Omphalocele is one of the most common congenital defects in the anterior abdominal wall.
The malformation is associated with various pathologies especially with chromosomal …

Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) affects approximately 40% of elderly women, characterized by
the descent of the pelvic organs into the vaginal cavity. Here we present the results of a …

Abstract Background/Purpose The increasing prevalence of abdominal wall defects
prompted analysis of anomalies associated with gastroschisis and omphalocele in the …

The ventral body wall (VBW) that encloses the thoracic and abdominal cavities arises by
extensive cell movements and morphogenetic changes during embryonic development …

The mammalian genome contains two ERK/MAP kinase genes, Mek1 and Mek2, which
encode dual-specificity kinases responsible for ERK/MAP kinase activation. In order to …

The closure of the embryonic ventral body wall in amniotes is an important morphogenetic
event and is essential for life. Defects in human ventral wall closure are a major class of birth …

Human omphalocele is a congenital defect of the abdominal wall in which the secondary
abdominal wall structures (muscle and connective tissue) in an area centered around the …

Nine thousand two hundred eighty abnormalities associated with 2,943 abdominal wall
defects (AWD) encoded from 1999 to 2008 by the Texas Birth Defects Registry (TBDR) were …

Background Dermatan sulfate (DS) is a highly sulfated polysaccharide with a variety of
biological functions in extracellular matrix organization and processes such as …

The actin-, myosin-, and calmodulin-binding protein caldesmon (CaD) is expressed in two
splice isoforms: h-CaD, which is an integral part of the actomyosin domain of smooth muscle …