(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.
Telencephalon
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The telencephalon of teleost fish shows high affinity uptake for D-[3H]aspartate, intermediate levels of GABAergic markers and low levels of cholinergic enzymes.
(2) Numerous CA fibers which are first observed at the level of the preoptic area, ascend through the central zone of the telencephalon and arborize profusely particularly within the medial zone of area dorsalis telencephali.
(3) AR and ER mRNA-containing neurons were widely distributed in the rat brain, with the greatest densities of cells in the hypothalamus, and in regions of the telencephalon that provide strong inputs in the medial preoptic and ventromedial nuclei, each of which is thought to play a key role in mediating the hormonal control of copulatory behavior, as well as in the lateral septal nucleus, the medial and cortical nuclei of the amygdala, the amygdalohippocampal area, and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.
(4) Injections of horseradish peroxidase into the telencephalon retrogradely labeled neurons ipsilaterally in various thalamic, preglomerular, and tuberal nuclei, the nucleus of the locus coeruleus (also contralaterally), the superior raphe, and portions of the nucleus lateralis valvulae.
(5) 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.
(6) The histologic and ultrastructural appearance of the telencephalon of the normal 21-day guinea-pig foetus was described for comparative purposes.
(7) Within the telencephalon, chronic but not acute treatment with T3 or T4 selectively increased dopamine (DA) utilization within the diffuse type of DA nerve terminal systems of the nucleus accumbens.
(8) High-energy radiation bombardment of intact frozen telencephalon resulted in a biphasic inactivation curve for [3H]AMPA binding.
(9) M cells were located at the ventralmost region of the junction between the olfactory bulb and telencephalon, while L cells were scattered more rostrally along the ventromedial surface of the olfactory bulb.
(10) Levels of acetylcholine were significantly elevated in the telencephalon and diencephalon + mesencephalon of rats killed by near-freezing during conditioned suppression of food-reinforced lever pressing, whereas levels of serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine were not altered.
(11) Some immunopositive cells were detected in the rostral telencephalon but not caudal to the telencephalon.
(12) Extensive plexuses of TH-positive nerve terminals were found in many parts of the telencephalon, mainly confined to the subcortical and limbic cortical structures.
(13) Areas rich in [3H]-SP binding were located in the ventral telencephalon, in the entire hypothalamic and thalamic region, in the midbrain tegmentum, in the optic tectum, in the valvulla cerebelli and in the medulla oblongata.
(14) The earliest generated cells of the cat's telencephalon that may play a role in the formation of the primary visual cortex are the subject of this study.
(15) The performance of tadpoles and juvenile frogs on a battery of behavioral tests was compared before and after tectotomy, removal of the telencephalon (decerebration), tectotomy in conjunction with decerebration, or before and after a sham operation.
(16) Previous work has shown that aggregate cultures prepared from fetal rat telencephalon and grown in a chemically defined medium offer a useful model to study developmental processes such as myelin synthesis.
(17) Norepinephrine (NE) levels in the hypothalamus and telencephalon of genetically obese mice with the OBOB and DBDB mutations are significantly higher than those of their lean littermates.
(18) We tested the contribution of GABAergic inhibition to the response characteristics of 213 neurons in the auditory telencephalon of chronically prepared nonanesthetized chickens.
(19) Three groups of immunoreactive neurons were identified: the first, in the telencephalon, is a paired group of cells scattered near the two telencephalic ventricles; the second group lies near the preoptic recess; the third group occurs in the ventral wall of the infundibulum.
(20) In the telencephalon, the nucleus of the diagonal band and the medial prefrontal cortex contained retrogradely labelled neurons ipsilateral to the TLD injection site.