After the failing heart was harvested from the thorax, it was heterotopically transplanted into the abdomen of an age-matched syngeneic recipient as described previously for 4 weeks.
Although propagated, wave-like output is a property of the entire thoracic and abdominal network and turns are a property of the thorax, it is not clear which part of the system is responsible for the pause, or whether it depends on a fluctuating property of the whole network, such as the level of excitation.
Then I scanned all three of them, just to show them how fast it was -- you put the device right on your thorax and it only takes about two minutes to do the test.
Intrathoracic pressure may be effectively lower than the pressure of the surrounding water, in which case more blood will be shifted into the thorax, or it may be effectively greater, resulting in less intrathoracic blood volume.
This, however, is the first commercial use of standard photos to measure your appendages and thorax and it's an impressive step forward in the world of custom clothing.
In this study, the truncation was only present on the reverse side of the thorax and it was far from the heart even for the worst-case scenario.
However, it shows a decreasing pattern of expression from 24 to 72 hours post-pupation in both races of Heliconius (this pattern is not observed for thorax) indicating it may possibly have a more specialised role in butterfly wing development.
To analyze honeybees'orienting response caused by only sounds, but not by odor or vibrations sensed by its legs, we constructed a flight simulator [27], [28] (Fig. 1) in which a honeybee was attached to a torque meter (Suzuko SH-002S) with its head and thorax fixed, allowed it to control its yaw torque to locate sound sources.
Oviposition by Aphidius ervi, and aphidiine parasitoids in general, is extraordinary in its speed; the parasitoid faces the aphid, coils its abdomen underneath its head and thorax so that it too faces forward, and appears to strike the aphid with the ovipositor at the tip of its abdomen, generally laying an egg in that instant.
The coroner later determined that Thomas died from mechanical compression of the thorax, which made it impossible for him to breathe normally and deprived his brain of oxygen.
However, insects with indirect flight have muscles that attach to the thorax and deform it; since the wings are extensions of the thoracic exoskeleton, the deformations of the thorax cause the wings to move as well.
