The distance of the resected tissue from the anatomical gastro-oesophageal junction was determined and the sample was immediately frozen and stored at −70°C until analysed.
All patients diagnosed with primary metastatic cancer of the rectum or rectosigmoid junction (anatomical tumour location C19 C20, according to the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology ICD-O-3 [ 14]) from 1992 to 2008 in the registration area of the ECR were included (n = 1,319).
Volume measures were taken using an anatomical landmark (metaphyseal-diaphyseal junction of the humerus) as our starting point and assayed the six 1 cm slices proximal to it.
As a result of anatomical constraints, the lumbosacral junction is not accessible through a far lateral approach necessitating the use of an alternate technique.
Neurons in the BLA are highly interconnected via gap junctions, and anatomical studies have shown that interneurons, in particular, are interconnected by both dendritic and axo-axonic gap junctions at terminals (Muller et al., 2005).
Despite the extremely large surface area of the 100 billion capillaries contained in the human brain (approximately 20 m2), the permeability of many substances is low because of the dense anatomical structure of tight junctions between endothelial cells around the capillaries in the central nervous system (CNS).
The anatomical definition of the rectosigmoid junction is based on haustrations.
Insertion of a nasogastric tube is recommended in the initial resuscitation of a tension gastrothorax [1], but its placement might be difficult or impossible due to the anatomical change of the gastroesophageal junction [2, 4, 5].
Suberin in the cell wall, casparian strips, Zn sequestration in cytoplasm and vacuoles, and anatomical variations in root-shoot junction are some of the root-to-shoot barriers for Zn transport (Yamaguchi et al. 2012; Yamaji et al. 2013).
