...Bernd Püschel; Jörg Männer Due to its morphological similarity with the early human embryo, the pregastrulation-stage rabbit may represent an appropriate mammalian model for studying processes involved in early human development. The usability of mammalian embryos for experimental studies depends...

... or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Rabbit Fiber types Hybrid fibers Muscle architecture Muscle biology...

... transplanted to cartilage defects. A circular, articular cartilage defect 4 mm in diameter was made in the trochlear region in each of 20 New Zealand white rabbits. The 10 rabbits in the control group were kept without treatment and the 10 rabbits in the experimental group underwent injection of atelocollagen...

...Leszek Zguczyński; Dorota Bukowska; Barbara Mierzejewska-Krzyżowska The organization of the projection from the dorsal column nuclei (DCN) to the lobules of the cerebellar caudal vermis was studied in the rabbit. Following unilateral injections of the retrograde fluorescent tracers fast blue (FB...

... study in rabbits, differences were observed in the thickness of the layers of articular cartilage in control animals at 5 and 6 months (generally considered adults for this purpose). This study aimed to describe sagittally sectioned condylar cartilages stained with Picrosirius-hematoxylin in rabbits...

...J.A.M. Korfage; R. Helmers; M. de Goüyon Matignon; T. van Wessel; G.E.J. Langenbach; T.M.G.J. van Eijden We examined the difference in fiber type composition and cross-sectional areas during postnatal development in male rabbit jaw muscles and compared these with changes in leg muscles. The myosin...

...David J. Barron; Phillip J. Etherington; C. Peter Winlove; John R. Pepper This paper defines the characteristics and significance of the scapular insertion of the latissimus dorsi muscle (LDM) of the rabbit. In a study of the New Zealand White species (n = 10) the scapular insertion was found...

...) changes in fiber-type composition during postnatal development are accompanied by changes in daily activity and (2) individual variations in fiber-type composition are related to similar variations in daily muscle activity. Methods: The masseter and digastric muscles of 23 New Zealand White rabbits (young...

...M.J. Kääb; R.G. Richards; K. Ito; I. ap Gwynn; H.P. Nötzli The main function of articular cartilage is to transmit load. The objective of this study was to describe the deformation of chondrocytes under static loading and its relation to collagen matrix deformation. Whole intact rabbit knee joints...

...Ralf Kinscherf; Huse Kamencic; Hans-Peter Deigner; Jürgen Metz The effect of hypercholesterolemia on the number, immunological phenotype and oxidative stress-dependent processes of macrophages (MΦ) and dendritic cells (DC) was studied in New Zealand White rabbits. The left ventricular myocardium...

...Dorota Bukowska; Leszek Zguczyński; Barbara Mierzejewska-Krzyżowska The double fluorescent retrograde technique was employed to examine the distribution of the inferior olive (IO) neurones projecting to the cortex of the rostral and caudal parts of the paramedian lobule (PML) in the rabbit...

... histological techniques should be used? What are the pitfalls when evaluating osteochondral defects histologically? What is the best scoring system? All these questions will be addressed to provide concise information on this topic with particular attention being paid to the rabbit as an experimental animal...

...A. Barathi; Moe K. Thu; Roger W. Beuerman The rabbit eye has been used experimentally in research in vision and ophthalmology. However, there is little information about postnatal growth. The purpose of this study was to determine growth patterns of the rabbit globe from birth to young adult status...

...K. Tsuruyama; G. Scott; C.G. Widmer; J.P. Lund The rabbit digastric muscle has a single belly that opens and retracts the mandible. It does not contain connective tissue partitions, and all fibers arise from the same tendon and insert into a single broad site. Historically, it was assumed...

...Dorota Bukowska An analysis of central afferent projections to the dorsal cochlear nucleus (dCo), one of the three target nuclei of the auditory nerve, was made using retrograde axonal tracer, wheat germ agglutinin-horseradish peroxidase (WGA-HRP) in the rabbit. The findings showed...

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... defects. Two types of bioresorbable polymer fleece matrices (PLLA and a composite fleece of polydioxanone and polyglactin) and lyophilized dura as a biological carrier are tested. Phenotypic and morphological appearance of the cultured articular rabbit chondrocytes is preserved on all three types...

... plateau under static loading. Whole intact rabbit knee joints were loaded in vitro by simulating a quadriceps force of 3×, 1× or 0.5× body weight (high, medium, low) over durations of 30 or 5 min (long, short). Specimens were cryopreserved while under load and prepared for morphological evaluation...

...Aila Poikela; Tuomo Kantomaa; Pertti Pirttiniemi; Juha Tuukkanen; Kati Pietilä Unilateral masticatory function was induced in 10-day-old rabbits by grinding the right side molars out of occlusion under general anesthesia. The grinding procedure was repeated twice a week thereafter. They were killed...

...Mohamed Sharawy; Ayman M. Ali; Won-Seok Choi; Vera Larke Previous studies in our laboratory have shown that surgical induction of anterior disk displacement (ADD) in the rabbit craniomandibular joint (CMJ) leads to cellular and extracellular alterations consistent with osteoarthritis. Similar...