Skull

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Giant" tamarin from the Miocene of Colombia. 
  • A 17-Year-Old Boy With Right Face Palsy, Left Leg Weakness, and Lytic Skull-Bone Lesions. 
  • A biomechanical analysis of skull form in gum-harvesting galagids. 
  • A collection of non-human primate computed tomography scans housed in MorphoSource, a repository for 3D data. 
  • A new in utero sheep model for unilateral coronal craniosynostosis. 
  • A novel application for bolus remifentanil: blunting the hemodynamic response to Mayfield skull clamp placement. 
  • A remarkable female cranium of the early Oligocene anthropoid Aegyptopithecus zeuxis (Catarrhini, Propliopithecidae). 
  • A syndrome of altered cardiovascular, craniofacial, neurocognitive and skeletal development caused by mutations in TGFBR1 or TGFBR2. 
  • Accuracy of inhomogeneity correction in photon radiotherapy from CT scans with different settings. 
  • Adaptive and phylogenetic significance of ontogenetic sequences in Archaeolemur, subfossil lemur from Madagascar. 
  • An analysis of cadaveric calvarial bone: implications of computer imaging in craniofacial reconstruction. 
  • An apparatus for tensile and bending tests of perinatal, neonatal, pediatric and adult cadaver osteoligamentous cervical spines. 
  • An improved method for finite element mesh generation of geometrically complex structures with application to the skullbase. 
  • Approximating transcranial magnetic stimulation with electric stimulation in mouse: a simulation study. 
  • Australopithecus sediba: a new species of Homo-like australopith from South Africa. 
  • Basal anthropoids from Egypt and the antiquity of Africa's higher primate radiation. 
  • Biogeography in deep time - What do phylogenetics, geology, and paleoclimate tell us about early platyrrhine evolution? 
  • Biomechanical implications of intraspecific shape variation in chimpanzee crania: moving toward an integration of geometric morphometrics and finite element analysis. 
  • Biphasic effects of interleukin-1beta on osteoblast differentiation in vitro. 
  • CT scans and 3D reconstructions of Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) heads and ear bones. 
  • Calvarial mass as a presenting feature of neurofibromatosis type 2 in a pediatric patient. 
  • Cavernous hemangioma of the skull presenting with subdural hematoma. Case report. 
  • Central nervous system bleeding in hemophiliacs. 
  • Childhood complications of nalidixic acid. 
  • Circadian oscillation of gene expression in murine calvarial bone. 
  • Comment on "Grasping primate origins". 
  • Comparative functional analysis of skull morphology of tree-gouging primates. 
  • Comparing levels of homoplasy in the primate skeleton. 
  • Cortical excitability in cocaine-dependent patients: a replication and extension of TMS findings. 
  • Cranial computed tomography before lumbar puncture: a prospective clinical evaluation. 
  • Cranial irradiation leads to acute and persistent neuroinflammation with delayed increases in T-cell infiltration and CD11c expression in C57BL/6 mouse brain. 
  • Cranial osteogenesis in Monodelphis domestica (Didelphidae) and Macropus eugenii (Macropodidae). 
  • Craniodental morphology and systematics of a new family of hystricognathous rodents (Gaudeamuridae) from the late eocene and early oligocene of Egypt. 
  • Craniofacial development in marsupial mammals: developmental origins of evolutionary change. 
  • Development of craniofacial musculature in Monodelphis domestica (Marsupialia, Didelphidae). 
  • Diet and dental topography in pitheciine seed predators. 
  • ECT in the treatment of status epilepticus. 
  • Effect of age on biomaterial-mediated in situ bone tissue regeneration. 
  • Effect of anatomical variability on electric field characteristics of electroconvulsive therapy and magnetic seizure therapy: a parametric modeling study. 
  • Endogenous bone morphogenetic protein antagonists regulate mammalian neural crest generation and survival. 
  • Endoscopic cranioplasty with calcium phosphate cement for pterional bone defect after frontotemporal craniotomy: technical note. 
  • Evaluation in cats of a new material for cranioplasty: a composite of plaster of Paris and hydroxylapatite. 
  • Evaluation of complication rates of pediatric cranial procedures in which a polyethylene glycol sealant was used. 
  • Evidence of dietary differentiation among late Paleocene-early Eocene plesiadapids (Mammalia, primates). 
