Anatomy

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    ScienceDaily: Human Biology

  • Enhancing arrest of cell growth to treat cancer in mice

    9 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am
    New research has identified a new type of cellular senescence (i.e., irreversible arrest of cell growth) and determined a way to enhance it to suppress prostate tumor development and growth in mice. These data suggest that enhancing this process might provide a new approach for cancer prevention and therapy.

  • Complete chemokine profile of a cell

    8 Feb 2010 | 11:00 pm
    Chemokines are a large group of proteins whose predominant function is to direct cell migration. They regulate many physiological and pathophysiological processes, in particular in the immune system. Researchers have now developed a simple method to efficiently identify all the chemokines produced by a single cell type, something that has not been possible before.

  • Argonautes: A big turn-off for proteins

    8 Feb 2010 | 2:00 pm
    Scientists believe they may have figured out how genetic snippets called microRNAs are able to shut down the production of some proteins.

  • Transforming human fat into stem cells using virus-free technique

    8 Feb 2010 | 11:00 am
    Tiny circles of DNA are the key to a new and easier way to transform stem cells from human fat into induced pluripotent stem cells for use in regenerative medicine, say scientists. Unlike other commonly used techniques, the method, which is based on standard molecular biology practices, does not use viruses to introduce genes into the cells or permanently alter a cell's genome.

  • Cells send dirty laundry home to mom

    8 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    Understanding how aged and damaged mother cells manage to form new and undamaged daughter cells is one of the toughest riddles of aging, but scientists now know how yeast cells do it. In a groundbreaking study, researchers in Sweden show how the daughter cell uses a mechanical "conveyor belt" to dump damaged proteins in the mother cell.
 
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  • He moves like a monkey.

    yaichamausisbluegreen
    4 Feb 2010 | 9:25 am

  • Essentials of Anatomy And Physiology by Valerie C. Scanlon, Tina Sanders

    KUSH
    19 Jan 2010 | 11:58 pm
    Essentials of Anatomy And Physiology by Valerie C. Scanlon, Tina Sanders Publisher:F. A. Davis Company | Pages:603 | 2006-09-29 | ISBN: 0803615469 | PDF | 17.2 MB Book Description: The new Essentials of Anatomy and Physioloy, 5th edition , tectbook and workbook provide classroom-ready learning that’s fun to teach and easy to study. Presented in a skillfully illustrated format, the new edition is “A P 101″ for students about the body’s structures and functions. DOWNLOAD LINKS RAPIDSHARE

  • CliffsQuickReview Anatomy and Physiology By Phillip E. Pack

    KUSH
    19 Jan 2010 | 11:27 pm
    BOOK DESCRIPTION CliffsQuickReview course guides cover the essentials of your toughest classes. Get a firm grip on core concepts and key material, and test your newfound knowledge with review questions.Whether you’re in high school or medical school, CliffsQuickReview Anatomy and Physiology can help you understand how your body is built and the different functions it performs. This guide introduces each topic, defines key terms, and carefully walks you through each sample problem step-by-step. In no time, you’ll be ready to tackle other concepts in this book such as Cell division…

  • Human Anatomy & Physiology (7th Edition) By Elaine N. Marieb, Katja Hoehn Katja Hoehn

    KUSH
    7 Jan 2010 | 1:27 am
    BOOK OVERVIEW With each edition of her top-selling Human Anatomy and Physiology text, Elaine N. Marieb draws on her own, unique experience as a full-time AandP professor and part-time nursing student to explain concepts and processes in a meaningful and memorable way. With the Seventh Edition, Dr. Marieb has teamed up with co-author Katja Hoehn to produce the most exciting edition yet, with beautifully-enhanced muscle illustrations, updated coverage of factual material and topic boxes, new coverage of high-interest topics such as Botox, designer drugs, and cancer treatment, and a…

