(v. t.) To turn outwards, or inside out, as an intestine.
Example Sentences:
(1) The adherence of 51Cr-labeled platelets to rabbit aortae everted on probes rotated in platelet-red cell suspensions has been measured.
(2) A fixated vessel was everted and incubated in dissociated solution of potassium etoxide.
(3) Using the experimental model of the everted sac prepared from rat jejuna, kinetic studies on [14C]oleic acid uptake from bile salt micelles were conducted in the presence and absence of phosphatidylcholine.
(4) In vivo recirculating perfusion (n = 5) and in vitro everted sac incubation (n = 8) were employed.
(5) Nematocyst capsules and everted threads from both species contained levels of glycine and proline-hydroxyproline characteristic of vertebrate collagens.
(6) Ca(++)-transport studies by the everted gut sac technique show a correlation between vitamin D induction of active Ca(++)-transport and the segmental distribution of Ca(++)-pump epitopes.
(7) The cup-shaped adhesive papillae of Distaplia occidentalis evert at the onset of metamorphosis and each transforms into a hyperboloidal configuration.
(8) Intestinal monosaccharide transport was studied in young lambs (age: up to 1 week) and in older lambs (age: 2.5-4 months) with well developed forestomach system employing everted sacs of small intestine.
(9) Both transport and biotransformation processes of nucleoside analogues were studied in the isolated everted rat jejunum with a continuous perfusion technique.
(10) To evaluate the role of small intestinal tissue, detailed analysis of PG processing in vitro of small intestinal segments of suckling and weanling rats using everted sacs was performed.
(11) Enterocytes were isolated from the jejunum and ileum of the neonatal (12-day-old) rat by vibrating everted intestinal segments in buffered saline containing EDTA.
(12) On the basis of their location and chronological pattern of cell production and differentiation, it is inferred that the neurons of the ventrobasal nucleus originate in the earlier differentiating, posteroventrally situated inverted sublobule, and the neurons of the ventrolateral nucleus are produced in the later differentiating, anterodorsally situated everted sublobule.
(13) Toward the end of lactation (days 16-23) the rats were killed, and active Ca transport (using everted gut sacs) and CaBP were determined in duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.
(14) A modification of the everted sac technique is described which allows several sacs to be prepared rapidly and simultaneously from the same segment of rat intestine.
(15) Synacthen and 41795-Ba {[d-Ser(1), Lys(17), Lys(18)]corticotrophin-(1-18)-octadecapeptide amide} were rapidly metabolized in vitro by both intestinal juice and everted pieces of small intestine.
(16) The apparent extracellular space (ECS) of rat jejunum, everted and cannulated "in vitro", has been measured by using extracellular markers of different molecular weights.
(17) A low incidence of gross malformations such as twisted limbs, abnormal beak, short neck and everted viscera were observed; however, the increased incidence was not statistically significant when compared to controls.
(18) on electrical resistance usually found for sacs of everted rat jejunum.5.
(19) Sacs of the upper half of the everted intestine taken from bile fistula rats were incubated in a buffered solution containing mono-olein, (14)C-labelled oleic acid and bile salt (sodium taurocholate (NaTch) in concentrations exceeding the critical micellar concentration).2.
(20) Everted rings of rat intestine were used to study the initial uptake rate of folic acid at various concentrations and incubation temperatures in vitro.2.
Starfish
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of echinoderms belonging to the class Asterioidea, in which the body is star-shaped and usually has five rays, though the number of rays varies from five to forty or more. The rays are often long, but are sometimes so short as to appear only as angles to the disklike body. Called also sea star, five-finger, and stellerid.
(n.) The dollar fish, or butterfish.
Example Sentences:
(1) The kinetics of the membrane current during the anomalous or inward-going rectification of the K current in the egg cell membrane of the starfish Mediaster aequalis were analyzed by voltage clamp.
(2) Using tubulin immunostaining, we found that 6-DMAP did not affect the cortical microtubules and resting female centrioles of prophase-arrested starfish oocytes, whereas it induced a precocious disappearance of spindle fibers when applied to hormone-stimulated oocytes.
(3) When he sits back at the piano and plays Raspberry Beret and Starfish and Coffee and Girls and Boys, they’re beside themselves, and understandably so: he sounds magnificent.
(4) The cockle Cardium tuberculatum responds with a typical escape movement (jumping by foot contractions) when touched by a starfish.
(5) Since these characteristics of the starfish egg poly(A)+ RNA are similar to those of cyclin mRNAs from sea urchin and surf clam eggs, we synthesized a 50-mer antisense-cyclin oligonucleotide probe coding for a part of the sea urchin cyclin cDNA and used this to screen starfish RNA.
(6) The cellular events that take place during reconstruction of larval forms from dissociated embryonic cells of the starfish are investigated by thick and thin sections.
(7) Primary afferent electrical activity can be recorded from the chemoreceptors on the mantle margin that are responsive to starfish scent and also from other physiologically distinct receptors that are responsive to contact with starfish tube feet.
(8) A cDNA clone encoding starfish cyclin B has been isolated and its sequence determined.
(9) The changes in activity of a cytoplasmic maturation-promoting factor (MPF), capable of inducing resumption of meiosis when injected into starfish oocytes, were examined during mouse oocyte maturation.
(10) 1-Methyladenine (1MeAde) is the naturally occurring maturation-inducing hormone of starfish oocytes.
(11) The marine gastropods Acmaea (Collisella) limatula and Acmaea (Notoacmea) scutum respond to distant predatory starfish (i.e.
(12) "There are a number of threats facing the reef, including climate change, coastal developments, agricultural runoff, ocean acidification and outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish.
(13) Fatty acid hydroperoxides (lipoxygenase products) are metabolized to allene oxides by a type of dehydrase that has been detected in plants, corals, and starfish oocytes.
(14) Ross said researchers have identified four new species of fish, a new type of starfish and several new species of crustaceans living in the deepwater reefs.
(15) An assessment by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority cited climate change as the leading threat to the coral ecosystem, with pollution, extreme weather events, and a plague of coral-eating starfish also contributing to its malaise.
(16) This has come about because links have been established between two independent areas of research, one based on a genetic approach using the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe and the second based on a biochemical approach using Xenopus and starfish oocytes.
(17) In the presence of 1 mM hydroxyurea, fertilized eggs of the starfish, Asterina pectinifera, cleaved up to the 256-cell stage and decomposed before blastulation.
(18) Porcine brain tubulin labeled with fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) was able to polymerize by itself and co-polymerize with tubulin purified from starfish sperm flagella.
(19) Although caffeine, theophylline, and theobromine supposedly inhibit maturation of oocytes, studies using the starfish oocyte showed that theobromine does not inhibit maturation and the inhibition caused by caffeine and theophylline is reversible.
(20) The acrosome reaction of spermatozoa from the starfish Marthasterias glacialis was induced with the ionophore A23187.