What's the difference between droplet and globule?

Droplet


Definition:

  • (n.) A little drop; a tear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The new technique, Surface Immune Precipitation (SIP), entails the application of an antigen sample droplet directly onto the surface of a gel containing antibody, the gel being supported by a reflecting substrate.
  • (2) This inclusion, an aggregate 0.3-0.7 mum in size, consists of small membrane-bounded vesicles with a single dense granule associated with other non-membrane bound small dense droplets.
  • (3) These lipid droplets are expected to have diagnostic value in the histological study of ARVD using endomyocardial biopsy.
  • (4) Image analysis of selected P2 segments in treated and control rats revealed a high correlation between subcellular localization of alpha 2uG and protein droplet deposition in the cytoplasm of P2 segment cells of the proximal tubule epithelium.
  • (5) 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.
  • (6) Generated droplets were dried in line and led to an inhalation chamber from which the dry aerosol was inhaled using a nose or mouth inhalation unit.
  • (7) J774 and elicited mouse peritoneal macrophages were loaded with cholesteryl ester within lysosomes through phagocytosis of sonicated lipid droplets.
  • (8) Ultrastructures of the tumor cells showed immature lymphoid features with frequent lipid droplets within the cytoplasms.
  • (9) One quarter had many autolysosomes or lipid droplets.
  • (10) vitamin A for three days, remarkable increase in size and number of lipid droplets was observed in slightly hypertrophic fat-storing cells, and the empty cells disappeared simulating an increased number of fat-storing cells.
  • (11) Fixation with buffered glutaraldehyde resulted in higher counts (P less than 0.01) of proximal protoplasmic droplets (2.47, 1.03, 0.67, and 1.43%, respectively, for glutaraldehyde, Hancock's, Blom's, and formol saline procedures).
  • (12) Numerous 70-mmicro diameter vesicles apparently pinch off from the Golgi systems, transport this material through the egg, and probably then fuse to form a crenate, membrane-limited yolk droplet.
  • (13) In the cells of the cardiac region (which occupy 65% of the stomach) at least three types of mucous droplet are present.
  • (14) For this rather large pressures (about 700 hPa) are required to overcome the surface forces counteracting droplet formation.
  • (15) One of the earliest ultrastructural abnormalities in tellurium neuropathy is an increased number of cytoplasmic lipid droplets in myelinating Schwann cells.
  • (16) 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.
  • (17) with nonviable Mycobacterium tuberculosis Jamaica cells associated with oil-droplet emulsions (WCV) were highly resistant to the i.v.
  • (18) This equation was used to calculate the mean portal blood flow velocity by this system (V-dopp) in 10 patients with liver disease, and the findings were compared with data simultaneously obtained by cineangiographic mapping of Lipiodol droplets released into the portal vein through a catheter placed in situ at the time of surgery (V-cine).
  • (19) Changes in lipid droplets and some mitochondrial degeneration were observed in the ICM cells of the glycerol-treated embryos.
  • (20) The number of multilamellar vesicles in or adjacent to lipid droplets was independent of the duration of ischemia.

Globule


Definition:

  • (n.) A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form.
  • (n.) A minute spherical or rounded structure; as blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles, minute fungi, spores, etc.
  • (n.) A little pill or pellet used by homeopathists.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The values obtained are shown to be lower than those calculated for arigid pepsin globule.
  • (2) Histologically, foci strongly resembling hepatocellular carcinoma with hyaline globules were noted.
  • (3) A large portion of the N-terminal globule of human collagen VI was prepared from the culture medium of stably transfected human embryonic kidney cell clones.
  • (4) Ultrastructurally, the globules measured 0.5-1.5 mu in diameter and they were usually not membrane bound.
  • (5) Calcification initially occurs in maxtrix vesicles (or calcifying globules) which are very numerous between the collagen fibrils of the osteoid tissue, and successively spreads into the surrounding interfibrillar matrix.
  • (6) This early rejection was associated with local appearance of globule leucocytes and increased concentration of T. colubriformis-specific IgG1 and IgG2 in intestinal mucus.
  • (7) Eosinophilic globules were found in 17% of the 34 nevi, and congenital features in 8.8%.
  • (8) 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.
  • (9) Kamino's eosinophilic globules could be considered another important sign for the differential diagnosis between pigmented spindle cell nevus and malignant melanoma.
  • (10) Deposits of reaction product were found in varying amounts on the membranes of primary vesicles in the globules.
  • (11) Double immunofluorescence microscopy revealed that hsp70 codistributed with the c-myc protein in distinct globules in the nucleus of many but not all myc-positive cells.
  • (12) Lipids associated with fat globule membrane components increased during the dry period.
  • (13) Examination of possibility of AAT deficiency should be performed in every case, where the cause of liver disease is unsolved; this examination is especially indicated by the presence of typical PAS positive, diastase-resistant, AAT immunreactive globules in hepatocytes.
  • (14) In addition to exposing the underlying filamentous substructure of the matrix, protease treatment also revealed large, straight fiber bundles and globules of amorphous material suspended in the filamentous web.
  • (15) Cow, goat, and human globules were subjected to varying concentrations of the bile salt taurodeoxycholate at 37 degrees C for 2 min, and the released material was obtained by centrifugation at 2 degrees C and 50,000 g for 1 h. Sedimented pellets were analyzed for phospholipid and protein and were characterized further by sodium dodecylsulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
  • (16) The examination of the data leads to the conclusion on the existence of two possible mechanisms: the variation of properties of surface tryptophan residues environment and paramagnetic orientation of protein globule under the influence of a magnetic field.
  • (17) Myxoglobulosis is a rare morphologic variant of appendiceal mucocele characterized by intraluminal mucinous globules of the appendix.
  • (18) A remarkable array of filaments, approximately 0.5 micron in length, was seen on human, but not bovine, globules.
  • (19) In 10 of 56 patients with primary liver carcinoma the nontumorous hepatocytes contained diastase resistant, periodic acid-Schiff positive and alpha-1-antitrypsin positive (immunoperoxidase technique) globules.
  • (20) The antigenic relationship between the milk fat globule membrane (MFGM) and the hydrophobic fraction of proteose-peptone (HFPP) was demonstrated, using a mono-specific anti-HFPP antibody.