(n.) The part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the same time the duodenum can be isolated from the stomach and maintained under constant stimulus by a continual infusion at regulated pressure, volume and temperature into the distal cannula.
(2) However, there was not a relationship between the contraction curve of the gallbladder and the bile flow into the duodenum.
(3) The CL was also longer in the duodenum, whereas the CD was shortened, indicating a reduction of the wave movements from the stomach antrum to the duodenum in the ranitidine periods.
(4) Blunt trauma to the epigastrum may result in a retroperitoneal hematoma involving the head of the pancreas and descending duodenum.
(5) In both the gastric antrum and the duodenum, the first appearance of CCK-li preceded the functional activity of its target tissues.
(6) Although 25 Gy IORT plus 50 Gy EBRT was tolerated by the duodenum to 135 days, these doses may cause later pancreatic injury as an expression of damage to blood vessels and ducts.
(7) Peak serum insulin concentrations and integrated insulin secretion were also significantly greater with perfusion of the duodenum or proximal jejunum.
(8) The performed studies covered the effect of tuftsin, tetrapeptide stimulating many components of immunological reactions, to histamine concentration in lungs, kidneys, liver, duodenum as well as in the blood of rabbits and guinea-pigs.
(9) Experimental diversion of the bile flow from the lumen of the duodenum has little effect on the relative percentage of methadone vs. metabolites circulating in the blood.
(10) As many as 72 patients with erosive and ulcerous injuries to the stomach and duodenum were examined for the clinical efficacy of antepsin (sucralfate).
(11) The studies allow the interpretation that retention of food in the diverticula is not the reason for the bacterial miscolonization of the duodenum and the biliary tract, but in patients with diverticula a disturbed self-cleaning mechanism is present.
(12) The head and body of the pancreas between the stricture and the duodenum were normal.
(13) Metoprolol was introduced into the stomach with a homogenized meal containing a nonabsorbable marker, [14C]-PEG 4000, and another marker, PEG 4000, was perfused continuously into the duodenum just below the pylorus.
(14) Endoscopic evaluation of the stomach and duodenum was performed, with separate registration of the duodenum distally to the duodenal bulb.
(15) Varicose fibres were found in the myenteric plexuses of the duodenum, jejunum, ileum and colon.
(16) Villous tumors of the duodenum are rare, but treatment may be problematic because of their association with invasive adenocarcinoma.
(17) At pH 6.0, the pH of the duodenum, there is appreciable lipolytic activity in the presence of bile salts.
(18) During subsequent studies, hepatic bile flow was measured, and bile was returned to the duodenum through an externalized duodenal catheter.
(19) In 18 of the 118 stomachs the focal concentration of the parietal cells near the duodenum was greater than the other part of the antrum, reaching more than 50% of the parietal cells of the average fundic gland.
(20) Endoscopy and intragastral pH-metry were used to investigate the stomach and duodenum.
Pancreas
Definition:
(n.) The sweetbread, a gland connected with the intestine of nearly all vertebrates. It is usually elongated and light-colored, and its secretion, called the pancreatic juice, is discharged, often together with the bile, into the upper part of the intestines, and is a powerful aid in digestion. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors report 4 new cases of heterotopic pancreas in children with prepyloric, jejunal, Meckel's diverticulum and mesenteric localization.
(2) High radioactivities were observed in the digestive organs, mesenteric lymphnodes, liver, pancreas, urinary bladder, fat tissue, kidney and spleen after oral administration to rats.
(3) The only localized tumors known to produce elevation of CEA above the levels observed in non malignant diseases are carcinomas of the large bowel and the pancreas.
(4) For consistent identification of the normal pancreas, preliminary longitudinal scanning at, or near, the mid-line and subsequent oblique scanning in the long axis are necessary prerequisites in delineating the anatomic outline of the pancreas.
(5) Isoenzyme LDH4 was absent in the human pancreas in all the studied periods of embryonic development.
(6) One hundred and sixteen patients with advanced and metastatic adenocarcinoma of the pancreas were randomized to treatment with combined Streptozotocin and 5-fluorouracil or combined Streptozotocin and cyclophosphamide.
(7) In comparison to rat pancreas, [D-Phe6]BN-(6-13)ethyl ester, Ac-GRP-(20-26)ethyl ester, [D-Phe6,Cpa14, psi 13-14]BN-(6-14), [Leu14, psi 13-14]BN, and [Leu14, psi 9,10]BN had a 10,000-, 2,940-, 1,425-, 122-, and 4-fold, respectively, weaker affinity for BN receptors.
(8) Fifty-four patients had pancreas cancer, confirmed by resection or biopsy in all cases.
(9) In cancer of the pancreas head, cancer cells could invade the portal vein and perineural space of the celiac plexus, and metastasize to regional lymph nodes around the celiac axis.
(10) Blunt trauma to the epigastrum may result in a retroperitoneal hematoma involving the head of the pancreas and descending duodenum.
(11) The large number of pancreas tests recommended today shows that no single method is satisfactory.
(12) The BT-PABA test could be useful for evaluating the progressive decrease in exocrine pancreatic function and residual radiation injury to the pancreas.
(13) This work undertakes the study of changes in urinary, plasmatic and tissue levels of Thromboxane B2 (TXB2) as well as in tissue Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) after pancreas transplantation and the effect of superoxide dismutase (SOD) on these changes.
(14) A study was carried out to evaluate the effects of direct cooling on the exocrine pancreas.
(15) The contents of glandular kallikrein in the submaxillary gland and pancreas of normal, diabetic and hypertensive rats were compared using a specific enzyme immunoassay.
(16) We are reporting the case of a 23-yr-old patient who had recurring episodes of acute pancreatitis characterized by the typical abdominal pain, elevated serum levels of pancreatic enzymes, and enlargement of the pancreas and edema on sonogram.
(17) High activities were detected in liver, kidney and spleen, and much lower activities in adrenals, intestine, lung, heart, brain, skeletal muscle and pancreas.
(18) Two normal variants that could be confused with abnormalities were noted: (a) the featureless appearance of the duodenal bulb may be mistaken for extravasation, and (b) contrastmaterial filling of the proximal jejunal loop at an end-to-end anastomosis with retained invaginated pancreas may be mistaken for intussusception.
(19) Pancreastatin is a 49 amino acid peptide with a C-terminal glycine amide originally isolated from porcine pancreas.
(20) We have found FLT4 expression in human placenta, lung, heart, and kidney, whereas the pancreas and brain appeared to contain very little if any FLT4 RNA.