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Origins of spondyloarthropathy in Perissodactyla.

OBJECTIVE: Spondyloarthropathy has clearly been documented as not limited in occurrence to humans. Transmammalian in nature, it is of interest to understand the antiquity, and perhaps the origins, of this disorder in animal groups sufficiently…

"Like a virgin": Absence of rheumatoid arthritis and treponematosis, good sanitation and only rare gout in Italy prior to the 15th century.

OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to test several hypotheses: 1. That rheumatoid arthritis and syphilis were New World diseases, only transmitted to the Old World subsequent to the passages of Christopher Columbus; 2. To indirectly test the…

Tags: *Fossils, 2004, Ancient, Arthritis, Coppa A, Gout/epidemiology/*history, History, Humans, Italy, Medieval, Petrone P P, Reumatismo, Rheumatoid/*history, Rothschild B M, Sanitation/*history/standards, Treponemal Infections/*history

Frequency of pathology in a large natural sample from Natural Trap Cave with special remarks on erosive disease in the Pleistocene.

Population data are presented for erosive arthritis, osteoarthritis, diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH), joint eburnation and dental injury in a fauna from Natural Trap Cave, Wyoming, represented by over thirty thousand bones from…

Tags: *Fossils, *Mammals, *Rheumatic Diseases/pathology/veterinary, 2003, Ancient, Animals, Bone and Bones/*pathology, History, Martin L D, Osteoarthritis/history/pathology/veterinary, Paleodontology, Paleopathology, Reumatismo, Rothschild B M

Thermodynamic resolution of periosteal reaction and taphonomic change.

New bone formation (e.g., periosteal reaction) is one component of bone and joint disease diagnosis. Its application in the archeologic record has been compromised by lack of standardization. An objective technique for validating observations seems…

Tags: *Fossils, *Thermodynamics, 2003, Biological, Bone Remodeling, Entropy, Hot Temperature, Humans, Models, Osteoarthritis/pathology, Paleopathology/*methods, Periosteum/*pathology, Reumatismo, Rothschild B M, Rothschild C

Anthracobunids from the middle eocene of India and pakistan are stem perissodactyls.

Anthracobunidae is an Eocene family of large mammals from south Asia that is commonly considered to be part of the radiation that gave rise to elephants (proboscideans) and sea cows (sirenians). We describe a new collection of anthracobunid fossils…

Tags: *Fossils, 2014, Animals, Bajpai Sunil, Clementz Mark, Cooper Lisa Noelle, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Dugong, Elephants, Hussain S Taseer, India, Madar Sandra I, NEOMED College of Medicine, Pakistan, PloS one, Seiffert Erik R, Thewissen J G M

Equatorius: a new hominoid genus from the Middle Miocene of Kenya.

A partial hominoid skeleton just older than 15 million years from sediments in the Tugen Hills of north central Kenya mandates a revision of the hominoid genus Kenyapithecus, a possible early member of the great ape-human clade. The Tugen Hills…

A dinosaurian facial deformity and the first occurrence of ameloblastoma in the fossil record.

Despite documentation of various types of neoplastic pathologies encountered in the vertebrate fossil record, no ameloblastic tumours have been recognised so far. Ameloblastoma is a benign neoplasic tumour with a strong preponderance for the…

Tags: *Dinosaurs, *Fossils, 2016, Acheson Katharine A, Ameloblastoma/diagnosis/pathology/*veterinary, Andrei Razvan A, Animals, Codrea Vlad A, Csiki-Sava Zoltan, Dumbrava Mihai D, Mandible/*pathology, Mandibular Neoplasms/diagnosis/pathology/*veterinary, Romania, Rothschild Bruce M, Scientific reports, Weishampel David B

Eocene evolution of whale hearing.

The origin of whales (order Cetacea) is one of the best-documented examples of macroevolutionary change in vertebrates. As the earliest whales became obligately marine, all of their organ systems adapted to the new environment. The fossil record…

Skeletons of terrestrial cetaceans and the relationship of whales to artiodactyls.

Modern members of the mammalian order Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises) are obligate aquatic swimmers that are highly distinctive in morphology, lacking hair and hind limbs, and having flippers, flukes, and a streamlined body. Eocene fossils…

Tags: *Biological Evolution, *Fossils, 2001, Animals, Bone and Bones/*anatomy & histology, Cetacea/anatomy & histology/*classification, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Hussain S T, Nature, NEOMED College of Medicine, Phylogeny, Roe L J, Skeleton, Thewissen J G, Whales/anatomy & histology/*classification, Williams E M

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