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  • Intercellular matrix degradation
  • A dental matrix used to hold the tooth in place
  • Human stem cell embedded in a 3D matrix, Cryo SEM
  • Human stem cell embedded in a 3D matrix, Cryo SEM
  • Human stem cell embedded in a 3D matrix, Cryo SEM
  • Human stem cell embedded in a 3D matrix, Cryo SEM
  • Human stem cell embedded in a 3D matrix, Cryo SEM.
  • Agrimonia eupatoria L. Agrimony, Eupatorium, Maudlein. Perennial herb. The species name comes from king Mithridates Eupator VI of Pontus (132-63 BC) who took regular doses of poison to develop an immunity to them. A 'Mithridate' was a medicine against poisons. Distribution: N. and S. Africa, N. Asia, Europe. '…provokes urine and the terms [periods], dries the brain, opens stoppings, helps the green sickness [iron deficiency anaemia], and profits such as have a cold weak liver outwardly applied it takes away the hardness of the matrix [=uterus] and fills hollow ulcers with flesh' (Culpeper, 1650). Dioscorides (Beck, 2005) recommends mashed leaves in hog's grease for healing scarring ulcers, and the seed in wine for dysentery and serpent bites. Goodyear's 1655 translation of Dioscorides (Gunther 2000) has this as cannabis, which Parkinson (1640) says is in error and summarises the manifold uses from classical authors, from removing splinters to stopping menorrhagia. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Cistus incanus ssp creticus Juss. Cistaceae. Rock Rose. Distribution: Crete. Interesting symbiosis with fungus called Tuber melanosporum which increases nutrient absorption for the plant and inhibits growth of other plants in the vicinity. It is a source of the resin ‘labdanum’ (a.k.a. ‘ladanum’) used in perfumes (similar smell to ambergris), as is Cistus ladanifer. It has no medical uses now, and such use was dwindling even in the 18th century. In the 16th century (Henry Lyte’s 1575 translation of Rembert Dodoen’s Cruydeboeck of 1554) its uses were described (directly copied from Dioscorides’ Materia Medica (70AD)) as: ‘Ladanum dronketh with olde wine, stoppeth the laske [periods], and provoketh urine. It is very good against the hardness of the matrix or mother [uterus] layde to in the manner of a pessarie, and it draweth down the secondes or afterbirth, when it is layde upon quicke coles [hot coals], and the fumigation or parfume thereof be received up into the body of women. // The same applied to the head with Myrrhe and oyle of Myrrhe, cureth the scurffe, called Alopecia, and keepeth the heare [hair] from falling of [sic], but whereas it is already fallen away, it will not cause the heare to growe agayne. // ...' and goes on in this vein about its uses for pain in the ears, and removing sores and scars and other things. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Christi eiusque Matris Pietate servata : provisores salutis clodiae : si parte di questa città, per la iddio gratia, libera d'ogni mal contagioso gl'infrascritti per andar ... / Ioan. Bapt. Vianellus Not. Dep.
  • Icon durae matris in convexa [concava] superficie visae, ex capite foetus humani octo circiter a conceptione mensium, desumtae: ad objectum / ... praeparatum a ... F. Ruyschio ... delineata, & ... impressa a J. Ladmiral. [With explanations in Latin, French, and Dutch].
  • Icon durae matris in convexa [concava] superficie visae, ex capite foetus humani octo circiter a conceptione mensium, desumtae: ad objectum / ... praeparatum a ... F. Ruyschio ... delineata, & ... impressa a J. Ladmiral. [With explanations in Latin, French, and Dutch].
  • Icon durae matris in convexa [concava] superficie visae, ex capite foetus humani octo circiter a conceptione mensium, desumtae: ad objectum / ... praeparatum a ... F. Ruyschio ... delineata, & ... impressa a J. Ladmiral. [With explanations in Latin, French, and Dutch].
  • Paxillin in focal adhesions
  • Bone
  • Bone
  • Occluded capillary
  • Lymphocyte and keratocyte in corneal stroma
  • Collagen fibrils - transverse & longitudinal
  • Monocyte with organelles - TEM
  • Collagen fibrils and mast cell granules
  • Nerve fibre in the eye
  • Chondrocyte showing organelles - coloured
  • Chondrocyte showing organelles - coloured
  • Stress fibres, focal adhesions & lamellae
  • Collagen fibrils with proteoglycans
  • Posterior face of the cornea - TEM
  • Collagen damage - TEM
  • Melanocyte with disrupted actin cytoskeleton
  • Network of collagen fibrils