Taufiek Konrad Rajab’s research is supported by the National Institutes of Health/National Heart,Lung,and Blood Institute grant R41 HL169059;the American Association for Thoracic Surgery,the Brett Boyer Foundation,the Saving tiny Heart Society;the Emerson Rose Heart Foundation,philanthropy from Senator Campbell and the Arkansas Children’s Research Institute;supported with funding by Children’s Mercy Kansas City Ward Family Heart Center.
Since the first identification of Tetralogy of Fallot in 1671,consisting of a combination of anatomical defects including biventricular origin of the aorta,maligned ventricular septal defect,overriding aorta,and narro...
Objective::This review aims to discuss the basic anatomy and physiology of the palatine and pharyngeal tonsils,with reference to how this foundational understanding may affect patient management and surgical procedure...
A concise history of Western medicine is here outlined focusing on major breakthroughs that occurred in such civilization from the ancient world to the present.Anatomy,physiology,pathology and therapy,both medical and...
Rabbits are unique animals found in many different continents and climatic zones. Domestic rabbits are the descendants of Oryctolagus cuniculus, a species native to the western Mediterranean basin (Spain and North Afr...
Atmospheric pollution is an important concern in urban environments.The impact of urban pollution on the physiological,biochemical and anatomical properties of leaves of oriental plane(Platanus orientalis L.)was studi...
Emil Theodor Kocher and Theodor Billroth pioneered the surgical management of thyroid disease. Their surgical techniques, knowledge of thyroid anatomy, embryology, histology, physiology, and antisepsis practices trans...
Supported by Application Innovation Project of the Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China"Development of Fast Regulation Spray for Smell Performance of Working Dogs"(2014YYCXNCJQ073)
Dog has a very sensitive olfactory sensory system. Observation showed that there were great differences in olfactory ability of different breeds of dogs, and even the same dog presented different olfactory abilities u...
financially supported by the State Key Development Program for Basic Research of China(973 Program,Grant No.2013CB429904);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.91125029)
Reeds are widely distributed in drought and high salt conditions of northwestern China. Leaf epidermal micromorphology, anatomy, chloroplast ultrastructure and physio-chemical characteristics due to long-term adaptati...
Cisternostomy is defined as opening the basal cisterns to atmospheric pressure. This technique helps to reduce the intracranial pressure in severe head trauma as well as other conditions when the so-called sudden "br...
The major challenge faced by today's pharmacologist and formulation scientist is ocular drug delivery. Topical eye drop is the most convenient and patient compliant route of drug administration,especially for the trea...