What's the difference between acinus and fruit?

Acinus


Definition:

  • (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.

Fruit


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural.
  • (v. t.) The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.
  • (v. t.) The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.
  • (v. t.) The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.
  • (v. t.) The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.
  • (v. t.) That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance.
  • (v. i.) To bear fruit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The recent rise in manufacturing has been welcomed by George Osborne as a sign that his economic policies are bearing fruit.
  • (2) 4) Parents imagined that fruit drinks, carbonated beverages and beverages with lactic acid promoted tooth decay.
  • (3) Severe fruit rot of guava due to Phytophthora nicotianae var.
  • (4) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
  • (5) Fruiting revertants of these strains accumulate wild-type levels of alpha-mannosidase-1 activity, suggesting that both the enzymatic and morphological defects are caused by single mutations in nonstructural genes essential for early development.
  • (6) Further evidence showing that the fruit of the black nightshade contains acetylcholine was obtained by chromatographic separation of the aqueous extract.
  • (7) Strong positive associations were found in both sexes for low fruit and vegetable consumption, high intake of salted meat and "mate" ingestion.
  • (8) We therefore surveyed patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) regarding early adult consumption of fruits and vegetables usually eaten raw, with seeds that are swallowed or scraped with the teeth.
  • (9) Phil Barlow Nottingham • Reading about the problems caused by a lack of toilets reminded me of the harvest camps my father’s Birmingham school organised in the Vale of Evesham during the war, where the sixth-formers spent weeks picking fruit and vegetables on farms.
  • (10) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.
  • (11) It is not likely that this is going to be fruitful.
  • (12) Dietary recommendations for cancer prevention advise reduced intake of fat; increased intake of fruits, vegetables, and grains; and moderate intake of alcohol and salt-cured, salt-pickled, and smoked foods.
  • (13) The latest filed accounts show Coates and her family have started to enjoy the fruits of their labour, sharing almost £75m in dividends over three years.
  • (14) During development of tomato fruit, most DNA-protein interactions in the rbcS promoter regions disappear, coincident with the transcriptional inactivation of the rbcS genes.
  • (15) Four years on from that speech, his strategy is bearing fruit – in a less than palatable way.
  • (16) (2) The Bunsen-Roscoe Law of Reciprocity was found to hold for the photoinduction of fruiting bodies for the interval 36 to 2000 sec with light of 448 nm.
  • (17) However, the tip cells are slow to differentiate, and hence immature fruiting bodies contain a small population of undifferentiated tip cells.
  • (18) The data suggest that a learning approach to the origins of attentional biases in anxious subjects might be fruitful.
  • (19) From Tuesday, the Neckarsulm-based grocer will be the official supplier of water, fish, fruit and vegetables for Roy Hodgson’s boys under a multimillion-pound three-year deal with the Football Association.
  • (20) In order to uncover the role of G proteins in the integrative functioning and development of the nervous system, we have begun a multidisciplinary study of the G proteins present in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.