The hyoid bone is a small U-shaped bone located in the anterior region of the neck. Despite its size, it plays a pivotal role in functions such as swallowing, breathing, and speech. Uniquely, it is the only bone in the human body that does not articulate with any other bone directly....
The femur is the bone in the upper leg and is the longest and strongest bone in the human body. It runs from the hip to the knee. When people are said to have broken their hip it is often the top part of the femur, where it sits in the socket of the pelvis, that has broken ...
Lapita burial practices: evidence for complex body and bone treatment at the Teouma cemetery, Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology In Press.Valentin, F., Bedford, S., Buckley, H. R., & Spriggs, M. (2010). Lapita burial practices: evidence for complex body...
Activated lymphocytes, carried in the lymph, exit the node through the efferent (outgoing) vessels and eventually enter the bloodstream, which distributes them throughout the body. Spleen human spleenThe human spleen in situ.(more) The spleen is found in the abdominal cavity behind the stomach. ...
The process is such that the entire adult human skeleton is replaced in 10 years. A major feature of bone remodeling is that it does not occur uniformly throughout the skeleton, but takes place asynchronously in focal or discrete packets known as basic multicellular units (BMUs) of bone turn...
In all graphs, the error bars depict standard error of the mean (s.e.m.). Results The gross appearance of ADAMTS5−/− mice was not different from the WT mice, as reported previously29. However, during the study the average bodyweight of the ADAMTS5−/− mice was less compared...
[14,15,16,17]. Almost all kinds of cells can secrete EVs, and the process has been highly conserved throughout evolution across many organisms from bacteria to plants and mammals [18,19,20]. In the human body, EVs can be isolated from almost every kind of biological body fluid, ...
In a recent publication, “Fifty Years of Human Space Travel: Implications for Bone and Calcium Research,” Scott and his colleagues look back on lessons learned. He points out that in the pursuit to combat bone loss in microgravity, we gain ground on advancing bone health on Earth. For ins...
current research on the intracellular persistence ofS.aureusin osteomyelitis in vivo is limited. The intracellular infection of macrophages byS.aureusis often referred to as the “Trojan horse” phenomenon, which not only promotes bacterial dissemination throughout the body but also leads to the enrichm...
Alveolar bone is a unique osseous tissue in the human body structurally dependent on the development, eruption and maintenance of the teeth. Besides its primary function in protecting the roots of the teeth and supporting the mastication, it is a reservoir of hematopoietic and mesenchymal stem cells...