(1) Hosts showed vaginal opening within 5 days and cornified vaginal smears by 9 days.
(2) These cationic molecules aggregate in vitro with keratin intermediate filaments, forming well ordered macrofibrils whose structure resembles the keratin pattern seen in the lower cornified layers.
(3) Female Albino Rats exposed to permanent light, have polycystic and anovulatory ovaries, with a vaginal cytology composed of cornified cells (persistent estrus) and a plasmatic hyperandrogenia.
(4) In addition, epidermal hyperproliferation, which floods the cornified cell compartment with incompletely formed units, results in hyperkeratosis.
(5) Despite such common profiles in the early signal transduction parameters, only 1 alpha,25(OH)2D3 induced formation of a cornified envelope characteristic of keratinocyte differentiation.
(6) The intermediate filaments are assembled from keratin monomers and the cornified envelope is assembled from a protein called involucrin and several other proteins.
(7) In this model, the smaller, less cornified lesions were more effectively treated with photodynamic therapy.
(8) To explore the possibility that TNF stimulates keratinocyte differentiation at least in part by regulating 1,25-(OH)2D production we examined the effect of TNF on both 1,25-(OH)2D production and differentiation (transglutaminase activity, cornified envelope formation) at different stages of differentiation.
(9) In feminized males given 20 microgram E2 neonatally, the vaginal epithelium exhibited well-differentiated stratified squamous organization, but was not cornified in seven out of the nine mice of this group.
(10) After repeated peptide treatments over 24 h, the number of cornified envelopes (a marker of terminal differentiation) was increased both in primary cultures and in the 308 cells.
(11) The disease is characterized by a cornifying verrucous proliferation of the squamous epithelium, without atypias or metastases.
(12) Its distribution is restricted to the granular layer of keratinized (cornified) stratified squamous epithelia.
(13) An increase in incorporation of both amino acids accompanied stratification and development of granular and cornified layers between 18 days of gestation and 3 to 5 days postpartum.
(14) The inclusion bodies were highly eosinophilic masses in the viable layer, and slightly basophilic, fine granules in the cornified layer.
(15) Switching of the cells from the low-calcium to the high-calcium medium resulted in the induction of terminal differentiation within 15 hours and was accompanied by increased cholesterol and protein synthesis, increased competence of cells to form cornified envelopes, and reduced association of 125I-LDL.
(16) The vaginal epithelium became multilayered with stratified or cornified surface layers and the uterus developed gross cystic glandular hyperplasia.
(17) Three cell lines of squamous-cell carcinoma and 3 of large-cell carcinoma origin were investigated for the expression of differentiation markers and functional parameters (proliferation, morphology, cornified envelope formation, involucrin staining, transglutaminase activity, adhesiveness and migration) under normal cell culture conditions and after treatment with the tumor promoter phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA).
(18) In the margin of non cornified squamous cell carcinomas there are as well bud-like cytoplasmic protuberances like microvilli as microplicae.
(19) (1) Combination of techniques for extraction and purification of histidine rich protein established by several investigators were employed for comparison of histidine-rich protein in granular cells and cornified cells of newborn rats.
(20) The surface of the spine is covered by a scaly keratin of possibly sloughing cells, and the cornified layer on the spine is very thick (more than 100 mu), reaching 3 to 7 times the depth of the corresponding layer in other parts.
Horn
Definition:
(n.) A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed.
(n.) The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.
(n.) Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout.
(n.) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
(n.) Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn
(n.) A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape.
(n.) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.
(n.) The cornucopia, or horn of plenty.
(n.) A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids.
(n.) The pointed beak of an anvil.
(n.) The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
(n.) The Ionic volute.
(n.) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
(n.) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
(n.) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
(n.) One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.
(n.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.
(n.) The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn.
(n.) A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.
(n.) An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural.
(v. t.) To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.
(v. t.) To cause to wear horns; to cuckold.
Example Sentences:
(1) After calving, probably the position of new follicles is temporally influenced by direct signals from the uterine horns affected differently by pregnancy.
(2) Severity of leukoaraiosis around the frontal horns of the lateral ventricles correlated significantly with severity of leukoaraiosis of the centrum semiovale adjacent to the bodies of the lateral ventricles.
(3) Spinal cord stimulation would suppress at least the dorsal horn neurons which were destroyed by various kinds of diseases.
(4) This study presents data supporting a selective antinociceptive role for DA at the spinal level, where it has a widespread antinociceptive influence, on cells in both the superficial and deeper dorsal horn.
(5) On Days 12-14 each gilt received twice daily infusions of Day 15 pCSP in one uterine horn and SP in the other uterine horn.
(6) In 25 rabbits, endometrium from the right uterine horn was transplanted onto the peritoneum (Experimental group = Group E).
(7) Differential pulse voltammetry used in combination with an electrochemically treated carbon fiber electrode allowed the detection of 5-hydroxyindoles (5-HI) in the dorsal horn of the urethane-anesthetized rat.
(8) Uterine blood flow to both uterine horns was measured by microsphere and by tritiated water steady-state diffusion methodology.
(9) But Hey Diddly Dee, in Sky Arts' latest Playhouse Presents season, could only manage 71,000 viewers, despite the combined star power of Kylie Minogue, David Harewood, Peter Serafinowicz and Mathew Horne.
(10) A few with low endometrial receptor levels had normal livers but at least one sterile uterine horn.
(11) It is concluded that chronic peripheral nerve section affects the anatomical and physiological mechanisms underlying the formation of light touch receptive fields of dorsal horn neurons in the lumbosacral cord of the adult cat, but that the resulting reorganization of receptive fields is spatially restricted.
(12) The concordance for this disease in these two patients of nonconsanguineous parentage with no family history of the disorder suggests the possibility of sublethal intrauterine injury to anterior horn cells.
(13) Subpopulations of DRG neurones that subserve distinct sensory modalities project to discrete regions in the dorsal horn.
(14) Phospholipase A2 has been purified from the venom of Horned viper (Cerastes cerastes) by gel permeation chromatography followed by reverse-phase HPLC.
(15) In ventral horn motoneurons and neurons of nucleus dorso-medialis (C1) pronounced staining was found after a total dosage of 1200 micrograms HgCl2.
(16) The influence of embryos on growth of the uterus was determined by comparing uterine length, weight and diameter between gravid and nongravid horns within unilaterally pregnant gilts.
(17) Postmortem examination showed axonal pathology of the anterior horns and roots of the spinal cord, and white matter hypoplasia of the brain.
(18) Histochemically the lowered activity of enzymes was localized mainly in the neuropil of: striatum, the Broc's nuclei and rhinencephalon: in the nervous cells of: Ammon's horn, nuclei of thalamus and in neocortex.
(19) Thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) has been identified recently in fibers and cell bodies in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord, but its function in the dorsal horn is not known.
(20) With immunocytochemical techniques, SP immunoreactivity (SP-I) and CGRP-I were localized in myometrial nerves throughout the uterine horns, with nerves immunoreactive for CGRP being the more numerous.