What's the difference between antimere and homotypic?
Antimere
Definition:
(n.) One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) He postulates that this greater antimeric variance could be due to a greater degree of inbreeding in the Neandertal populations.
(2) Radiographs of the successors to the extracted molars and their antimeres, which served as internal controls, were taken using the long-cone technique.
(3) Right-side-left-side differences exist between antimere cusps based on relatively low correlations.
(4) Sex differences in tooth sizes were seen only in the maxillary and mandibular canines while differences between antimeres were not significant.
(5) Kruskal-Wallis tests and log linera models failed to demonstrate significant sexually dimorphic or antimeric differences in wear patterns of Lengua teeth.
(6) The findings from this investigation indicated that (1) differences between antimeres are of small magnitude and of no statistical significance; (2) all populations have significant differences in tooth dimensions between the sexes with boys having larger canines and first molars; (3) there is greater variation in the buccolingual than in the mesiodistal dimensions among the three populations; (4) there is a greater similarity in tooth dimensions among the boys from the three populations than among the girls, but the magnitude of these differences is considered to be of little clinical significance; and (5) standards for the buccolingual diameters were developed for the three populations.
(7) Antimere variations are random for individual cusps and collective measures of total occlusal areas mask observable right-side, left-side cuspal variations.
(8) These findings suggest that the mandibular deformity associated with HFM does not have an effect on dental maturation when compared with the antimere of the non-affected side.
(9) The medico-surgeon interests in relation to testicular veins, lead the author to realize anatomical observations of the right and left testicular veins in 40 cadavers, with the purpose to verify the number of veins to each other antimere, the variability in its modes of termination, the angles that form at the confluency levels, as well as the presence and the number of ostial and parietal venous valves.
(10) This paper utilizes the relative plane surface areas (basal area dimensions) of the individual molar cusps, as assays of cusp size to demonstrate cusp size variations within populations, antimere cuspal variations, sexual dimorphism, and, the heritability of cusp size.
(11) The communications between the duct and the intercostal veins were more frequent in the veins from the left antimere; as for the azygous, the communications were more frequent in the segment between the 6th and 7th intercostal veins.
(12) The possibility to use mutations with incomplete penetrance affecting antimeres for evaluation of heterogeneity of the environment and the genetic background in the cultivated stocks is shown.
(13) Radiographic and clinical examination of the periodontal status of the teeth adjacent to the cleft and their antimeres were compared for differences with Student's t test and the Wilcoxon test.
(14) Differences in size between antimeric teeth were only observed in upper lateral incisors in patients with left unilateral clefts.
(15) No statistically significant differences between the cleft and noncleft tooth antimeres were found for plaque, gingivitis, bleeding, sulcus depth, or level of attachment.
(16) In thirty-eight pulpotomized teeth (82.6 percent), the resorption rate was similar to their antimeres; in another seven, root resorption was faster; and only one pulpotomized tooth resorbed more slowly than its antimere.
(17) The results of computer-assisted histomorphometric analysis indicate that (a) in diaphyseal levels, the amount of bone formed during 60 days is significantly greater (p less than 0.01) in PEMF-treated holes than in contralateral ones and those in control horses; (b) in metaphyseal levels, PEMF-treated holes are sometimes more closed, sometimes less, as compared with contralateral holes and those in control horses; in any case the statistical analysis indicates that the symmetry in the rate of hole repair, found between the two antimeres of control horses, is not appreciable at metaphyseal levels also; (c) there was no statistically significant difference between untreated holes in PEMF-treated horses and holes in control horses, neither at diaphyseal nor at metaphyseal levels.
(18) A statistically significant difference in the amount of attached gingiva was found between the cleft and noncleft tooth antimeres.
Homotypic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Homotypical
Example Sentences:
(1) The human intercellular adhesion molecules ICAM-1, ICAM-2 and their counter-receptors, the beta 2 or leukointegrins, mediate a variety of homotypic and heterotypic leukocyte and endothelial cell-cell adhesions central to immunocompetence.
(2) Neurotoxin lesioning of 5-HT fibers selectively induced the homotypic collateral sprouting of spared 5-HT fibers in the hippocampus.
(3) Viral titers and serum homotypic antibody responses were similar in the naproxen and placebo groups.
(4) Anti-RNPInd and anti-RNPNJ immunoglobulins also exhibited cross-reactivity by inhibiting transcription of heterotypic virions, but only to a much lesser degree than in the homotypic reaction.
(5) The results suggest that the high molecular weight valyl-tRNA synthetase is a homotypic tetramer and converts to the monomeric valyl-tRNA synthetase after the cleavage of a small peptide.
(6) We found that molecules able to bind to MHC class II molecules, such as monoclonal antibodies or staphylococcal enterotoxins, induced rapid and sustained homotypic adhesion of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-transformed B cell lines as well as peripheral blood B lymphocytes.
(7) Observations in 7 families during successive homotypic infection episodes indicate that postinfection immunity to natural challenge requires persistence of antibody.
(8) In 23 pairs, one triplet, and one quadruplet, immunoreactivity to one or the other antiserum was always exclusive, and dye coupling was always homotypic, that is, coupled neurons in each instance were reactive to the same antiserum.
(9) Female mice immunized with homotypic virus via the oral route developed the most potent response.
(10) Both heterotypic (epithelial cells and fibroblasts together) and homotypic (highly enriched cultures of epithelial cells or fibroblasts alone) cell cultures were established.
(11) Nearly 80 per cent of extracts from virus-positive AV contained substances neutralizing the homotypic viruses.
(12) In 25 patients, HBsAg subtype ad was found with antibody to subdeterminant y and in four instances, HBsAg subtype ay was found with antibody to subdeterminant d. Only 1 patient had homotypic HBsAg and anti-HBs.
(13) A detailed investigation into the activity of the homotypic, Ca2+-dependent cell-cell adhesion system (CDS) in the early mouse embryo has revealed its involvement in the synchronizing of the time of polarization of 8-cell blastomeres, and the orienting of the axis of polarization.
(14) These results suggest that in addition to an epitope located on domain 1 of the ICAM-1 molecule, another epitope whose exposure can be regulated by glycosylation is involved in homotypic B-cell adhesion of cell line ML1.
(15) The unique heat-resistant DI particle, with an RNA molecule corresponding to the 3' half of the viral genome, exhibited an inactivation target size of approximately 42% of its RNA molecule with respect to both homotypic and heterotypic interference.
(16) Epithelia from the hard palate, gingiva and alveolar mucosa grown on freely floating collagen lattices populated with fibroblasts from homotypic origins, and fed with medium containing 10% delipidized fetal calf serum for 21 days before analysis, stratified and differentiated to basal cuboidal cells, polyhydral spinous cells and elongated superficial cells.
(17) These observations provide direct evidence for homotypic collateral sprouting in the CNS induced by removal of a single fiber type.
(18) One adenovirus type 40 monoclonal (5-8) and one adenovirus type 41 monoclonal (5-15) were found to react to high titre with homotypic but not heterotypic antigen.
(19) NGF treatment mildly stimulated growth of cholinergic neurites within the 2-mm area directly adjacent to the fimbrial lesion but it failed to induce significant homotypic growth of cholinergic neurites into the deafferented hippocampus.
(20) The ventrolateral subdivision or VPL projects medially and in a strict homotypic manner, though the proportion of VPL cells projecting to cortex is subject to a large amount of variation.