Multidisciplinary conferences in hospitals are becoming an everyday part of health service delivery and being recommended as a mechanism for ensuring quality patient care and management. This paper reports preliminary findings of an ethnographic study of Clinical Pathology Conferences with Respiratory teams. Educational, patient management and organizational objectives of the conference are ide...

Background: There is a paucity of information about the oral pathology related articles published in a pathology journal. This study aimed to audit the oral pathology related articles published in Iranian Journal of Pathology (Iran J Pathol)from 2006 to 2015. Methods: Bibliometric analysis of issues of Iran J Pathol from 2006 to 2015 was perf...

Recent studies have linked mitochondrial dysfunction to pathologies such as cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. However, a lack of relevant cellular models impedes studies of these pathologies. Obtaining patient samples usually involves a high degree of invasiveness, and these samples may not be sufficient indicators of mitochondrial dysfunction. Alternatively, blood cells or platelet...

Thoby-Brisson M, Greer JJ. Anatomical and functional development of the pre-Bötzinger complex in prenatal rodents. J Appl Physiol 104: 1213–1219, 2008; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.01061.2007.—Developmental anomalies of central respiratory neural control contribute to newborn mortality and morbidity. Elucidation of the cellular, molecular, trophic, and genetic mechanisms involved in the formation a...

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The idea that the basal ganglia have a role in motor control is well accepted. Yet the fundamental question remains, what exactly do the basal ganglia do for movement? One clue can be obtained from studies of Huntington’s and Parkinson’s diseases. The devastating impact on movement caused by these degenerative disorders of the basal ganglia strongly supports a motor function. However, close scr...