(1) Embryos bisected at blastocyst stages had a higher survival rate in vitro than those bisected at the morula stage.
(2) Despite the claims, the Pyongyang metro is indeed a functional system, running along two bisecting lines in the central and outer-western parts of Pyongyang.
(3) It is shown that both IgGs contain the same carbohydrate chains (biantennary and bisected) but the relative amount of bisected and incomplete chains (with fewer terminal galactose residues) is higher in myeloma IgG4.
(4) The procedure involves bisection of single-cell eggs in a medium containing cytochalasin; fusion of egg halves with single blastomeres, induced using Sendai virus or an electrofusion apparatus; and embedding in agar, followed by culture of the reconstituted embryos in the ligated oviducts of ewes in dioestrus.
(5) Stanislas could have celebrated that reprieve by treating himself to another goal when United’s defence was bisected by a wonderful pass from Gosling.
(6) The two types of procedure also yield different conclusions in scaling experiments designed to study the functional midpoint of two or more durations (temporal bisection procedures).
(7) Day 6 embryos were bisected and the resulting demiembryos were stained with Hoechst 33342 and cell counts were made by counting intact blastomere nuclei.
(8) These findings suggest that the left hemisphere has the ability to estimate the midpoint of the line through the right visual field and that visuospatial disorder in the line bisection test is attributable to the pathological change in the right hemisphere.
(9) The tailpiece sequence thus has profound effects on assembly, yet it is apparently unstructured and can be bisected without affecting its function.
(10) Binding was not affected by the inner core portion of complex oligosaccharides nor by the presence of a bisecting N-acetylglucosamine residue.
(11) In planarians bisected transversely through the pharyngeal region, the decolouration occurs only in the cephalic segment, and the caudal segment remains dark.
(12) The distribution of stable flies, Stomoxys calcitrans (L.), caught on adhesive-coated Alsynite cylinder traps indicated that a significantly higher proportion of flies landed on the side most protected from the wind, and that flies were distributed equally on both sides of the traps bisected by the direction of the prevailing wind, and that the proportion of trapped flies decreased significantly with height on the trap.
(13) This may explain the preferential action of Gal-transferase on the Man alpha 1,3 arm of both bisected and nonbisected oligosaccharides.
(14) Three experiments were conducted with bisected embryos.
(15) The negligible GlcNAc-T III activity of the four human T-cell lines and of tonsillar T lymphocytes agrees with the reported absence of bisected structures in N-glycans from human T lymphocyte membrane glycoproteins.
(16) The illusion results from an overestimation of the length of vertical lines, seems to be predominantly cognitive in nature, and exists in the absence of line bisection and a comparison line.
(17) An eccentricity index, defined as the ratio of the length of two perpendicular minor-axis diameters, one of which bisected and was perpendicular to the interventricular septum, was obtained at end-systole and end-diastole.
(18) In addition, evidence is presented for the first time that plasma fibrinogen possesses (GlcNAc beta 1----4Man beta) residues (bisecting GlcNAc) and O-glycosidically bound carbohydrate units.
(19) Along this distinctive cell contact, the cell membranes of apposing cells are separated by 210-300 a bisected by irregularly spaced 100-150-A extracellular particles which are often circular in profile.
(20) Over the past 15 years the harbour that bisects the city has been transformed from an industrial zone into a cultural and residential hub with water so clean that we take Liv swimming in the harbour baths – lifeguarded floating swimming-pool structures that are accessible for free.
Quadriceps
Definition:
(n.) The great extensor muscle of the knee, divided above into four parts which unite in a single tendon at the knee.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fasted rats also exhibited a threefold increase in glucose 1,6-diphosphate (G-1,6-P2) in the white quadriceps after 30 min of exercise, whereas no significant changes were observed in the red quadriceps or in liver.
(2) The morphometric data was not related to the age of the patient, disease duration, type of MND or muscle strength, thus suggesting that the progression and severity of MND and its prognosis cannot be judged on the basis of quadriceps muscle pathology alone.
(3) Protein and DNA content of quadriceps muscles from young adult rats were decreased by the low protein and protein-free diet.
(4) After 60 min recovery, exercise was performed for 8-10 min each at 20, 30, 40 and 50 W. Measurements of pulmonary oxygen uptake, heart rate, blood pressure, leg blood flow, and femoral arterial-venous differences of oxygen content and lactate were performed as well as determination of ATP, creatine phosphate (CP) inosine monophosphate (IMP) and lactate concentrations on biopsy material from the quadriceps muscle before and immediately after the intense exercise, and at 3, 10 and 60 min into recovery.
(5) Osteo-inductive activity of each protein fraction was determined by implantation in the quadriceps muscle pouch of mice.
(6) An interesting remark which should be done is the fact that the flexion of the neck inhibits the quadriceps myokymia whereas the extension makes them to appear and even worsen.
(7) Then, we evaluated G6PDH activity and RNA content in biopsied quadriceps muscle.
(8) Sixty-two healthy male and female volunteers were randomly assigned to four groups: (a) subjects who statically stretched the quadriceps muscle group before a step, (b) subjects who only performed a stepping warm-up, (c) subjects who both stretched and performed a stepping warm-up prior to a step test, and (d) subjects who only performed a step test.
(9) Quadriceps strength, relaxation rate, fibre-type composition and energy-turnover rate during a submaximal contraction have been measured in hypo- and hyper-thyroid patients and compared with findings in normal subjects.
(10) We report on the use of this flap to resurface the anterolateral aspect of the lower thigh and restore stability and extension to the knee joint following extensive damage to the quadriceps mechanism.
(11) The "tooth" sign represents the relief of severe osteophyte formation in the bundle of the quadriceps tendon at its insertion into the patella.
(12) In female patients, there was on the contrary, a highly significant difference in favor of electrical stimulation (P less than .001) When the different parts of the quadriceps were studied, a significantly lower degree of atrophy of the vastus medialis was found after electrical stimulation.
(13) A corrugated appearance of the patellar tendon on sagittal images indicates a reduction in the normal tensile force applied to it and indicates the need for careful evaluation of the patella and quadriceps tendon mechanism.
(14) The quadriceps had a reduced cross-sectional area, but the knee flexors were not reduced.
(15) As compared to the mean values of normal gravity controls, centrifuged dogs showed no differences in femur length; cross-sectional area, outer and inner radii at mid-shaft of the femur; dry weights of the biceps femoris, quadriceps femoris, and gastrocnemius muscles.
(16) Biopsy findings of the m. quadriceps femoris and the n. gastrocnemius revealed clustered atrophy of myofibrils and segmental demyelinization mingled with remyelinization.
(17) Muscle tissue was obtained by needle biopsy from m. quadriceps femoris after eight hours overnight fast.
(18) The EMG from the quadriceps and hamstring muscle groups was recorded and analyzed in three separate experimental procedures in which the knee was stressed.
(19) At the insertion of the quadriceps tendon and the 'origin' of the patellar ligament, there was more calcified tissue beneath the superficial than the deep parts of the attachment.
(20) The ubiquinone level in the musculus quadriceps femoris of the animals was determined.