Ultrastructural changes in the developing chicken cornea following caffeine administration.

Caffeine is one of the most frequently consumed psychoactive substances. It has been known for many years that caffeine at high concentrations exerts harmful effects on both women's and laboratory animals' fertility, moreover it may impair normal development of many organs in the prenatal period. So far there have been few studies performed that demonstrate teratogenic effects of caffeine on structures of the developing eye, particularly the cornea.

Changes in thickness of each layer of developing chicken cornea after administration of caffeine.

The aim of the study was the presentation of changes in thickness of each layer of a developing cornea, that came into being under an influence of caffeine which was administered to chicken embryos. Research materials were 26 chicken embryos from breeding eggs that had been incubated. Breeding eggs were divided into two groups: control (n=30) in which Ringer liquid was given, and experimental (n=30) in which teratogenic dose of caffeine was administrated - 3.

History and status of embryology and developmental biology at Polish Medical Faculties and Schools.

In Poland, medical embryology (both scientific research and teaching of the subject) has traditionally involved Chairs of Histology and Embryology rather than Obstetrics and Gynecology. Before World War II, the most buoyant centers for embryological research among the five universities at the time (in Warsaw, Krakow, Poznan, Lvov and Vilnius), were the Chairs of Embryology and Histology at Medical Faculties of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and the University of Vilnius. After World War II, eleven Medical Academies (Universities of Medicine) came into being (Warsaw, Krakow, Poznan, Lodz, Gdansk, Bialystok, Bydgoszcz, Szczecin, Wroclaw, Katowice and Lublin).

[The participation of some innate immunological defense components in children with chronic gastritis associated H. pylori infection in ultrastructure and function of the mast cells aspects].

Unlabelled: It has been clearly established that Helicobacter pyloni (H. pylori) play an important role in the pathogenesis of some chronic diseases of upper gastrointestinal tract. A lot of attention to the complicated immunological processes induced by the infection was paid.