(1) Tissue alterations included mechanical compression of the pancreas and liver, granulomatous inflammation and necrosis of the liver, and trauma to the muscularis externa of the pyloric caeca.
(2) The length of small intestine, large intestine and caeca and the weight of gizzard expressed per kg of body weight increased with an increase in the level of carob pods meal, which is rich in fibre, in the diets.
(3) Whole-body autoradiography in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) after oral and intravenous administration of 3H-labelled aflatoxin B1 showed labelling of several extrahepatic tissues, such as the uveal melanin and the vitreous humour of the eyes, the trunk and head kidney, the olfactory rosettes and the pyloric caecae.
(4) Flagellates from the caeca of a diseased hen and a diseased goose were transmitted to 35 specific pathogen-free (SPF) chickens.
(5) From the total radioactivity given, most was found 24 hours after the meal in the pyloric caeca, ovary and skin.
(6) There was a slight elevation in the activity of acid phosphatase in the liver and pyloric caeca of exposed fish, but this was not statistically significant.
(7) By changing the concentrations of Mg2+ and Ca2+ ions and ATP, the Ca2+, Mg2+-dependent ATPase [EC 3.6.1.3] of SR was converted to various enzymatic states, E, MgE, MgECa, MgEATP' CaECa, and CaECap at pH 8.0 and 0 degrees (cf.
(8) Six stages in development are distinguished: the 'lung form' (stage 1), attaining maximum numbers on day 5 post-infection; the 'closed-gut form' (stage 2) on day 14, characterized by the union of the gut caeca behind the ventral sucker; 'organogeny' (stage 3) on day 17, the male possessing one testis and a gynaecophoric canal and the female a narrow uterus; 'gametogeny' (stage 4) on day 26, with pairing, the male having four fully developed testes and the female an ovary; 'egg-shell formation' (stage 5) on day 35; 'oviposition' (stage 6) on day 37, with the female showing uterine eggs.
(9) In some trematodes, the caeca, especially in the brush border, and the tegument, subtegumental cells and testes, were reactive to the enzymes.
(10) Administration of alloxan and barbituric acid and immunization with urease led to slightly larger caeca in conventional animals.
(11) Amounts of protein synthesized were larger in liver, jejunum + ileum and caeca in the presence of the gut microflora.
(12) The function of the pyloric caeca of fish has been uncertain since their detailed description in 345 B.C.
(13) Chymotrypsin, trypsin and elastase have been purified from the pyloric caeca of cod.
(14) Experiments were done in vitro and in situ in the caeca to measure ammonia production from uric acid and its absorption.
(15) C. difficile cytotoxin was detected in caeca from mice in which the numbers of C. difficile were greater than 10(5) per gram of faeces.
(16) Significant increase of the enzyme activity was observed for 17 alpha-hydroxylase in the pyloric caeca of female animals exposed to zinc (pregnenolone----17 alpha-hydroxypregnenolone) or cadmium (progesterone----17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone), for 17 beta-hydroxysteroiddehydrogenase in the gonads of female animals (dehydroepiandrosterone----androstenediol) and in pyloric caeca of male animals (androstenedione----testosterone) after exposure to cadmium, and for 5 alpha-reductase (progesterone----5 alpha-pregnane-3,20-dione) in ovaries of cadmium exposed sea star.
(17) The purpose of this work was to study the effects of interrupted, continuous and post-salmonella inoculation treatment with furazolidone in the feed on the colonization of Salmonella infantis in the intestines of chickens, as well as the influence of furazolidone in vitro on the effect of a mixed culture used for the prevention of salmonellosis in chickens.It was shown that chickens given interrupted treatment with 0.01% furazolidone had significantly more salmonellas in the caeca than either chickens fed continuously with this drug or chickens without any treatment.
(18) ATPase activity, observed as a black brown precipitate, was found in the brush border of gastric caeca and microvilli of columnar epithelial cells of the hind gut and Malpighian tubules.