  • Saladin: Anatomy & Physiology: The Unity of Form and Function, Third Edition

    KUSH
    7 Jan 2010 | 1:22 am
    BOOK OVERVIEW This book is meant especially for students who plan to pursue such careers as nursing, therapy, health education, medicine, and other health professions. It is designed for a two-semester combined anatomy and physiology course and assumes that the reader has taken no prior college chemistry or biology courses. I also bear in mind that many A&P students return to college after interruptions to raise families or pursue other careers. For returning students and those without college prerequisites, the early chapters will serve as a refresher on the necessary points of chemistry…
 
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  • Rebellious …..or Ridiculous

    Mini.T
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:07 am
    At 5 AM I just jumped out of a deep dream with one thing in my head .i Aint going to work today Its just to frustrating and 2 ridiculous to keep on going in this loop over and over again. Disregarding all the good and positive things I have in my situation right now looked at the empty side of the cup. Woke up with an enormous anger inside me. Driving with no goal I ended up at my friend`s office ,he managed to somehow defuse this anger and frustration, with a mini lecture and few tips to change the VIEW I have for my world. The hit line was “toughen up and don’t be ridiculous, part of…

  • I suppose there is life

    Abigail
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:59 pm
    I have that other blog somewhere about writing, because I started littering this blog with too much writing stuff. I don’t know why though but for some reason, I posted that Introducing Abigail post and everyone vanished. I had at least one visitor for over a month and then I went two days with nothing. So now I’m thinking about hiding that post for now but we’ll see. Anyway, life continues besides that. I had two tests last Friday. I’ll admit that one of the, the one in physiology, scared me at lot. I heard he was mean, nasty, tricky teacher from last semester. Then,…

  • Proper Landing Mechanics

    Chris
    6 Feb 2010 | 3:56 pm
    Received an e-mail the other day requesting more information about proper landing mechanics. Here’s an excerpt from the e-mail: Could you talk a little about landing positions, if you haven’t already done so?  I remember reading a comment recently about coaches emphasizing legs together on landings, but it makes more kinesiological sense to have knees and feet shoulder width apart.  The Gymnastic Minute on YouTube addressed the correct landing posture today, but I’d like to have a more in-depth explanation. Here’s the YouTube video that this individual is referring…

  • Latin in medicine

    keyanaazari
    6 Feb 2010 | 3:44 pm
    These latin abbreviations may be worth decoding– you can thank me when you win a game of Jeopardy. Rx Roman shorthand for Recipe. When written with a line above it, c can stand for cum, or “with,” another example of shorthand used in prescriptions. a.c. This is short for ante cenam, “before a meal.” Conversely, p.c. stands for post cenam, or “after a meal.” a.m. (ante meridiem, “before noon”) p.m. (post meridiem, “after noon”). bid This stands for bis in die, or “twice in one day.” NPO Nil per os, or “nothing…

  • Benefits (and Differences) of a Wellness Doctor

    Dr. Matt Smith
    5 Feb 2010 | 2:16 pm
    OK, last time, I talked about what wellness is. I took you through my usual thing about how wellness is providing your body with everything it needs, and eliminating everything it doesn’t. But it’s more than that… I’ll elaborate in a minute. At its most basic level, being “well” is supplying our body with its genetic requirements for homeostasis. There’s that word again. Besides being a remarkably difficult word for me to type, “homeostasis” is a pretty important term to understand in the world of health & wellness. Thus, you should…
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    Physiology Physics Woven Fine

  • Mirror Neurons: Resonant Circuitry in Brain?

    amiya
    18 Jan 2010 | 8:19 am
    Back in the time of the “black and white” motion picture days, when “talkies” weren’t even born, we still could make out the essence of what Charlie Chaplin had to “say”. We understood his unspoken words, courtesy a system of neuronal networking, called the mirror neuron system. Another example: you observe a man kissing ‘his’ girlfriend, ‘your’ neuronal network that would otherwise activate when you ‘actually’ kissed her, would fire! Mirror neurons are at work. Seems to me a bit like ‘mechanical resonance’, where the string of a guitar resonates (vibrates at the…

