(a.) Of or pertaining to the amnion; characterized by an amnion; as, the amniotic fluid; the amniotic sac.
Example Sentences:
(1) No respiratory-distress syndrome of the newborn occurred when total amniotic-fluid cortisol was greater than 60 ng per milliliter (16 patients).
(2) 65% of the cAMP injected into the amniotic fluid of 2 monkeys remained after 1 hour.
(3) To assess the role of amniotic fluid (AMF) in the maintenance of pregnancy, immunosuppressive effects of AMF were studied in vivo, and the mechanisms of suppressor activity were analyzed immunologically in vitro in the rat.
(4) Using a simple fluorometric assay for alpha-glucosidase activity of cultured amniotic cells, we have monitored two pregnancies from families at risk for Pompe's disease.
(5) These results suggest that demonstration of leukoattractants in amniotic fluid is an earlier and more sensitive predictor of chorioamnionitis than is presently available.
(6) Detectable antibiotic levels were present in umbilical blood and amniotic fluid within 15 min of maternal administration.
(7) Tay-Sachs disease was diagnosed prenatally on the basis of enzyme assays and the electrophoretic pattern of extracts made from cultured amniotic fluid cells.
(8) Although sound pressure levels are high, they are probably reduced before reaching the cochlea of the fetus because of the surrounding amniotic fluid and the fluid in the middle ear.
(9) Amniotic fluid was retrieved by amniocentesis from 148 women: patients at term with and without labor, patients with preterm labor with and without intraamniotic infection, and women in the second trimester of pregnancy.
(10) Insulin-like growth factor-binding proteins (IGFBPs) in rat serum, lymph, amniotic fluid and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and in rat cell-conditioned media were characterized using a combination of gel-permeation chromatography, Western immunoblots and Western-ligand analysis.
(11) With the dosage applied, minimum concentrations required for the inhibition of many organisms causing intrauterine infections were reached in maternal and fetal plasma and in amniotic fluid.
(12) Thermistors were placed in the fetal aorta, two different sites in the amniotic fluid, and in a maternal artery.
(13) We assayed inorganic sulfate by ion chromatography in 49 amniotic fluid samples from pregnancies of 14 to 38 weeks gestation.
(14) 83 women aborted within 24 hours; 6 women who had not aborted within 24 hours were given Pitocin in order to stimulate contractions; the amniotic fluid was bloody in 2 patients, and the procedure was termianted; 1 patient did not respond at all to the procedure initially, but returned in 1 week and had a successful abortion at that time.
(15) 1)"Nomal secundinae" or "physiological leucocytosis at ruptured chorionic membranes": there are but a few cases (3 to 5%) of amniotic infection syndroms or morphological signs of an aspiration of infected amniotic fluid and fetal sepsis.
(16) The low-molecular-mass insulin-like growth factor-binding protein (IGF-BP) and placental protein 12 (PP12) are identical proteins that are present in human serum, amniotic fluid, secretory endometrium and decidua.
(17) All patients with microbial invasion of the amniotic cavity had complications.
(18) The composition of amniotic fluid was found to vary in dependence on storage conditions.
(19) Mouse amniotic fluid was shown to contain a noncytotoxic inhibitor of primary gammaM and secondary gammaM, gammaG subclass splenic plaque forming cells in vitro to SRBC.
(20) Intra-amniotic infection (six of 16 versus 26 of 120) and endometritis (four of ten versus three of 94) were significantly more common in group B streptococcus patients.