Hereditary equine regional dermal asthenia (HERDA) is an autosomal recessive skin disorder that has yet to be fully characterized. HERDA is predominately expressed in Quarter Horses, with the majority of these disseminating from elite cutting horse bloodlines, leading to the increased incidence of HERDA in recent years. Affected horses have loose, hyper-extensible, fragile skin and are frequent...

Skin, the largest organ in the body, performs many important roles including protection against physical and chemical insults, regulation of temperature and fluid loss, and immunity and sensory roles. Once damaged, skin cannot perform these normal tasks and numerous complications such as infection or fluid loss can occur. To restore these roles, the body needs to close the wound as quickly as p...

enythromycin is believed to cause no serlous reactions after large doses, nausea, rarely vomiting and occasionally abdominal pain and diarrhea may occur, (herrell, 1954). according to' kagan and faller (1955) no allergic reaction to' erythromycin has been reported. phlebitis and thrombosis have been observed, (shoe maker & yow, 1954). in a report by solomon and johnson, (1955) toxic reactions w...

An odontogenic cutaneous fistula is a pathological communication between the outer skin surface of the face and the oral cavity. Facial cutaneous fistula is a complication of odontogenic infection that is often misdiagnosed with skin infection. We report a rare case, which was diagnosed as basal cell carcinoma based on the biopsy of skin lesions in the patient who had been diagnosed with odonto...

Construction of railway embankments on loose beds without using any methods of soil improvement (e.g. stone columns in silt and clay beds, deep soil mixing method, jet grouting and also using micropiles individually or in groups form) leads to  reduction of embankment slope gradient, which significantly increases the volume of soil operation. Generally, micropile as a reinforcing element with t...

brain injury is a complex event leading to tissue damage and functional deficits by primary and secondary mechanisms. since the application of tissue engineering approaches is a new topic in the treatment of brain injury, producing a proper experimental model to evaluate the effects of tissue engineering products on damaged brain tissue is required. in the present study, a simple and reproducib...

in this study to determine whether spine stiffness is predictive of clinical results after lumbar spinal fusion for spinal stenosis, a total of 78 patients were measured intraoperatively with kocher clamp manual distraction technique to determine motion segment stiffness then spinal fusion was performed for any loose segment. ‎statistical analysis revealed that stiffness measurement correlate w...

BACKGROUND Loose, lax skin is a common cosmetic complaint. Previous non-invasive skin tightening devices had modest efficacy and were associated with pain or downtime. New technologies may allow for effective skin tightening with a series of radiofrequency (RF) treatments with no downtime. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy and safety of a novel bipolar RF device for skin tightening. METHOD...

GHK (glycyl-L-histidyl-L-lysine) is present in human plasma, saliva, and urine but declines with age. It is proposed that GHK functions as a complex with copper 2+ which accelerates wound healing and skin repair. GHK stimulates both synthesis and breakdown of collagen and glycosaminoglycans and modulates the activity of both metalloproteinases and their inhibitors. It stimulates collagen, derma...

It’s a mammal Jim, but not as we know it... Mammals are typically characterised as furry and warmblooded. The naked mole-rat is neither of these. Being underground and surrounded by hundreds of brothers and sisters, there is little fluctuation in surrounding temperature and they have all but lost the ability to regulate their body temperature physiologically. Living in the dark, they can no lon...