(n.) A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: -- often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn.
Example Sentences:
(1) This method provided myocardial perfusion images of high quality which were well correlated with N-13 ammonia images.
(2) Studies were performed to characterize the determinants of proximal tubule ammonia entry (and retention) in vivo.
(3) Confirmation of the striking correlation between increased urinary ammonia and lowered neonatal ponderal index may afford a simple test for the identification of nutrient-related growth retardation.
(4) However, almost all of the numerous compounds found to inhibit ammonia oxidizers also inhibit methanotrophs, and most of the inhibitors act upon the monooxygenases.
(5) An otherwise progressive rise in blood ammonia concentration was halted in the treatment group.
(6) The high rate of H pylori ammonia production in uraemic patients should accentuate any ammonia induced effects.
(7) The determination of ammonia in plasma, using glutamate dehydrogenase, is complicated by non-specific oxidation of the coenzyme, promoted by components of the sample matrix.
(8) The methanol-ammonia (20:1) and chloroform-methanol-ammonia (2:2:1) systems, used with silica-gel plates, are the most promising for rapid preliminary screening of tuna fish extracts for histamine.
(9) The effect of ammonia is partially reversed by nitrate.
(10) The addition of glutamine or ammonia increased glycine incorporation of control cultures, but failed to do so in treated cultures.
(11) Plasma dextrose and bicarbonate declined in concentration while potassium, lactate, LDH, ammonia, and hemoglobin rose with storage.
(12) The changes were proportional to the concentration and duration of ammonia treatment.
(13) The Km for ammonia of carbamyl phosphate synthetase was determined by preincubating isolated liver cells for 30 min in the absence of ammonia and bicarbonate and in the presence of ornithine, chloroquine, which blocks lysosomal proteolysis, and aminoxy acetic acid, which inhibits transaminases.
(14) The highest predictive values for the exclusion of TiC are shown by inconspicuous concentration capacity accompanied by normal ammonia excretion, total acid excretion, water diuresis, free water clearance or urine dilution capacity.
(15) All dogs were evaluated at the beginning of the study by complete physical examination; total and differential WBC counts; serum biochemical analysis (alanine transaminase and alkaline phosphatase activities and bilirubin and albumin concentrations); sulfobromophthalein excretion, ammonia tolerance, and glucagon response testing; portal and intraparenchymal pressure determinations; operative mesenteric portography; and histologic assessment of hepatic biopsy specimens.
(16) The significant differences (p=0.001) are found by lysine, ammonia, histidine, arginine, threonine, glutaminic acid, and phenyl alanine.
(17) Formation of anthranilate will proceed in the presence of partially pure subunit I provided ammonia is available in place of glutamine.
(18) Net synthesis of microbial N (Nn) was calculated from ammonia-N incorporation.
(19) Attachment of sufficient quantities of PEG to phenylalanine ammonia-lyase substantially reduces immunological recognition and clearance of the conjugated enzyme in mice.
(20) No direct relationship exists between glutamate dehydrogenase (NADP+) and glutamate-ammonia ligase in P. denitrificans, while the glutamate synthase (NADPH) activity changes in parallel with that of the latter enzyme.
Ammonic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to ammonia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Histochemically the lowered activity of enzymes was localized mainly in the neuropil of: striatum, the Broc's nuclei and rhinencephalon: in the nervous cells of: Ammon's horn, nuclei of thalamus and in neocortex.
(2) Thus, in the case of the mouse, the subventricular zone can serve as a cytoarchitectural characteristic allowing detection of a border between the developing subiculum and Ammon's horn.
(3) This transient extracellular matrix begins to form several days after the onset of pyramidal cell neurogenesis, grows in a direction opposite to the settling of pyramidal cells in the stratum pyramidale, and does not reach the subicular end of Ammon's horn until day E21.
(4) The only major difference in the terminal fields of the two sets projections to the Ammon's horn was that the terminal zone of the commissural projection to stratum oriens was always more dense than that of the ipsilateral projection to this layer, while an inverse gradient was seen in stratum radiatum.
(5) The calcium binding protein calbindin D28k (CaBP) is localized in the granule cells of the dentate gyrus, in pyramidal neurons of the CA1 and CA2 subfields of the Ammon's horn as well as in distinct groups of local circuit neurons in both parts of the human hippocampal formation.
(6) In thyroid-deficient rats, the arborization of the dendritic field of both granule and pyramidal cells was impaired, and for pyramidal cells the extent of the impairment depended on the position of the cells in the Ammon's horn, the cells of CA3-4 areas being the most affected.
(7) After a court hearing in Portland where seven of the arrested activists appeared , Ammon Bundy delivered a surprising message to those still at the Malheur refuge.
(8) The layers of Ammon's horn and the subiculum were not affected qualitatively or quantitatively by the 500 ppm exposure.
(9) However, the cortical architecture of the Ammon's horn, arterial boundary zones and depths and sides of sulci was not involved.
(10) In Ammon's horn, especially in the CA3 sector, very dense binding was found in the dendritic layers together with slight mRNA levels in the majority of the pyramidal cells and high mRNA levels in a moderate number of interneurons.
(11) These are, in chronological order, Johann August Wilhelm Hedenus (the elder; 1760-1834), Friedrich August von Ammon (1799-1861) and Eduard Zeis (1807-1868); Zeis' career is reviewed briefly here with the accent on Dresden.
(12) Following destruction of the ipsilateral temporo-ammonic tract, which originates in the entorhinal cortex, and terminates on the granule cells of the dentate gyrus, fibers from the surviving contralateral entorhinal area proliferate forming extensive new connections with the denervated dentate granule cells.
(13) We examined the portions of frontal cerebral cortex, parahippocampal cortex, the basal nucleus of Meynert, oculomotor nucleus, substantia nigra, pontine nuclei and locus caeruleus of case 1, substantia nigra, red nucleus and inferior olivary nucleus of case 2, and Ammon's horn, globus pallidum, subthalamic nucleus, substantia nigra, oculomotor nucleus, pontine nuclei, locus ceruleus and inferior olivary nucleus of case 3.
(14) As an incidental finding, aggregates of PAS-positive granules were noted in the Ammon's horn of most old animals, while none were seen in the young controls.
(15) It was maximal in the selectively vulnerable areas and included the boundary zones between the major arteries of the cerebral hemispheres, the Ammon's horn and the thalamus.
(16) Two hours after injection the labeled proliferative cells are located in the Ammonic neuroepithelium.
(17) In the hippocampus, the stratum lacunosum-moleculare of Ammon's horn and the hilus contained a higher density of KAT-positive glial cells than other regions, whereas the lowest density of KAT glial cells was observed in the granule cell layer of the dentate gyrus and in the stratum radiatum of CA subfields.
(18) Neither the Ammon's horn nor the isocortex revealed a sufficiently large number of tangles to permit the diagnosis of a coexisting fully developed Alzheimer's disease.
(19) Ammon and his attorneys have continued to argue that the protests in Oregon constituted civil disobedience and that the occupation was not violent.
(20) When he saw that Cliven’s son, Ammon, was leading a similar battle against the government in Oregon, Dowd decided he wanted to experience the protests in person.