(a.) Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
(a.) Lying against anything, as one part of a leaf against another leaf.
(n.) One who reclines at table.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, dopamine turnover (as determined by measuring the rate of decline of dopamine after alpha-methyl-p-tyrosine treatment) was not significantly different in the two accumbal sectors.
(2) These results suggest that the hippocampo-accumbal pathway may play an important role in the development of the sensitization.
(3) The accumbal cell cluster compartment, on the other hand, appears to be a separate entity, with connectional and neurochemical features that are dissimilar to both patch and matrix of neostriatum.
(4) The present data indicate that the neurotensin immunoreactivity-rich ventromedial district of ventral pallidum receives its accumbal input almost exclusively from the shell district of the nucleus accumbens.
(5) Relative to the core and neostriatum, a significantly greater proportion of the tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactive innervation of the accumbal shell consisted of thin fiber and small bouton profiles.
(6) The accumbal core, alternatively, projects to the dorsolateral ventral pallidal subterritory that lacks appreciable neurotensin immunoreactivity and in many other respects more resembles the adjoining striatopallidal components of the caudate-putamen.
(7) This impairment was dose-dependent (Experiment 2) and mediated by opioid receptors in the accumbens nucleus, because it was removed by a systemic (Experiment 3a) or by an accumbal (Experiment 3b) infusion of naloxone.
(8) The contralateral of the DH, CN, the accumbent nucleus (AN) and the globus pallidus (GP) were tested for reproducibility of the instrumental movement.
(9) The locomotor response to a higher dose of AMPA (0.5 microgram) was greater than the maximum response to intra-accumbal injection of amphetamine and was significantly inhibited only when both the D1 and D2 antagonists were administered together.
(10) ORG 2766 was effective after intra-accumbal, subcutaneous and oral administration.
(11) The isla magna itself is unusual not only for its large size but for lateral extensions encircling a group of accumbal neurons far caudally.
(12) Our results indicate that the nicotine-induced hyperlocomotion may arise primarily from activation of VTA nicotinic cholinoceptors (nAchRs), whereas activation of the accumbal nAchRs is less significant in regard to this effect.
(13) The hyperactivity induced by injection of the dopamine (DA) agonist apomorphine into the nucleus accumbens of rats was dose dependently inhibited by intra-accumbal pretreatment with cholecystokinin (CCK-8) (ED50, 0.34 ng).
(14) Rats with 6-OHDA lesions in the nucleus accumbens which were treated intra-accumbally with control serum during the first week following the lesion showed a similar level of motor activity 3 weeks after the lesion as sham-lesioned rats treated with control serum.
(15) It is proposed that the neuroanatomical asymmetry is in either accumbal efferents or their postsynaptic connections.
(16) The accumbal shell, its exclusive projection to the ventromedial subterritory in the subcommissural ventral pallidum, and the previously reported, almost exclusive projection of that pallidal subdistrict to the mesencephalic ventral tegmental area are discussed in terms of a number of other neurochemical and hodological features that serve to distinguish them sufficiently to suggest that they represent a uniquely specialized part of the basal ganglia.
(17) These power spectra are used to sort for the AEP when certain power values for the (36-42Hz) and the (11-16Hz) are reached in the prestimulus period of the sensory motor cortex, nucleus accumbers and amygdala.
(18) The effects of bilateral intra-accumbal and intrastriatal injections of CCK-8 sulphate and its analogue, caerulein, on apomorphine-induced jaw movements were studied in ketamine-anaesthetized rats after C1 spinal transection.
(19) In the accumbal ICC, satellite neurons are most conspicuous in granule-cell-poor spaces within the isla magna, where many non-granular neurons are uncharacteristically small and chromophobic.
(20) Functional recovery from motor hypoactivity of rats with 6-OHDA lesions in the nucleus accumbens is accelerated by intra-accumbal or subcutaneous treatment with the ACTH-(4-9) analog ORG 2766.
Reclining
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recline
(a.) Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular.
(a.) Recumbent.
Example Sentences:
(1) All examinations were performed during winter on reclined relaxed subjects present for at least 10 min in a test room with controlled temperature and relative humidity (t degrees: 19.5-20.7 degrees C and RH: 47.3-60.3%).
(2) 50 min after each subject had consumed an amount of water equal to 1% of his body weight, he reclined on a cot.
(3) Surface electrodes measured electromyographic activity of the low-back extensor, hip adductor and ankle plantar-flexor muscles when the body was at 0 degree (upright) and 30 degrees (recline) relative to the vertical.
(4) The short-term antiorthostatic position was associated with a disordered hormonal control, reduced plasma aldosterone and enhanced plasma renin activity, as compared to the respective parameters of the reclining position.
(5) Patients scoring high on the Pain Control and Rational Thinking factor of the CSQ were much less functionally impaired, walked a 5 m course more rapidly and moved from a standing to a sitting or reclining position more quickly than patients scoring low on this factor.
(6) There are smaller innovations whose simplicity prompts the question of why they weren't introduced earlier: holders for cups separate from the pull-down meal trays, and a reclining function that pushes your backside and legs forward rather than thrusting the back of your chair into the face of the person behind.
(7) The Cat reclined on a pile of mattresses in his tent.
(8) I would recline back and listen to music, and read the paper or a book I thought would impress her.
(9) The patients were examined in reclined position, the head retroflected.
(10) In contrast, a backrest-only recline of 20 degrees causes a 25% increase in the surface shear force.
(11) The scapular region is from 1 to 2 deg F hotter than the sacral region for subjects reclining on Mylar.
(12) Specific changes were detected in the gel patterns which could be correlated with the loss of muscle function as measured by the exhaustion score (the ability of chicks to rise from a reclining position) in three experimental groups (exhaustion scores: less than 3, 10-20, greater than 30).
(13) The enormous amounts of activity in the subjects required the detector to be positioned at a height of 2.05 m. Subjects were required to wear disposable clothing and lie on a reclining, fiberglass chair.
(14) Small amounts of water and taste solutions were applied to the posterior tongue of the subject as he reclined on a dental chair.
(15) Within the limitations of the study (no counterbalancing of order and twice as many ABPM measures as watch measures), we found significant differences in frequency of being at home or in miscellaneous settings, in standing and reclining positions, and in mental, physical and miscellaneous activities between the two occasions.
(16) Subjects were seated reclining 30 degrees from upright, and respiratory muscle weakness was produced by pancuronium bromide until RC inspiratory capacity was decreased to 60% of control.
(17) To determine whether the left space that is neglected after right hemisphere lesions is body centered or environment centered, we asked patients with right hemisphere stroke and normal controls to report the contents of spatial arrays of objects or words, either while seated or while reclining on their side.
(18) Six young males, resting in a dorsal reclining position, were exposed successively to a thermoneutral environment (30 min), a cold environment (1 degrees C; cold) or thermoneutrality (control) for 120 min, and during a 60-min recovery period in thermoneutral conditions.
(19) Then, they exercised using a bicycle ergometer in a semi-reclining position for 45 min at 40% of maximal oxygen uptake.
(20) However, Rupert Murdoch was sitting in the editor’s chair while Larry reclined on the settee the other side of the room.