Type 2 diabetes alters the behavior of discs in the vertebral column, making them stiffer, and also causes the discs to change shape earlier than normal. As a result, the disc's ability to withstand ...

Anxiety, the psychological and physiological state characterized by an anticipation of potential threats and a heightened sense of vigilance, is regularly experienced by many humans worldwide.

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One of the riddles of mammal evolution explained: the strong conservation of the number of trunk vertebrae. Researchers of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center and the University of Utah show that this ...

When a terrestrial vertebrate stands, its body hangs from the vertebral column which supports the weight of the trunk like the arch of a suspension bridge and transmits it to the ground by two sets of ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract X-ray photographs of part of the vertebral column of Eusthenopteron foordi Whiteaves show that each vertebral segment consists of (1) a ...

Band pairs in shark vertebrae have been used for decades to estimate shark age, of practical use in conserving overfished sharks and managing the remaining shark fisheries. However, recent research ...

IT is now nearly forty years since Dr. Gadow and Miss Abbott published their well-known paper on “The Evolution of the Vertebral Columns” in the Philosophical Transactions of 1895-96, the first ...

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