(1) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(2) However, CT will be insensitive in the detection of the more cephalic proximal lesions, especially those in the brain stem, basal cisterns, and skull base.
(3) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(4) In schizophrenic patients the density of dopamine uptake sites in the basal ganglia was slightly reduced, mainly in the middle third of putamen.
(5) In summary, GABAergic tone did not effect basal acid secretion in anesthetized rats.
(6) Basal 20 alpha DHP levels remained low until a sharp rise at mid pro-oestrus.
(7) Male weanling Sprague Dawley rats were depleted on a low AIN-76A formulated basal diet for 21 days.
(8) Similarly, 50 microM D-600, a Ca+2 channel antagonist, significantly (P less than 0.01) reduced basal and 5-HETE-induced PRL release.
(9) In the present study, the expression of type IV collagen associated with the basal membrane (BM) was studied histochemically (indirect immunoperoxidase-antiperoxidase) in cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) lesions (diagnosed using in situ DNA hybridization) of different grades.
(10) Intraepidermal clefting starts at the junction between the basal and epidermal layers, and later involves all of the levels of the stratum spinosum.
(11) In normal seminal vesicle, the reaction product was apparently more abundant in columnar and basal cells than in other cell types.
(12) Ouabain caused a dose-dependent increase in basal adenylate cyclase (AC) activity from 0.1 to 100 microM.
(13) Increased iron levels in basal ganglia were generally associated with normal or elevated levels of ferritin immunoreactivity, for example, the substantia nigra in PSP and possibly MSA, and in putamen in MSA.
(14) Human GH did not alter basal cyclic AMP levels in mouse osteoblasts.
(15) Basal and maximally insulin-stimulated rates of 3-O-methylglucose transport in adipocytes from obese and obese NIDDM subjects were reduced to 50% of the values in cells from normal subjects (P less than 0.05).
(16) In high concentrations of antiserum, some of the agglutinated cells of L. h. hertigi were enlarged and showed syncytial characters that included up to five nuclei, two dividing nuclei and five basal bodies associated with a single kinetoplast.
(17) For that reason we determine basal serum pepsinogen I (PG I) levels in 25 ulcerous patients and 75% of their offspring and to a control group matched by age and sex.
(18) It is concluded that a Na-H antiport system in vascular smooth muscle regulates Na influx rate, contributes to intracellular pH regulation and influences basal levels of Na,K-pump activity.
(19) It may, however, be useful to compare local wall dynamics in the more isometrically-contracting basal segment with those in the middle portion which brings about most of the emptying of the ventricle.
(20) Increased amounts of laminin in the basal epithelium of the cornea and of collagen type III in the stroma and subepithelial components of the stroma were observed.
Rale
Definition:
(n.) An adventitious sound, usually of morbid origin, accompanying the normal respiratory sounds. See Rhonchus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dyspnea was the principal complaint, and fine rales were common.
(2) The methodology revealed that the network used the presence of ECG findings, as well as the presence of rales, syncope, jugular venous distension, response to trinitroglycerin, and nausea and vomiting, as major predictive sources.
(3) Several variables were significantly (p less than 0.05) more common in the VT group: age older than 60 years, previous AMI, history of angina pectoris, occurrence of VT or ventricular fibrillation in the coronary care unit, left ventricular ejection fraction less than 30%, rales greater than bibasilar in the coronary care unit, and use of antiarrhythmic drugs, digitalis or diuretics at the time of discharge from hospital.
(4) Physically, the patient appeared lethargic, and breathing sounds revealed diffuse rales and wheezing.
(5) Many authors feel the need to qualify "rales": sixteen descriptive adjectives were encountered.
(6) The patient was successfully treated with diuretics and nitrates but on the fifth hospital day moist rales were noted over the entire lung field.
(7) Examples are reported of clinical cases confirming the difficulties of diagnosis of recurring form of thromboembolism of the minor pulmonary artery branches and the following leading signs of the disease are singled out: elevation of the temperature, tachy- and orthopnea, prolonged retrosternal pain, crepitation and moist rales over the lungs, inversion of the T-wave and depression of the ST segment in the right thoracic leads.
(8) These cases involved elderly patients with progressive dyspnea and nonproductive cough, bilateral dry crackling rales, bilateral interstitial infiltrates evident on a chest roentgenogram, and restrictive findings on pulmonary function testing.
(9) An "obstructive element" is based on the presence of clinical signs like cough, wheezing and rales.
(10) After receiving cow's milk containing formula he presented with fever, tachypnea, diffuse rales and crepitations over both lungs.
(11) Clinical findings included fever (greater than or equal to 38 degrees C) (88%), rhinorrhea (62.6%), cough (50%), otitis (50%), rhonchi (42%), vomiting (38%), diarrhea (33%), rales (21%), pharyngitis (13%) and croup (4%).
(12) Chest examination revealed rales over the bilateral chest.
(13) There was a higher frequency of cough and rales and a small decrease in forced vital capacity and forced expiratory volume in one sec among the grain handlers, as compared to the civic workers matched for smoking.
(14) The following features were significantly associated with a bacterial etiology: age over 30 years, alcoholism, concomitant neoplasm, cough, coma, pulmonary rales, new neurological signs or petechia.
(15) Generalized lymphadenopathy and some rales over both lung bases were noted and a chest radiograph showed bilateral nodular lesions.
(16) In the absence of an obvious predisposition, the abrupt onset of a self-limited illness characterized by dyspnea, cyanosis, and low-grade fever associated with diffuse rales, hypoxemia, and alveolar infiltrates in dependent lobes should suggest aspiration.
(17) Significant correlations were observed between rales, the radiological score, some functional indices and the characteristics of fibrosis.
(18) Decreased breath sounds over affected lung areas were often the only findings on auscultation; find rales, rhonchi or dullness on percussion were less often heard.
(19) Findings occurring significantly more often (P less than or equal to .001) among cases than controls included pleuritic chest pain; acute sinus tenderness, and nasal discharge, epistaxis and eschar; rales; development of multilobar infiltrates after the 14th hospital day; and presence of nodular or cavitary infiltrates.
(20) Of 22 patients with the classical clinical signs of pulmonary oedema (orthopnoe, cyanosis, sweating and rales heard at a distance) 15 (Group A) were observed clinically, while seven (Group B) underwent haemodynamic studies.