(n.) The large lobe of the hind brain in front of and above the medulla; the little brain. It controls combined muscular action. See Brain.
Example Sentences:
(1) The presence of CR-related activity suggests that SpoV may participate in the CR motor output pathway, and may also provide CR-related information to cerebellum.
(2) No HRP-labeled axons were found in the facial and solitary nuclei and the cerebellum.
(3) Blood flows to contralateral cerebral hemispheric structures were relatively unchanged from prehypoxic values, whereas flows to the brainstem and cerebellum nearly doubled and tripled, respectively.
(4) The cerebellum was almost intact except for a few amyloid plaques.
(5) In general, the cerebellum showed a much delayed developmental pattern with regard to Purkinje cell spine formation.
(6) Incomplete penetrance of the simpler pattern suggests that this genetic locus interacts in a probabilistic manner with epigenetic mechanisms involved in morphogenesis of the cerebellum.
(7) The temporal changes in subunit messenger RNA levels in the cerebellum raise the possibility that synaptogenesis may play a role in receptor gene regulation in this brain region.
(8) Unexpectedly long retention times were noted for the chlorinated solvents, particularly for chloroforn, which showed a specific long-term retention in the cerebellum, meninges and spinal nerves, indicating interactions with specific nervous tissue receptors.
(9) Cells dissociated from 6-day rat cerebellum were seeded on glass coverslips coated with polylysine on one half and hyaluronectin on the other.
(10) Northern blot analyses showed no change in ubiquitin or PGP9.5 gene expression in hippocampus or cerebellum.
(11) Moderately higher GLUT3 mRNA levels were detected in the parietal lobe of the cerebrum, hippocampus, and cerebellum than the levels of GLUT1 transcripts.
(12) In the normal 79-day-old mouse cerebellum, the highest concentration of [3H]muscimol binding sites was observed in the granule cell layer.
(13) Fluorescent labels, injected into either the hindlimb muscles or the cerebellum, are retrogradely transported to motoneurones or dorsal spinocerebellar tract neurones respectively.
(14) The autonomic centers in the brain-stem and cerebellum were systematically affected in both the sporadic and the hereditary cases.
(15) Using an affinity-purified antiserum raised against the p36 heavy chain from bovine adrenal medulla, we have examined the cellular distribution of p36 in developing and adult cerebellum.
(16) Neutral aminopeptidase activity showed a significant decrease in the thalamus and cerebellum with marked (not significant) changes in the hypothalamus, hippocampus, medulla, and occipital cortex.
(17) cerebellum, basal ganglia and hypothalamus, reveal selectivity that fails to conform to conventional descriptions of functional systems.
(18) Tracking a moving target with the index finger defined a network of focal responses of relative cerebral blood flow (relCBF) located in the primary motor cortex, dorsal parietal cortex, precuneate cortex, supplementary motor area (SMA) and ipsilateral anterior cerebellum relative to visual tracking alone.
(19) Naloxone-displaceable binding was observed in all regions of the brain, with a density ranking order of cerebellum greater than telencephalon greater than optic tectum greater than hypothalamus greater than brain stem greater than pituitary gland.
(20) The potency of several selective and non-selective ligands for benzodiazepine receptors for inhibition of the binding of [3H]flunitrazepam was compared in membranes from human or rat brain cerebellum, hippocampus and cerebral cortex.
Cerebrum
Definition:
(n.) The anterior, and in man the larger, division of the brain; the seat of the reasoning faculties and the will. See Brain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moderately higher GLUT3 mRNA levels were detected in the parietal lobe of the cerebrum, hippocampus, and cerebellum than the levels of GLUT1 transcripts.
(2) Protein kinase II activity was localized predominantly in the 100,000g particulate fraction of cerebrum and testis, in the supernatant fraction of heart, liver, adrenal, and kidney, and about equally distributed between particulate and supernatant in spleen and lung.
(3) Attempts were made to characterize mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase [L-malate: NAD+ oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.1.37] (M-MDH) purified from bovine cerebrum and to elucidate the mechanisms responsible for inhibition of the enzymic activity by Ag+.
(4) This hereditary lipidosis is characterized pathologically by demyelination, loss of axons, and replacement of the white matter of the caudal cerebrum by a glial scar.
(5) No significant difference between normal and thyroidectomized rats was revealed in this respect on both the cerebrum and brain stem throughout the experimental periods.
(6) Detergent-unextractable structures of synaptic plasma membrane of rat cerebrum were observed by whole mount electron microscopy.
(7) A coronal section of the cerebrum clearly demonstrated a large tumor in the left frontal lobe with small mass in the right frontal lobe (Fig.
(8) In this retrospective study the findings of visual acuity, visual field and papillae of 204 patients operated on the cerebrum were determined and the significance of the morphological factors (position and size of the defect of the cerebral parenchyma, extent of the cerebral ventricles, degree of the cortical atrophy, influence of dignity) for the persisting ophthalmological deficiency phenomena was pointed out.
(9) Primary cultures of mixed glial cells from rat cerebrum and cerebellum, purified oligodendrocytes and astrocytes, as well as two glial tumor cell lines were screened for the expression of glucocorticoid receptors using a mouse monoclonal antibody directed against rat liver GR (BuGR-2).
(10) The IC50 values obtained for these antagonists to block the carbachol-induced PPI turnover cycle in the synaptosomes from the cerebrum were close to the values obtained for the displacement of 3H-QNB binding to the same preparation, and were far away from those values obtained in the synaptosomes from the cerebellum.
(11) Dissociated explants of 8-day-old embryonic chick cerebrum were cultured for up to 18 days.
(12) Electrophysiological studies also revealed the involvements of cerebrum and brain stem.
(13) The ratio of albumin concentration in the cerebellum or in the cerebrum to that in the plasma 2 h after the injection, hereinafter termed the relative albumin level (RA), was calculated and used as a criterion for the albumin transfer.
(14) It is known that the copper concentration and copper-containing enzyme activity are low in cerebrum of mottled mice as well as of patients with Menkes' disease.
(15) In the same animals the calcium content in the cerebrum was independent of plasma calcium between 0.5 and 1.5 mM but rose at higher plasma concentrations.
(16) Low levels of CGRP (less than 500) were detected in the cerebrum, subcortical nuclei and cerebellum.
(17) It was speculated that the CTBP has a specific function in cerebrum at the time of birth although the action of the CTBP is not certain.
(18) The ontogeny of presynaptic elements of GABAergic neurons has been studied in the cerebrum of the chick embryo both in vivo and in vitro.
(19) Gross and histopathologic lesions of the cerebrum included an extensive necrotic cavitation within one cerebral hemisphere, disruption and rarefication of the subcortical white matter, prominent perivascular hemorrhage, and some mononuclear cell perivascular cuffing.
(20) The RA in both the cerebellum and the cerebrum decreased with age, but plateaued between days 28 and 70.