The present study analyzed the location and number of the diaphysial nutrient foramina in six long bones of adult human skeletons of unknown age and sex from a statistical view point. The diaphysial nutrient foramina in the humerus, are located at between 50 and 65% of the total length; in the radius and ulna, at between 25 and 50%; in the femur, at between 25 and 58%; in the tibia, at between 30 and 40%; and in the fibula at between 35 and 67%, i.e. the middle third of the bone. Also studied were the anatomical position and number of the diaphysial nutrient foramina in each bone.

The relations between the saccus lacrimalis and different portions of the musculus orbicularis oculi were studied in orbital regions of human fetuses sectioned into numbered series. No insertions of the pars lacrimalis or Horner’s muscle on the saccus were found. These muscular fibres pass along the dorsal wall of the saccus and are separated from it by the reflex tendon of the ligamentum palpebrale mediale. The only muscular fibres that insert on the saccus are those that approach the anterior face of the saccus and the fornix. The fibres that insert on the anterior face proceed from the deep bundles of the pars preseptalis of the lower eyelids, and those that insert on the fornix derive from the deep bundles of the pars preseptalis of the upper eyelid.

In the present study we have investigated somatostatin binding to cytosol of gastric (fundic and antral) mucosa from rabbits subjected to short or long periods of starvation and from fasted refed rabbits. In addition, gastric somatostatin concentrations were studied in both conditions.

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