(n.) Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper has considered the effects and potential application of PFCs, their emulsions and emulsion components for regulating growth and metabolic functions of microbial, animal and plant cells in culture.
(2) The influence of calcium ions on the electrophoretic properties of phospholipid stabilized emulsions containing various quantities of the sodium salts of oleic acid (SO), phosphatidic acid (SPA), phosphatidylinositol (SPI), and phosphatidylserine (SPS) was examined.
(3) After the incubation during 6 hours of Emulsions 1 and 2 with plasma the 36% and 50% decrease of the cholesterol content in plasma was found.
(4) Measurable quantities of temefos were found in the snails within 1 day after the first treatment with a 2% granular formulation but 3 weeks elapsed before uptake occurred following treatment with a temefos emulsion.
(5) Pediatric) (280 micrograms retinol; 160 IU vitamin D; 2.8 mg tocopherol; 0.68 mg riboflavin) in a lipid emulsion, Intralipid.
(6) A fat emulsion when injected into tissue is scarcely taken up by the blood vascular system but is retained within the tissue over a relatively extended period, and is distributed slowly into the surrounding tissues and to the regional lymph nodes.
(7) The effects of injecting either a novel perfluorodecalin (FDC)-based emulsion or various perfluorochemical (PFC) oils on liver cytochromes P-450 (P-450) and aryl esterase (LAE) enzymes in male rats have been studied.
(8) The mean plasma antibody titre to SRBC was significantly increased in some groups of animals injected with F-DA both before or after immunization; maximum titres were observed following injection of emulsion simultaneously with SRBC.
(9) For comparison, the same characteristics of currently used 20% water-soap benzylbenzoate emulsion and of the new ointment base, SAKAP (acryl copolymer), have been examined.
(10) Clinical efficacy of a new preparation of peplomycin emulsion in hydroxypropylcellulosum (HPC-PEP) was studied in 26 patients to compared with that in 14 patients administered with 60 mg of PEP in 20 ml saline (S-PEP).
(11) with nonviable Mycobacterium tuberculosis Jamaica cells associated with oil-droplet emulsions (WCV) were highly resistant to the i.v.
(12) The induction of a T cell proliferative response to a peptide antigen could be inhibited by co-administration of core-extended peptide with antigen in the same adjuvant emulsion.
(13) Microspheres of 14C-labeled highly cross-linked polyacrylamide (mean diameter 0.25-0.30 micron) have been prepared by emulsion polymerization.
(14) The immunogens were administered in water-in-oil emulsions containing pertussis vaccine as adjuvant.
(15) Infants receiving total parenteral nutrition including intravenous lipid emulsion excrete more than 100 pmol of pentane per kilogram body weight per minute.
(16) The soybean oil emulsion Intralipid was given intravenously to 12 healthy subjects for 2 hr.
(17) If the concentration of alcohol in decane is increased the amount of protein adsorbed on the emulsion is decreased.
(18) The formula of a new stable 20% benzylbenzoate emulsion is presented, so are the results of studies on its toxicity, local irritating and sensitizing effects in guinea pigs.
(19) It seems prudent to avoid hypertriglyceridemia secondary to intravenous fat emulsions, as this alone is a cause of pancreatitis, albeit uncommon, in patients with abnormalities of triglyceride metabolism.
(20) The emulsion stability were analyzed by visual inspection, Coulter-Counter and optic microscopy.
Pellicle
Definition:
(n.) A thin skin or film.
(n.) A thin film formed on the surface of an evaporating solution.
Example Sentences:
(1) At this stage of development the inner membrane of the pellicle of the schizont is no longer detectable.
(2) Several functional properties of MG1, MG2, and PRG have been examined, including their presence in two-hour in vivo enamel pellicle, binding to synthetic hydroxyapatite, lubricating properties, and interactions with oral streptococci.
(3) Subculture as a surface pellicle on Sauton's medium has a powerful effect in reducing the relative size of a minority population yielding non-spreading colonies, and thereafter maintaining 99+% of spreading forms.
(4) However, with subsequent subcultivation, eight isolates reverted back to the standard of exhibiting motility and pellicle formation.
(5) The technique holds essentially to the reconnaissance of these types of fibers in fragments or pellicles of said specimens, stained by the methods of Azan and Weigert-Moore, modified, without needing to take succour in histologic methodology applicable to other preparations, which, according to the A., would cause a break of continuity in the observation, and also in the interpretation of findings, and this is not always easy to be re-instated with ease and precision.
(6) In addition to numerous ribosomes, rhoptries, micronemes, and trimembranous pellicle, subpellicular microtubules were observed in the segmenting merozoites.
(7) The same salivary proteins adsorb, however, also selectively to the tooth surface forming a protein layer, the acquired pellicle.
(8) To determine the nature of the salivary components responsible for promoting adhesion, pellicles were prepared from fractions of submandibular and parotid saliva obtained by chromatography on Trisacryl GF 2000 columns.
(9) The high molecular weight proteins found in isolated pellicles of Tetrahymena have been compared in several individual strains within the genus using SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(10) Collectively, these data indicate that actinomyces type 1 fimbriae may specifically interact with several proline-rich salivary molecules, forming experimental pellicles on HA or polystyrene surfaces.
(11) The fim(+) bacteria did not show selective outgrowth in mixed cultures grown in broth aerated by continuous shaking, in static broth incubated anaerobically in hydrogen, and on aerobic agar plates, i.e., under conditions not allowing an advantage from pellicle formation.
(12) During prophase the former gradually associates with the surface of the condensing chromosomes and forms the coat or pellicle around the metaphase and anaphase chromosomes.
(13) Thus the existence fibronectin which is present in the salivary flow, acquired pellicle and dental plaque, was investigated in used acrylic resin dentures with a direct immunohistochemical fluorescent technique using antihuman fibronectin goat serum which was labeled with fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC).
(14) The differences are in formation of apical parts of daughter merozoites which is not coincidental with nuclear division and in formation of the outer membrane of pellicle which arises within the mother cell.
(15) Throughout development the macrogamete retains a normal pellicle which possesses numerous micropores.
(16) Mucin was the protein used to simulate the pellicle.
(17) Chemical alteration of the acquired pellicle appears to be the major reason for these brown integuments.
(18) Micropores in the pellicle were often associated with micronemes.
(19) The cellulose content (greater than 90%, dry weight, depending on the efficiency of water washing) and the beta-D-homopolyglucan nature of these pellicles were assessed by physical, chemical, and enzymatic methods.
(20) SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed that the pellicle contained 50 mol% of nonpolar amino acids.