(a.) Of or pertaining to the epidermis; epidermic; cuticular.
Example Sentences:
(1) With UVB treatment clinical improvement was achieved, and a less pronounced decrease in epidermal LC was noticed.
(2) Bradykinin also stimulated arachidonic acid release in decidual fibroblasts, an effect which was potentiated in the presence of epidermal growth factor (EGF), but which was not accompanied by an increase in PGF2 alpha production.
(3) Epidermal growth factor reduced plating efficiency by about 50% for A431 cells in different cell cycle phases whereas a slight increase in plating efficiency was seen for SiHa cells.
(4) Intraepidermal clefting starts at the junction between the basal and epidermal layers, and later involves all of the levels of the stratum spinosum.
(5) It has been found that the epidermal staining pattern for ICAM-1 in each of these diseases in distinctive and different in each disease.
(6) Normal cultured human epidermal melanocytes and melanoma cells derived from three different malignant melanomas were examined for synthesis of extracellular matrix components before and after treatment for one day with interferon-gamma, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, or both.
(7) In this paper sensitive and selective bioassays are described for growth factors acting on substrate-attached cells, in particular members of the epidermal growth factor, transforming growth factor beta, platelet-derived growth factor, insulin-like growth factor, and heparin-binding growth factor families.
(8) Similarly, single factors (platelet-derived growth factor) or combinations of factors (epidermal growth factor (EGF) + insulin, platelet-derived growth factor + EGF + insulin, or fibroblast growth factor + EGF + insulin) that induced proliferation of the fibroblasts, also induced increased expression of M-CSF.
(9) The epidermal glycoproteins were probed with the lectin, concanavalin A (Con A).
(10) The specificity of the assay was further demonstrated by a lack of competition of cytochrome C, myoglobin, epidermal growth factor or bovine serum albumin with bFGF for binding to the antibodies.
(11) Human Caco-2 enterocytes were cultured on matrix proteins (collagen I, laminin, fibronectin) with growth factors (epidermal growth factor [EGF] and transforming growth factor-beta 1 [TGF-beta 1]) and the tyrosine kinase and prostaglandin inhibitors genistein and indomethacin.
(12) Furthermore, it involved mixed clinical and histological changes of epidermal nevus from fingers to elbow.
(13) It has been shown elsewhere that the epidermal growth factor (EGF) in A431 cells can recycle in receptor-bound state (Teslenko et al., 1987; Sorkin et al., 1989, 1991).
(14) Pre-treatment of human fibroblasts to inhibit a cell-surface growth-related proteinase inhibits the mitogenic action of epidermal growth factor.
(15) The DTH responses were induced by subcutaneous injection of allogeneic epidermal cells (ECs) and were assayed by footpad swelling.
(16) The rat neu gene, which encodes a receptor-like protein homologous to the epidermal growth factor receptor, is frequently activated by a point mutation altering a valine residue to a glutamic acid residue in its predicted transmembrane domain.
(17) Data are provided for epithelial surface markers (including epidermal growth factor, EGF) and for the synthesis and release of prostaglandins and proteases which may be involved in invasive mechanisms.
(18) Two-dimensional phosphopeptide map analysis revealed that the major sites of tyrosine and serine phosphorylation in PLC-gamma 1 from activated Jurkat cells are the same as those in PLC-gamma 1 from cells treated with peptide growth factors such as epidermal growth factor and platelet-derived growth factor.
(19) We have used this procedure successfully during the purification of epidermal glycoproteins.
(20) Ninety-eight different malignant adnexal tumors were analyzed for the presence of epidermal growth factor (EGF)-specific binding sites and binding parameters were calculated by Scatchard plot analysis [G. Scatchard, Ann.
Hypodermis
Definition:
(n.) Same as Hypoblast.
(n.) Same as Hypoderma, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fibroblast number showed an initial fall from 5 to 14 d but then started to increase in number from 21 to 60 d. This chronic inflammatory reaction appeared to be in response to particulate matter that had been incorporated into the wound bed and hypodermis, and was still apparent 6 months after injury, when hydrocolloid particles were detectable microscopically in the hypodermis.
(2) The T1 variety of tyrosinase is present in both particulate and soluble or readily solubilized forms in the pigmented hypodermis (hair bulbs) of C57BL mice and Harding-Passey mouse melanoma.
(3) In nematodes, although there was variation in reactions among species, N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase and beta-galactosidase were localized in the hypodermis and lateral cords excluding the excretory canal, and coelomocytes, intestinal epithelium and the walls of the reproductive systems.
(4) The pathology of the bald scalp showed the presence of tubular epithelial structures devoid of hair bulbs extending from the epidermis to the deep dermis and the superficial hypodermis.
(5) During induction of the Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodite vulva by the anchor cell of the gonad, six multipotent vulval precursor cells (VPCs) have two distinct fates: three VPCs generate the vulva and the other three VPCs generate nonspecialized hypodermis.
(6) Immunoelectron microscopy established that the antigen encoded by this clone is present in the hypodermis and the basal layer of the cuticle of L3 and female adult worm, and in the egg shell around developing microfilariae.
(7) In particular, the hypodermis surrounding the ventral cord is not the primary focus of unc-3 action (body muscle was excluded in earlier work).
(8) Genes that control the fates of the VPCs in response to the anchor cell signal are defined by mutations that cause all six VPCs to generate vulval tissue (Multivulva or Muv) or that cause all six VPCs to generate hypodermis (Vulvaless or Vul).
(9) Haemocytes containing lysosomes are present in the wing at this time, but do not invade the fragmenting hypodermis.
(10) The hypodermis cuticle prepared in this manner incorporated radiolabeled amino acids into cuticular and hypodermal proteins; incorporation was inhibited by protein synthesis inhibitors.
(11) Their microanatomical basis lies in the hypodermis where trabeculae of the retinacula cutis are broader and much shorter underneath the wrinkle than in the surrounding skin.
(12) The subcutaneous fat layer derives from the "primitive organs" identifiable in the hypodermis from the fourth fetal month onward.
(13) During larval life, the hypodermis contains chromatophores, blood capillaries and wandering leucocytes.
(14) When the joint is stretched shearing forces are apparently transmitted to the receptive dendritic branches via microtubular bundles inside the hypodermis cells.
(15) Whatever the reason of their presence, large groups of mast cells could considerably influence the results of tests performed in the skin-hypodermis area.
(16) The hypodermis of moulting larvae contained numerous multi-vesicular bodies.
(17) Evidence of abnormal maturation was found in the epidermis, cutaneous appendages, dermis, and hypodermis.
(18) This paper provides evidence that the elongation of the body is caused by the outermost layer of embryonic cells, the hypodermis, squeezing the embryo circumferentially.
(19) The surface of the filarial worm consists of an extracellular cuticle which overlies the outer plasma membrane of the hypodermis.
(20) The quota of fatty acids in the feed distinctly influenced the composition of the fatty acids in the intestines, the kidneys and the hypodermis.