  • Fourier Analysis: The Art and Science of Finding The Needle in a Haystack

    amiya
    13 Dec 2009 | 9:51 am
    Every time I listen to the heavy metal band Pantera my wife would invariably wonder aloud why I listen to all this ‘noise’. True, many music lovers would rather refer bands like Pantera as quintessential noise than music; there are persons like me who can dissect the melody from the apparent chaos of runaway frequencies of guitars, drums and so on. I can even analyze and follow individual instruments over time. This is what Fourier is about, or stated otherwise, my ear & brain can be said to be doing a Fourier transform on the said musical piece.Joseph Fourier, a French mathematician,…

  • A Tale of a Microprocessor, RISC and a Few Loops of miRNA

    amiya
    16 Nov 2009 | 5:01 am
    The word ‘microprocessor’ is generally used to designate VLSI and SLSI (Very/Super Large Scale Integrated circuits) devices which accept, decode and execute instructions presented in binary coded forms. They may be called the heart of the computer. RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer), on the other hand, is a type of microprocessor architecture that uses a simplified, yet highly-optimized set of instructions to deliver good performance. However, like ‘cell’ and ‘nucleus’, they too have been adopted in biology, and not without reason!Proteins are essential for cells as they…

  • Metallica Goes The Stem Cell Way

    amiya
    18 Oct 2009 | 7:30 am
    I had previously written a little about stem cells. While researchers still don’t yet know exactly how the four factors transform the fully differentiated fibroblast cells back into pluripotency, possible explanations are pouring in.Pluripotency (by which the stem cell may become any tissue; muscle or nerve, for example) and “self renewal” (cells should not only differentiate, some ready stock of stem cells must be there for future need) are important determinants for stem cells.According to Shinya Yamanaka, the steps could be somewhat like this: c-Myc first confers the open chromatin…

  • Atomic Force Microscopy: Feels The Atoms, Sees The Bonds

    amiya
    13 Oct 2009 | 7:12 am
    When it comes to viewing things on the atomic scale, one has to be very careful and innovative. To understand how an atomic force microscope works, we should better discuss a bit about its predecessor: the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). STM was invented by Binnig and Rohrer for which they got the Nobel Prize in Physics. Binnig and colleagues later went on to develop the first Atomic Force Microscope (AFM). Both AFM and STM are types of Scanning Probe Microscopy, which employs a probe that scans the sample.STM consists of a sharp probe tip, which scans over the specimen as the adjoining…
 
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    Clinical Cases and Images

  • Cleveland Clinic Adoption of Web 2.0 - Slideshow by John Sharp

    9 Feb 2010 | 4:05 am
    Hospital Adoption Of Medicine 2.0 View more presentations from John Sharp."While social media strategy continue to evolve, new opportunities present themselves. Particularly significant shifts are toward participatory medicine and e-patients." References: Interview on Social Media by John Sharp. Posted at Clinical Cases and Images. Stay updated and subscribe, or follow me on Twitter.

  • Faces of America - PBS Series

    8 Feb 2010 | 7:52 am
    Faces of America premieres nationally Wednesdays, February 10 - March 3, 2010 on PBS: "What made America? What makes us? These two questions are at the heart of the new PBS series Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. who turns to the latest tools of genealogy and genetics to explore the family histories of 12 renowned Americans." Posted at Clinical Cases and Images. Stay updated and subscribe, or follow me on Twitter.

  • Health News of the Day

    8 Feb 2010 | 5:11 am
    Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in bullet-point format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day: 40% of cancers could be prevented http://goo.gl/bPOi Breast reduction for men is the fastest growing part of the cosmetic surgery industry - BBC http://goo.gl/sxOb Why did the Lancet take so long to retract the infamous MMR paper? BMJ http://bit.ly/cXThYc Tooth Fairy Is Paying More - the average went from $1.88 to $2.13 per tooth nationwide http://goo.gl/YD3N Packaged salads…

  • Atul Gawande: "Doctors are human. We miss stuff" - Checklists can help

    8 Feb 2010 | 5:10 am
    Atul Gawande on NPR: Doctors are human, and that their profession is like any other. "We miss stuff. We are inconsistent and unreliable because of the complexity of care," Gawande says. "I got a chance to visit Boeing and see how they make things work, and over and over again they fall back on checklists. The pilot's checklist is a crucial component, not just for how you handle takeoff and landing in normal circumstances, but even how you handle a crisis emergency when you only have a couple of minutes to make a critical decision." References: Atul Gawande's 'Checklist' For Surgery Success.

