(n.) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
(n.) A grapestone.
(n.) One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland.
Example Sentences:
(1) In castrates, the prostatic stroma became thickened, with a large increase in fibrous material between and surrounding each acinus, although smooth muscle cells retained their normal cytology.
(2) In 60 consecutive patients clinically suspected of having chronic pancreatitis the serum concentration of the immunoglobulins (IgA, IgG, IgM), the IgG- and IgA-type non-organ-specific autoantibodies against nuclear material (ANA), smooth and striated muscle, mitochondria, basal membrane, and reticulin, and the IgG- and IgA-type pancreas-specific antibodies against islet cells, acinus cells, and ductal cells (DA) were estimated blindly.
(3) The summation of findings suggests that endogenous substance P plays a complementary role in the regulation of parasympathetic nerve-induced fluid secretion in the acinus but is minimally involved in degranulation from granular duct cells.
(4) Only a single salivary acinus was found infected in 16.6% of the infected ticks, about 70% had up to 10 infected acini while only about 10% had over 25 infected acini per tick.
(5) These results suggest that functional catalytic activity of cytochrome P-450IIE1 is preferentially localized in the pericentral zone of the liver acinus, and that most of the induction by pyrazole of P-450IIE1 appears to occur within the pericentral zone.
(6) In adult liver there was a heterogeneous distribution of cytochrome P450IA immunoreactivity with cytochrome P450IA mainly present in zone 3 hepatocytes of the liver acinus.
(7) Microdissection studies showed that PKL lost its normal perivenous to periportal gradient after partial hepatectomy and became evenly distributed within the liver acinus.
(8) The development of a new method to isolate hepatocytes originating from the proximal or distal half of the liver acinus enabled the measurement of total cytochrome P-450 content and of cytochromes P-450b and P-450e mRNAs in these hepatocytes.
(9) These results indicated that there is modulation of the expression of the cytochromes P-450b and P-450e genes within the hepatic acinus.
(10) The alveoli in each acinus were reduced in size and, in some cases, number--although their stage of differentiation was normal for age--pointing to a disturbance of growth during later fetal life also.
(11) Monoclonal antibodies against PR and ER were mainly located in the epithelium of the excretory duct and granular convoluted tubule, but not in the acinus.
(12) Clofibrate induced the activities of carnitine acetyltransferase (90-fold), carnitine palmitoyltransferase (3-fold) and NADP-linked malic enzyme (3-fold) to the same level in periportal as in perivenous hepatocytes, suggesting that these enzymes were induced uniformly throughout the liver acinus.
(13) We have optimized a cerium-diaminobenzidine-based method for histochemical analysis of glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase) activity and have determined quantitative data on the zonal distribution pattern in the liver acinus of fasted male rats.
(14) Hepatocytes in the perivenous zone immediately adjacent to the hepatic venules in the liver acinus are positive for GS.
(15) The preacinar cells were occasionally observed at the site between acinus and intercalated duct.
(16) Thus, in the intact pancreas, acinar cells intercommunicate extensively within each acinus under resting conditions and reduce their coupling during stimulation.
(17) cells, but the microsomal GST and cytosolic GR were found to be evenly distributed in the acinus.
(18) Numerous micromorphological differences and resemblances between rabbit and cat were found: Acinus 1.
(19) In the mammalian liver the distribution of ammonia-detoxifying enzymes, glutamine synthetase (GS) and carbamoylphosphate synthase I (ammonia) (CPS-I), is mutually exclusive in that these enzymes are expressed in two distinct populations of hepatocytes that are zonally demarcated in the liver acinus.
(20) During their voyage, they traverse the three acinus zones, and since in each they produce different enzymes, each zone represents a differentiation state of the advancing cell.
Blackberry
Definition:
(n.) The fruit of several species of bramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R. villosus and R. Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Android’s gain came mainly at the expense of BlackBerry, which saw its global smartphone share dip from 4 percent to 1 percent in the past year due to a weak line-up of BB10 devices," said Strategy Analytics' senior analyst Scott Bicheno.
(2) My unreliable BlackBerry was hurting business," she said.
(3) According to shareholder Marvin Pearlstein, in a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Manhattan on Friday, the Canadian-based BlackBerry, formerly Research In Motion Ltd, misled investors last year by saying the company was "progressing on its financial and operational commitments," and that previews of its BlackBerry 10 platform had been well received by developers.
(4) Amid such confused thinking, it is hardly surprising that the Home Office was indicating yesterday that there would be no dramatic shift in government policy in the light of today's meeting between Theresa May, the home secretary, and representatives from Twitter, Facebook and Research in Motion, the BlackBerry maker.
(5) Place the blackberries in a bowl and scatter over the caster sugar and orange zest.
(6) "In reality, the BlackBerry 10 was not well received by the market, and the company was forced to … lay off approximately 4,500 employees, totaling approximately 40% of its total workforce," the complaint alleges.
(7) From today we are BlackBerry everywhere in the world.
(8) BlackBerry will burn through most of its cash in the next 18 months, a senior independent analyst has warned, leaving the smartphone maker with "material liquidity problems".
(9) 3.48pm GMT Security Once your phone is hooked up to the company email via the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) secure network that BlackBerry supplies to businesses, you can use the BlackBerry Balance feature, which separates personal and work functions.
(10) The likes of almond, blackberry and crocus first made way for analogue, block graph and celebrity in the Oxford Junior Dictionary in 2007, with protests at the time around the loss of a host of religious words such as bishop, saint and sin.
(11) The trust said records suggested this year had yielded the best crops of autumn fruit and berries – particularly blackberries, rowan berries and elderberries – since it began the "citizen science" project 12 years ago.
(12) Hampshire police on Wednesday arrested three people on suspicion of using Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger to incite violent disorder in Southampton.
(13) Reports from inside the country said state-owned phone operator Saudi Telecom had rolled out blockages of some BlackBerry messaging services.
(14) With over 50,000 apps and more than 1bn downloads, it is hardly surprising that Blackberry, Nokia, Microsoft and Google have all now jumped on the app emporium bandwagon.
(15) The BlackBerry enterprise solution was designed to preclude RIM, or any third party, from reading encrypted information under any circumstances since RIM does not store or have access to the encrypted data.
(16) One thing we missed out on was that Justin Bieber wanted to rep BlackBerry .
(17) Saudi officials told local television the region's most populous nation would follow by blocking instant messaging on the BlackBerry from October.
(18) We saw what happened to Nokia and BlackBerry and Motorola.
(19) You have CEOs of major companies who whip out their BlackBerrys because of the keyboard.
(20) BlackBerry started out as a provider of secure email and communications for large “enterprise” businesses, before entering the consumer market, which has seen its profits slide as companies like Apple and Samsung proved too strong a competition.