What's the difference between desmine and stilbite?
Desmine
Definition:
(n.) Same as Stilbite. It commonly occurs in bundles or tufts of crystals.
Example Sentences:
(1) A two-dimensional gel electrophoresis system is used to investigate some of the properties of desmin, the major subunit of the 100-A filaments from chick muscle cells, and to compare these properties to those of the other major contractile and regulatory proteins of muscle.
(2) Fine needle aspirates and touch imprints of 36 hyperplastic (reactive) lymph nodes were tested for the presence of keratin and desmin.
(3) Five of these proteins have been identified as 20-kDa myosin light chain, caldesmon, synemin, and two isoelectric variants of desmin.
(4) In the absence of vimentin networks (MCF-7 cells), the initiation of desmin filament formation seems to start on the preexisting keratin filaments.
(5) The results reinforce the use of desmin as a marker for muscle sarcomas and show that a positive identification of rhabdomyosarcoma can be achieved by immunocytochemistry with the parallel use of desmin and titin antibodies.
(6) Both middle cerebral arteries and four control basilar arteries were examined using fluorescent antibody techniques with antisera to alpha-actin, myosin, fibronectin, fibrinogen, vimentin, desmin, laminin, and collagens (types I, III, IV, and V).
(7) In contrast, 7 of 28 atherosclerotic plaques contained many cells expressing desmin in addition to the other cytoskeletal proteins characteristic of normal intima SMC.
(8) One out of these cases, undifferentiated, showed to be myoglobin negative, and desmin positive.
(9) In the aortic media, it recognized a hitherto unknown population of cells negative for alpha-smooth muscle actin and for desmin.
(10) alpha-Smooth muscle actin, but not smooth muscle myosin and desmin, was always present in microfilament bundles of myofibroblasts.
(11) It was found that in 4 out of 12 plaques some smooth muscle cells (SMC) were stained by monoclonal antibodies to desmin.
(12) Vimentin, still present together with desmin in the myoblasts, is lost from the myotubes.
(13) Immunohistochemically, the tumor cells showed positive reaction with S-100 protein (S-100), but all reactions with myoglobin (MG), desmin (DM), fibronectin (FN), creatinine phosphokinase-mm (CPK), factor 8th-related antigen (F8RA), alpha-1-antitrypsin (A1AT), alpha-1-antichymotrypsin (A1ACT), keratin (KN), and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) were negative.
(14) A positive reaction to desmin was detected in an esophageal tumor and in nine gastric tumors.
(15) Anti-desmin antibodies were also used for comparison.
(16) All the cells with desmin in the intima and media also contained vimentin.
(17) Peptide mapping analysis showed a similar extent of inhibition by p13suc1 for all five phosphorylation sites by p34cdc2 kinase of vimentin and desmin, hence these p13suc1-induced inhibitions are probably not site-specific.
(18) Ninety four pulmonary neoplasms were examined immunocytochemically with two or three different monoclonal antibodies against the intermediate filament proteins cytokeratin, neurofilament, vimentin, and desmin.
(19) Six chordomas, ten fetal notochords and eight adult notochords were stained for keratin, vimentin, GFAP, desmin, CEA, EMA and s-100 protein.
(20) The existence of vimentin as well as desmin in differentiated cardiac muscle may be a consequence of the somewhat more epithelial-like nature of cardiac cells as compared to skeletal muscle syncitia.
Stilbite
Definition:
(n.) A common mineral of the zeolite family, a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime, usually occurring in sheaflike aggregations of crystals, also in radiated masses. It is of a white or yellowish color, with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. Called also desmine.