(n.) A cloth of exceedingly fine texture, used by the ancients. It is disputed whether it was of cotton, linen, or silk.
(n.) A tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a groove of the foot, and issue from between the valves of certain bivalve mollusks, as the Pinna and Mytilus, by which they attach themselves to rocks, etc.
(n.) An obsolete name for certain fungi composed of slender threads.
(n.) Asbestus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tension and intracellular free calcium concentration [( Ca2+]i) were measured simultaneously in single smooth muscle cells isolated from the anterior byssus retractor muscle (ABRM) of Mytilus edulis that were loaded with the fluorescent Ca2+ indicator fura-2.
(2) The polyphenolic protein is the "glue" in the adhesive plaques of the byssus.
(3) By quantitative sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, paramyosin:myosin heavy chain molecular ratios were calculated for three molluscan muscles:Aequipecten striated adductor, Mercenaria opaque adductor, and Mytilus anterior byssus retractor; and four arthropodan muscles:Limulus telson, Homarus slow claw.
(4) Effects of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) and forskolin on intracellular free calcium concentration [( Ca2+]i) were studied in suspensions of fura-2 loaded smooth-muscle cells from the anterior byssus retractor 'catch' muscle of Mytilus edulis.
(5) The relaxing effect of SKF 38393 on the catch contraction in the anterior byssus retractor muscle (ABRM) of Mytilus and the effect of SKF 38393 on the cyclic AMP (cAMP) levels in the ABRM were investigated.
(6) Which participate in the attachment of the byssus disc.
(7) Calcium in the artificial seawater bathing whole Mytilus anterior byssus retractor muscles (ABRM) was measured by a specific Ca electrode under various conditions of activation, catch, and catch relaxation.
(8) A method for isolating native thick filaments from the anterior byssus retractor muscle (ABRM) of Mytilus edulis is described.
(9) To study the mechanical properties of various crossbridge states in the anterior byssus retractor muscle (ABRM) of Mytilus, the tension response of the glycerinated ABRM to a step increase of the length was examined in rigor solutions with saturating Ca2+ (Rca) and without added Ca2+ (R), rigor ones with ADP (AD) and with both ADP and saturating Ca2+ (ADca), and a low ATP, activating one.
(10) Serotonin and dopamine show similar dose-response relationships when they relax tonically contracted intact muscle fibres of the anterior byssus retractor muscle of Mytilus edulis.
(11) Using immuno-electrophoretic methods, the polyphenolic protein and the cystine-rich protein were shown to form high molecular weight aggregates with aging of the byssus.
(12) FMRF-amide (10(-7)-10(-5) M) contracted molluscan anterior byssus retractor muscle in a concentration-dependent fashion.
(13) The thin filaments of the anterior byssus retractor muscle of the edible mussel Mytilus and the transluscent and opaque adductors of the oyster Crassostrea have been isolated and their properties investigated.
(14) The anterior byssus retractor muscle (ABRM) of Mytilus edulis is innervated by at least two kinds of nerves, excitatory and relaxing nerves.
(15) An FMRFamide-related decapeptide isolated from the anterior byssus retractor muscle (ABRM) of the bivalve mollusc, Mytilus edulis, was shown to have D-Leu as the second amino acid residue.
(16) Barnacle cement (which can adhere to Teflon) and mussel and clam byssus, all of which are 99% protein, set in the presence of water and resist enzymatic as well as chemical degradation at ambient temperature.
(17) Thiourea is known to suppress the contractile response of Mytilus anterior byssus retractor muscle and toad sartorious muscle following electrical or chemical stimulation without abolishing of the electrical responses.
(18) Intracellular free calcium concentration [( Ca2+]1) was measured in suspensions of fura-2 loaded smooth-muscle cells isolated from the anterior byssus retractor muscle of Mytilus edulis.
(19) In the anterior byssus retractor muscle (ABRM) of Mytilus, low concentrations of FMRFamide (10(-8)-10(-7) M) relax ACh-induced catch-tension, whereas high concentrations (greater than 10(-7) M) cause contraction.
(20) The present study examined the effects of three heavy metals on the acetylcholine (ACh) contracture and Ca++ kinetics of the anterior byssus retractor muscle of Mytilus edulis.