(n.) The outermost skin or pellicle of a plant, found especially in leaves and young stems.
(n.) A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, the mucoid substances of the sensillum lymph are probably involved in water conservation, since sensilla are prone to water loss, because the overlying cuticle must be permeable to the chemical stimuli.
(2) All the canals open independently at the surface of the cuticle and the substance deposited there is a mixture of proteins and acid mucosubstances.
(3) The second gene lies within an intron of the purine gene and encodes a cuticle protein.
(4) In vitro the epidermis synthesized and secreted both forms into both the cuticle and the medium.
(5) The morphology of the adult female cuticle is discussed.
(6) In all these cuticles the tubular filaments arise from the plasma membrane of the epidermal cells and they contain argentaffin material, regarded as sclerotin precursors, and lipid-staining material, regarded as wax precursors.
(7) Between the cuticle and dermal collagen there are granular deposits which might be immune complexes involving the collagenous component of cuticle.
(8) Eisenia epidermis does not recordably synthesize the cuticle until after wounding (first eight segments removed).
(9) Cuticle morphology identifies two types of sensilla trichodea, two types of sensilla basiconica and one type of sensillum coeloconicum.
(10) At the culmination of each molt, the larval tobacco hornworm exhibits a pre-ecdysis behavior prior to shedding its old cuticle at ecdysis.
(11) A homozygous mutant escaper had weak, completely unpigmented cuticle and unpigmented bristles.
(12) On dark-adaptation of the 11-day adult eye, the rhabdomers move towards the cuticle.
(13) Once the fungus enters the hair cortex just above the hair bulb, it produces myriads of spores that remain trapped and hidden beneath the cuticle for the length of the intact hair.
(14) Thus, during larval growth the cuticle remains flexible and extensible.
(15) C3 conversion products were detected on larval cuticles by eosinophil adherence and by immunofluorescence with C3c antiserum.
(16) Both genes encode 5.5-kilobase mRNAs, similar in size to the mammalian and Drosophila type IV collagen gene transcripts but much larger than the cuticle collagen transcripts of C. elegans.
(17) The facilitation of eclosion by adult colony members appears to be an obligatory process in the development of this species; pupae denied the aid of adult workers during eclosion are unable to remove the pupal cuticle and rapidly succumb.
(18) The antibodies, which were produced in the course of T. spiralis infection in rats, specifically bound to the inner layers of the body cuticle and the cuticle of the hindgut, but not to the cuticle of the esophagus.
(19) Autonomous expression of Met was found both in abdominal cuticle as well as in external male genitalia.
(20) However, late larval worms that expressed the adult cuticle did not express blisters either.
Hypodermis
Definition:
(n.) Same as Hypoblast.
(n.) Same as Hypoderma, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fibroblast number showed an initial fall from 5 to 14 d but then started to increase in number from 21 to 60 d. This chronic inflammatory reaction appeared to be in response to particulate matter that had been incorporated into the wound bed and hypodermis, and was still apparent 6 months after injury, when hydrocolloid particles were detectable microscopically in the hypodermis.
(2) The T1 variety of tyrosinase is present in both particulate and soluble or readily solubilized forms in the pigmented hypodermis (hair bulbs) of C57BL mice and Harding-Passey mouse melanoma.
(3) In nematodes, although there was variation in reactions among species, N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase and beta-galactosidase were localized in the hypodermis and lateral cords excluding the excretory canal, and coelomocytes, intestinal epithelium and the walls of the reproductive systems.
(4) The pathology of the bald scalp showed the presence of tubular epithelial structures devoid of hair bulbs extending from the epidermis to the deep dermis and the superficial hypodermis.
(5) During induction of the Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodite vulva by the anchor cell of the gonad, six multipotent vulval precursor cells (VPCs) have two distinct fates: three VPCs generate the vulva and the other three VPCs generate nonspecialized hypodermis.
(6) Immunoelectron microscopy established that the antigen encoded by this clone is present in the hypodermis and the basal layer of the cuticle of L3 and female adult worm, and in the egg shell around developing microfilariae.
(7) In particular, the hypodermis surrounding the ventral cord is not the primary focus of unc-3 action (body muscle was excluded in earlier work).
(8) Genes that control the fates of the VPCs in response to the anchor cell signal are defined by mutations that cause all six VPCs to generate vulval tissue (Multivulva or Muv) or that cause all six VPCs to generate hypodermis (Vulvaless or Vul).
(9) Haemocytes containing lysosomes are present in the wing at this time, but do not invade the fragmenting hypodermis.
(10) The hypodermis cuticle prepared in this manner incorporated radiolabeled amino acids into cuticular and hypodermal proteins; incorporation was inhibited by protein synthesis inhibitors.
(11) Their microanatomical basis lies in the hypodermis where trabeculae of the retinacula cutis are broader and much shorter underneath the wrinkle than in the surrounding skin.
(12) The subcutaneous fat layer derives from the "primitive organs" identifiable in the hypodermis from the fourth fetal month onward.
(13) During larval life, the hypodermis contains chromatophores, blood capillaries and wandering leucocytes.
(14) When the joint is stretched shearing forces are apparently transmitted to the receptive dendritic branches via microtubular bundles inside the hypodermis cells.
(15) Whatever the reason of their presence, large groups of mast cells could considerably influence the results of tests performed in the skin-hypodermis area.
(16) The hypodermis of moulting larvae contained numerous multi-vesicular bodies.
(17) Evidence of abnormal maturation was found in the epidermis, cutaneous appendages, dermis, and hypodermis.
(18) This paper provides evidence that the elongation of the body is caused by the outermost layer of embryonic cells, the hypodermis, squeezing the embryo circumferentially.
(19) The surface of the filarial worm consists of an extracellular cuticle which overlies the outer plasma membrane of the hypodermis.
(20) The quota of fatty acids in the feed distinctly influenced the composition of the fatty acids in the intestines, the kidneys and the hypodermis.