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Our Body: The Universe Within
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September 06 - January 10
Afimall City 
 Our Body: The Universe Within gives you insight to the inside! Get a true look at the inner workings of the extraordinary human body. This incredible exhibition has been educating and fascinating people the world over! Don't miss it when Our Body: The Universe Within comes to Moscow Vetoshny Center.
Our Body: The Universe Within is a once in a lifetime opportunity for the perpetually inquisitive to explore the wonders of the human body. A beautiful and inspiring tribute to who we are. This extraordinary exhibition was designed to educate, enlighten, and allow all who attend to understand the complexities of pur body. Visitors to Our Body: The Universe Within will journey through a fascinating tour of the human body as a whole, then taken through each of the bodies systems to see first hand how each functions and relates to one another. Our Body: The Universe Within exhibit does contain actual human bodies, with eyes and genitals intact. There is also a section about the urinary and reproductive system, with specimens pertaining to those areas. The exhibit is recommended for children age 12 and older. Parental discretion is advised.
Our Body: The Universe Within is a fascinating, artful and educational exhibit consisting of actual human bodies and organs. Appropriate for all ages, this exhibit literally goes "under the skin," revealing the mysteries of the human anatomy. The bodies, specimens and organs have been preserved using a process known as polymer impregnation. Our Body: The Universe Within allows you the insight to the inside: giving one a true look at the inner workings of the extraordinary human body. As you enter the exhibit, you will have the opportunity to examine the human body as a whole. Continuing throughout the exhibit, you will journey through each of the body's major systems allowing you to see first hand how they function and relate to other systems.
The exhibits will be quite impressive. The musculoskeletal displays will be quite note worthy, but nothing came close to the amazing circulatory and respiratory displays. The preservation of the entire circulatory system less any other tissue around it will be amazing.
One from exciting elements of the exhibit will be the posing of the bodies in everyday positions such as reading the paper and riding a bike. The pose that is the most disturbing will be the individual holding his own skin on a hanger as though it were a suit.
"Your body is your shrine and this is your chance to learn more about that shrine," said Professor Enhua Yu of Beijing University. "Our Body: The Universe Within provides a precious opportunity to see for oneself the very delicate structures both inside and outside the human body."
Visitors will be able to explore the body parts that allow them to think, breathe, and move, as well as the "freeways" that circulate the blood. The process by which the specimens were preserved is called polymer impregnation. This is a relatively new method of preservation whereby bodily fluids are replaced by liquid plastic, which is then hardened to create a solid, durable anatomic specimen that will last indefinitely. Most importantly, the process leaves even the finest, most delicate tissue structures virtually intact, down to the microscopic sphere. Prior to the invention of polymer impregnation, the only method for the preservation of cadavers for medical study was storage in formaldehyde. Polymer impregnation results in specimens that are not only versatile and easy to handle, but that are also truly authentic.
 Visitors to Our Body: The Universe Within will be introduced first to the human body as a whole, and then taken through each of the body's major systems to see how each functions and relates to other systems. First up is the frame that holds a person together - the musculoskeletal system - using a body in simulated motion to demonstrate how various muscle groups work together to keep a body in motion. From there, one will see the central nervous system, with the brain as the "control room" from which all motor impulses flow. Exhibits on the digestive and respiratory systems show how a person eats and breathes, while cardiovascular displays show the intricate system that carries blood from the heart through the arteries and back to the heart through the veins.
Introduction to the Human Body
The human body is composed of many organs and glands that work together in body systems. Each system relies on the others to function. The brain serves as the control center for all of the systems. It is important to understand the primary function of each system and how they all work together.
How do humans move? The answer can be found in the musculoskeletal system, which is a combination of the body's muscles and skeleton. What exactly are muscles? Muscles are made up of cells that contract and relax back to their original size. Tiny microscopic fibers in these cells slide past each other. These movements require a lot of energy, which comes from the chemicals found in the food you eat. Without food and specific nutrients, your muscles wouldn't be able to make the energy they need to contract. Some muscles are known as voluntary, which means that they require conscious effort in order to be moved. Other muscles, like the ones in your heart, move automatically. This is called involuntary movement, and is controlled by your brain.
