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  • Pregnancy & human development
  • F.M. van Helmont, Development of human embryo.
  • Contraceptive methods and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) / World Health Organization Special Programme on AIDS and Special Programme of Research, Development, and Research Training in Human Reproduction.
  • Bone development in human infant L1 vertebrae, micro-CT.
  • Inquiries into human faculty and its development / by Francis Galton.
  • Inquiries into human faculty and its development / by Francis Galton.
  • Formation of the human foetus: five figures, showing the development from five months to nine months gestation. Colour engraving, by J. Pass after D. Dodd, 1794.
  • Formation of the human foetus: five figures, showing the development from embryo at conception, to foetus of four months gestation. Colour engraving by J. Pass after D. Dodd, 1794.
  • Human neural stem cells growing in culture. Neural stem cells can be made to develop into cells found in the central nervous system; neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes.
  • Human colon cancer cells in culture. Colon cancer is the third most common cancer in Britain. People are more likely to develop this cancer if they eat a diet high in animal fats.
  • Veratrum nigrum L. Melanthiaceae Distribution: Europe. Cows do not eat Veratrum species in the meadows, and human poisoning with it caused vomiting and fainting. In the 1850s it was found to reduce the heart's action and slow the pulse (Bentley, 1861, called it an 'arterial sedative'), and in 1859 it was used orally in a woman who was having convulsions due to eclampsia. Dr Paul DeLacy Baker in Alabama treated her with drops of a tincture of V. viride. She recovered. It was used thereafter, as the first choice of treatment, and, when blood pressure monitoring became possible, it was discovered that it worked by reducing the high blood pressure that occurs in eclampsia. By 1947 death rates were reduced from 30% to 5% by its use at the Boston Lying-in Hospital. It works by dilating the arteries in muscles and in the gastrointestinal circulation. A further use of Veratrum species came to light when it was noted that V. californicum - and other species - if eaten by sheep resulted in foetal malformations, in particular only having one eye. The chemical in the plant that was responsible, cyclopamine, was found to act on certain genetic pathways responsible for stem cell division in the regulation of the development of bilateral symmetry in the embryo/foetus. Synthetic analogues have been developed which act on what have come to be called the 'hedgehog signalling pathways' in stem cell division, and these 'Hedgehog inhibitors' are being introduced into medicine for the treatment of various cancers like chondrosarcoma, myelofibrosis, and advanced basal cell carcinoma. The drugs are saridegib, erismodegib and vismodegib. All the early herbals report on its ability to cause vomiting. As a herbal medicine it is Prescription Only, via a registered dentist or physician (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Veratrum album L. Melanthiaceae Distribution: Europe. Cows do not eat Veratrum species in the meadows, and human poisoning with it caused vomiting and fainting. In the 1850s it was found to reduce the heart's action and slow the pulse (Bentley, 1861, called it an 'arterial sedative'), and in 1859 it was used orally in a woman who was having convulsions due to eclampsia. Dr Paul DeLacy Baker in Alabama treated her with drops of a tincture of V. viride. She recovered. It was used thereafter, as the first choice of treatment, and when blood pressure monitoring became possible, it was discovered that it worked by reducing the high blood pressure that occurs in eclampsia. By 1947 death rates were reduced from 30% to 5% by its use at the Boston Lying in Hospital. It works by dilating the arteries in muscles and in the gastrointestinal circulation. A further use of Veratrum species came to light when it was noted that V. californicum -and other species - if eaten by sheep resulted in foetal malformations, in particular only having one eye. The chemical in the plant that was responsible, cyclopamine, was found to act on certain genetic pathways responsible for stem cell division in the regulation of the development of bilateral symmetry in the embryo/foetus. Synthetic analogues have been developed which act on what have come to be called the 'hedgehog signalling pathways' in stem cell division, and these 'Hedgehog inhibitors' are being introduced into medicine for the treatment of various cancers like chondrosarcoma, myelofibrosis, and advanced basal cell carcinoma. The drugs are saridegib, erismodegib and vismodegib. All the early herbals report on its ability to cause vomiting. As a herbal medicine it is Prescription Only, via a registered dentist or physician (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Human neural stem cells stained for nestin (red). Nestin is a type of intermediate filamant protein that is used as a marker of neural stem cells. The blue dots are the cell nuclei stained with DAPI. Neural stem cells can be made to develop into cells found in the central nervous system; neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes.
  • Types os superb physical manhood who have been developed to this high degree of physical fitness and resistant power to disease by the very methods I am advocating in this book, and have been advocating consistently all over the world for the past quarter of a century. This is the type of youthfull manhood that we could and should have had if my advice had been taken and followed, as recruits, instead of such weedy specimens of humanity as shown in the previous picture.
  • Location of cyclin in 2-cell human embryo
  • Location of cyclin in maturing human egg
  • Location of cyclin in 2-cell human embryo
  • Location of cyclin in 2-cell human embryo
  • Location of cyclin in maturing human egg
  • Location of cyclin in maturing human egg
  • Barry's living wonders will exhibit here : no.1 & 2 Burnett's Road, near the Agricultural Hall, during the Cattle Show next week : the greatest living wonder ever seen : the double man : half man & half woman alive!.
  • Frontispiece, 'The Galvanoscope'.
  • De la physiologie du système nerveux et spécialement du cerveau. Recherches sur les maladies nerveuses en général, et en particulier sur le siége, la nature et le traitement de l'hystérie, de l'hypochondrie, de l'épilepsie et de l'asthme convulsif / par M. Georget.
  • Evolution in humans and apes. Colour lithograph, 1952.
  • Angiogenin
  • Healthy adult human head and brain viewed from behind, MRI
  • Plate VIII, The natural history of the human teeth.
  • HeLa cells, immortal human epithelial cancer cell line, SEM
  • HeLa cells, immortal human epithelial cancer cell line, SEM
  • HeLa cells, immortal human epithelial cancer cell line, SEM