We studied in macaques the evolution of the intramuscular transplantation of muscle precursor cells between the time of administration and the time at which the graft is considered stable. Satellite cell-derived myoblasts labeled with ß-galactosidase were transplanted into 1 cm3 muscle regions following cell culture and transplantation protocols similar to our last clinical trials. These region...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to analyze the characteristics of oral-motor movements and facial mimic in patients with head and neck burns. METHODS An observational descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with patients who suffered burns to the head and neck and who were referred to the Division of Orofacial Myology of a public hospital for assessment and rehabilitation. On...

The anatomy of the primate forearm is frequently investigated in terms locomotor mode, substrate use, and manual dexterity. Such studies typically rely upon broad, interspecific samples for which one or two representative taxa are used to characterize their genus family. To interpret variation between distantly related taxa, however, it necessary contextualize these differences by quantifying a...

The musculature of the jaw, branchial, and shoulder regions of the ratfish, Hydrolagus colliei, was dissected and described in an effort to determine possible homologous characters shared by the shark, a member of the subclass Elasmobranchii, and the ratfish, a member of the subclass Holocephali. The musculature of the ratfish jaw differs from the morphological pattern found in sharks in that t...

omitted in Acta Myologica, Vol. XXX, June 2011

Therizinosaurs represent a highly unusual clade of herbivorous theropods from the Cretaceous of North America and Asia. Following descriptions of the basicrania of the North American therizinosaurs Falcarius utahenisis and Nothronychus mckinleyi, the craniocervical musculature in both taxa is reconstructed using Tyrannosaurus, Allosaurus, and some extant birds as models. These muscles are subdi...