(1) The presence of prostatic invasion either into the stroma or involving prostatic ducts and acini only had no adverse effect on outcome.
(2) Acetylcholine caused a rapid decrease (42% in 1 min) in 36Cl content of control acini which were preloaded with tracer for 12 min, but only a 23% decrease in acini of reserpine-treated rats.
(3) Acini in the parotid gland of the North American mink (Mustela vision) are composed of seromucous cells that contain secretory granules of peculiar morphology.
(4) PGP 9.5 immunoreactive nerve fibers were found surrounding the acini, salivary ducts and blood vessels.
(5) The binding of 125I-labeled epidermal growth factor (EGF) was compared in acini isolated from the regenerating remnant following 90% partial pancreatectomy (ppx) and from the pancreas of sham-pancreatectomized (sham-ppx) rats.
(6) Salivary acini were enzymatically isolated from submandibular glands of adult male mice.
(7) Nerve fibers showing SP- and CGRP-LI were also observed close to the acini and ducts of the glands, in the blood vessel walls, close to the perichondrium of all the cartilages, and outside the cricothyroid and cricoarytenoid joints.
(8) In the parotid glands numerous adrenergic and cholinergic axons are found beneath the basement membrane of acini and intercalary ducts in intimate association with the cells.
(9) To analyze muscarinic receptors on rat pancreatic acini, we studied the binding of 125I-quinuclidinyl benzilate (125I-QNB) and N-[3H]-methylscopolamine ([3H]-NMS) to these acini.
(10) The compounds were tested for their antimuscarinic activities by: (a) inhibition of [N-methyl-3H]scopolamine binding to the muscarinic receptors of N4TG1 neuroblastoma cells, (b) inhibition of carbachol-induced alpha-amylase release from rat pancreas acini, and (c) blocking of acetylcholine-induced contraction of guinea pig ileum.
(11) The treatment resulted in a definitive reduction of mucosal thickness, and in a numerically significant loss of vessels and glandular acini.
(12) The extent to which protein secretion from these cells occurs in a regulated fashion was examined in experiments on secretory acini isolated from the mammary glands of lactating mice at 10 d postpartum.
(13) All areas of apocrine metaplasia were positive, as well as a few normal ducts and acini and occasional areas of adenosis.
(14) The degree of activation of the enzymes acetyl-CoA carboxylase and glycogen phosphorylase in extracts of mammary tissue and of acini was assessed as a function of these treatments.
(15) We examined the effect of cholecystokinin (CCK) on the receptors for vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) and secretin in rat pancreatic acini.
(16) When the RNAs extracted from control acini and acini treated with 100 nM insulin were translated in vitro, the proteins synthesized were quantitatively similar.
(17) At the stages 54-56, an increasing number of acini surrounded both by A and B cells was observed.
(18) All five phospholipases efficiently stimulated amylase release from dispersed rat pancreatic acini at pH 7.4, their potency decreasing as follows: Pa2 greater than Pa1 approximately equal to Pa4 greater than Pa3 approximately equal to Pa5.
(19) In parotid acini, microfilaments were predominantly localized at the luminal border when visualized with the fluorescent probe, rhodamine-phalloidin.
(20) Extension of main duct, smooth defect of posterior border of mandibular ramus, posterior displace of styloid process, and filling defect of branch ducts and acini in the pterygomandibular space were seen in deep lobe parotid tumors.
Saccule
Definition:
(n.) A little sac; specifically, the sacculus of the ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the cis-trans axis of the Golgi apparatus the following compartments were observed: (a) On the cis face there was a continuous osmiophilic tubular network referred to as the cis element; (b) a cis compartment composed of 3 or 4 NADPase-positive saccules perforated with pores in register forming wells that contained small vesicles; (c) a trans compartment composed of 1 or 2 TPPAse-positive elements underlying the NADPase ones, followed by 1 or 2 CMPase-positive elements that showed a flattened saccular part continuous with a network of anastomotic tubules.
(2) When observed, pathological lesions consisted of air sacculitis, fibrinopurulent polyserositis and ventriculitis.
(3) In the Golgi apparatus of spermatids, the cis-element, 4 or 5 underlying saccules, as well as one or two thick trans Golgi elements were G6Pase reactive.
(4) Such prosecretory granules, large and irregular in shape, "peeled off" from the stacks of saccules with residual saccular or tubular structures still attached to them, some of the latter forming trans-tubular networks.
(5) Ganglion cells innervating the posterior canal were located in the caudal part of the inferior ganglion, while those cells innervating the saccule were located in the rostral part of the inferior ganglion, scattered in the superior ganglion, and concentrated at the junction (isthmus) between the two.
(6) While no clear pattern in the association of strong NADPase activity with lysosomes was apparent relative to the ultrastructural distribution of NADPase activity in Golgi saccules or elements of the trans Golgi network, the results of this investigation suggested that cells having NADPase localized predominantly toward the trans aspect of the Golgi apparatus (in trans Golgi saccules or elements of the trans Golgi network or both) have few NADPase-positive lysosomes.
(7) In 6% the laryngeal saccules were pathologically enlarged as interne laryngoceles, in all cases in males.
(8) Separate extracellular injections were made of the anterior branch, the posterior branch, the ampullary nerve of each of the three semicircular canals, and the branch to the saccule.
(9) RER and Golgi saccules were inconspicuous in these cells and this might indicate decreased production of PRL.
(10) Our patient had anomalous configuration of lateral semicircular canal and an abnormally high location of the utricle and saccule.
(11) Although microinjected Golgi fragments were able to effect the formation of stacked saccules in vinblastine-treated oocytes, negligible transfer of heterologous material to the oocyte surface could be detected by radioautography.
(12) The opposition line does not divide each macula simply down its midline; instead, the line divides the regions with thich bundles into nearly equal opposing areas, except for a remarkably abrupt large loop in the line in the anterior part of the saccule.
(13) Labeling with a polyclonal antibody to amylase was found in the Golgi saccules, immature and mature secretory granules, but not in the trans Golgi network.
(14) These last elements consisted of prosecretory granules attached to flattened, empty-looking saccules showing buds at their surface; detached, more-or-less fenestrated, flattened saccules; and shrivelled residual trans-tubular networks.
(15) Previous studies have demonstrated the existence of acoustic responses from the saccule in guinea pigs for stimulus intensities above 75 dB SPL.
(16) The results indicate that SER-derived vesicles, containing fat droplets, migrate from the apical cytoplasm of the absorptive cell and fuse with saccules or vacuoles of the Golgi complex.
(17) Histological examination of the temporal bones showed separation of otoconia from the otolithic membrane of the saccule and bleeding in the saccule in both conditions.
(18) Sacculations of the SR extend over the A-I junctions of the myofibrils, where they make specialized contacts (diads) with the TTS.
(19) In cultured immature MK from normal progenitors, both peptide components of GPIIb-IIIa appeared in the Golgi saccules and vesicles, and in the small precursors of alpha-granules, labeling both their membranes and their matrix.
(20) After 15 min, CF particles were seen in many small vesicles near the Golgi apparatus, but not in the Golgi saccules.