(n.) A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.
Example Sentences:
(1) by oxygen or assisted ventilation was accomplished by members of a recently created national organisation (ANTA-DIR, 1980).
(2) Treatment with LHRH-anta produced a significant decrease in thymus wt, an alteration of the maturational pattern characterized by a cellular monomorphism, reduced thymocyte volume, reduction of the cortical area, and depauperation of the epithelial microenvironment.
(3) ANTA is shown here to be an intermediate of normal astrocyte metabolism and to display appropriate kinetic characteristics compatible with its proposed role in inducing part of the delayed neuronal loss that occurs after a brain injury (secondary neuronal death).
(4) Kinetic studies showed that ANTA induces a slow (greater than 12 h) degeneration of cultured granule cells.
(5) When LHRH-anta-treated adult (3-month-old) rats were challenged with an antigenic stimulus (multiple sc injections of complete Freund adjuvant and BSA) and antibody (anti-BSA antibodies of the immunoglobulin G class) production measured in the serum after 15 days, a marked and significant decrease in immunoglobulin G levels was observed, compared to the values measured in untreated control.
(6) "The greatest unfairness is that the poor are the victims of our archaic legislation," said Camara, a law professor at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar.
(7) The specificity of such effect was demonstrated by 1) the failure of LHRH fragments [LHRH-(1-6)] to mimick the LHRH stimulatory effect; and 2) the complete reversal produced by simultaneous addition of a potent LHRH-ANTA on IL-2 receptor expression induced by LHRH.
(8) The marked modulation of lymphocyte function exerted by the hypothalamic decapetide LHRH prompted us to study the possible involvement of the neuropeptide in one of the major steps of lymphocyte proliferation, namely the expression of interleukin-2 (IL-2) receptor during in vitro treatment of rat lymphocytes with LHRH agonists (LHRH-A) or antagonists (LHRH-ANTA).
(9) Moreover, a reduced percentage of the T-helper lymphocyte subpopulation followed LHRH-anta administration.
(10) Astrocytes were also found to inactivate rapidly isobutanol-extracted ANTA in normal K+-containing growth medium.
(11) An isogenic nhaA (formerly antA) deletion strain, however, is not significantly different from wild type in this respect.
(12) A low-molecular weight astrocyte-derived neuronotoxic activity (ANTA) was detected, using a colorimetric bioassay of cell survival, by its effect on cultured granule cells.
(13) Moreover, basal and lectin stimulation of IL-2 receptor-positive cells were significantly inhibited by treatment with the LHRH-ANTA.
(14) The described immune deficiencies in LHRH-anta-treated rats were associated with a clear inhibition of sexual maturation.
(15) A similar effect of the LHRH-anta treatment on splenocyte cultures was measured.
(16) Whereas in control animals the maturation of mitogenic potential in thymocyte cultures showed a progressive and age-dependent increase, reaching a maximal activity at 30 days of age and then decreasing after puberty onset, in LHRH-anta-treated rats, the thymocyte's proliferative response was completely blocked at 7 days of age and remained very low at each time interval studied, until 3 months of age.
Antra
Definition:
(pl. ) of Antrum
Example Sentences:
(1) Luminal amiloride (100 microM) to 4% ethanol-treated antra did not cause any additional hyperpolarization of Vmc.
(2) Light microscopy of antra from 2-day postfed animals showed many intracellular lipid granules in surface mucous epithelial cells.
(3) The author investigated the origin of two linear radiopaque images superimposed upon the lower part of the maxillary antra and nasal cavity.
(4) By specific radioimmunochemical measurement on extracts of guinea pig antra, we found that vitamin C deficiency induced a 30-fold increase in glycine-extended (i.e.
(5) Endogenous gastrin released from antra by acetylcholine or glycine caused identical changes in the recordings as exogenous pentagastrin.
(6) The organisms colonise gastric mucus and adhere to epithelial cells of inflamed antra.
(7) GP antra were defatted with acetone and the acetone cakes were extracted with 0.1M NH4HCO3.
(8) The latter diminishes in small antra and approaches zero when the total antral area falls below 3.48 cm2.
(9) In an in vivo preparation, isolated rat antra were perfused with different releasing agents in an oxygenated Krebs-Ringer-A solution.
(10) All patients had their endotracheal tubes replaced orally, had diseased maxillary antra lavaged, and underwent appropriate antibiotic therapy guided by culture and sensitivity studies.
(11) These conditions failed to increase the IRG secretory rate above basal in preparations from normal antra.
(12) This report describes the extraction and purification of "little" and "big" gastrins from 31 chinchilla antra.
(13) Antra from fed Necturi were examined for lipid accumulation using light, fluorescence, histochemical, and electron microscopy.
(14) The degree of tyrosine sulfation and the distribution between gastrin-17- and gastrin-34-like immunoreactivity (LI) were studied in the antra of ten mammalian species.
(15) He had radiologic opacification and histologically documented involvement by Gaucher's disease of the maxillary antra.
(16) No change in periodic acid-Schiff (PAS)-positive mucous granule content could be found between control and 2% ethanol-treated antra.
(17) Antroscopy of 70 antra with ipsilateral polyps showed a high incidence of mucosal abnormalities, retained secretions and ostial narrowing.
(18) The frontal sinus and ethmoid cells were affected unilaterally in four patients and the maxillary antra bilaterally in two.
(19) The follicular fluid studies were conducted by cytological assessment of meiotic stage up to 6 hr after transferring cumulus-free oocytes into antra of explanted "host" follicles in vitro or into follicles of anesthetized animals prior to the gonadotropin surge at proestrus in vivo.
(20) The accuracy of diagnosis of mucosal disease by this means in 26 antra is here correlated with histological evidence of inflammation and bacteriological evidence of infection in antral mucosal biopsies.