(n.) A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has been shown by LM and transmission electron microscopy that cells with blebs are viable and capable of mitotic activity.
(2) Transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that these blebs were devoid of organelles and microvilli; scanning electron microscopy revealed that the blebs were highly wrinkled and more numerous than were the projections observed in tissue from animals treated with testosterone alone, or in tissue from unoperated controls.
(3) Combined SEM and TEM examination of the endothelium of compressed segments revealed "craters" and "balloons", blebs and vacuoles, swollen mitochondria, dilated granular endoplasmic reticulum, and subendothelial edema.
(4) Ten filtrating blebs remained after a 5 months' follow-up period.
(5) These early hyperplastic lesions revealed stellate-shaped dilated bile canaliculi lined by blebs and abnormally thick elongated microvilli, a decreased number of microvilli on the sinusoidal surface, a marked increase in smooth endoplasmic reticulum, large nucleoli, and bundles of pericanalicular microfilaments.
(6) Thus, encapsulation of the filtering bleb, although requiring additional surgery in many cases, carries a favorable long-term prognosis.
(7) These mitochondria had a highly electron dense matrix and protrusions or blebs of mitochondrial outer membrane were frequently observed.
(8) An increase of cytosolic free Ca2+ is not the stimulus for bleb formation or the final common pathway leading to cell death.
(9) We recommend this skin incision for young patients with pneumothorax if the chest CT scan confirms that the bullae or blebs are localized to the apex of superior segment of the lower lobe.
(10) They induced modifications in particle distribution, a blebbing of particle-free areas and the appearance of lamellar figures on the plasma membrane of fungus cells.
(11) 2 Treatment of hepatocytes with either NABQI (0.4 mM) or paracetamol (2 mM) alone resulted in a considerable loss of cell viability, as assessed by trypan blue exclusion or leakage of lactate dehydrogenase, accompanied by an increase in the percentage of viable cells that were blebbed.
(12) Experiments where catalase was used to interrupt H2O2 exposure over a long time course revealed 15-30 minutes to be the critical period of exposure to 5 mM H2O2 necessary for a sustained increase in F actin as well as large increases in membrane blebbing and later cell death.
(13) None of the patients treated by operation (plication or resection and suture of the bleb) had a later recurrence.
(14) We have found the early placement of a therapeutic bandage contact lens permits extended administration of 5-FU during this period, minimizing discomfort and inflammation as well as enhancing bleb survival.
(15) Scanning electron microscopy showed the appearance at the culture surface of immature cells with gross surface abnormalities including large numbers of blebs, stubby microvilli and long pleomorphic microvilli.
(16) Vascular changes included perivascular deposits of proteinaceous material presumably from leakage of serum proteins, variable electron lucency of endothelial cell cytoplasm, an apparent increase in pinocytotic vesicles, rare platelet thrombosis of capillaries, and rare intravascular blebs of luminal plasma membrane.
(17) Formation of blebs was dose dependent and preceded release of LDH and trypan blue uptake.
(18) In addition, CHO cells displayed membrane bleb formations similar to those found in CHO cells after exposure to established inhibitors of protein synthesis, puromycin and anisomycin.
(19) The surfaces of the majority of these cells are covered by vesicles or blebs.
(20) In this group, 4 cases bled again because of enlargement or the development of an aneurysmal bleb.
Serous
Definition:
(a.) Thin; watery; like serum; as the serous fluids.
(a.) Of or pertaining to serum; as, the serous glands, membranes, layers. See Serum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma has distinctly different clinical behavior compared to serous carcinoma and should be regarded as an aggressive epithelial histologic type.
(2) The percentage of positive cases was highest in the serous MEE group (81.2%) and decreased in the purulent MEE group (57%), the mucoid MEE group (30%), and the hyperviscous MEE group (13.6%), in that order.
(3) The serous fluid of mice was used as a source of endogenous DNAse I.
(4) Incorporation of [2-14C] sodium acetate into 7-dehydrocholesterol ketoderivative, cholesta-4,7-dien-3-on, was studied in the tissues of the rat stomach secretory and esophageal parts and in the mucous and serous membranes of the small intestine.
(5) Ovarian tumors were noted in all 27 patients, including 2 primary carcinomas and 14 serous cystadenomas.
(6) In the case of a massive serous pleural effusion examination of the ingredients leads to diagnosis.
(7) We examined the immunocytochemical localization of amylase in cryofixed serous acinar cells of gerbil major salivary glands by indirect immunostaining, using anti-gerbil parotid amylase antibody and protein A-gold complex.
(8) However, in human lungs, lysozyme was identified in serous submucosal glands but not in alveolar type II pneumocytes.
(9) The amount of the fluid flowing off the vessels, perfusate penetration into the intestinal lumen and its transudation through the serous membrane were determined.
(10) The terminology of the pericardial sinuses and recesses has been inconsistent, and the authors propose a nomenclature for standardizing the names of the recesses of the serous pericardium.
(11) Flow cytometric analysis of DNA content and ras p21 expression were studied in paraffin-embedded normal ovary (NO, n = 10), serous cystadenoma (SA, n = 11), serous tumors of low malignant potential (LMP, n = 13), and papillary serous cystadenocarcinoma (SCa, n = 7).
(12) Two previously unnamed recesses within the serous pericardium are defined and named, one the inferior aortic recess of the transverse sinus and the other, the right pulmonic recess of the transverse sinus.
(13) In hypertension, all the components are affected in the microcirculatory bed of serous membranes: arterioles, precapillaries, capillaries, postcapillaries, venules, lymph capillaries and postcapillaries.
(14) Serous granules were stained by toluidine blue, or by hematoxylin and eosin (H and E), but showed little or no reaction with periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) or Alcian blue.
(15) Chronic serous otitis media was a frequent finding but deafness was rarely profound.
(16) We created serous retinal detachment in the cat eye by means of photodynamic injury produced by activation of intravascular rose bengal using filtered, focused light (550 nm).
(17) Uterine papillary serous carcinoma (UPSC), FIGO grade 3, nuclear grade 3, and age were the major independent prognostic factors.
(18) A patient with a strongly positive family history underwent a prophylactic oophorectomy and, 5 years later, developed a primary peritoneal papillary serous adenocarcinoma.
(19) Ophthalmoscopic examination disclosed a single, white, elevated mass lesion surrounded by serous retinal detachment located in the upper part of the macula of the right eye.
(20) These cells express serous cell phenotype as reflected by ultrastructure, histochemistry, and lysozyme activity.