In the Dissection Team of the Second Chair of Anatomy at the School of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, during the routine dissection of 78 cadavers (corresponding to 156 supraclavicular fossae),10% formalin fixed, we found the supraclavicularis proprius muscle over the lower part of the left supraclavicular fossa in an adult Caucasian male cadaver. We described this rare ...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to establish a description of the water cells area in dromedary camels. Methods: Ten clinically healthy of both sexes and different age, 4-9 years old were used in this study. The rumen was cut and opened, the contents were emptied of the rumen, then washed by running tap water to remove the ingestion. They were preserved in 10% formalin for 3-4 days to s...

This study compared the transmission of tensions in fresh, fixed and macerated dog mandibles in order to clarify the diversity of behavior of bone tissues under dry and moist conditions. Double-exposure holographic interferometry was applied and holograms were obtained from 12 fresh hemi-mandibles under static load (control group), which were randomly assigned to 2 groups: 6 were fixed in 10% f...

AIM This study was undertaken to derive the prevalence rate of Fasciolosis in buffaloes by a collection of fecal and liver samples from Anand and Ahmedabad districts' local slaughter houses. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fecal and liver samples were collected during ante- and post-mortem examination, respectively, and brought to the department laboratory preserved in 10% formalin for further processi...

OBJECTIVES This study aims to evaluate the alterations in distances to the surgical margins on sheep tongue specimens, through resection, formalin fixation, frozen section, and microscopic examination. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fifty fresh sheep tongues were used in the study. A metal plate was fixed on the lateral aspect of each tongue to represent tumor tissues. A total of 40 specimens with eit...

Twenty rats were each immunized intraperitoneally with 1.25 X 10(7) formalin-fixed Trypanosoma brucei brucei (Stock EATRO 1969) derived from tsetse salivary glands and propagated in culture at 29 degrees C in their infective form for more than 1000 days. Another group, consisting of 10 rats, was similarly immunized with parasites of stock EATRO 999 derived from salivary glands of a tsetse fly a...