(1) Fish emersion and handling for 30 seconds significantly (P less than 0.05) altered blood PCO2, acid-base status, and hematologic and plasma biochemical values.
(2) During the first 4 hr of the emersion period, a marked rise of PCO2 entails a respiratory acidosis which is progressively compensated by a slow increase of the bicarbonate concentration; this compensation is completed after about 100 hr and the steady state mean pH value approximates that found for the immersed controls.
(3) Significant dose effects were demonstrated by analysis of variance techniques in both the injection and the emersion tests with the results showing higher percentages of dead embryos and lower total number of embryos with increasing doses of TEM.
(4) The degree of differentiation is for both cell types extremely sensitive to culture conditions such as retinoic acid concentration, emersion of the cultures, etc.
(5) Upon emersion, as soon as ventilation commenced, the whole animal showed a dilator response.
(6) The tensile strength, knot strength and stretch of polyglycolic acid (Dexon) was studied after emersion in physiological saline, sterile urine and infected urine.
(7) Changes in LDH activity, used as an indicator of anaerobic potential of muscle, were not observed, except for an 18% increase in crabs exposed to air for 24 h. The increase in blood urate content, not known as a response to emersion in decapods, appeared to be different from that observed in response to hypoxia.
(8) Samples were frozen slowly in the vapor phase of liquid nitrogen prior to emersion in liquid nitrogen (-196 degrees C).
(9) As a rule, immersion evoked an increase in MSA, with a gradual decrease on emersion.
(10) In the cheliped muscle, a transient 22% decrease in GDH activity for ammonia formation and a 48% increase in GDH activity in the reverse reaction (glutamate synthesis) occurred following 6 and 12 h of emersion, respectively.
(11) Blood samples were collected via intraaortic cannulae from immersed, unrestrained fish and from emersed, restrained fish.
(12) Metabolic adjustments occurring during air exposure have been studied in a population of Actinia equina submitted to long-lasting emersion periods.
(13) Third-stage larvae of Brugia malayi (Guizhou, China strain), in RPMI-1640, 6% DMSO and 15% calf serum, frozen slowly in the vapor phase of liquid nitrogen prior to emersion in liquid nitrogen, remained viable for as long as as 321 days and were infective to Mongolian jirds.
(14) After a review of the best surgical technics in the treatment of aortic abdominal or thoraco-abdominal aneurysms engaging its abdominal visceral branches, an infrequent situation is exposed: broken aneurysms in which, after laparatomy, its abdominal extension, proximal to renal emersion, even affecting descendent thoracic aorta, is verified.
(15) In what appears to be the antithesis of Raynaud's disease, the pain is relieved by emersion in cold.
(16) Turkey semen was stored for 24 h at 5 C in the presence or absence of added spermatozoa that were damaged by emersion in liquid nitrogen.
(17) Blood sampled after cold challenge in 15 RS patients and 15 controls show that both groups exhibit platelet activation after emersion.
(18) The investigations reported here with higher and particularly emersed plants, show what an astonishing influence the higher plants exert on organic and inorganic matter, on pH regulation, destruction of pathogenic bacteria, worms' eggs, and viruses, and also how they influence the waters and waste waters.
(19) The time course of blood acid-base changes was studied in Carcinus maenas during experimental emersion and reimmersion at 15 degrees C by measuring pH and PCO2 and calculating bicarbonate concentration.
(20) During the alternation between air breathing (emersion) and apneic phases (immersion), the pattern of the circulation in the lungfish oscillates between that of a tetrapod and a fish.
Immersed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Immerse
(p. p. & a.) Deeply plunged into anything, especially a fluid.
(p. p. & a.) Deeply occupied; engrossed; entangled.
(p. p. & a.) Growing wholly under water.
Example Sentences:
(1) The efficacy of the process is dependent on immersion medium, while the degree of surrounding tissue damage is dependent on energy dose.
(2) Water immersion (WI) to the neck induces prompt increases in central blood volume, central venous pressure, and atrial distension.
(3) In contrast, in paraffin as well as in frozen sections of chick oviduct, fixed by immersion or in vapor, PR was exclusively nuclear, including in the absence of progesterone, and the intensity of immunostaining was not modified by progesterone treatment.
(4) Clinical use of this instrument is no more difficult than conventional immersion ultrasonography.
(5) The bond strength of the resins did not change with the time spent immersed in water up to 6 months, but decreased with any further increase in time.
(6) Perfused or immersion-fixed epithalamic tissues, sectioned, and mounted on glass slides were processed through the avidin-biotin immunofluorescence method.
(7) The heat uptake that resulted from immersing the hand and wrist into a water-filled calorimeter maintained at temperatures between 37-40 degrees C was measured under standard conditions in a group of eight subjects of either sex.
(8) Immersion-fixed tissue was found to be inferior to perfusion-fixed tissue for immunocytochemical staining of this serum protein.
(9) In the first few days of immersion high concentrations of dissolved metal ions were observed.
(10) An improved technique to record high-equality electrocardiographic (ECG) signals on the surface, from immersed humans during rest and exercise, in both normothermic and hypothermic exposures, has been devised.
(11) The inactivation of exogenous and neural norepinephrine (NE) by helical strips of rat tail artery was studied with a combination of the techniques of transmural stimulation and oil immersion.
(12) The immersion did not influence the state of ventilation and gas exchange at rest, diminished significantly the functional capabilities of external respiration.
(13) We measured closing volume (CV), expiratory reserve volume (ERV) regional distribution of lung volume (Vr) and perfusion in 7 normal subjects in air and during immersion to the neck in water.
(14) Immersion of polymer membranes blended with the thrombin inhibitor in phosphate-buffered saline for 10 d resulted in the loss of nonthrombogenicity, while the polymer membranes grafted with the thrombin inhibitor derivative maintained the nonthrombogenicity over a long period.
(15) With few exceptions, there is no alteration in cellular morphology if the brain is refrigerated after death, and fixed by immersion within 3 hours.
(16) It was observed that during the cold immersion the linear regression coefficients between the heart rate and the Q-S2T in the supine position as well as between the heart rate and the LVET, Q-S2T and the PEP in the head-up position were greater than the regression coefficients used in the rate correction.
(17) In situations where excessive grooming is elicited by other peptides or by water immersion, TRH does not further activate the operating systems involved in the existing excessive grooming.
(18) During immersion the renal excretion of calcium and magnesium also grew, especially in the evening and at night.
(19) Steady-state responses obtained after the 3rd h of immersion in never-immersed (NI) penguins were compared with those of penguins acclimatized to seawater temperature (A).
(20) SEM and TEM examinations suggested that dentinal collagen exposed by the etching but not entangled and impregnated by poly (4-META-co-MMA) easily deteriorated by water during the longer immersion.