Lots of Exciting Winter News!

Exciting news: catecholamines in induction and regionalization of the heart.

The heart develops in the anterior half of the vertebrate embryo. Soon after gastrulation has commenced, the heart starts to develop from cells that are part of the splanchnic layer of the lateral plate mesoderm (Figure 1). The identification of molecules involved in cardiac induction in the embryo is of great interest, since these are same as those that would be required to efficiently control...

Exciting news in the area of prevention and screening.

University of Pittsburgh Neurosurgery News - Winter 2001

The Spine Services Division at the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Neurological Surgery is a multidisciplinary organization composed of specialists in the field of physical therapy, chiropractic care, rehabilitation and physical medicine, neurological surgery, and orthopaedic surgery. The Spine section provides a comprehensive evaluation of patients and provides referring physicians, p...

Exciting News from the Adult Mouse Subventricular Zone

A commentary on Adult generation of glutamatergic olfactory bulb interneurons. In the adult mammalian brain the fore-brain subventricular zone (SVZ) is a source of olfactory bulb (OB) GABAergic neurons. It is by now well established that astrocyte-like cells via fast-amplifying progenitor cells generate neuronal precursors that mature into functional neurons (Kriegstein and Alvarez-Buylla, 2009...

Indiana Wildlife Disease News, Vol 6, Issue 1 -- Winter 2011