For cutting thin, parallel slices from round and other awkwardly shaped bones, we have developed an useful aid by modifying the Microslice II cutting saw primarily designed for geological or metallurgical purposes. To ensure a good grip of the bone, the specimen is embedded in a bolus of wax in a cylindrical container and is advanced along the container by a screw plunger toward the cutting blade of the machine. It is thus possible to cut even from awkwardly shaped bones 2-30 mm thick parallel slices suitable for decalcified or undecalcified histological sections and also for radiodensitometry or quantitative microradiography.

Download full-text PDF

Source
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02411204DOI Listing

Publication Analysis

Top Keywords

awkwardly shaped
12
shaped bones
12
parallel slices
8
technique cutting
4
cutting slices
4
slices femoral
4
femoral heads
4
heads awkwardly
4
bones cutting
4
cutting thin
4

Similar Publications

In -symmetric tetraoxa[8]circulenes, alternating fused benzene and furan rings form an octagonal array. These compounds are little known despite their novel properties, which include extended planar π-conjugation and a formally antiaromatic cyclooctatetraene core. Tetraoxa[8]circulenes can be formed by acid-induced cyclocondensations of suitable quinones, but existing methods often give very low yields.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

An online three-class Transcranial Doppler ultrasound brain computer interface.

Neurosci Res

June 2016

Bloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, 150 Kilgour Road, Toronto, Ontario M4G 1R8, Canada; Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, 164 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G9, Canada. Electronic address:

Brain computer interfaces (BCI) can provide communication opportunities for individuals with severe motor disabilities. Transcranial Doppler ultrasound (TCD) measures cerebral blood flow velocities and can be used to develop a BCI. A previously implemented TCD BCI system used verbal and spatial tasks as control signals; however, the spatial task involved a visual cue that awkwardly diverted the user's attention away from the communication interface.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Looking back: Italian psychiatry from its origins to Law 180 of 1978.

J Nerv Ment Dis

June 2014

Department of Philosophy and Communication, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

Italian psychiatry is usually renowned for the radical anti-institutional movement and the Reform Law of 1978, which requires a historical analysis to understand. In the 1960s, Italian psychiatric culture had reached a deadlock because of its obsolete biological, strictly neuroanatomical, explanatory approach (so-called organicism) postulated by academic institutions and awkwardly implemented in asylum practice. One prominent figure in shaping this philosophy was Cesare Lombroso, internationally known as the father of criminal anthropology.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Spacer-dependent folding and aggregation of oligocholates in SDS micelles.

J Org Chem

October 2009

Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3111, USA.

Insertion of flexible, 4-aminobutyroyl spacers in between the cholate repeat units had been found previously to enhance the folding of cholate oligomers in homogeneous solution (Zhao, Y. J. Org.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?

Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!