Abstract. The rapid changes in our surroundings during the Holocene challenge human body. current study, carried out on terminal Pleistocene-Holocene populations of Levant, presents several examples how habitation and diet have affected disease patterns gross morphology long bones mandibles. Our major findings were that prehistoric Natufian (67%) protohistoric Chalcolithic (80%) exhibited a muc...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is now state of the art in ophthalmology. Other medical departments, such as otolaryngology, could also benefit from this imaging modality. Polarization is a property which is a benefit to conventional OCT. It can be used in particular to detect birefringent tissue layers. To evaluate possible OCT applications in Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) department, a fiber-...

North American Caucasian male subjects (n = 59) and female subjects (n = 72) were surveyed, to investigate earlobe height preferences that could serve as guidelines for aesthetic earlobe surgical procedures and reconstructions. Subjects were asked to rank their preferences for variously shaped earlobes in life-size-scaled sketched male and female profiles. Earlobe heights were varied on the bas...

In the past decades, incidence of atopic dermatits (AD) has been increasing in adult population, raising question potential environmental triggers. We hypothesized that pollution might be a contributing factor. Bisphenol A (BPA) is an endocrine disruptor with unkown pathophysiological consequences its repeated skin exposure. aimed to decipher effects topical application BPA onto human epidermal...

Aim to describe the topographic and anatomical relationships of fetal lower jaw auricle in mid-gestation period.
 Material methods. The 110 mandibles human fetuses second trimester were selected for study divided into groups by sex age. morphological techniques method ultrasound scanning used determine ear, location central part relative (the line connecting gnathion point external occipit...

BACKGROUND Dog population management is required in many locations to minimise the risks dog populations may pose to human health and to alleviate animal welfare problems. In many cities in India, Animal Birth Control (ABC) projects have been adopted to provide population management. Measuring the impact of such projects requires assessment of dog population size among other relevant indicators...

During embryonic development, hair cells and support cells in the sensory epithelia of the inner ear derive from progenitors that express Sox2, a member of the SoxB1 family of transcription factors. Sox2 is essential for sensory specification, but high levels of Sox2 expression appear to inhibit hair cell differentiation, suggesting that factors regulating Sox2 activity could be critical for bo...