(a.) Living, existing, or occurring at the same time; contemporary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cancer development proceeds through sequential or contemporaneous morphological changes from normal, preneoplastic, and premalignant lesions to highly malignant neoplasms.
(2) Contemporaneous presence of HTLV-I and HIV-1 antibodies was found in five subjects.
(3) By contrast, in agreement with previously published results, amiloride-sensitive sodium uptake was increased by 30% in vesicles derived from animals with ammonium chloride-induced acidosis compared with contemporaneous controls.
(4) rats and in Long-Evans controls the contemporaneous evolution of learning and retention of active and passive avoidance responses was studied by means of the light-dark box test.
(5) The peculiarity of contemporaneous presence of FCP and the seriousness of the prognosis is pointed out.
(6) Over-response corrections for a widely used parallel plate ionization chamber were determined using contemporaneous measurement of build up for 4, 6, 10 and 18-MV photon beams utilizing a commercially available extrapolation chamber (PTW model 23392).
(7) We present the hypothesis that beta E contemporaneously modulates several membrane transduction processes, some of which may be counteracting and thereby producing the observed mixed effects on many lymphocyte functional responses.
(8) Although they bound to the BN receptor with no or very weak mitogenic activity, no one analogue inhibited BN-induced thymidine incorporation in the contemporaneous treatment; only one behaved as a weak receptor antagonist when given 24 h before BN stimulation.
(9) More contemporaneous were the comments from the boss of Sainsbury's, Justin King – one of the business leaders who launched the critique of Labour's national insurance rise during the election campaign.
(10) The results of this surgical procedure are now reported in the context of two similar, contemporaneous groups of patients who underwent either standard wide-field laryngectomy or hypopharyngeal mucosa conservation laryngectomy.
(11) IMMEDIATE EFFECTS: It is worth stating what is almost axiomatic, because it is often forgotten, that undernutrition is likely to affect only those processes which are contemporaneous with it (plus some that follow it).
(12) The following points emerged from this study: 1) spinal cord softening is a rare occurrence; 2) while formerly syphilis was the most frequent cause, recently reports of cases secondary to aortic disease or to embolism with diffuse signs of arteriosclerosis and circulatory failure pointing to a different pathogenesis have become more frequent; 3) the site of softening rarely corresponds to the vascular spinal territories as defined by the anatomists, from which it may be argued that often several arterial territories may be involved simultaneously or, alternatively, that the arterial territories are not so rigidly defined as anatomical research has led us to suppose; 4) the few cases of multiple vascular lesions show that, as happens in the brain, the cord may be damaged contemporaneously or successively in several areas.
(13) This increased secretion of PRL was contemporaneous with the onset of pubertal ovarian activity in intact females and with the escape of LH from the negative feedback of E2 in OVX + E2-treated females.
(14) For milk somatic cell count, variation between cows within pairs sampled contemporaneously was small (3 to 24%).
(15) Murrumu, however, says any act of recognition must be coupled with contemporaneous – not subsequent – treaties.
(16) He added: “By no stretch of the imagination can the evidence relied upon in support of the applications be described as corroborated, contemporaneous, persuasive, compelling or cogent.” It is not yet known if the officers will appeal against Meadows’s decision.
(17) This pattern may reflect not only the sequence of fiber ingrowth but also the displacement of cells and fibers in the elongating basilar papilla, which grows as a result of a contemporaneous mitotic activity throughout the structure rather than progressing from one end to the other.
(18) The 741 patients with high levels of psychopathology or pain were subdivided into baseline control subjects (N = 232), contemporaneous control subjects (N = 253), and an experimental consultation group (N = 256).
(19) Comparison of metric and morphological characteristics of the deciduous dentition in the prehistoric Amerindians and roughly contemporaneous European groups indicates morphological characteristics are the better means of discrimination.
(20) In medium containing serum from other species or in serum substitute, the temporal expression of myelin basic protein polypeptides in cultures from all the inbred strains was contemporaneous with that in brain.
Synchronous
Definition:
(a.) Happening at the same time; simultaneous.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).
(2) Histone mRNA, labeled with 32P or 3H-methionine during the S phase of partially synchronized HeLa cells, was isolated from the polyribosomes and purified as a "9S" component by sucrose gradient sedimentation.
(3) An experimental model was established in the ewe allowing one to predict with accuracy an antral follicle that coincidentally would either undergo ovulation (6-8 mm diameter) or atresia (3-4 mm diameter) following synchronization of luteal regression and the onset of the gonadotropin surge.
(4) By means of rapid planar Hill type antimony-bismuth thermophiles the initial heat liberated by papillary muscles was measured synchronously with developed tension for control (C), pressure-overload (GOP), and hypothyrotic (PTU) rat myocardium (chronic experiments) and after application of 10(-6) M isoproterenol or 200 10(-6) M UDCG-115.
(5) As the frequency of the stimulus bursts was progressively changed, the sinoatrial (SA) nodal pacemaker cells became synchronized with the repetitive bursts of stimuli over a certain range of burst frequencies.
(6) The analysis suggests that the wave-peak discharge results from synchronous alternation of depolarization potentials and long periods of postsynaptic inhibition in most of the cortical elements.
(7) A synchronization of plasma prorenin with the other hormones was seen both before, as previously reported, and during enalapril treatment.
(8) 77 per cent of the synchronous tumors were located in the left colon.
(9) The spore germination was synchronized by selection of the spores of the definite size and maintenance at a temperature of 0 degrees.
(10) The average vlaues of the correlation coefficients were found to increase from arousal through slow synchronized sleep (S sleep), reaching the highest value in REM sleep.
(11) A review of 90 patients presenting in Leeds over the period 1976-80 with synchronous hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer has been undertaken.
(12) A system for obtaining synchronous germination of mitospores is described.
(13) Treatment with 0.3 microM or 0.7 microM BPDE-I, which are doses that interfere with DNA synthesis in operating replicons in asynchronous cells, also inhibited the growth of nascent DNA strands in synchronized cells by 22 and 64%, respectively.
(14) Electrographically, the motor phenomena corresponded with the occurrence of periodic synchronous discharges (PSD) (in one-to-one manner).
(15) A synchronic increase and decrease of IgG-1 serum levels and indirect fluorescent antibody titres were observed during the course of the infection.
(16) Rabbit morulae and blastocysts were cultured in conventional culture media [Ham's F10 or BSM II supplemented with bovine serum albumin (BSA) or serum] or in Ham's medium supplemented with synchronous or asynchronous uterine flushings, mostly for 2 days, and afterwards investigated by light and electron microscopy and by autoradiography.
(17) However, a region containing pixels that are perfectly synchronous on average would still yield a finite distribution of calculated Fourier coefficients due to the propagation of stochastic pixel noise into the calculated values.
(18) The uterine osteosarcoma is the seventh case reported in the world, while it is the second case of synchronous triple primary tumors of the upper female genital tract.
(19) A consequence of periodic clusters of cellular bursts was the widespread occurrence of periodic synchronized synaptic potentials, as have been observed in hippocampal slices and human temporal neocortical slices.
(20) This syncitium-like arrangement is interpreted as the morphological counterpart of a possibly synchronized function of these cells.