Genomic DNA was extracted from tumor and control nonneoplastic tissues after microdissection from 5-μm sections of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue as described previously (27). LOH of ...

The appendix or vermiform appendix is a muscular structure attached to the large intestine in the human body. It is a narrow tube resembling a worm and is named after the Latin word "vermiform" which ...

Is there a more maligned human anatomic structure than the vermiform appendix? Since Charles Darwin, schoolchildren have learned to disparage it as a useless vestige of evolution with a tendency to ...

The body's appendix has long been thought of as nothing more than a worthless evolutionary artifact, good for nothing save a potentially lethal case of inflammation. Now researchers suggest the ...

The vermiform appendix - to give it its full title - is a narrow wormlike protrusion of the gut at a point where the small intestine… The vermiform appendix - to give it its full title - is a narrow ...