What's the difference between antra and antral?

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.

Antral


Definition:

  • (a.) Relating to an antrum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Antral G cells increase in states of achlorhydria in man and animals provided atrophic antral gastritis is absent.
  • (2) An experimental model was established in the ewe allowing one to predict with accuracy an antral follicle that coincidentally would either undergo ovulation (6-8 mm diameter) or atresia (3-4 mm diameter) following synchronization of luteal regression and the onset of the gonadotropin surge.
  • (3) Treatment for 5 days with doses greater than 3 micrograms resulted in a significant increase in the total number of growing follicles and the development of antral follicles.
  • (4) Gastrin-34-LI in antral extracts could be converted to gastrin-17-LI by trypsin in all species.
  • (5) There were significant direct correlations between antral area and G cell density, between peak acid output and G cell population, and between basal plasma gastrin and G cell density (but not population).
  • (6) A novel stimulant of gastric acid secretion was extracted and purified from the non-antral gastric mucosa of the canine stomach and some of its biological properties were examined.
  • (7) Studies in cattle assessing changes in number and size of antral follicles, concentrations of estradiol, androgens and progesterone in serum and follicular fluid, and numbers of gonadotropin receptors per follicle during repetitive estrous cycles and postpartum anestrus are reviewed.
  • (8) Somatostatin concentrations were higher in antral than fundic tissues (p < 0.05) and remained constant during the postnatal period.
  • (9) Gastritis occurred in 137 of 163 body specimens (84%) and in 126 of 131 antral specimens (96%).
  • (10) Equivalent neutralising doses of magnesium hydroxide (pH 9-4) did not increase serum gastrin and gastric acid output above basal levels, whereas antral acidification with 20 ml 0-1 N HCl resulted in a slight decrease in serum gastrin.
  • (11) Control gilts given saline had ovaries containing antral follicles (4 to 6 mm in diameter).
  • (12) The antral peptides of both species were identified.
  • (13) The study using the urease test on mucous biopsies from the antral gastric part and from the duodenum of patients with chronic opisthorchiasis with endoscopic evidence of antral gastritis and gastroduodenitis, and from noninvaded patients with gastritis and duodenitis, some of them with the gastric or duodenal ulcers showed that the test was positive.
  • (14) Infection with this organism is strongly associated with type B antral gastritis and with peptic ulcer disease.
  • (15) The first growing follicles appeared in fetal ovaries around Day 180 and consisted mainly of primary and secondary follicles; few antral follicles were present before Day 220 of gestation.
  • (16) Gastric antral vascular ectasia ('water melon stomach') is a poorly documented cause of occult upper gastrointestinal blood loss.
  • (17) Antral mucosal diaphragm is uncommon, and presents with manifestations of obstruction to the pyloric outlet.
  • (18) All five rhesus monkeys that received the strain isolated from rhesus monkeys became H. pylori positive by day 14 and remained positive through day 56 Antral inflammation developed in all monkeys.
  • (19) After exclusion of subjects with gastritis there remained 67 females and 68 males with morphologically completely normal antral and corpus mucosa.
  • (20) Following unilateral ovariectomy in the rat, the remaining ovary undergoes rapid compensatory changes including an increase in the number of antral follicles (follicular activation) and an increase in ovarian weight (compensatory ovarian hypertrophy).

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