(n.) A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.
(n.) A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.
(n.) Any small cavity, or hollow place.
(n.) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
(n.) Same as Cella.
(n.) A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.
(n.) One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.
(v. t.) To place or inclose in a cell.
Example Sentences:
(1) The variation in thickness of the LLFL may modulate the species causing damage to the cells below it.
(2) Similar experimental manipulation has yielded in vitro lines established from avian B-cell lymphomas expressing elevated levels of c-myc or v-rel.
(3) A spindle cell sarcoma appeared 20 months after implantation of a pellet of 3-methylcholanthrene in the denervated foreleg of an adult frog, Rana pipiens.
(4) The effect of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) on growth of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cell lines was studied.
(5) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
(6) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
(7) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
(8) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(9) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
(10) Assessment of the likelihood of replication in humans has included in vitro exposure of human cells to the potential pesticidal agent.
(11) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
(12) Steady-state values of cell, glucose, and cellulase concentration oxygen tension, and outlet gas oxygen partial pressure were recorded.
(13) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
(14) Within the outflow tract wall, the labelled cells were enmeshed by strands of alcian blue-stained extracellular matrix.
(15) Neutrons induced a dose-dependent cytotoxicity and mutation frequency in the AL cells.
(16) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
(17) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
(18) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
(19) We have investigated the effect of methimazole (MMI) on cell-mediated immunity and ascertained the mechanisms of immunosuppression produced by the drug.
(20) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
Endosteum
Definition:
(n.) The layer of vascular connective tissue lining the medullary cavities of bone.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that the tissue in diffusion chambers, formed by a small number of early precursor cells present in the soft tissues of the endosteum and marrow of young rabbits, contains extracellular matrix macromolecules similar to those found in bone and cartilage.
(2) With bead types II and III, bead-associated new bone was seen at 3 days and 4 days only when beads lodged near the endosteum or in the metaphysis.
(3) However, the increase in rate of influx when the cellular layers are removed indicates that the periosteum and endosteum constitute an important structural conponent in the maintenance of bone mineral and its equilibration with the circulation.
(4) Immunohistochemistry of normal and neoplastic tissues demonstrated that RCB1 bound the connective tissues surrounding the cancer nests and various normal tissues including interstitium of renal distal tubule, periosteum, endosteum, smooth muscles of digestive tract and media of arteries and arterioles.
(5) Our studies of 2 microns sectioned undecalcified plastic-embedded bone marrow (BM) from healthy human fetuses; normal adults; patients with acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML), acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), and chronic granulocytic leukemia (CGL) in various stages (chronic, accelerated, acute blastic phase, and after autografting); and patients recovering from therapy-induced marrow hypoplasia suggest that proliferative hematopoietic zones exist near the endosteum (endosteal marrow) and the vascular endothelium (capillary and sinus-lining endothelium) and a maturational zone distal to these regions.
(6) Surgical interference within the blood supply to the inner ear was responsible for metaplastic bone, and damage to the endosteum by surgery or disease caused osteoplastic bone.
(7) Endosteum is the main source of the regeneration of the stromal elements.
(8) General and some special histologic methods have been used to study the structure of periosteum and endosteum, as well as the morphological peculiarities of their cells in rodents and hares in the early and late postnatal ontogenesis.
(9) The findings show the existence of antibodies directed against the cell nuclei, or against the endothelium of the cochlear vessels, or against the endosteum of the inner ear.
(10) Within the diaphyseal cortex, the primary resorption phase of Paget's disease is often limited either to the endosteum or to the central layers of the cortex.
(11) Ultrastructural peculiarities of stromal elements from bone marrow and endosteum in 28 children with acute leukaemia during clinical and hematological exacerbations are presented.
(12) The fluoride distribution of the femur bone in each specimen was analysed from the periosteum to the endosteum by using the abrasive micro-sampling technique described by Weatherell et al.
(13) These reticulum cells may be found throughout the marrow but are concentrated near the endosteum.
(14) One specimen displayed a circumscribed sensorineural degeneration in the upper basal turn, with an almost exact correspondence between the location and extent of the cochlear lesion and the site of invasion by the otosclerotic process in the bone and endosteum bordering on scala media and scala tympani.
(15) Irregular medullary bone formation may be connected with the endosteum, but usually it develops in the bone marrow, independently of the endosteum.
(16) The site of origin in 5 rats was found to be in or near the endosteum.
(17) Where otosclerosis involved the endosteum of the scala tympani, loss of vessels was observed.
(18) periosteum, endosteum, osteocytes, marrow) removed by mechanical or enzymatic pretreatment.
(19) In the cement treated animals external callus formation occurred slowly, due to poor bone-forming capacity of the endosteum and a failure to form a bridge at the fracture site.
(20) Our working hypothesis is that BMP induces the differentiation of perivascular connective tissue cells into chondroblasts and osteoprogenitor cells and thereby augments the process of bone regeneration from the cells already present in the endosteum and periosteum.