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Human epiglottal epithelia development- award plaque ARCA

Special collections of human material are of the great importance for basic biomedical research and clinical applications. This investigation was done using the celoidine Collection of human embryos from the Archive of the Department of Histology and Embryology, School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Croatia. So far unknown development of the human epiglottal epithelium during the prenatal and postnatal period of life was investigated. After birth, epithelium changes from ciliated pseudostratified epithelium to the more robust stratified squamous epithelium which is probably connected to the establishment of the air-flow. Results of such fundamental research are of importance for contemporaneous surgical reconstructions within the field of regenerative medicine.

epiglottis; human; epithelium; development

Nagrada plaketa ARCA (Arca 2008 - 6. međunarodni sajam inovacija, novih ideja, proizvoda i tehnologija, Zagreb) za ideju korištenja postojećih zbirki humanih zametaka i tkiva za istraživanja u regenerativnoj medicini dodijeljena je istraživačima Zavoda za histologiju i embriologiju i Zavoda za biologiju Medicinskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu.