The Anatomische Gesellschaft (AG) is an international society for the anatomical sciences and at the same time the main organising body for German anatomists. This study analyses how the AG went through the years of National Socialism. As the society does not possess archival material from that time, the analysis ...

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: Many international volunteer groups provide free reconstructive plastic surgery for the poor and underserved in developing countries. An essential issue in providing this care is that it meets consistent guidelines for both quality and safety-a topic that has been addressed previously. An equally important consideration is how to provide ...

Determining which organizations to join can be challenging given the wide selection of associations, societies, and clubs available to practicing thoracic surgeons. This article briefly reviews 7 important North American thoracic surgery organizations (the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, the Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons, the General Thoracic Surgical Club, ...

Association of Surgeons from the Netherlands (ASN): Chirurgendagen, 19-20 May 2011, Veldhoven, the Netherlands. Copyright © 2011 British Journal of Surgery Society Ltd. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Association of Surgeons from the Netherlands (ASN): Najaarsvergadering, 26 November 2010, Ede, the Netherlands. Copyright © 2011 British Journal of Surgery Society Ltd. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Innovative surgery raises four kinds of ethical challenges: potential harms to patients; compromised informed consent; unfair allocation of healthcare resources; and conflicts of interest. Lack of adequate data on innovations and lack of regulatory oversight contribute to these ethical challenges. In this paper these issues and the extent to which ...

We focused on a powerful objection to affirmative action - that affirmative action harms its intended beneficiaries by undermining their self-esteem. We tested whether White Americans would raise the harm to beneficiaries objection particularly when it is in their group interest. When led to believe that affirmative action harmed Whites, ...

Contact dermatitis is an integral part of dermatology. Many patients affected by contact dermatitis suffer significant morbidity and require prompt diagnosis and treatment. Here we give an overview of contact dermatitis related presentations made during the British Contact Dermatitis Society at 87th annual meeting of the British Association of Dermatologists, ...

Satellite interferometric synthetic aperture radar is uniquely suited to monitoring year-to-year deformation of the entire Yellowstone caldera (about 3000 square kilometers). Sequential interferograms indicate that subsidence within the caldera migrated from one resurgent dome to the other between August 1992 and August 1995. Between August 1995 and September 1996, the ...

Duetting plays a very important part in the signal system between male and female in a large number of bird species, in particular species that inhabit tropical regions. These elaborate song patterns show many interesting features, of which only a few have been discussed here. Perhaps the most interesting result ...

1. The inotropic effects of two antiarrhythmic drugs, lignocaine and phenytoin, were studied in electrically driven isolated rabbit atrial preparations. The time-effect relationship of each drug was investigated with different concentrations and frequencies of stimulation.2. The effects of time of exposure, drug concentration and heart rate on the development of ...

1. The intravenous injection of para-methoxyphenylethylamine (PMPEA) into cats produces an increase in the size of the spinal cord monosynaptic reflex. The reflex elevation occurs within 30 s of drug administration, reaches a peak within 2 min, and lasts about 20 min.2. The action of PMPEA is similar for extensor ...

The light emitted by Noctiluca has its origin in 1 to 5 x 10(4) organelles ("microsources") which are scattered throughout the perivacuolar cytoplasm, and which appear to be the elementary functional units of bioluminescence. Microscopical techniques, image intensification, and microphotometry were employed in their investigation. Microsources are fluorescent, strongly phase-retarding, ...

Although immunological methods have not been used on a wide scale for the study of trypanosomiasis in Africa, there is hope that immunological research will lead to improved methods of diagnosis, methods for the classification of trypanosome strains, better understanding of the epidemiology, epizootiology and pathology of trypanosomiasis, and ultimately ...

In cats treated with reserpine and anaesthetized with pentobarbitone sodium the adrenergic blocking drug, tolazoline, caused a rise of arterial pressure which was inhibited by previous administration of phenoxybenzamine. Tolazoline increased the contractions of the isolated papillary muscles of normal cats but not of cats treated with reserpine. Intra-arterial injection ...

The intra-arterial injection of chloral hydrate potentiated the transmission of nerve impulses through the cat superior cervical ganglion, antagonized the ganglionblocking action of hexamethonium, and greatly enhanced the ganglion-stimulant action of acetylcholine. Effects on the ganglion-stimulant actions of carbachol, nicotine, tetramethylammonium and potassium chloride were slight or absent. Chloral hydrate ...

Homidium, quinapyramine, and suramin (Group II compounds) produce their trypanocidal effect in vivo only after a latent period of 24 hr. or more, during which time the trypanosomes may continue to multiply; this is in contrast to trivalent arsenical and diamidine compounds (Group I compounds), which begin to act immediately. ...

The biological action of a series of chlorinated phenols has been investigated. With increasing chlorination there is an increase in toxicity in which the convulsant action of phenol is replaced by the signs characteristic of poisoning by dinitrophenol; the higher chlorinated phenols produce a contracture of the isolated rat phrenic ...

1. The amount of visible or long ultraviolet light (UV) required to photoreactivate Colpidium colpoda injured with known dosages of short UV (2654 A) was determined. 2. The effect of the short UV was tested by the delay in division of exposed animals compared to controls. Photoreactivation was tested by ...