(n.) The membrane lining the inner surface of the uterus, or womb.
Example Sentences:
(1) The organisms are transmitted transovarially, diaplacentally, via endometrium, before or after implantation, via amnion or by the semen when ascending through the infectious environment.
(2) The normal tissues included the ovary, fallopian tube, uterine endometrium, uterine cervix, and vagina.
(3) The cAMP-dependent protein kinase (ATP:protein phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.37), has been studied in the vaginal epithelium, vaginal stroma, endometrium, and whole uterus of spayed mice treated with oestradiol-17 beta, and in the vaginal epithelium and uterus of spayed mice.
(4) However, antiviral activity was undetectable in medium conditioned by endometrium from one of the Day-12 gilts.
(5) A total of 140 women who had anovulatory endometrium among 1036 patients who had a clinical diagnosis of primary infertility, over a 5 yr period were studied.
(6) In 25 rabbits, endometrium from the right uterine horn was transplanted onto the peritoneum (Experimental group = Group E).
(7) The authors have reassessed the anatomic distribution of ectopic endometrium by the laparoscopic study of the location of implants, adhesions, and uterine position in 182 consecutive patients with infertility and endometriosis.
(8) Other studies have, in addition, described a hyperechogenic endometrium with a poor pregnancy rate but that pattern could in the present study only be demonstrated after follicle aspiration, 32 clinical pregnancies occurred.
(9) A case of primary squamous carcinoma of the Endometrium is reported.
(10) To assess the window of implantation, same age embryos were transferred onto endometrium of different maturational stages.
(11) Undegradated collagen might be redistributed wholly in the endometrium on postpartum day 1 when the area of endometrium has diminished.
(12) The low-molecular-mass insulin-like growth factor-binding protein (IGF-BP) and placental protein 12 (PP12) are identical proteins that are present in human serum, amniotic fluid, secretory endometrium and decidua.
(13) The DNA and RNA contents of malignant cells of the endometrium cultured in vitro were measured using flow cytometry (FCM).
(14) Hexokinase of the endometrium and gastric mucosa is represented by 5 isoenzymes.
(15) The kinetic and fine structural characteristics and site of origin of the resurfacing uterine lining, as well as the influence of ovarian hormonal stimuli on the reparative processes of experimentally injured endometrium in the rabbit, were studied by means of in vivo historadioautography and electron microscopy.
(16) Sites of origin were diverse: lymphoma, 2; breast, 3; colon, 2; and 1 each with Hodgkin's, lung, ovary endometrium, and melanoma.
(17) Some experiments on endometrium and myometrium, cultured apart and together, suggest that there may be flow of substrates of the PG pathways such that less Pgf2alpha is available in this condition.
(18) When estron was administered to castrated rats with alloxan diabetes the mass of the uterus and the vagina and the height of the uterine endometrium, and of the epithelial layer of the vagina increased to the same degree as in rats with the intact pancreas; reactivity of diabetic rats to estrogen approached the sensitivity of animals with normal pancreatic functions.
(19) In the endometrium these receptors were present in glandular and luminal epithelial cells as well as in stromal cells.
(20) In four of these seven patients, the endometrium had previously shown cystic glandular hyperplasia.
Implant
Definition:
(v. t.) To plant, or infix, for the purpose of growth; to fix deeply; to instill; to inculate; to introduce; as, to implant the seeds of virtue, or the principles of knowledge, in the minds of youth.
Example Sentences:
(1) A spindle cell sarcoma appeared 20 months after implantation of a pellet of 3-methylcholanthrene in the denervated foreleg of an adult frog, Rana pipiens.
(2) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
(3) Membranes of this material were filled with islets of Langerhans and implanted in the peritoneal cavity of rats.
(4) Implantation of the mouse embryo involves the invasion of the secondary trophoblast giant cells of the ectoplacental cone (EPC) into the uterine decidua.
(5) Thus, brain NE levels after training were not predictive of retention performance in amygdala-implanted or -stimulated animals.
(6) Furthermore the limit between hearing aid fitting an cochlear implantation is discussed.
(7) Five days later, the animals were randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups: Group 1 received intracranial implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 2 received intraperitoneal implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 3 received serial intraperitoneal injections of dexamethasone; and Group 4 received sham treatment.
(8) The use of an absorbable material may alleviate potential late complications associated with implantation of nonabsorbable materials.
(9) 11 patients with a postoperative classification of stage D had additional external beam radiation to the pelvic and paraaortic lymph nodes with shielding of the implanted prostatic region.
(10) DES implantation increased the body weight of the ram by 10.4% and caused no significant change in total body water, body ash, or total muscle mass.
(11) The results obtained further knowledge of the anatomy of the nuclei, specifically the areas used for the prosthesis implantation and the underlying tissue.
(12) This technology will provide better information to the surgeon for preoperative diagnosis and planning and for the design of customized implants.
(13) The new trabecular bone closely resembled that typically seen at electrically active implants.
(14) A second group was chronically implanted without electrical stimulation in one leg and implanted with cyclical electrical stimulation applied through the electrode in the other leg.
(15) Resorption of calcium and depositon of inorganic phosphates in the implanted ceramics suggested that ions were being exchanged with the body fluids.
(16) Steroid-treated steers showed a slight decline in synthesis which was significant (P less than 0.05) at week +5 post-implant while amino acid oxidation was significantly lower at weeks +2 (P less than 0.01) and +5 (P less than 0.05) compared with control animals.
(17) During the last 10 years 94% of patients have been normocalcaemic postoperatively, thanks mainly to the re-implantation of autologous parathyroid tissue, preserved by low-temperature storage.
(18) The consequences of proved hypersensitivity in patients with metal-to-plastic prostheses, either present prior to insertion of the prosthesis or evoked by the implant material, are not known.
(19) Electromagnetic interference presented as inhibition and resetting of the demand circuitry of a ventricular-inhibited temporary external pacemaker in a 70-year-old man undergoing surgical implantation of a permanent bipolar pacemaker generator and lead.
(20) Endometriotic implants with good response to Duphaston therapy demonstrated an enhanced autophagic activity within many epithelial cells.