(n.) A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.
(n.) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
(n.) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
(n.) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
(v. t.) To shield; to defend.
Example Sentences:
(1) The two cases are from a six-generation family with an autosomal dominant corneal dystrophy resembling Reis-Bucklers' dystrophy.
(2) At first I think the plant might be a holly fern or a rigid buckler fern because of its stiff bearing out of mossy limestone rocks.
(3) The Tanner and Whitehouse method showed better repeatability than the Greulich and Pyle atlas or the Buckler handbook when a sample of the radiographs were assessed twice by the same observer.
(4) The results showed that when a portion of 2C was present, the primary cleavage by the 3C protease was between 2C and 3A, and the cleavage site was QG, as predicted by J. I. Cohen, J. R. Ticehurst, R. H. Purcell, A. Buckler-White, and B. M. Baroudy, J. Virol.
(5) We have mapped a site within exon 1 of the murine c-myc gene that forms a variety of complexes with nuclear proteins derived from the murine WEHI 231 B-lymphoma cell line in exponential growth that are altered following treatment with phorbol ester, when transcription of this gene is reduced [Levine, R.A., McCormack, J.E., Buckler, A.J.
(6) Buckler, Charles E. (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Md.
Scutate
Definition:
(a.) Buckler-shaped; round or nearly round.
(a.) Protected or covered by bony or horny plates, or large scales.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dermis of reticulate scales does not induce beta stratum formation, but it does support differentiation of a beta stratum by the determined 15-day scutate scale epidermis.
(2) Tenascin's initial appearance and pattern of distribution in the scutate scale dermis and its abnormal expression in the scaleless dermis suggest that morphogenesis plays a significant role in regulation of its expression.
(3) This study also suggests that all basal cells of the presumptive scutate scale epidermis are initially endowed with the ability to generate cells that form a beta stratum.
(4) This study shows that different patterns of scutate scale type beta keratins are accumulated in the three adjacent structures of the embryonic chick beak: periderm, egg tooth, and cornified beak.
(5) The results show that the germinative cell population of the 15-day scutate scale epidermis is committed to generating suprabasal cells that follow their appendage-specific pathways of histogenesis and terminal differentiation.
(6) The chorionic epithelium formed the appropriate epidermis with a fully developed stratum corneum in response to both spur and scutate scale dermises.
(7) The expression of two previously uncharacterized polypeptides produced in epidermal cells of chick reticulate and scutate scales during late embryonic scale histogenesis and in hatchling birds has been studied biochemically and immunologically.
(8) We have found that the extracellular matrix molecule, tenascin, first appears in the scutate scale dermis at 12 days of development when the scale ridge is established.
(9) Seven beta keratin polypeptides were translated in vitro and could be identified by their positions in two-dimensional gels among the detergent-insoluble extracts of scutate scale epidermis.
(10) This selective expression of beta keratin genes in specific regions of the developing scutate scale suggests that epidermal-dermal interactions provide not only for morphological events, but also for control of complex patterns of histogenesis and biochemical differentiation.
(11) Correlations between the patterns of beta-keratin expression and histological events suggest that the brief accumulation of beta-keratin mRNA in scaleless skin and normal reticulate scales is related to the formation of the subperiderm (a protective layer of cells, peculiar to embryonic skin) while the continuous accumulation of beta-keratin mRNA during scutate scale development reflects the formation of a beta stratum.
(12) Neither the histidine rich "fast" proteins (HRPs), which are expressed in embryonic scutate scales and feathers, nor the avian cytokeratin associated proteins (cap-1 and cap-2), which are expressed in scutate and reticulate scales, are expressed in any of the embryonic beak structures or in the claw.
(13) Recent studies have shown that the dermis of scutate scales is involved in the expression of the beta keratin gene products, which characterize terminal differentiation of the epidermis on the outer scale surface (Sawyer et al.
(14) The egg tooth, which is the rounded elevation on the dorsal surface of the upper beak, and the embryonic claw accumulate greatly reduced levels of 2,3 and p2,3 compared to scutate scale.
(15) While it is well established that epidermal-dermal interactions are important for the regional expression of the beta keratin genes in the avian scutate scales and feathers, little is known about the expression of beta keratins in other epithelial structures such as the tongue.
(16) The temporal appearance of beta keratin mRNA and the corresponding polypeptides was followed during scutate scale development.
(17) Morphogenesis of the anterior metatarsal skin (scutate scale region), from 9.5 to 12 days of development, results in the formation of orderly patterned scale ridges.
(18) This observation suggested the possibility that commitment to beta stratum formation might be occurring as the outer epidermal surface of each scutate scale first becomes established between 12 and 13 days of development.
(19) In the anterior metatarsal region of the chicken, morphogenesis results in the formation of distinct overlapping scutate scales.
(20) To examined the ability of the presumptive scutate scale epidermis to generate beta strata in the absence of the inductive scutate scale dermis, scutate scale epidermis from 11-, 12-, and 13-day embryos was recombined with 15-day reticulate scale dermis and grown for 7 or 9 days.