(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.
Mesothelium
Definition:
(n.) Epithelial mesoderm; a layer of cuboidal epithelium cells, formed from a portion of the mesoderm during the differetiation of the germ layers. It constitutes the boundary of the c/lum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recognition of this deficiency in our knowledge spurred a belated explosion of research that began with an exploration of the fine structure of the mesothelium.
(2) A case of mucous metaplasia of mesothelium in an 80 year old woman is described.
(3) The other main sites of expression are the genital ridge, fetal gonad and mesothelium.
(4) We have previously shown that progesterone receptor (PR) is expressed in the mesothelium of the chick oviduct and ovary and in the smooth muscle cells of the oviduct and the bursa of Fabricius.
(5) We now describe, for the first time, that cells morphologically similar to uterine decidual cells found beneath the peritoneal mesothelium in inguinal hernia and in the cervical mucosa during normal pregnancy and in the mesenchymal tissue of the Fallopian tubes and ovaries at term react with the monoclonal antibody for IGFBP-1 equally to endometrial decidual cells.
(6) Adenomatoid change or squamous metaplasia of the mesothelium occurs in one-third of cases.
(7) Animals had poor early weight gain, and gross necropsy examination revealed intestinal adhesions and a mesothelium that was sclerotically thickened.
(8) They arise from the tissues of the broad ligament, predominantly from mesothelium covering the peritoneum but also from paramesonephric and mesonephric remnants.
(9) The mesothelium is a target of the toxic and carcinogenic effects of asbestos fibers.
(10) The first mesothelial mitoses appeared: in the first series (I) of experiments - in 24 h, in the second series (II) of experiments - 21 h. Further, proliferation of the mesothelium appeared in different parts of the tissue with various intencity and was of wavy character.
(11) Peritoneal mesothelium was exposed for 2-60 min to solutions of horseradish peroxidase by incubation in vitro, or after intraperitoneal injection in vivo.
(12) Rat pleural mesothelium was studied 16 to 22 months after intrapleural inoculation of chrysotile-asbestos.
(13) In the present study, immunohistochemical analysis of normal rabbit, dog, and monkey tissues using monoclonal antibody OC125, revealed that in these animals positive staining for CA125 is found in all tissues that produce this mucin-like glycoprotein in man, i.e., the peritoneal and pleural mesothelium, the different Müllerian-duct-derived epithelia of the female genital tract, and the epithelium of trachea, bronchi, bronchioli, and mucoserous respiratory glands; CA125 was also detected in some ductal and acinar cells of the dog mammary gland.
(14) The study of the morphologic features of mesothelial cells in effusions in experimental asbestos-induced mesotheliomas may contribute to the understanding of the neoplastic transformation of the mesothelium.
(15) 3) Between 9 and 12 days of age U-shaped folds of the bursal mesothelium began to invade the connective tissue of the bursa.
(16) In the absence of a primary tumor elsewhere, we considered this tumor to be primary in the spleen, and it was presumed that the tumor arose either from invaginated capsular mesothelium of the spleen or from heterotopic pancreatic or enteric tissue within the spleen.
(17) Keratin 7 was found to occur in the columnar and glandular epithelium of the lung, cervix, breast, in bile ducts, collecting ducts in the kidney and in mesothelium, but to be absent from gastrointestinal epithelium, hepatocytes, proximal and distal tubules of the kidney and myoepithelium.
(18) When studying total pleural mesothelium films in rats after intrapleural injection of chrysotile the pathological regeneration of the mesothelium is observed.
(19) The fetal tracheal and bronchial epithelium, tracheal glands, and pleural mesothelium were positive for CA 125.
(20) These results indicate that B. fragilis adheres to rat peritoneal mesothelium better than unencapsulated species and suggests that the capsular polysaccharide of B. fragilis plays some role in this increased adherence.