Your brain and spinal cord make up your central nervous system. Together, they control your body - but it is the brain that is commander-in-chief. So what is a brain? The human brain is wrinkled, soft and a little wet. It doesn't look like much, but it is made of more than 10 billion nerve cells and over 50 billion other cells. It weighs less than 3 pounds. It monitors and regulates unconscious bodily processes like breathing and heart rate, and coordinates most voluntary movement. Can you think of any movements or bodily processes that are both automatic as well as voluntary? Need a hint? Take a deep breath. You have just controlled your breathing by sending a message from your brain to the muscles that control the lungs. Do you always have to think about breathing? No - your brain controls your breathing without you thinking about it.
The peripheral nervous system is the network of nerves that pass messages back and forth from the central nervous system to the other parts of the body. What are nerves? They're the thin threads of nerve cells, called neurons, that run throughout your body. Bundled together, they carry messages back and forth just the way that telephone wires do. Sensory nerves send messages to the brain and generally connect to the brain through the spinal cord inside your backbone. Motor nerves carry messages back from the brain to all the muscles and glands in your body.
What do we need to make those muscles work? The answer: chemical energy and nutrients from the food we eat. Changing food into energy is the job of the digestive system. Digestion begins with your first bite. By chewing, your mouth breaks down larger pieces into smaller one and mixes your food with chemicals in your saliva to make them even smaller. Your tongue then pushes the food to the back of your throat. Next, the food travels down your esophagus, with some help from your muscles, until it reaches the stomach. Once in the stomach, the food is mixed with stomach acid and is sloshed around by muscle contractions, breaking the food into even smaller pieces. The small pieces of food travel into the small intestine, where nutrients are absorbed and transported to the bloodstream. Any leftovers in the small intestine move into the large intestine. The leftovers are about 1/3 of its original size when they enter the intestines. The drier leftovers are now brown and expelled through the anus. You know the rest!
 That was a long trip! Now let's take a deep breath and discuss the respiratory system. All the cells in your body require oxygen. Without it, they wouldn't be able to move, build, reproduce, and turn food into energy. How do you breathe? You breathe with the help of your diaphragm and other muscles in your chest and abdomen. When your diaphragm pulls down, it leaves a space for your lungs to expand into and changes the air pressure within the lungs. When the air pressure is greater outside, air moves in to the lungs or you inhale. When your diaphragm relaxes, the cavity in which your lungs expand and contract gets smaller and the air is pushed up and out of your body.
The nose is where it all starts. This is where the air you inhale is filtered by mucus on the nostril lining as well as by nose hairs. Then, the air flows through the windpipe, past the vocal cords and finally travels into one of the two lungs. Tubes inside the lungs, called bronchi, branch into smaller tubes with small sacs at the end. These sacs connect the respiratory system with the circulatory system. Oxygen is transported onto red blood cells and waste products like carbon dioxide are exhaled out of the body. The bloodstream that transports oxygen to all of the cells in the body is part of the cardiovascular system.
The cardiovascular or circulatory system is one of the most important systems in the human body. Made up of the heart, blood and blood vessels, the circulatory system is your body's delivery system. Blood moving from the heart delivers oxygen and nutrients to every part of the body. On the return trip, the blood picks up waste products so that your body can get rid of them. Your heart is a muscle about the size of a clenched fist. It contracts and relaxes some 70 or more times a minute while you're resting and even more when you are exercising. It squeezes and pumps blood through its chambers to all parts of the body, traveling through a pipeline of blood vessels. The tubes that carry the blood away from your heart are called arteries. These high-pressure hoses carry blood to smaller branched tubes called capillaries. The tubes that carry the blood back to the heart are called veins.
But the bloodstream doesn't just direct blood - it also carries waste products along with nutrients and oxygen. The bloodstream is filtered and cleaned by the urinary system, which removes excess water and fluids. Primarily, the kidneys are responsible for this filtering process and the production of urine. Urine is then stored in the bladder and eventually released from the body.
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