(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.
Sacculi
Definition:
(pl. ) of Sacculus
Example Sentences:
(1) The results demonstrate conclusively that >95% of the membrane in the vesicle preparations is in the form of sealed sacculi with the same polarity as the intact cell.
(2) These findings, when viewed from the standpoint of the accepted concept that optimum stimulation to the otolith organ constitutes the shearing force, account well for the supposition that forward-and-backward movement stimulates both the sacculi and utriculi, while up-and-down movement stimulates the sacculi alone.
(3) Thin-sectioned and negatively stained preparations of whole cell peptidoglycan showed compressed profiles of cell-shaped sacculi.
(4) Furthermore, the peptidoglycan chain length of Escherichia coli sacculi of different cell shapes and dimensions was determined both in rod-shaped cells and in filaments induced by temperature shift of a division mutant or by addition of cephalexin or nalidixic acid.
(5) From cells of Methanospirillum hungatii no sacculi, but tube-like sheaths could be isolated, which tend to fracture perpendicularly to the long axis of the sheath along the fibrills seen on the surface.
(6) The largest increase in area probably represents the elastic limit of the peptidoglycan and was 300% above the area of isoionic sacculi.
(7) Vestibular hair cells were isolated from the macula utriculi, macula sacculi and crista ampullaris of the guinea pig, using enzymatic and mechanical techniques.
(8) The bacteriolytic factor releases digestion products from sacculi of Escherichia coli that are different from those of hen egg white lysozyme.
(9) A neutron small-angle scattering study was performed to determine the thickness and the scattering density profile of isolated peptidoglycan sacculi of Escherichia coli W7 in aqueous suspension (D2O).
(10) At various times, labelled murein sacculi were isolated and digested with endo-N,O-acetylmuramidase from Chalaropsis.
(11) In group 2 gentamicin injection into the sac by extradural and intradural approaches often showed lesions in the maculae sacculi and to the sac from a lateral opening resulted in a similar pattern of degeneration but with less severity in comparison to the injection method.
(12) U.S.A. 75, 3148] in terms of membrane polarity, dislocation of antigens, and possible transmembrane orientation of some immunogens reveals that over 95% of the membrane in the vesicle preparations is in the form of sealed sacculi with the same orientation as the intact cell.
(13) Ultrathin sections of the isolated sacculi showed a homogenously electron dense layer of about 10--15 nm in width.
(14) On hydrolysis, the sacculi yield glucosamine, muramic acid, alanine, glutamic acid and 2,6-diaminopimelic acid, together with small amounts of lysine, and they are therefore similar to the murein sacculi of other Gram-negative organisms.
(15) Large numbers of stereocilia from bullfrog sacculi and semicircular canals were isolated by blotting onto coverglasses and were demembranated to expose the polar actin tracks of their cytoskeletal cores.
(16) Precipitates were observed around the otoconia and in the otolithic membranes of the macula sacculi and macula utriculi.
(17) The second method measures the Dap content chemically in sacculi isolated from a known number of cells.
(18) Lysozyme digestion and sonication of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-purified Klebsiella aerogenes murein sacculi resulted in the quantitative release of both subunits of nitrate reductase, as well as a number of other cytoplasmic membrane polypeptides (5.2%, by weight, of the total membrane proteins).
(19) The enzyme-substrate complex could be reconstituted in vitro by incubating pronase-treated, protein-free murein sacculi with purified lytic transglycosylase at 0 degrees C. Titration of sacculi with increasing amounts of enzyme indicated a limiting number of binding sites for about 1,000 molecules of enzyme per sacculus.
(20) Dense capillary networks of the macula utriculi and the macula sacculi were observed.