(19) In the larva, in addition to the central nervous system, FMRFamide-like immunoreactivity was localized in the fibers innervating the ring gland, in the ganglion innervating the gut and in the gastric caeca.
(20) The pyloric caeca showed maximum transport of fructose.
Caecum
Definition:
(n.) A cavity open at one end, as the blind end of a canal or duct.
(n.) The blind part of the large intestine beyond the entrance of the small intestine; -- called also the blind gut.
Example Sentences:
(1) The remaining case had a calibre persistent submucosal artery within the caecum that was found incidentally in a resection specimen.
(2) The bacteriostatic effect was evident both in the small intestine and in the distal part of the intestine containing caecum and colon.
(3) Binding studies with iodinated motilin revealed that in the small intestine motilin receptor density decreased aborally, disappeared in the caecum but returned in the colon and rectum.
(4) The average rates of development of the contractile and relaxation phases and their relative dependence in the acetylcholine contractile effect, after treatment with papaverine, prostaglandines E1 and F2 alpha and BaCl2, are tested on longitudinal and circular smooth muscles of guinea-pig caecum.
(5) Basic amino acids (Arg, Lys, His) stimulate the absorption of serine and threonine from the caecum of pigs.
(6) The stimulatory effect of acetylcholine on ir-TRH release from the rat caecum was blocked with an addition of atropine.
(7) Surgery of the perforated caecum and ampulla recti was carried out during the first 24 hours, and that of the sigmoid flexure on the seventh day.
(8) Cold storage (2 degrees C) treatment progressively reduced noradrenaline uptake by the taenia caecum of the guinea-pig.
(9) Hence, the radiological correlate of the pseudo-obstruction of the colon is not specific, but it does supply a pointer to the disease of its shows dilation of the caecum, colon ascendens and colon transversum with air-pockets and reflected imaging as well as a usually not dilated colon descendens with remarkably little air.
(10) Single cells were prepared from the guinea-pig taenia caecum and used for the study of drug-receptor interactions.
(11) This paper describes the embryology, anatomy, basic pathology and clinical features of the condition with characteristic X-rays showing the patent foramen caecum and outlines the operative repair.
(12) These results suggest that the inhibitory action of dehydrocorydaline on the relaxation or contraction, produced by nicotine and electrical nerve stimulation, is due to blockade of noradrenaline release from the adrenergic nerve terminals in both the taenia caecum and pulmonary artery.
(13) The present data cast doubt upon so-called "descending of the caecum" described in current textbooks of embryology.
(14) Attempts at extra-cranial repair have met little success as they do not take into account the basic embryology and anatomy of the condition and fail to tackle the sac at the patent foramen caecum, the neck of the sac.
(15) In later stages, on human embryos of 11 to 16 mm (37 to 44 days of age; Carnegie stages 16 to 18), the mesoblastic anlage of the appendix is more evident, but it is not invaded by the entoblastic cells which come from the caecum on embryos of 12 to 13 mm.
(16) Necropsy revealed no notable drug related abnormalities except in caecum of all test groups.
(17) The relationship between the sensitivity (the pD2 value) of carbachol and the density (the total concentration of receptors) of muscarinic receptors using single cells from the guinea pig taenia caecum prepared with a mixture of crude collagenase and trypsin inhibitor, purified collagenase alone, and a mixture of purified collagenase and papain was examined.
(18) In all the animals, enterokinase values were unequivocally the highest in the duodenal mucosa; in the other intestinal segments it displayed a marked aboral decrease, so that we found about 30% of duodenal activity in the jejunum, trace amounts in the ileum and zero values in the caecum and the sigmoid flexure.
(19) In controls, ileal emptying was faster, peak % counts in the caecum were higher, and ileocaecal clearance was greater than in those with IBS.
(20) The caecum and colon were left in place and their contents slowly emptied through a cannula located in the distal colon; accordingly, no food arrived in this caeco-colic compartment.