M Beuerlein
University of Alberta
5 Papers
41 Citations
M Beuerlein is an academic researcher from University of Alberta. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pinealectomy & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 5 publications.
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Pineal transplantation after pinealectomy in young chickens has no effect on the development of scoliosis.
TL;DR: Neither transplantation of the pineal gland into the body wall musculature nor simple cutting of the Pineal stalk was able to maintain normal levels of serum melatonin because both procedures reduced levels to nearly zero.
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The critical stage of pinealectomy surgery after which scoliosis is produced in young chickens.
M Beuerlein,J Wilson,Marc Moreau,V.J. Raso,J Mahood,Xiaoping Wang,B.J. Greenhill,Keith M. Bagnall +7 more
TL;DR: Cutting the pineal stalk was identified as the critical stage of pinealectomy surgery after which scoliosis may develop, and this stage was also correlated with the significant reduction of average serum melatonin levels.
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Development of scoliosis following pinealectomy in young chickens is not the result of an artifact of the surgical procedure.
TL;DR: The pinealectomy model in young chickens is proving to be a good model for studying AIS in humans and an understanding of the mechanism underlying this phenomenon has the potential to provide further insights into the etiology of AIS and can lead to the development of novel treatment methods.
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Changes in alignment of the scoliotic spine in response to lateral bending.
TL;DR: Lateral bending does not improve axial rotation in severe scoliosis (scoliosis for which surgical correction is advised) and Structural changes including disc and vertebral wedging may be responsible for the lack of rotational correction of the scoliotic spine.
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The development of scoliosis following pinealectomy in two species of chicken with different growth rates
TL;DR: Study design Eighty newly-hatched White leghorn and forty-two newlyhatched Mountain Hubbard chickens were divided equally into control and experimental groups and the experimental chickens underwent pinealectomy.