If you removed the bones from a human body, you would have a quivering, gelatinous mass of organs, muscles and the rest.
It can be also used to quantitatively measure volume and mass of organs during development.
Alan Koretsky (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA) discussed a number of novel uses for MRI, such as analyzing the embryonic phenotype of knockout or transgenic mice, measuring regional blood flow, determining the estimated mass of organs, and track tracing in excitable and olfactory cells.
To approximate the total mass of body tissue subjected to lymphatic drainage, the masses of organs with no lymphatic capillaries (entire central nervous system, lens, cornea, bone, bone marrow, epidermis [60], [116]; ∼14 kg [117]) and the mass of blood (∼5 kg) were first subtracted from 70-kg total body mass.
Following sacrifice, mice were weighed and dissected to determine masses of organs that have potential relevance for exercise physiology.
Assuming human tissue concentrations similar to these rat concentrations, and using the mass of human organs (Lentner et al, 1981), the total quantity of VEGF in each organ was predicted as 1.8 μg in heart, 6.7 μg in liver, 30.6 μg in lungs, 2.4 μg in kidney and 14.6 μg in brain.
Under the practiced knife of Dr. Brian Stacy, a veterinary pathologist who estimates that he has dissected close to 1,000 turtles over the course of his career, the specimen began to reveal its secrets: First, as the breastplate was lifted away, a mass of shriveled organs in the puddle of stinking red liquid that is produced as decomposition advances.
Her planned follow-up to It's Easier to Raise Cattle will be a dark comedy involving the penanggalan, a blood-drinking creature with a floating head and a trailing mass of internal organs.
The wet mass of the organs were immediately weighed using a digital balance.
In G. sanguineum, however, the main factors affecting the mass of storage organs were 'year' and 'season' (Table 3; Fig. 2).
Ultimately, however, the essential muscle mass of vital organs will also be reduced and, in combination with underused peripheral skeletal muscle, results in muscle weakness and functional disability [ 12, 13].
