(n.) A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.
(n.) A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra.
(v. i.) To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.
(v. i.) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
(v. i.) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin.
(v. t.) To graft, as a plant with another or into another, by inserting a bud from the one into an opening in the bark of the other, in order to raise, upon the budded stock, fruit different from that which it would naturally bear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Serially sectioned rabbit foliate taste buds were examined with high voltage electron microscopy (HVEM) and computer-assisted, three-dimensional reconstruction.
(2) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
(3) They are capable of synthesis and accumulation of glycogen and responsible for its transfer to sites of more intense metabolism (growth, bud, blastema).
(4) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
(5) Tissue sections, taken from foliate and circumvallate papillae, generally revealed taste buds in which all cells were immunoreactive; however, occasionally some taste buds were found to contain highly reactive individual cells adjacent to non-reactive cells.
(6) They were formed by budding off from the cytoplasmic projections of the osteoblastic tumor cells.
(7) These antibodies were used to study the localization and synthesis of myosin heavy chain and tropomyosin in the limb buds of premetamorphic (stage VI-VII) tadpoles treated with triiodothyronine (T3) to induce metamorphosis.
(8) In contrast, sporoblasts and budding and free sporozoites in mature oocysts were labeled uniformly on the outer surfaces of their plasma membranes, indicating a uniform distribution of CS protein on these membranes.
(9) Other experiments further implicated actin in the budding process during virus maturation, as there appeared to be a specific association of actin in vitro only with nucleocapsids that have terminated RNA synthesis, which is presumably a prerequisite to budding.
(10) By the time the bud was half the diameter of the mother cell, it almost always bore a vacuole.
(11) The ICC assay demonstrated the production of infectious HIV-1 particles and budding of mature virions was observed by electron microscopy.
(12) We report now that the hormonal metabolite of vitamin D3, namely 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3, stimulates chondrogenesis in cultures of stage 24 chick embryo limb bud mesenchymal cells, as evidenced by morphologic changes as well as by increased transcription of collagen type II and core protein genes.
(13) Lysis ability was acquired by growth in (or transfer to) an osmotically stabilized environment, but only under conditions which permitted budding.
(14) Intralobar pulmonary sequestration has generally been considered a congenital malformation in which an accessory lung bud develops, is enveloped by normal lung, and retains its systemic arterial supply.
(15) Consequently mother cells can switch their mating type whereas bud cells cannot.
(16) At the former site the membrane overlying the bud showed an electron opaque thickening which imparted to the mature particle an asymmetrical appearance.
(17) Recently, cDNA clones encoding several bovine CKI isoforms have been sequenced that show high sequence identity to the HRR25 gene product of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae; HRR25 is required for normal cellular growth, nuclear segregation, DNA repair, and meiosis.
(18) Budding "yeast-like organisms" that were consistent with Cryptococcus neoformans appeared in tissue specimens.
(19) This decrease in virus release appeared to be due to interference with the virus budding process due to antibody-mediated modulation of virus-induced cell surface antigens.
(20) Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) was tested for its ability to stimulate a chemotactic response in Stage 24 embryonic chick limb bud mesenchymal cells and muscle-derived fibroblasts.
Bun
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Bunn
Example Sentences:
(1) 131I-hippuran uptake of the renal cortical slices and histopathological examination as well as serum creatinine and BUN levels were used as parameters for assessing renal damage.
(2) On days 70 and 94, both blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and serum creatinine (sCR) values in the vehicle-treated rats were significantly higher than those in normal rats (without treatment with PAN and PS).
(3) Patients were monitored postoperatively by determination of BUN, serum creatinine, blood glucose, serum and urinary amylase levels, and Doppler assessment of the graft was carried out at regular intervals.
(4) A single high sodium dialysis results in a rise in serum sodium that osmotically parallels the fall in BUN.
(5) During CAVH serum creatinine showed an insignificant decline, whereas BUN even increased.
(6) Male rats experienced some weight loss (15%) and slight increases of ALT and BUN, but there were no effects of either DCA or TCA on any of these responses.
(7) Hot cross buns must be made and eaten on Good Friday before 11 o’clock, otherwise their meaning is lost.
(8) With the aim of studying this aspect, 16 patients with glomerulopathy associated with schistosomiasis mansoni were evaluated (proteinuria and levels of BUN and creatinine) before therapy, 1 week, 1 month, 2-3 months and 6 months after therapy of the parasitic infections.
(9) The severity of the acidosis in the 24-mo-old rats was related to serum creatinine and BUN.
(10) APAP-induced renal damage, as judged by BUN and histopathology, was not altered in young or middle-aged rats following unilateral nephrectomy.
(11) Brush the buns with the egg and sprinkle with pearl sugar.
(12) Urinalysis and assays for plasma hormone values, including cortisol, beta 2-microglobulin, potassium, and BUN, showed no changes during treatment.
(13) Bromocriptine produced no significant change in the BUN or the serum concentrations of creatinine, inorganic phosphate or PTH.
(14) Davis, however, said she had issued a new policy, effective immediately, to abide by Bunning’s order.
(15) The peritoneal clearance of smaller molecules such as BUN, creatinine, uric acid and phosphate also tended to be higher in diabetics after infusion of 1.5% Dianeal for 4 hours.
(16) BUN levels were within the normal range except on day 7.
(17) Because extrarenal factors may alter BUN and SC, it is necessary to correlate these values with clinical and other laboratory data to differentiate renal from extra-renal azotemia.
(18) Before and after ESWL, Bun, Cr, B2-mG (of blood and urine), activity of blood plasma renin AT-II, -GT, NAG, mucoprotein of plasma, etc were also determined.
(19) Blood for BUN, creatinine, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) was obtained prior to ischemia and on days 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, and 10.
(20) BUN was significantly elevated, while Scr was significantly depressed, in untreated patients with hyperthyroid Graves' disease.