  • Health News of the Day

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:57 am
    Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in bullet-point format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day: Procalcitonin-guided strategy to treat suspected bacterial infections reduced antibiotic exposure in ICU by 2.7 days http://goo.gl/mws0 Both low and high HbA1c associated with increased mortality in diabetes. Guidelines for minimum HbA1c value may be needed. Survival as a function of HbA1c in type 2 diabetes: U-shaped association, with the lowest hazard ratio at HbA1c of…
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    Think Anatomy

  • Pocket Heart

    Vanessa
    27 Jan 2010 | 8:27 pm
    From Pocket Anatomy: Pocket Heart is a novel way to visualize how the human heart works, in 3D.  Pocket Heart affords students and health care professionals the ease of access to this learning and demonstration resource while at home, work, study, or on the go. So, whether you’re a student needing to learn, understand and memorize all of the anatomical features and functions of the heart, or a health care professional looking for a novel way of communicating a diagnosis or procedure to a patient, colleague or trainee, Pocket Heart’s unique 3D interface can facilitate this. It would do…

  • Artnatomy

    Vanessa
    19 Dec 2009 | 3:25 pm
    An interactive tool designed to help teach the muscles of facial expression. From Artnatomy ARTNATOMY/ARTNATOMIA is a Flash interactive english/spanish tool. It is intended to facilitate the teaching and learning of the anatomical and biomechanical foundation of facial expression morphology. Author Victoria Contreras Flores mail@victoriacontreras.com Features Two levels allow you to first understand the facial muscles and how they control the face, while the second level allows you to see which muscles are active in certain expressions such as anger, irony, rejection, pain, etc. Ability to…

  • AnatomyLab App

    Vanessa
    4 Dec 2009 | 1:39 pm
    From AnatomyLab AnatomyLab is the ideal application for the student of human anatomy, the medical professional, or for that matter, anyone interested in the structure of their body.  While there are many products that allow you to study drawings of the human body, there are very few that allow you to follow the dissection process of an acual human body and explore the amazing structure of the human form with beautiful, clear photographic images.  AnatomyLab allows you to progress through numerous levels of dissection while labeling and studying the different anatomical structures. Author…

  • Netter Images

    Vanessa
    9 Nov 2009 | 12:18 pm
    From Netterimages.com Netterimages.com is a collection of medical illustrations by world renowned medical illustrator, Frank H. Netter, MD, and physician-artists, John Craig and Carlos Machado.  Topics range from human anatomy to clinical disease states to new therapeutic technologies. Illustrations in this collection are offered for sale as rights-managed imagery. Author Elsevier Karen Oswald Digital Asset Manager e-mail: k.oswald@elsevier.com Features Hundreds and hundreds of the classic Netter medical illustrations to choose from Browse through mini-collections of predefined lightboxes…
 
 
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    Topix: Bones News

  • 'Bones' Digs Up Gravedigger Storyline

    9 Feb 2010 | 1:57 am
    Back in season 2, a super badass villain was introduced in the form of The Gravedigger, who abducted people, buried them alive and then demanded ransom to reveal their location so they could be saved before they die of suffocation.

  • How television keeps me hooked

    8 Feb 2010 | 9:19 am
    I recently realized that a lot of the shows that I watch have a going trend. Each of them have a guy and girl flirting back and forth and teasing a relationship.

  • 'Bones' recap: Brennan gets put in her place

    6 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am
    The episode "The Devil in the Details" was supposed to show us that for Brennan, her belief in science, in reason and consequences, is what she finds reassuring a ' just as Catholicism comforts Booth.

  • 'Dancing' queen Samantha Harris exits ballroom

    5 Feb 2010 | 8:43 am
    Feb. 5--Ahuge story went under-reported last month, the type of game-changing moment that should have been right up there with the return of " Lost," the departure of Conan and the first caveman-gecko Geico commercial.

