(1) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(2) This cell type often showed supranuclear lysozyme reactivity and apical neutral mucins, sialomucins, and sulphomucins in variable amounts.
(3) Left ventricular asynchrony was quantified by the phase difference of the first Fourier harmonic between postero-basal and antero-apical wall motion.
(4) This developmental pattern is found in the apical dendrites of CA1 and CA3 in all its investigated segments.
(5) It is released into the urine in large quantities and thus represents a potential candidate for a protein secreted in a polarized fashion from the apical plasma membrane of epithelial cells in vivo.
(6) Steep longitudinal and transverse gradients of glycogen are known to exist in the organ of Corti of the guinea pig, with preferential accumulation in the outer hair cells of the apical turns.
(7) Immunofluorescence and immunoelectronmicroscopy experiments demonstrated that while tight junctions demarcate PAS-O distribution in confluent cultures, apical polarity could be established at low culture densities when cells could not form tight junctions with neighboring cells.
(8) MDCK cells are capable of unidirectional transport of EGF from the basal-to-apical direction, 50% of bound EGF transported in 2 h. Transport was inhibited by the addition of unlabeled EGF in a dose-dependent manner.
(9) The technique has general applicability to isolation of other plasma membranes, and the apical membranes obtained are suitable for structural analysis.
(10) The purpose of this study was to compare the level of apical dye penetration when different sealers were used.
(11) These data indicate that Ba2+ blocked the major K+ conductance(s) of the RPE apical membrane and unmasked a slowing of the normally hyperpolarizing electrogenic Na+-K+ pump caused by lowering [K+]o.
(12) The center of resistance was located at 0.24 times the root length measured apical to the level of alveolar crest.
(13) This exogenous protein tracer could be seen in apical vacuoles and phagosomes in the cuboidal parietal epithelium.
(14) Based on initial auscultatory findings, patients were divided into: (1) single or multiple apical systolic clicks with no murmur (n = 99); (2) single or multiple apical systolic clicks and a late systolic murmur (n = 129); and (3) single or multiple apical clicks and an apical pansystolic murmur or murmur beginning in the first half of systole (n = 63).
(15) In normal epithelium SC was observed on the apical surface plasma membrane and in the cytoplasm of the superficial cells, as shown in the immunohistochemical staining for EMA.
(16) The apical surfaces secrete extracellular material into the lumen of the vesicle from plasma membrane plaques at the tip of microvilli.
(17) Six patients with a normal exercise 201TI test and one patient with an apical defect only were found to have 37 segments (of 105 segments) with reversible perfusion defects after dipyridamole infusion.
(18) The observed damage was similar: a decrease of the total length of the dendritic segments of the apical tuft and the basal arborization.
(19) Although initially all three proteins were diffusely distributed throughout the cytoplasm, there was a marked asynchrony in the accumulation of these core proteins within the apical domain of the enterocyte.
(20) Inferior colliculus and commissural neurons form two populations that differ in their distribution in layer V, in somatic area, and in the form of their apical dendritic arbors.
Coronal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a corona (in any of the senses).
(a.) Of or pertaining to a king's crown, or coronation.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the top of the head or skull.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the shell of a sea urchin.
(n.) A crown; wreath; garland.
(n.) The frontal bone, over which the ancients wore their coronae or garlands.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty-seven human septums were removed at post mortem, examined macroscopically, sectioned coronally and examined microscopically.
(2) There is general agreement that suicides are likely to be undercounted, both for structural reasons (the burden-of-proof issue, the requirement that the coroner or medical examiner suspect the possibility of suicide) and for sociocultural reasons.
(3) The effects on skull growth of plating the coronal suture and frontal bone were studied in New Zealand White rabbits.
(4) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.
(5) There was no consistent pattern however for cell density as measured by inter-cell distances of mitral cells, either in the coronal or the rostrocaudal planes.
(6) We present a child in such a circumstance in whom axial and coronal CT demonstrated significant neoplastic progression of this disease.
(7) In Golgi-Cox-impregnated coronal sections of albino rat brains at 1, 4, 26, 24, 30, 60 and 90 days it is presented the evolution of the spine-less, bare initial zone ("nude zone", NZ) at the proximal apical main dendrites of the layer V pyramidal neurons in the somatosensory and anterior limbie cortex.
(8) The coroner also raised concerns that although the aim of the operation in which Duggan was killed was to take guns off the streets, little attempt was made to seize weapons believed to be held by Hutchinson-Foster.
(9) Changes in cerebral oxygen consumption were obtained from mean blood flow values of coronal slices and the cerebral arteriovenous (sagittal sinus) oxygen content difference.
(10) The results demonstrated that, when the coronal half of the root canal filling material was removed immediately after placement with pluggers, there was a loss of the apical seal and leakage in thirteen of twenty teeth.
(11) A coronal section of the cerebrum clearly demonstrated a large tumor in the left frontal lobe with small mass in the right frontal lobe (Fig.
(12) Postoperative magnetic resonance imaging in the coronal plane was used to quantify the extent of resection of lateral and mesiobasal structures according to a 20-compartment model of the temporal lobe.
(13) Hybridizations were performed on coronal brain slices through the region of the arcuate nucleus using a 35S-labeled oligonucleotide probe complementary to a 30-base sequence within POMC mRNA.
(14) Variations in scapular position induced by patient positioning change the relationship of the planes to the shoulder anatomy and make reproducibility of sagittal and coronal planes difficult.
(15) Direct coronal imaging is easy to perform and in many cases requires fewer scans and less radiation than reformations.
(16) Spin echo sequences were performed in the coronal and sagittal planes at 0, 24, 48, and 72 h after intra-articular injection of papain to obtain T1, proton density, and T2-weighted images.
(17) Magnetic resonance imaging of the chest in patients with lung cancer is being investigated, but current studies comparing it with CT demonstrate no definite advantage at this time, with the possible exception of the lung apex in which T1 weighted thin-section coronal views are useful.
(18) A linear coronal craniectomy performed at 11 months of age had fused completely in spite of the insertion of polyethylene film between the bony edges.
(19) By this technique coronal and sagittal sections of the central nervous system can be obtained which are similar to those performed via cranial sonography postnatally.
(20) Ultrasonic preparation with 0.25% sodium hypochlorite solution and final agitation with 50% citric acid solution were found to produce a very clean canal wall, free of smear layer in coronal and middle parts.