(n.) The layer of vascular connective tissue lining the medullary cavities of bone.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that the tissue in diffusion chambers, formed by a small number of early precursor cells present in the soft tissues of the endosteum and marrow of young rabbits, contains extracellular matrix macromolecules similar to those found in bone and cartilage.
(2) With bead types II and III, bead-associated new bone was seen at 3 days and 4 days only when beads lodged near the endosteum or in the metaphysis.
(3) However, the increase in rate of influx when the cellular layers are removed indicates that the periosteum and endosteum constitute an important structural conponent in the maintenance of bone mineral and its equilibration with the circulation.
(4) Immunohistochemistry of normal and neoplastic tissues demonstrated that RCB1 bound the connective tissues surrounding the cancer nests and various normal tissues including interstitium of renal distal tubule, periosteum, endosteum, smooth muscles of digestive tract and media of arteries and arterioles.
(5) Our studies of 2 microns sectioned undecalcified plastic-embedded bone marrow (BM) from healthy human fetuses; normal adults; patients with acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML), acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), and chronic granulocytic leukemia (CGL) in various stages (chronic, accelerated, acute blastic phase, and after autografting); and patients recovering from therapy-induced marrow hypoplasia suggest that proliferative hematopoietic zones exist near the endosteum (endosteal marrow) and the vascular endothelium (capillary and sinus-lining endothelium) and a maturational zone distal to these regions.
(6) Surgical interference within the blood supply to the inner ear was responsible for metaplastic bone, and damage to the endosteum by surgery or disease caused osteoplastic bone.
(7) Endosteum is the main source of the regeneration of the stromal elements.
(8) General and some special histologic methods have been used to study the structure of periosteum and endosteum, as well as the morphological peculiarities of their cells in rodents and hares in the early and late postnatal ontogenesis.
(9) The findings show the existence of antibodies directed against the cell nuclei, or against the endothelium of the cochlear vessels, or against the endosteum of the inner ear.
(10) Within the diaphyseal cortex, the primary resorption phase of Paget's disease is often limited either to the endosteum or to the central layers of the cortex.
(11) Ultrastructural peculiarities of stromal elements from bone marrow and endosteum in 28 children with acute leukaemia during clinical and hematological exacerbations are presented.
(12) The fluoride distribution of the femur bone in each specimen was analysed from the periosteum to the endosteum by using the abrasive micro-sampling technique described by Weatherell et al.
(13) These reticulum cells may be found throughout the marrow but are concentrated near the endosteum.
(14) One specimen displayed a circumscribed sensorineural degeneration in the upper basal turn, with an almost exact correspondence between the location and extent of the cochlear lesion and the site of invasion by the otosclerotic process in the bone and endosteum bordering on scala media and scala tympani.
(15) Irregular medullary bone formation may be connected with the endosteum, but usually it develops in the bone marrow, independently of the endosteum.
(16) The site of origin in 5 rats was found to be in or near the endosteum.
(17) Where otosclerosis involved the endosteum of the scala tympani, loss of vessels was observed.
(18) periosteum, endosteum, osteocytes, marrow) removed by mechanical or enzymatic pretreatment.
(19) In the cement treated animals external callus formation occurred slowly, due to poor bone-forming capacity of the endosteum and a failure to form a bridge at the fracture site.
(20) Our working hypothesis is that BMP induces the differentiation of perivascular connective tissue cells into chondroblasts and osteoprogenitor cells and thereby augments the process of bone regeneration from the cells already present in the endosteum and periosteum.
Vascular
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of, or containing, vessels as an essential part of a structure; full of vessels; specifically (Bot.), pertaining to, or containing, special ducts, or tubes, for the circulation of sap.
(a.) Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the vessels of animal and vegetable bodies; as, the vascular functions.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the higher division of plants, that is, the phaenogamous plants, all of which are vascular, in distinction from the cryptogams, which to a large extent are cellular only.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using mini-pigs with an indwelling vascular catheter, the pharmacokinetics of chloramphenicol were investigated in healthy and liver-damaged animals.
(2) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
(3) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
(4) This study compared the non-invasive vascular profiles, coagulation tests, and rheological profiles of 46 consecutive cases of low-tension glaucoma with 69 similarly unselected cases of high-tension glaucoma and 47 age-matched controls.
(5) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
(6) The present study examined whether the lack of chronic hemodynamic effects of ANP in control rats was due to changes in vascular reactivity to the peptide.
(7) Radioligand binding studies revealed the presence of a single class of high-affinity (Kd = 2-6 X 10(-10) M) binding sites for ET-1 in both cells, although the maximal binding capacity of cardiac receptor was about 6- to 12-fold greater than that of vascular receptor.
(8) After vascular injury, smooth muscle cells proliferate, reaching a maximum rate at day 2.
(9) Hexamethonium abolished vasodilatation in the hindquarters vascular bed only.
(10) The fibrous matrix and cartilage formed within the nonunion site transformed to osteoid and bone with increased vascularity.
(11) The operative arteriograms confirmed vascular occlusive phenomenon.
(12) An inverse relationship between the pumping capacity of the heart and vascular resistance was confirmed at different stages of examination and treatment of the patients.
(13) The capillary-adipocyte distances were shorter and the vascularization density was higher in old rats.
(14) When nifedipine was combined with ouabain the elevation of vascular resistance was completely abolished.
(15) A retrospective review was undertaken of 127 lower extremity fasciotomies performed for compartment syndrome after acute ischemia and revascularization in 73 patients with vascular trauma and 49 patients with arterial occlusive disease.
(16) It inhibits platelet and vascular smooth muscle activation by cGMP-dependent attenuation of the agonist-induced rise of intracellular free Ca2+.
(17) Base-line HPV was determined by measuring the change in pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) while sheep breathed 12% O2 for 7 min.
(18) The chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) model was used to study vascular effects of photodynamic therapy (PDT) and hyperthermia (HPT) and the synergism of these modalities.
(19) For obstruction of greater than or equal to 50% of the pulmonary vascular cross-sectional area and pulmonary hypertension thrombolytic therapy should be given and insertion of an inferior caval filter can be considered.
(20) It is concluded that a Na-H antiport system in vascular smooth muscle regulates Na influx rate, contributes to intracellular pH regulation and influences basal levels of Na,K-pump activity.