Correspondence: In reply to the correspondence by Jing-Zhan Wu and Chun-Hai Tang.
Published in Journal of anatomy
A proposed standard for quantifying 3-D hindlimb joint poses in living and extinct archosaurs.
Published in Journal of anatomy
The last common ancestor of birds and crocodylians plus all of its descendants (clade Archosauria) dominated terrestrial Mesozoic ecosystems, giving rise to disparate body plans, sizes, and modes of locomotion. As in the fields of vertebrate morphology and paleontology more generally, studies of archosaur skeletal structure have come to depend on t...
Ontogenetic changes to metacarpal trabecular bone structure in mountain and western lowland gorillas.
Published in Journal of anatomy
The trabecular bone morphology of adult extant primates has been shown to reflect mechanical loading related to locomotion. However, ontogenetic studies of humans and other mammals suggest an adaptive lag between trabecular bone response and current mechanical loading patterns that could result in adult trabecular bone morphology reflecting juvenil...
Muscular anatomy of the forelimb of tiger (Panthera tigris).
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Dissection reports of large cats (family Felidae) have been published since the late 19th century. These reports generally describe the findings in words, show drawings of the dissection, and usually include some masses of muscles, but often neglect to provide muscle maps showing the precise location of bony origins and insertions. Although these e...
Musculotendinous system of mesopelagic fishes: Stomiiformes (Teleostei).
Published in Journal of anatomy
Every night the greatest migration on Earth starts in the deep pelagic oceans where organisms move up to the meso- and epipelagic to find food and return to the deeper zones during the day. One of the dominant fish taxa undertaking vertical migrations are the dragonfishes (Stomiiformes). However, the functional aspects of locomotion and the archite...
Left ventricular trabeculations and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.
Published in Journal of anatomy
Vertebrae at the thoracolumbar junction: A quantitative assessment using CT scans.
Published in Journal of anatomy
The thoracolumbar junction is often associated with traumatic injuries, due to its biomechanical instability. Reasons for this instability are currently still under debate; however, contributing factors such as the rapid change in spinal curvature and facet orientation from the thoracic to lumbar transition have been implicated. Normally, the super...
Atlas and Talus.
Published in Journal of anatomy
This article explores the history of the terms atlas and talus and discusses the unexpected implications of their use in human anatomy. Renaissance anatomists decided to call the first cervical vertebra the atlas. But the name atlas was first used by the ancient Romans for the seventh cervical vertebra. The most common explanation why the first cer...
Structural differences between immature and mature articular cartilage of rabbits by microscopic MRI and polarized light...
Published in Journal of anatomy
This study aimed to determine the structural features between immature and mature articular cartilage from the humeral and femoral joints of rabbits. Specimens of articular cartilage (n = 6 for immature tissue, n = 6 for mature tissue) that were still attached to the underlying bone from a humerus (shoulder joint) or femur (knee joint) were imaged ...
ERα/β/DMP1 axis promotes trans-differentiation of chondrocytes to bone cells through GSK-3β/β-catenin pathway.
Published in Journal of anatomy
Estrogen-induced premature closing of the growth plate in the long bones is a major cause of short stature after premature puberty. Recent studies have found that chondrocytes can directly trans-differentiate into osteoblasts in the process of endochondral bone formation, which indicates that cartilage formation and osteogenesis may be a continuous...
