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Cilium


Definition:

  • (n.) See Cilia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The characteristic features of the nasal mucosa obtained here are as follows: 1) The cross-section profiles of the cilium were round and smooth.
  • (2) The peripheral fibers contribute to the stiffness of the cilium in the sliding filament model only when they are not free to slide because of cross-linkage.
  • (3) The three mesenchymal cell types of the sinusoidal wall possessed the centriole in common within the Golgi complex, but only the fat-storing cell was provided with the single cilium.
  • (4) This cilium-associated material is labeled specifically by 4 hr following intravitreal injection of 3H-fucose, before the interphotoreceptor matrix shows significant labeling, suggesting that it is composed of a sugar-containing material.
  • (5) The anterior kinetosome of each pair bears a clavate cilium, only 0.5-0.7 micron in length and with a 9 + 0 axoneme while the cilium of the posterior kinetosome is even shorter.
  • (6) At least six different cell types are recognizable: (1) nondifferentiated duct cells; (2) cells containing apical secretory granules; (3) goblet cells; the mucosubstances of type 2 and 3 are PAS- and Alcian-blue-positive, also reacting wih methenamine silver; (4) ciliated cells, containing a single cilium with the microtubular pattern 9+2; (5) tuft cells with extremely long and wide microvilli and a pear-shaped cell body; (6) migrating cells, mainly lymphocytes and some assumed eosinophils, showing reaction to Mg++-activated ATPase.
  • (7) In Rhinolasius, one receptor possesses a short bulbous cilium without a rootlet, with a septate desmosome of the pleated sheet (comb) type and a weakly developed electron-dense band beneath it.
  • (8) The amino acid sequence of a calcium-binding protein obtained from the cilium and cell body of Tetrahymena, designated as TCBP-10 (Tetrahymena calcium-binding protein; molecular mass = 10 kDa [Ohnishi, K. and Watanabe, Y.
  • (9) By electron microscopy, many structural characteristics of highly differentiated cells were evident: numerous mitochondria, Golgi apparatus, extensive endoplasmic reticulum, an occasional cilium, intracytoplasmic filaments, polarized formation of microvilli, and gap junctions.
  • (10) Beginning at this stage and continuing up to E22 an average of one cilium per day is added to the endings.
  • (11) Flagella-like oscillations of kinocilia occurred spontaneously when preparations deteriorated and could be induced regularly in fresh preparations by pressing onto the tip of the cilium.
  • (12) Based on morphological similarities, the photoreceptor connecting cilium is thought to be homologous to the transition zone of the motile cilium.
  • (13) On the 13.5th gestational day, there were numerous microvilli and a primary cilium on the crista ampullaris.
  • (14) It is shown why the elastic character of mucus is important for good momentum transfer from cilium to load and for good load carrying properties.
  • (15) The detergent removes the membrane and many axonemes unroll, always in an organized fashion so that doublets follow one another in sequence, according to the enantiomorphic form of the cilium.
  • (16) Such a case of a cilium in the anterior chamber is described.
  • (17) In the 3-day-old mouse, the epithelial cells are differentiated neither into ciliated nor secretory cells, and are characterized by the appearance of many autolysosomes and a solitary cilium.
  • (18) Computer-assisted, three-dimensional reconstructions of two gastrodermal sensory cells from transmission electron micrographs of serial sections of Hydra revealed a unipolar morphology with the nucleus near an apical cilium and a simple unbranched axon with a widened terminal.
  • (19) The cilium was discovered years later following an injury.
  • (20) The head is formed from the terminal part of the cilium shaft, which is bent to give rise to a loop-like ring covered by the ciliary membrane.

Flagellum


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.
  • (v. t.) A long, whiplike cilium. See Flagellata.
  • (v. t.) An appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the snail.
  • (v. t.) A lashlike appendage of a crustacean, esp. the terminal ortion of the antennae and the epipodite of the maxilipeds. See Maxilliped.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The immunological methods based on the use of a flagellum-specific serum have confirmed the presence of a common flagellum antigen for all Legionella species described to date.
  • (2) The antigenic determinant defined by 5E9 was also shown to be present in a 87000 molecular weight polypeptide located in the proximal part of the flagellum of Crithidia oncopelti in which a paraflagellar rod is not detectable at the ultrastructural level.
  • (3) 1965.-A correlation is shown to exist in Bacillus subtilis between susceptibility to phage PBS1 and motility, indicating that the receptor site for this phage is located on the flagellum.
  • (4) Temperature decline through the region of 10 degrees C caused a number of spermatozoa in buffer to undergo a sudden asymmetric bending of the flagellum in the region of the midpiece.
  • (5) The majority of the mutants were unable to assemble a flagellar filament (Fla-), although eight were able to synthesize a short stub of a flagellum.
  • (6) The implication that attenuation is due to the inhibition of energy transport via a PCr shuttle resulting in the decrease of ATP and accumulation of inhibitory levels of ADP distally has been supported by calculating sperm PCr and ATP levels resulting from diffusion along the flagellum.
  • (7) The bacterial flagellum is a complex multicomponent structure which serves as the propulsive organelle for many species of bacteria.
  • (8) The trailing edge of the flagellum, which is thickly covered by scales and was assumed until now to lack receptors, contains both mechanosensitive and contact chemoreceptors.
  • (9) The distal centriole gives rise to a flagellum that grows at the same pace as the cortical microtubules.
  • (10) Scanning and transmission electron microscopy revealed that promastigotes of the invasive species entered fibroblasts flagellum-end first through pseudopodia-like structures formed on the host cell surface, reminiscent of "induced phagocytosis."
  • (11) Axoneme filaments extend from the basal body filaments into a progressive evagination of the cell membrane which becomes the flagellum sheath.
  • (12) Of special interest were the spatial relationships of the attached part of the recurrent flagellum and the accessory filament in Hypotrichomonas and in the members of Trichomonadinae, i.e.
  • (13) Analysis of the protein composition of short flagella from a mutant indicated that a single flagellum contains about 10 to 20 HAP1, 10 to 20 HAP2, and 10 to 40 HAP3 molecules.
  • (14) The isolate was presumptively identified by its growth characteristics, motility, curved shape, and the presence of a single polar flagellum.
  • (15) The diagnostic performance of the flagellum ELISA for serodiagnosis of Lyme disease was compared with the performance of a traditional whole cell B. burgdorferi sonic extract ELISA.
  • (16) While in general agreement with previous searchers, the authors direct their attention at peculiar or unknown structures such as: a huge phagosome sometimes loaded with a paracristalline rod; an occasional set of parallel microtubules along the reservoir; eventual duplication of the blepharoplast and even of the flagellum.
  • (17) A sonicate antigen and two concentrations of a purified flagellum antigen of Borrelia burgdorferi were compared for serological diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis by an enzyme immunoassay (EIA).
  • (18) The isolated organism measured 2.0 to 3.5 microns in length (excluding flagella) by 0.17 to 0.25 micron in width and typically had a single terminal sheathed flagellum.
  • (19) The flagellum of the mature spermatozoa was composed of four different components: a mitochondrial sheath, outer dense fiber, fibrous sheath and axoneme.
  • (20) All points on a flagellum are capable of initiating waves.

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