(a.) Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.
(n.) A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.
Example Sentences:
(1) A spindle cell sarcoma appeared 20 months after implantation of a pellet of 3-methylcholanthrene in the denervated foreleg of an adult frog, Rana pipiens.
(2) The possibility that the ventral nerve photoreceptor cells serve a neurosecretory function in the adult Limulus is discussed.
(3) On the other hand, the LAP level, identical in preterms and SDB, is lower than in full-term infants but higher than in adults.
(4) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
(5) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(6) The anticonvulsant properties of the endogenous excitatory amino acid antagonist, kynurenic acid (KYA), were studied in prepubescent and adult rats using the amygdaloid kindling model of epilepsy.
(7) The purpose of the present study was to report on remaining teeth and periodontal conditions in a population of 200 adolescent and adult Vietnamese refugees.
(8) At the highest dose of chloroquine tested (500 microM), a slightly greater increase in insulin binding and a decrease in insulin degradation were observed in fetal cells as compared with adult cells.
(9) The problem of treatment oneside malocclusions of adult patients needs to concern of anchorange.
(10) The distribution of gelsolin, a calcium-dependent actin-severing and capping protein, in the retina of the developing and adult rabbit was studied.
(11) We have measured the antibody specificities to the two polysaccharides in sera from asymptomatic group C meningococcal carriers and vaccinated adults by a new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) procedure using methylated human serum albumin for coating the group C polysaccharide onto microtiter plates.
(12) Descriptive features of the syndrome in children, adults and adolescents are given based on the respective work of Pine, Masterson and Kernberg.
(13) The main clinical symptom was pain, usually sciatica, while neurological symptoms were less common than they are in adults.
(14) Intestinal glands are not observed until 8.5cm, and are shallow in depth even in the adult.
(15) An anatomic study of the peroneal artery and vein and their branches was carried out on 80 adult cadaver legs.
(16) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(17) The authors followed up the occurrence of inflammation-mediated osteopenia (IMO) in young and adult rats weighing 50 g and 150 g, respectively.
(18) Previous studies in this laboratory with particulate Mn3O4 have shown that preweanling rats have substantially higher tissue Mn concentrations than similarly treated adults, indicating possible differences in uptake or elimination or both.
(19) It has also been reported in a severe form with fever and systemic symptoms both in children and adults.
(20) These results do not support the view that in the rat pheromones from adult males enhance puberty in females, contrary to what is known to happen in the mouse.
Ectoderm
Definition:
(n.) The outer layer of the blastoderm; epiblast.
(n.) The external skin or outer layer of an animal or plant, this being formed in an animal from the epiblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here we report direct measurements of protein kinase C (PKC) activity in uninduced ectoderm, and in neuroectoderm shortly after induction by the involuting mesoderm, in Xenopus laevis embryos.
(2) The Notch locus in Drosophila encodes a transmembrane protein required for the determination of cell fate in ectodermal cells.
(3) The factor was tested on Triturus alpestris by the implantation method, and on isolated ectoderm of Xenopus laevis in solution.
(4) Evx-1 RNA is first detected shortly before the onset of gastrulation in a region of ectoderm containing cells that will soon be found in the primitive streak.
(5) Cells falling off from ectoderm were observed in normally developing gastrulae of the newt, Cynops pyrrhogaster, in light microscopic examination.
(6) Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia is characterized by an absence of seromucous glands in the oropharynx and tracheobronchial tree, making children with this disease prone to viral and bacterial respiratory infections.
(7) The positive reaction for keratin and vimentin confirmed the presence of ectodermal and mesodermal elements respectively in the tumor.
(8) Examination of the two types of tissue fragments revealed that IS-treated ICMs almost invariably retained viable endoderm cells whereas MS-isolated ectoderms did so only exceptionally.
(9) In the present study, ectodermal explants from Xenopus blastulae were shown to have high affinity binding sites for 125I-aFGF (Kd = 1.4 X 10(-10) M).
(10) Ectoderm from Cynops pyrrhogaster reacts like that of Ambystoma when exposed to LiCl, but like Triturus ectoderm it is insensitive to cyclic nucleotides.
(11) Several mouse mutants in the distal region of the mouse t-complex affecting blastocyst and embryonic ectoderm formation also map to this region.
(12) PTN mRNA was also strongly expressed in the basal layers of the tongue epithelium, which is the only epithelium and ectodermal derivative to express PTN mRNA, and this only after birth.
(13) These genes encode membrane proteins with epidermal growth factor repeats and are essential in the decision of an embryonic ectodermal cell to take on the fate of neuroblast or epidermoblast.
(14) We have found that competence of the ectoderm to respond to induction is lost at the same early neurula stage for all three marker genes.
(15) Multiple hamartoma syndrome, also known as Cowden's disease, is a rare genodermatosis with multiple organ system involvement affecting tissues derived from ectodermal, endodermal, and mesodermal tissue layers.
(16) From the right wing bud of stage 19 and 20 (HH) embryos the rim ectoderm was removed in four ways: all of the rim, the anterior third, the middle third (most of the A.E.R.
(17) During feather follicle formation, N-CAM was expressed in the dermal papilla and was closely apposed to the L-CAM-positive papillar ectoderm, while the dermal papilla showed no evidence of laminin or fibronectin.
(18) Initially each primordium forms a shallow depression in the ectodermal surface.
(19) From stage 110 on, a basement membrane differentiates beneath a one-cell thick subperipheral layer, which thus becomes the ectodermal basal layer, the prospective epidermal basal layer.
(20) CAT mRNA was observed in gut, mesenchyme cells and oral ectoderm in these embryos.