(n.) The watery fluid contained in the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results show that endolymph is extremely inhomogenous with respect to calcium potentials.
(2) Compared with the endolymph, the perilymph was found to contain a higher concentration of glucose and total protein.
(3) Under such conditions the basal cells may line the surface facing the endolymph, although this occurs very rarely.
(4) Res., 39, 279-286] the pressure gradient of the endolymph between the cochlea and ES was calculated to be 71.5 mmHg at 38 degrees C. The contribution of the osmotic and hydrostatic pressure gradients of the endolymph to the longitudinal flow is discussed.
(5) Zonulae occludents of the marginal cells, which form a barrier towards the potassium-rich endolymph of the cochlear duct, were demonstrated to be of the "intermediate to tight" type (Claude and Goodenough, 1973).
(6) Ototoxic effects primarily affecting the source for the production of endolymph, i.e.
(7) On the basis of theoretical considerations and experimental studies, it can be shown that Menière's attacks result from rupture of the membranous labyrinth with diffusion of potassium into the perilymph and sodium into the endolymph.
(8) Estimated differential pressure conditions resulting in the endolymph canal support this hypothesis and are in agreement with the observed response intensity.
(9) The results suggest the possibility that aldosterone may play a role in the endolymph absorption of the endolymphatic sac.
(10) These and other data suggest that a dominant feature of endolymph chemistry may be HCO3- formation linked in some fashion with K+ transport, through rates catalyzed by these two enzymes.
(11) Perilymph is considered to be the precursor of endolymph.
(12) The endocochlear potential and Cl- activities in the endolymph and perilymph of guinea pigs were simultaneously measured with a pair of double-barreled Cl--sensitive liquid-membrane electrodes.
(13) After 1 and 2 h the endolymph was removed from the second turn and the ionic concentration of these samples was measured by flamephotometry.
(14) The hydrops in Ménière cases is brought about by a relative insufficiency in endolymphatic draining routes and the hydrops presents itself only at peak endolymph production periods.
(15) No differences in osmotic pressure were demonstrated between endolymph, perilymph and serum.
(16) It is suggested that the surface coat and homogeneous substance may play an important part in the endolymph regulatory mechanism in the endolymphatic sac.
(17) During two recent canal occlusions, abundant "free-floating particles" were identified within the posterior canal endolymph.
(18) This finding suggests that the endolymphatic sac may be capable both of absorbing and of secreting endolymph.
(19) The endolymph flow rate may be different in turn I as indicated by measurements of compound action potential (CAP) changes.
(20) This may serve as a micromechanical pressure-volume-regulating device for monitoring endolymph fluid homeostasis.
Fluid
Definition:
(a.) Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.
(n.) A fluid substance; a body whose particles move easily among themselves.
Example Sentences:
(1) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
(2) Renal micropuncture and microdissection techniques with ultramicro fluid analysis have been applied to evaluate single nephron function in the skate, Raja erinacea.
(3) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(4) Irrespective of the type of arthropathy, synovial fluid dialysable hydroxyproline levels correlate with urinary hydroxyproline excretion.
(5) Content of cyclic nucleoside monophosphates was decreased in all the eye tissues in experimental toxico-allergic uveitis as well as penetration of cAMP into the fluid of anterior chamber of the eye.
(6) An inflammatory process than occurs in the airways that is characterized by an influx of eosinophils and neutrophils into the airway epithelium and bronchial fluids.
(7) One of these antibodies, MCaE11, was used for immunohistochemical detection of MAC in tissue and for quantification of the fluid-phase TCC in ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid plasma.
(8) The concentrations of five normally occurring protease inhibitors in serum and synovial fluid were compared in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthrosis, and normal controls.
(9) The increase in red blood cell mass was associated with an elevation in erythropoietic stimulatory activity in serum, pleural fluid, and tumor-cyst fluid as determined by the exhypoxic polycythemic mouse assay.
(10) From the biochemical markers in follicular fluid, cyclic adenosine monophosphate has a distinct predictive value in regard to pregnancy in in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer cycles.
(11) Postpartum management is directed toward decreasing vasospasm and central nervous system irritability and maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance.
(12) Chromatography and immunoassays are the two principal techniques used in research and clinical laboratories for the measurement of drug concentrations in biological fluids.
(13) Those without sperm, or with cloudy fluid, will require vasoepididymostomy under general or epidural anesthesia, which takes 4-6 hr.
(14) Thirty-two strains of pectin-fermenting rumen bacteria were isolated from bovine rumen contents in a rumen fluid medium which contained pectin as the only added energy source.
(15) Malondialdehyde was undetectable in cerebrospinal fluid after subarachnoid placement of agarose alone, although it was present in similar amounts in all groups that received subarachnoid placement of OxyHb.
(16) No respiratory-distress syndrome of the newborn occurred when total amniotic-fluid cortisol was greater than 60 ng per milliliter (16 patients).
(17) The sodium level of the ascitic fluid determined in 5 cases was higher than that of serum.
(18) In the study group 43 (64%) children had a confirmed bacterial AOM and 24 (36%) showed no bacterial growth from middle ear fluid.
(19) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
(20) Sera from three of these patients gave a precipitin band in gel diffusion tests identical to that produced by a monospecific rabbit anti-E. granulosus antigen 5 serum, when tested against whole hydatid fluid.