Female reproductive anatomy of the Arabian oryx is unknown. In this study, reproductive tracts of seven female Arabian oryx (aged 2 to 7 years) were examined to characterize their reproductive anatomy. Observations and measurements were obtained in situ from dead animals during necropsy. Animals were allocated into two groups: cycling (n = 3; follicles or corpora lutea present) and not-cycling ...

Nowadays more and more modern medical degree programs focus on self-directed and problem-based learning. That requires students to search for high quality and easy to retrieve online resources. YouTube is an emerging platform for learning human anatomy due to easy access and being a free service. The purpose of this study is to make a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the available human...

Chelonians remain one of the most popular types of reptiles kept in captivity, whether it be as a companion animal or a zoo/wildlife exhibit. Their characteristic shell can be a hindrance to veterinary evaluation and medical/surgical intervention. This masterclass focuses on the veterinary approach to these interesting animals and includes an introduction to the species, relevant anatomy and ph...

INTRODUCTION: A large animal model for composite face transplantation is necessary to better understand the immunologic processes and nerve regeneration. Current porcine models of facial transplantation fail to include all major branches of the facial nerve, and have not demonstrated long-term survival.1,2 A better understanding and detailed evaluation of vascular anatomy and microvascular terr...

1764 Journal of Investigative Dermatology (2010), Volume 130 © 2010 The Society for Investigative Dermatology 1Department of Dermatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA; 2Institute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; 3Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Berne, Berne, Switzerland; 4Department of Dermatol...

The application of a novel photoacoustic imaging instrument based on a Fabry-Perot polymer film sensing interferometer to imaging the small animal brain is described. This approach provides a convenient backward mode sensing configuration that offers the prospect of overcoming the limitations of existing piezoelectric based detection schemes for small animal brain imaging. Noninvasive images of...

Several parameters are important when choosing the most appropriate animal to model human obstetrics, including gestation period, number of fetuses per gestation and placental structure. The domesticated long-tailed chinchilla (Chinchilla lanigera) is a well-suited and appropriate animal model of pregnancy that often will carry only one offspring and has a long gestation period of 105-115 days....

J. A. Daniel, T. H. Elsasser, A. Martı́nez, B. Steele, B. K. Whitlock, and J. L. Sartin Animal and Range Sciences, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota; United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service Growth Biology Laboratory, Beltsville; Cell and Cancer Biology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; and Depa...

1 Department of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences; Utah Science Technology and Research, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America, 2 Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea, 3 Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, ...

Acknowledgements This work is partly based on the diploma work of Adelinda Csapó (entitled Biomechanical Analysis of Quadruped Walking Depictions, with Emphasis on Natural History Museums and Animal Anatomy Books. Eötvös University, Physical Institute, Department of Biological Physics, Budapest, 2007, in Hungarian). We thank Eleonóra Szűcs of the Hungarian Natural History Museum for picturing m...