.2 year-old holstein cow was presented with lameness andabnormal weight bearing in a slaughterhouse. widening of theperiople and swelling of the heel area in the lateral claw was morepermanent than the medial claw. vertical fissure (vf) involvingthe coronary band to the middle of the dorsal wall of the medialhind claw was observed. it was also extended to the bearingsurface in the inner surfa...