(v. t.) To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.
Example Sentences:
(1) The length of the interpulse interval for LH release secretion decreased in unilateral decorticate animals, whereas the length of the cycle of FSH secretion increased in this circumstance.
(2) The decortication is aimed at removing the chronic pleural sack and the possible parenchymatous lesions and at the recovery of the maximum functional pulmonary parenchyma.
(3) Following chronic decortication of the dLGN, the distribution pattern of both GABAergic axonal types had changed considerably.
(4) The technique requires only three major steps: (1) decortication limited to the parietal sides of the peel's sac, (2) cleansing the empyemic cavity, and (3) drainage.
(5) In decorticate and in spinal curarized rabbit preparations, respiratory and locomotor rhythms can be closely related (1:1 coupling between successive periods), demonstrating central relationships between the two types of pattern generators.
(6) Our procedure is indicated in patients for whom it is thought simple decortication will not lead to primary cure of empyema.
(7) Total ventilatory and perfusion percentage increased significantly in the decorticated lung (p less than 0.001 and p less than 0.005, respectively).
(8) Non-sulfated CCK-8 also stimulated the motility, particularly in the decorticated rats.
(9) One cat, in which decortication was performed and resulted in marked reexpansion of the lung lobes, died 4 hours after surgery with signs compatible with pulmonary edema.
(10) The presence of anaerobic bacteria in 8 of 22 children (36%) was associated with rapid organization of the empyema and the need for decortication.
(11) Decortication, that is excision of both the visceral and parietal pleura, has become a rarely performed operation.
(12) A protocol of echocardiographic surveillance of the left main coronary artery has been instituted in these patients to detect any late postoperative changes after ostial decortication.
(13) One and a half years later, the patient shows decorticated posture with ataxic respiration and negative light reflexes.
(14) From early stimulation, decortication and transection studies (see Ref.
(15) The most serious complication was a case of hemothorax which required later pulmonary decortication.
(16) The external fixators were applied after decortication and bone grafting either immediately in cases with no evidence of infection or later in cases of draining, infected wounds.
(17) When all other measures failed, thoracotomy with pleural decortication was done.
(18) The average time of hospitalization was for the debrided cases 13.6 days and for the decortication group 19.6 days.
(19) Surgical procedures included lobectomy (n = 317), pneumonectomy (n = 41), wedge resection (n = 82), resections of blebs or bullae (n = 17), thoracotomy and biopsy for unresectable lesion (n = 6), and decortication (n = 5).
(20) Some changes of the organization of cortical motor representations, which were revealed by means of the intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) in aged rats after unilateral partial decortication, were true consequences of the decortication, but had no significant relationship to the aging.
Membrane
Definition:
(n.) A thin layer or fold of tissue, usually supported by a fibrous network, serving to cover or line some part or organ, and often secreting or absorbing certain fluids.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tryptic digestion of the membranes caused complete disappearance of the binding activity, but heat-treatment for 5 min at 70 degrees C caused only 40% loss of activity.
(2) The extents of phospholipid hydrolysis were relatively low in brain homogenates, synaptic plasma membranes and heart ventricular muscle.
(3) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
(4) Activity of Na,K-ATPase activity was measured as a functional marker for synaptosomal membranes.
(5) The influence of the various concepts for the induction of lateral structure formation in lipid membranes on integral functional units like ionophores is demonstrated by analysing the single channel current fluctuations of gramicidin in bimolecular lipid membranes.
(6) Phospholipid methylation in human EGMs is distinctly different from that in rat EGMs (Hirata and Axelrod 1980) in that the human activity is not Mg++-dependent, and apparent methyltransferase I activity is located in the external membrane surface.
(7) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(8) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
(9) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(10) The fraction of the viral dose which became cell associated was independent of the incubation temperature and increased with increasing target membrane concentration.
(11) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
(12) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
(13) We have examined the insertion of bovine 17 alpha-hydroxylase (P45017 alpha) into the endoplasmic reticulum of COS 1 cells to evaluate the functional role of its hydrophobic amino-terminal sequence and membrane insertion.
(14) The transport of potassium ions through membranes of red blood cells was examined in in bitro experiments using a CMF of 4500 oersted.
(15) These membrane perturbation effects not observed with bleomycin-iron in the presence of a hydroxyl radical scavenger, dimethyl thiourea, or a chelating agent, desferrioxamine, were correlated with the ability of the complex to generate highly reactive oxygen species.
(16) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
(17) Membranes of this material were filled with islets of Langerhans and implanted in the peritoneal cavity of rats.
(18) The penicillin-resistant Enterococcus hirae R40 has a typical profile of membrane-bound penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) except that the 71 kDa PBP5 of low penicillin affinity represents about 50% of all the PBPs present.
(19) To investigate the mechanism of enhanced responsiveness of cholesterol-enriched human platelets, we compared stimulation by surface-membrane-receptor (thrombin) and post-receptor (AlF4-) G-protein-directed pathways.
(20) Moreover, in DCVC-treated cells the mitochondria could not be stained with rhodamine-123, indicating severe mitochondrial damage and loss of membrane potential.