(n.) One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, DNA polymerase alpha, the enzyme involved in chromosomal DNA replication, was relatively insensitive to CA1.
(2) Here we report that sperm from psr males fertilizes eggs, but that the paternal chromosomes are subsequently condensed into a chromatin mass before the first mitotic division of the egg and do not participate in further divisions.
(3) Clonal abnormalities involving chromosomes 3 and 21 were noted in two patients.
(4) Five probes of high specificity to individual chromosomes (chromosomes 3, 11, 17, 18 and X) were hybridized in situ to metaphase chromosomes of different individuals.
(5) The constitution of chromosomes in the two plasmacytomas remained remarkably stable in their homogeneous modal population.
(6) The data on mapping the episomal plasmid integration sites in yeast chromosomes I, III, IV, V, VII, XV are presented.
(7) The purpose of these studies was to better understand the molecular basis of chromosome aberration formation after mitomycin C treatment.
(8) Twelve families with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) were studied by linkage analysis using 10 polymorphic marker loci from the X-chromosome pericentromeric region.
(9) The effects of phenoxyacetic acid herbicides were investigated on the induction of chromosome aberrations in human peripheral lymphocyte cultures in vitro and in lymphocytes of exposed workers in vivo.
(10) Pituitary weight, mitotic index and chromosomes were studied in male rats following a single or repeated dose of estradiol-benzoate for a total period of 210 days.
(11) Alleles in this region can be exchanged between X and Y chromosomes and are therefore inherited as if autosomal.
(12) The haplotype of the recombinant X chromosome of each of 241 backcross progeny has been established using the X-linked anchor loci Otc, Hprt, Dmd, Pgk-1, and Amg and the additional probes DXSmh43 and Cbx-rs1.
(13) In the triploids, the 40 female chromosomes present (mouse, n = 20) were derived from a single diploid pronucleus formed after the extrusion of a first polar body, and following the monospermic fertilization of primary oocytes.
(14) The induction of cells with two Y chromosomes by nitrogen mustard (NM) was examined.
(15) Several investigators have attempted to correlate chromosomal abnormalities with Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CLS), but none of them have been conclusive.
(16) The technique resolved chromosomes in the size range of 100 kb-1 Mb.
(17) A number of recurring chromosomal abnormalities have been identified in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
(18) Since the plasmid-cured strains did not contain DNA sequences homologous to plasmid DNA, the gene for the free-inclusion protein must be encoded in the chromosome.
(19) The gene, which is located at chromosome XIII, is transcribed as a mRNA of about 2.7 kilobases, and the amount of message has been found to increase 3- to 4-fold during the culture.
(20) The numerical chromosome values in 53 human tumors were determined and compared with the modal DNA values as measured by flow cytometry.
Somatic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as, somatic death; somatic changes.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present results provide no evidence for a clear morphological substrate for electrotonic transmission in the somatic efferent portion of the primate oculomotor nucleus.
(2) Preliminary rhythmic somatic stimulation has a predominantly facilitating effect on EPs appearing in response to tonal stimuli in the areas A1, S2, S1.
(3) Autopsy revealed serious somatic diseases (stenosis of the ileum in two cases and brain tumor in one); their symptoms had been largely overlapped by those of anorexia nervosa.
(4) Bereaved individuals were significantly more likely to report heightened dysphoria, dissatisfaction, and somatic disturbances typical of depression, even when variations in age, sex, number of years married, and educational and occupational status were taken into account.
(5) The latter appears to reflect methodological problems since both fat-free determinations depend upon TBW rather than somatic proteins.
(6) Somatic and functional antigens of Dictyocaulus filaria were comparatively studied by means of disk electrophoresis.
(7) Radiation hybrid mapping is a somatic cell technique for ordering human loci along a chromosome and estimating the physical distance between adjacent loci.
(8) Using molecular probes to examine somatic cell lines and recombinant inbred and congenic strains of mice, we have re-evaluated these linkage relationships.
(9) A close similarity was evident between variation in ATP and somatic cell count, except during the first 10 d after parturition when the variation in ATP was more pronounced.
(10) Proposed models for the inheritance of locus-specific methylation phenotypes in somatic cells include those in which there is stable inheritance of a methylation pattern such that all cells contain a similarly methylated locus, as well as models in which the inheritance of methylation can be variable.
(11) Using morhological, neurohistological and histochemical methods the author studied different areas and anatomical structures of the central and peripheral somatic and vegetative nervous system in 4 patients who had died during different periods of rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 27, 48, 51, and 60.
(12) Anxiety, depression, and somatization were greater in RAP mothers than well mothers.
(13) It has been held in contrast to the pseudo-stemline concept that these cells in general, have the essential genes in common and are responsible for the genetic make-up of this cell line and constitute together the stemline of this somatic cell population.
(14) The alpha cells had large somatic and dendritic fields.
(15) Where the PGCs bulge out into the coelomic cavity, they stretch the somatic cell covering to a thin, cytoplasmic layer.
(16) Southern blotting experiments using somatic cell hybrids containing either the human chromosome 3 or the X chromosome confirm the presence of multiple dispersed RTVL-H sequences on these two chromosomes.
(17) The mapping of the gene coding for human aldolase C has been studied using a specific cDNA probe and genomic blots from a panel of human-hamster somatic cell hybrids.
(18) The amount of spinal visceral afferences is relatively small (only 1.5-2.5% of all somatic spinal afferences).
(19) Retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase and immunocytochemical visualization of glutamate (Glu) were combined to investigate the neurotransmitter used by cortico-cortical neurons in the first (SI) and second (SII) somatic sensory areas of macaque monkeys.
(20) Somatic changes included reduced wool growth, delayed osseous development in the limbs (X-ray assessment) a reduced heart weight (39.1%) and an increased pituitary weight (48.1%).