A 48-year-old female patient had throat discomfort and slightly pain for three month. Her symptom was getting aggravated and repetitive after being misdiagnosed with acute tonsillitis. Later, we found patient’s mucous membrane of double tonsil, palatoglossus arch, palatopharyngeus arch, palatine uvula was covered by white pseudo-membrane. It was suspected as syphilis of the pharynx. Rapid Plasm...

Planarian flatworms regenerate every organ after amputation. Adult pluripotent stem cells drive this ability, but how injury activates and directs stem cells into the appropriate lineages is unclear. Here we describe a single-organ regeneration assay in which ejection of the planarian pharynx is selectively induced by brief exposure of animals to sodium azide. To identify genes required for pha...

BACKGROUND/AIM Lip, oral cavity and pharynx malignant tumors account for 3.7% of all cancer deaths worldwide, with significant geographic variations in frequency and distribution. The aim of this descriptive epidemiologic study was to analyze the mortality rate of lip, oral cavity and pharynx malignant tumors in Serbia proper within a period 1991-2009. METHODS Mortality rates standardized dir...

The spectrum of neisserial colonisation of the pharynx was determined from 3557 throat exudates cultured on modified New York City (MNYC) medium. Oxidase positive Gram-negative diplococci (GNDC) were isolated from 1204 (33.8%) of the throat cultures. Neisseria gonorrhoeae, N meningitidis, and N lactamica accounted for 20.3%, 74.2%, and 3.7% of the oxidase positive GNDC respectively. The observe...

The foregoing experiments clearly justify the following conclusions :- Intratracheal insufflation protects the respiratory tract very efficiently against any invasion from the pharynx. The filling up of the pharynx with extraneous material, whether it be from the stomach or from the mouth, brings no danger to the trachea and bronchi. This holds true even if the animal is under deep anesthesia. ...

to recall certain normal processes involved in this function. In the laryngo-pharynx the most important mechanism is the closure of the larynx. This is effected by the apposition and tilting forward of the arytenoids and the apposition of the aryepiglottic folds, while a raising of the larynx brings the arytenoids with their cornicula into contact with the cushion of the epiglottis. The contrac...

We investigated the cellular behaviors that accompany the early stages of pharyngeal morphogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans. The embryonic pharynx develops from a ball of cells into a linear tube connected anteriorly to the buccal cavity and posteriorly to the midgut. By using GFP reporters localized to discrete subcellular regions, we show that pharyngeal morphogenesis can be divided into thr...