  • Bones creator to share knowledge

    3 Feb 2010 | 11:30 am
    The last time Hart Hanson's old friend talked him into leaving Los Angeles and the set of his hit TV series Bones, the venue for the conference was Whitehorse, where the frigid arctic air sliced through his Michelin-man-inspired winter wear like he was "stark naked." This time, Scot Morison, who teaches professional writing at Grant MacEwan ...
 
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    ScienceDaily: Immune System

  • Blueberries counteract intestinal diseases

    9 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    It is already known that blueberries are rich in antioxidants and vitamins. New research shows that blueberry fiber is important and can alleviate and protect against intestinal inflammations, such as ulcerative colitis. The protective effect is even better if the blueberries are eaten together with probiotics.

  • Complete chemokine profile of a cell

    8 Feb 2010 | 11:00 pm
    Chemokines are a large group of proteins whose predominant function is to direct cell migration. They regulate many physiological and pathophysiological processes, in particular in the immune system. Researchers have now developed a simple method to efficiently identify all the chemokines produced by a single cell type, something that has not been possible before.

  • Test could predict which idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients will become severely ill

    8 Feb 2010 | 5:00 pm
    A simple blood test could predict which patients with the lung-scarring disease known as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) are soon to get far worse, an indicator that could one day influence their treatment, according to researchers. Their findings indicate that the body's immune cells attack healthy lung tissue, suggesting that IPF is in fact an immunologic disease.

  • Biofilms: Discovery of a new mechanism of virus propagation

    8 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    Researchers have shown for the first time that certain viruses are capable of forming complex biofilm-like assemblies, similar to bacterial biofilms. These extracellular infectious structures may protect viruses from the immune system and enable them to spread efficiently from cell to cell. "Viral biofilms" would appear to be a major mechanism of propagation for certain viruses. They are therefore emerging as new and particularly attractive therapeutic targets.

  • Preventing pancreatic islet loss after transplantation

    7 Feb 2010 | 11:00 pm
    Although transplantation of pancreatic islets is an attractive way to treat type 1 diabetes, early islet loss soon after transplantation has limited its clinical use. By studying islet transplantation in a mouse model of diabetes, researchers have now identified a potential new set of targets to improve the efficiency of pancreatic islet transplantation.
 
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    ScienceDaily: Nervous System

  • Double agent: Glial cells can protect or kill neurons, vision

    8 Feb 2010 | 8:00 pm
    Scientists have identified a double agent in the eye that, once triggered, can morph from neuron protector to neuron killer. The discovery has significant health implications since the neurons killed through this process results in vision loss and blindness.

  • Uncorrelated activity in the brain

    7 Feb 2010 | 11:00 pm
    Interconnected networks of neurons process information and give rise to perception by communicating with one another via small electrical impulses known as action potentials. In the past, scientists believed that adjacent neurons synchronized their action potentials. However, researchers now show that this synchronization does not happen.

  • Blacks with MS have more severe symptoms, decline faster than whites, new study shows

    6 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    Fewer African Americans than Caucasians develop multiple sclerosis, statistics show, but their disease progresses more rapidly, and they don't respond as well to therapies, a new study by neurology researchers has found.

  • Three brain diseases linked by toxic form of same neural protein

    4 Feb 2010 | 5:00 pm
    Researchers have found that three different degenerative brain disorders are linked by a toxic form of the same protein. Elk-1 was found in clumps of misshaped proteins that are the hallmarks of Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and Huntington's disease. This suggests a molecular link between the presence of inclusions and neuronal loss that is shared across a spectrum of neurodegenerative disease. Identifying these links could open up novel avenues for therapeutic intervention.

  • Scientists discover alterations in brain's reward system related to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

    3 Feb 2010 | 8:00 pm
    Until now, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was related to alterations in the brain affecting attention and cognitive processes. Researchers in Spain have now discovered anomalies in the brain's reward system related to the neural circuits of motivation and gratification. In children with ADHD, the degree of motivation when carrying out an activity is related to the immediacy with which the objectives of the activity are met. This would explain why their attention and hyperactivity levels differ depending on the tasks being carried out.
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