  • Expression of bone morphogenetic protein-4 (BMP-4), bone morphogenetic protein-7 (BMP-7), fibroblast growth factor-8 (FGF-8) and sonic hedgehog (SHH) during branchial arch development in the chick. 
  • Exteroceptive suppression periods and pericranial muscle tenderness in chronic tension-type headache: effects of psychopathology, chronicity and disability. 
  • Failure of ventral body wall closure in mouse embryos lacking a procollagen C-proteinase encoded by Bmp1, a mammalian gene related to Drosophila tolloid. 
  • False-positive calvarial uptake of indium-111 leukocytes in a patient with hyperostosis frontalis interna. 
  • Fast verification of Gamma Knifetrade mark treatment plans. 
  • Fetal anthropometry at term: effect of menstrual age and relative fetal size. 
  • First virtual endocasts of adapiform primates. 
  • Fossil papio cranium from !Ncumtsa (Koanaka) Hills, western Ngamiland, Botswana. 
  • Free flap reconstruction of the scalp and calvaria of major neurosurgical resections in cancer patients: lessons learned closing large, difficult wounds of the dura and skull. 
  • GammaPlan-Leksell Gamma Knife radiosurgery treatment planning verification method. 
  • Grasping primate origins. 
  • High-resolution computed tomography study of the cranium of a fossil anthropoid primate, Parapithecus grangeri: new insights into the evolutionary history of primate sensory systems. 
  • Hypoglossal canal size in living hominoids and the evolution of human speech. 
  • Identification of Chiari Type I Malformation subtypes using whole genome expression profiles and cranial base morphometrics. 
  • In vitro inhibition of chick embryo lysyl hydroxylase by homogentisic acid. A proposed connective tissue defect in alkaptonuria. 
  • In vitro inhibition of collagen cross links by catechol analogs. 
  • In vivo imaging of specialized bone marrow endothelial microdomains for tumour engraftment. 
  • Incidence and perioperative management of tension pneumocephalus following craniofacial resection. 
  • Internal carotid arterial canal size and scaling in Euarchonta: Re-assessing implications for arterial patency and phylogenetic relationships in early fossil primates. 
  • LDL receptor-related protein 5 (LRP5) affects bone accrual and eye development. 
  • Leukaemia hijacks a neural mechanism to invade the central nervous system. 
  • Ligament versus bone cell identity in the zebrafish hyoid skeleton is regulated by mef2ca. 
  • Masticatory stress, orbital orientation and the evolution of the primate postorbital bar. 
  • Measurements of the Relationship Between CT Hounsfield Units and Acoustic Velocity and How It Changes With Photon Energy and Reconstruction Method. 
  • Mesh considerations for finite element blast modelling in biomechanics. 
  • Micropithecus clarki, a small ape from the Miocene of Uganda. 
  • Mineralized Biomaterials Mediated Repair of Bone Defects Through Endogenous Cells. 
  • Multiple tissue-specific requirements for the BMP antagonist Noggin in development of the mammalian craniofacial skeleton. 
  • Munchausen's syndrome in neurosurgery: report of two cases and review of the literature. 
  • Neurodevelopment in children with single-suture craniosynostosis and plagiocephaly without synostosis. 
  • New Palaeogene primate basicrania and the definition of the order Primates. 
  • New craniodental material of Pronothodectes gaoi Fox (Mammalia, "Plesiadapiformes") and relationships among members of Plesiadapidae. 
  • Oldest known cranium of a juvenile New World monkey (Early Miocene, Patagonia, Argentina): implications for the taxonomy and the molar eruption pattern of early platyrrhines. 
  • Olfactory fossa of Tremacebus harringtoni (platyrrhini, early Miocene, Sacanana, Argentina): implications for activity pattern. 
  • Optimal timing of autologous cranioplasty after decompressive craniectomy in children. 
  • Osteoblasts express the inflammatory cytokine interleukin-6 in a murine model of Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis and infected human bone tissue. 
  • Perioperative Outcomes and Management in Pediatric Complex Cranial Vault Reconstruction: A Multicenter Study from the Pediatric Craniofacial Collaborative Group. 
  • Phased array ultrasound imaging through planar tissue layers. 
  • Power-Assisted Particulate Bone Grafting Effectively Prevents Osseous Defects After Cranial Vault Reconstruction. 
  • Predictable patterns of intracranial and cervical spine injury in craniomaxillofacial trauma: analysis of 4786 patients. 
  • Pregnancy with prolonged fetal exposure to an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor. 
  • Preliminary description of the cranium of Proteopithecus sylviae, an Egyptian late Eocene anthropoidean primate. 
  • Preliminary notes on a newly discovered skull of the extinct monkey Antillothrix from Hispaniola and the origin of the Greater Antillean monkeys. 
  • Primate origins, human origins, and the end of higher taxa. 
  • Radiation effects and radioprotection in MC3T3-E1 mouse calvarial osteoblastic cells. 
  • Rate of head circumference growth as a function of autism diagnosis and history of autistic regression. 
  • Reception of microwaves by the brain. 
  • Removable cranial windows for long-term imaging in awake mice. 
  • Requirements for Endothelin type-A receptors and Endothelin-1 signaling in the facial ectoderm for the patterning of skeletogenic neural crest cells in zebrafish. 
  • Restoring the failed cranioplasty: nonanatomical titanium mesh with perforator flap. 
  • Review of In Vivo Bone Strain Studies and Finite Element Models of the Zygomatic Complex in Humans and Nonhuman Primates: Implications for Clinical Research and Practice. 
  • Role of mitogen-activated protein kinase in osteoblast differentiation. 
  • Safety of antifibrinolytics in cranial vault reconstructive surgery: a report from the pediatric craniofacial collaborative group. 
  • Schlieren study of pulsed ultrasound transmission through human skull. 
  • Single-suture craniosynostosis: a review of neurobehavioral research and theory. 
  • Skull of Catopithecus browni, an early tertiary catarrhine. 
  • Socioeconomic Factors, Perioperative Complications, and 30-Day Readmission Rates Associated With Delayed Cranial Vault Reconstruction for Craniosynostosis. 
  • Spontaneous CSF otorrhea from tegmen and posterior fossa defects. 
  • Stem members of Platyrrhini are distinct from catarrhines in at least one derived cranial feature. 
  • Surgical perspectives in craniofacial trauma. 
  • Symptomatic mass effect of a hypertrophied pericranial flap after repair of a dural defect: case report. 
  • The BMP antagonist Noggin promotes cranial and spinal neurulation by distinct mechanisms. 
  • The Biomechanics of Bony Facial "Buttresses" in South African Australopiths: An Experimental Study Using Finite Element Analysis. 
  • The anatomy of Dolichocebus gaimanensis, a stem platyrrhine monkey from Argentina. 
  • The biomechanics of foraging determines face length among kangaroos and their relatives. 
  • The compressive stiffness of human pediatric heads. 
  • The diploic venous system: surgical anatomy and neurosurgical implications. 
  • The earliest apes. 
  • The effect of dietary consistency on morphology of the mandibular condylar cartilage in young macaques (Macaca mulatta). 
  • The feeding biomechanics and dietary ecology of Paranthropus boisei. 
  • The hypoglossal canal and the origin of human vocal behavior. 
  • The in utero correction of unilateral coronal craniosynostosis. 
  • The jaw adductors of strepsirrhines in relation to body size, diet, and ingested food size. 
  • The mechanical and morphological properties of 6 year-old cranial bone. 
  • The oldest Asian record of Anthropoidea. 
  • The paleobiology of Amphipithecidae, South Asian late Eocene primates. 
  • The pathology of extracranial scalp and skull masses in young children. 
  • Three-dimensional adult male head and skull contours. 
  • Time-of-flight MR flow imaging: selective saturation recovery with gradient refocusing. 
  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation. 
  • Uremic leontiasis ossea: "bighead" disease in humans? Radiologic, clinical, and pathologic features. 
  • Use of Pericranial Flap Coverage in Cochlear Implantation of the Radical Cavity: Rationale, Technique, and Experience. 
  • Use of a three-dimensional, normative database of pediatric craniofacial morphology for modern anthropometric analysis. 
  • Vertex epidural hematomas: imaging findings and diagnostic pitfalls. 
  • Viewpoints: feeding mechanics, diet, and dietary adaptations in early hominins. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Nightingale, Roger W, Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
  • Roth, V. Louise, Professor of Biology, Evolutionary Anthropology
  • Williams, Blythe A., Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Evolutionary Anthropology