Publications by authors named "Cindy Ritter"
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- The study examines the development of trunk wrinkles in Asian and African elephants, noting significant differences in wrinkle characteristics between the two species.
- Asian elephants exhibit more pronounced dorsal trunk wrinkles compared to African elephants, with distinct density patterns based on anatomical location and trunk usage.
- The research also highlights that trunk wrinkle formation is influenced by factors such as behavior, environment, and trunk lateralization, with specific growth patterns occurring during fetal development.
Domestic pigs have a prominent cortical gyrus (the rostrum gyrus) isomorphic to the contralateral hemirostrum. It is unclear, however, if the size and shape of the rostrum gyrus are of evolutionary/functional relevance. Here, we address this question by assessing the relationship of rostrum and rostrum gyrus across eight pig species.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhysiological studies of the last century mapped a somatosensory cortical gyrus representing the pig's rostrum. Here, we describe the extraordinary correspondence of this gyrus to the rostrum. The pig rostrum is packed with microvibrissae (~470 per hemi-rostrum) and innervated by a prominent infraorbital nerve, containing about 80,000 axons.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe role of hyperphosphatemia in the pathogenesis of secondary hyperparathyroidism, cardiovascular disease, and progression of renal failure is widely known. Here we studied effects of dietary phosphate restriction on mortality and vascular calcification in uremic rats. Control and uremic rats were fed a high-phosphate diet and at 3 months a portion of rats of each group were killed.
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