(1) This molecule was extensively studied in the treatment of obesity and its action was better understood by studying the dextrogyre and levogyre enantiomers.
(2) When used at doses for which d-l propranolol was active, the dextrogyre isomer of propranolol was without effect whatever the test studied.
(3) New methods allowed to show that dexfenfluramine (the dextrogyre isomer) worked through a serotoninergic activity which was responsible for the effect on food intake and disorders of eating behavior.
Hyaline
Definition:
(a.) Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal.
(n.) A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere.
(n.) The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleous originates.
(n.) The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Histologically, foci strongly resembling hepatocellular carcinoma with hyaline globules were noted.
(2) In some of the tubuli there were hyalin cylindroids.
(3) These observations suggest that the function of BMG is to evoke mesenchymal cell differentiation into prechondroblasts during the latent or migratory morphogenetic phase while the effect of the culture medium is to provide the bionutritional requirements for synthesis of hyaline cartilage matrix by chondrocytes during the patent phase of development.
(4) Reversible increases in size and distribution of hyaline droplets within proximal tubular epithelium occurred through 1 year of treatment at a severity that was dose-dependent.
(5) Chemically isolated separate preparations of the non-aggregating protein-chondroitin-keratin sulphate (PCKS) fraction from the hyaline cartilage and hyaluronic acid (HUA) of the vitreous body and of the umbilicus were investigated by electron microscopy.
(6) Regardless of cyst localization, lowest diagnostic sensitivity was observed in patients whose cysts were intact and of the hyaline type, whereas recently broken cysts were associated with the most consistently detectable immune response.
(7) All three meningiomas showed expression of carcinoembryonic antigen, cytokeratin, and epithelial membrane antigen in the cells surrounding the hyaline bodies.
(8) Closely associated with alcoholic hyalin and often found along its entire circumference, were bundles of fine filaments in parallel arrangement of much smaller size.
(9) The presence of hyaline cartilage within the wall of the cyst allows to make the difference for sure between an esophageal cyst of bronchogenic origin and a cyst of enterogenous origin.
(10) Histologically, vascular lesions such as vacuolization, degeneration and desquamation of the endothelium and hyalinization and necrosis of the muscular coat predominated, whereas reparatory reactions were relatively sparse.
(11) Upon fertilization, the antigen was exocytosed from the cortical vesicles and became associated with the hyaline layer, the fertilization envelope, and the plasma membrane.
(12) These studies showed that the cartilaginous cap of human osteophytes has the capacity to synthesize the entire repertoire of sulphated proteoglycans of mature hyaline cartilage.
(13) It is well-established that binding of a chemical to alpha 2u-globulin is the rate-limiting step in the development of male rat-specific hyaline droplet nephropathy.
(14) In some areas, the tumor shows a striking resemblance to Kaposi's sarcoma; criss-crossing fascicles of spindle cells are interspersed with narrow vascular spaces, but PAS-positive hyaline globules are absent.
(15) In the case of arthroses the primary lesion occurs in the non-vascularized hyaline cartilage.
(16) Hyaline bodies were present in nearly all tumours of skin.
(17) The following morphologic observations were made: Arteries exhibiting arteriosclerosis appeared, in the new host, to take on a distinct new cellular deposit which was superimposed on the previously existing hyalinization in the intima.
(18) Thirty-five neonates developed hyaline membrane disease.
(19) In the control males given the vehicle alone, the proximal segment of the os penis, composed of a compact cell mass found at day 0, developed at 5 days into the membrane bone with bone marrow and hyaline cartilage; the distal segment, composed of mesenchymatous cells until 10 days, developed at 30 days into fibrocartilage characterized by a distribution of type I collagen.
(20) Histologically the most conspicuous were the findings of the hyaline alveolar membrane and the cellular atypia of endothel of the alveoles and the lymph-ducts.