The gross and microscopic anatomy of the molar salivary gland of the domestic cat was studied. In this research, five pair of molar glandsfrom five male adult cats were used. In cat, the molar gland was elongated rectangle shape and was located obliquely in the submucosal fossa of the inferior lip, near the oral commissure. The dorsal border of the molar gland was attached to the masseter muscl...

Pax6 is a transcription factor that pleiotropically regulates various developmental processes in the central nervous system. In a previous study, we revealed that Pax6 heterozygous mutant (rSey2/+) adult rats exhibit abnormalities in social interaction. However, the brain malformations underlying the behavioral abnormality are unknown. To elucidate the brain malformations in rSey2/+ rats, we mo...

Purpose: To analyze the prognostic factors for early-stage glottic cancer (T1N0M0) treated with radiotherapy alone. Methods and Materials: Between 1958 and 1994, 238 patients (220 male) with T1N0M0 (UICC 1997) squamous cell carcinoma of the glottis were treated with 6or 8 MV X-ray or Co radiation in parallel-opposed fields (median size: 22.5 cm) over a median of 52 days to a median dose of 68 G...

The anterior commissure (AC) and the much smaller hippocampal commissure constitute the only interhemispheric pathways at the telencephalic level in birds. Since the degeneration study from Zeier and Karten (), no detailed description of the topographic organization of the AC has been performed. This information is not only necessary for a better understanding of interhemispheric transfer in bi...

Glottic cancers discovered at an early stage (T1-T2) can be treated with either radiotherapy or surgery. The aim of our study is to analyse survival and functional results of supra-cricoid partial laryngectomy (SCPL) with crico-hyoido-epiglottopexy (CHEP) as surgical treatment for glottic carcinoma with anterior commissure involvement. We performed a retrospective study (1996-2013) which includ...

Cholinergic and GABAergic corticopetal neurons in the basal forebrain play important roles in cortical activation, sensory processing, and attention. Cholinergic neurons are intermingled with peptidergic, and various calcium binding protein-containing cells, however, the functional role of these neurons is not well understood. In this study we examined the expression pattern of secretagogin (Sc...

gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)ergic neurons in the neocortex have been regarded as interneurons and speculated to modulate the activity of neurons locally. Recently, however, several experiments revealed that neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS)-positive GABAergic neurons project cortico-cortically with long axons. In this study, we illustrate Golgi-like images of the nNOS-positive GABAergic n...

An automatic process of determining specified points in brain is presented, which is required to register brain MR images based on Talairach reference system. Generdlly, the 10 points that are needed to be determined for the registration are anterior commissure(AC), posterior commissure (PC), anterior point (AP), posterior point (PP), superior point (SP), inferior point (IP), lefl point (LP), r...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the predictors of outcomes in patients with early glottic cancer treated by transoral laser cordectomy. METHODS This was an inception cohort study of 201 patients with early glottic cancer who were treated by transoral laser cordectomy. Five-year Kaplan-Meier analyses were realized. RESULTS Patients with anterior commissure involvement (...