Pycnodysostosis is a rare autosomal recessive skeletal dysplasia caused by the absence of
active cathepsin K, which is a lysosomal cysteine protease that plays a role in degrading the …

Cranial sutures are narrow mesenchymal tissues that connect skull bones to each other.
Given that they serve as growth centers in the skull, these undifferentiated tissues play …

BACKGROUND: Traditional views of the human cranial vault are facing challenges as
researchers find that the complex details of its development do not always match previous …

The maturation of mammalian carnivores from a lactating juvenile to a predatory adult
requires a suite of changes in both morphology and behaviour. Bobcats (Lynx rufus …

Interosseous sutures exhibit highly variable patterns of interdigitation and corrugation.
Recent research has identified fundamental molecular mechanisms of suture formation, and …

There have been a number of studies on strain across craniofacial sutures in the past two
decades, especially the work on pigs in Herring's lab (Herring and Mucci, 1991; Herring …

Objectives Morphological variation in cranial sutures is used to infer aspects of primate
feeding behavior, including diet, but strain regimes across sutures are not well documented …

The order in which ectocranial sutures undergo fusion displays species‐specific variation
among primates. However, the precise relationship between suture closure and …

Cranial sutures are fibrous connective tissue articulations found between intramembranous
bones of the vertebrate cranium. Growth and remodeling of these tissues is partially …

Research has shown that Pan and Homo have similar ectocranial suture synostosis patterns
possibly because of their phylogenetic relationship. However, unlike human data, it is …