Our body is held together with tissues that connect different structures of the body together. Tissues and muscles need to be aligned in a way that there is no discrepancy in the outcomes of activity ...

Within the prior 24 months, I have had a financial relationship with a company producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients: Receive the the ...

With the support of the Pamela and David Ott Fund and the John M. O'Quinn Foundation, The Pamela and David Ott Center of Excellence in Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue and Ehlers-Danlos ...

This article brings you the CBSE Class 9 Science Notes (Part-II) for Chapter 6 - Tissues. These chapter notes are prepared by the subject experts and cover every important topic from the chapter. At ...

The knee is a meeting place for four bones — the femur (thigh bone), tibia (shinbone), fibula (calf bone), and patella (kneecap). It requires several ligaments to keep these bones in place and ...

African-American patients with connective tissue diseases such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis are twice as likely as white patients to suffer from atherosclerotic blood vessels, which increase the ...

Extra-articular features, particularly pulmonary complications, are a major cause of mortality in autoimmune rheumatic disease Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is an important pulmonary complication in ...

Connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) has different roles in different types of cancer. However, the involvement and molecular basis of CTGF in tumor progression and prognosis of human nasopharyngeal ...

Ravin Ratan, MD, MEd, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, explains the origins of soft tissue sarcomas within the body—which account for 1% of cancers in adult patients—how they are ...