BACKGROUND Gross dissection is a widespread method for studying animal anatomy, despite being highly destructive and time-consuming. X-ray computed tomography (CT) has been shown to be a non-destructive alternative for studying anatomical structures. However, in the past it has been limited to only being able to visualise mineralised tissues. In recent years, morphologists have started to use t...

I have the great pleasure to present the first 2012 issue of Acta Myologica. The high level of this issue was reached thanks to the outstanding work of my dear friends Reinhardt Rüdel (Ulm) and Luisa Politano (Naples), who gave many important and impressive suggestions to all the Co-Authors of this issue. Furthermore I am happy to start a new section of Acta Myologica that will host the “memori...

Moving from Paris, Pisa, and Oxford to London, Amsterdam, and Cambridge, this essay documents extensive collaborations between anatomists and mathematicians. At a time when no standard way to acknowledge collaboration existed, it is remarkable that in all the cases I discuss anatomists expressed in print their debt to mathematicians. The cases I analyze document an extraordinarily fertile perio...

Background. Gross dissection is a widespread method for studying animal anatomy, despite being highly destructive and time-consuming. X-ray computed tomography (CT) has been shown to be a non-destructive alternative for studying anatomical structures. However, in the past it has been limited to only being able to visualise mineralised tissues. In recent years, morphologists have started to use ...

The International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society (IFESS, http://www.ifess.org/) is an inter-professional and collaborative organization, whose main objective is promotion of research, applications and understanding of electrical stimulation as it is utilized in the field of medicine. One of the ways IFESS contributes to the field of electrical stimulation is by organizing annual conf...

I had the pleasure to meet Valerie Askanas and King Engel for the first time in 1982, during the 5 International Congress on Neuromuscular Diseases, organized in Marseille by George Serratrice. In that occasion, they received the degree “honoris causa” in Medicine by the Faculty of Marseille and I was impressed by the numerous and outstanding goals they were able to reach during their scientifi...

cobitis keyvani is recently described from the sourhern caspian sea basin. limited information is available about morphological features of c. keyvani , therefore this study was conducted to provide osteological characteristics and cranial myology of this species. for this purpose, nine specimens of c. keyvani were collected from the talar river. the specimens were cleared and stained with aliz...

The history of Myology in Italy begins in 16 century with muscle anatomy pictures by Vesalius and Canani while in the 19th century the Neapolitan physician Gaetano Conte described Duchenne muscular dystrophy on clinical basis (1). Myology reached a major development in the 20 century with the establishment of the CNR center in Padova (professor Massimiliano Aloisi) a cardiomyological and geneti...