Renaut Corpuscles or Peripheral Nerve Infarcts? A Historical Overview

Nanotechnology for peripheral nerve regeneration

Peripheral nerve injuries (PNI) can lead to lifetime loss of function and disfigurement. Different methods such as conventional allograft procedures and using of biological tubes have problems for damaged peripheral nerves reconstruction. Designed scaffolds with natural and synthetic materials are now widely used in the reconstruction of damaged tissues. Utilization of absorbable and non-absorb...

Nanotechnology for peripheral nerve regeneration

Peripheral nerve injuries (PNI) can lead to lifetime loss of function and disfigurement. Different methods such as conventional allograft procedures and using of biological tubes have problems for damaged peripheral nerves reconstruction. Designed scaffolds with natural and synthetic materials are now widely used in the reconstruction of damaged tissues. Utilization of absorbable and non-absorb...

RTV4HCI: A Historical Overview

Epigenetics: a historical overview.

In the first half of the twentieth century, developmental biology and genetics were separate disciplines. The word epigenetics was coined by Waddington to link the two fields. Epigenetics could be broadly defined as the sum of all those mechanisms necessary for the unfolding of the genetic programme for development. Several decades later specific mechanisms were proposed in which information wa...

Dexamethasone and peripheral nerve blocks: on the nerve or intravenous?

In a past issue of the British Journal of Anaesthesia, Desmet and colleagues report that i.v. dexamethasone is equivalent to perineural dexamethasone in prolonging the analgesic duration of a single-shot interscalene block with ropivacaine. In their study, 150 patients presenting for arthroscopic shoulder surgery with an interscalene brachial plexus block (BPB) were randomized into three groups...