This excellent monograph by Phillippe Sengel brings together an enormous body of data on the embryonic development of the skin in mammals, birds, and reptiles, and most of the information available on the many chemical factors and tissue interactions which produce these changes. The book is divided into four sections. The first describes the histogenesis of developing skin visible with the ligh...

Background: Previous studies demonstrated a health improving effect in patients underwent an automatic vibratory massage taking 10 minutes. One of reasons that may explain a healing effect of the automatic massage is a stimulated increase in both blood circulation through vascular system and effective size of blood vessels. Objective: This paper aims to quantify a contribution of the auto...

Human vascular malformations cause disease as a result of changes in blood flow and vascular hemodynamic forces. Although the genetic mutations that underlie the formation of many human vascular malformations are known, the extent to which abnormal blood flow can subsequently influence the vascular genetic program and natural history is not. Loss of the SH2 domain-containing leukocyte protein o...