Ultrasound for the evaluation of soft tissue foreign bodies before and after the addition of fluid to the surrounding interstitial space in a cadaveric model.

Background: Point-of-care ultrasound may be used to facilitate foreign body (FB) localization and removal. We hypothesized that injection of normal saline adjacent to an FB may make it easier to detect.

Methods: The study was performed on one embalmed human cadaver.

[Human adaptive phenotypes in physiology and medicine].

The study of pathological and physiological features associated with genetic syndromes has gained increasing momentum over the past two decades. In this paper, the definition of adaptive phenotypes is presented and the complexities and obstacles to progress in this field are summarized. This is a problem of general biology and is related to genetic specificity of every organism.

[Genetic aspects of man's adaptation to long-term space flight].

Human genetics may play an important role in medical support of prolonged space flights, which raise serious life sciences questions: what is a normal response or, more specifically, what is norm or pathology. This is a problem of general biology and is related to genetic specificity of every organism. The theoretical basis of pertinent researches is general genetics and cytogenetics with their concepts about the structure and function of the eukaryotic genome.