(n.) A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mature Fasciola gigantica obtained from naturally infected cattle were surgically transferred into the gallbladders of six fluke-free goats.
(2) Eighteen Chinese cattle were experimentally infected with metacercariae of Fasciola hepatica and randomly assigned to 6 groups.
(3) Male and female rats of the inbred Piebald Virol Glaxo ( PVG) and Sprague Dawley (SD) strains were infected with 20 metacercariae of Fasciola hepatica.
(4) The lack of significant differences in antibody levels of infected, treated and uninfected cattle however showed that herd antibody levels are not very useful to detect chronic Fasciola infections.
(5) The partially purified extract of Fasciola gigantica was incubated with enzyme pepsin and samples were taken at different time intervals from 0-24 hours, and tested intradermally for diagnosing bilharziasis.
(6) Groups of five rats each were infected with metacercariae of Fasciola hepatica according to two experimental procedures.
(7) The effects of experimental infections with Fasciola hepatica of ovine and bovine origin in homologous and heterologous hosts and in uninfected controls were compared; groups comprised 5 animals each.
(8) Over a period of 15 months data were collected from abattoirs in Great Britain on 213,082 cattle and 362,838 sheep livers to determine the distribution and prevalence of damage by Fasciola hepatica.
(9) A band detected by EITB using a densitometer in the area corresponding to 26 kDa reacted with rabbit anti-fresh fluke antigen and infected cattle sera but not with fluke-negative rabbit sera, rabbit anti-Fasciola hepatica egg sera, Fascioloides magna positive or negative cattle sera.
(10) These annelids which destroy the larval stages of Fasciola hepatica have been observed in the laboratory.
(11) Spermatogenesis and the fine structure of the mature spermatozoon of Fasciola hepatica have been studied by transmission electron microscopy.
(12) Groups of sheep were infected with 100 viable metacercariae of Fasciola hepatica.
(13) The activity of the rat liver monooxygenase system after single and combined treatment with Fasciola hepatica and diethylnitrosamine (DENA) has been studied in a 27-week experiment.
(14) In order to detect IgE antibodies against adult Onchocerca volvulus antigens, separately six onchocerciasis sera were depleted of IgE antibodies by using a mixture of Onchocerca gutturosa, Ascaris suum and Fasciola hepatica antigenic extracts coupled with sepharose 4B.
(15) During the preparation of tissue impression smears we came across 2 specimens of Fasciola hepatica in the livers of 2 R. norvegicus and the incidence of infection was 6.89%.
(16) Exceptionally low background values were obtained with sera from animals with a range of commonly occurring tropical parasitic infections, including Taenia hydatigena, Echinococcus granulosus and Fasciola gigantica.
(17) Very young snails had been individually exposed to a single miracidium of Fasciola hepatica; they were bred at 23 degrees C during 49 days and killed at days 42 and 49 postexposure for histological studies.
(18) The possibility was examined of using a haemoglobinase released during in vitro incubation of adult Fasciola hepatica for immunodiagnosis of fascioliasis.
(19) The possession of common antigens by three trematode parasites which commonly occur together in ruminants in the tropics, Fasciola gigantica, Dicrocoelium hospes and Schistosoma bovis was studied in relation to the reliability of serodiagnosis of infection with these helminths.
(20) The number of Fasciola recovered after challenge was lower in both groups of rats primarily infected with F. hepatica or S. mansoni.
Fimbria
Definition:
(n.) A fringe, or fringed border.
(n.) A band of white matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain.
Example Sentences:
(1) The perforant pathway and fimbria fornix were transected to label afferent fibers to NPY-positive cells.
(2) In the fimbria a significantly higher concentration (P less than 0.01) was observed in the proliferative phase.
(3) One month after unilateral transection of the fimbria-fornix an almost complete lack of cholinergic fibers persists in all layers of the dorsal hippocampus and fascia dentata ipsilateral to the lesion when compared to the contralateral hippocampus or to unlesioned control rats.
(4) E. coli strain S22-1, serotype O103:H2, isolated from a child with diarrhoea, contained two plasmids; one of these (pDEP12) hybridized with the CVD419 DNA probe derived from a plasmid found in E. coli O157:H7 and associated with expression of fimbriae and ability to adhere to Intestine 407 cells.
(5) Morphological results demonstrated that 30 Gy irradiated animals showed extensive necrosis primarily in the fimbria, which extended into the internal capsule, optic nerve, hippocampus, and thalamus.
(6) (iii) Binding curves generated from an enzyme immunoassay demonstrated concentration-dependent binding of P. gingivalis fimbriae to A. viscosus cells.
(7) The phenomenology of various protrusions, including fimbria, is described, and the effect of cultivation conditions (continuous culture, periodic culture) and growth phases on their emergence was elucidated.
(8) Electron microscopy revealed this strain to be rich in fimbriae.
(9) From these lines of evidence, P. gingivalis fimbriae appear to be capable of binding to A. viscosus and mediating the coadhesion of these species.
(10) Unlabeled Escherichia coli and purified E. coli 987P fimbriae inhibited the adherence of biotinylated E. coli to immobilized enterocytes.
(11) It was also found that in Klebsiella, MS and MR fimbriae differed antigenically.
(12) The F17 fimbriae mediate binding to N-acetylglucosamine-containing receptors present on calf intestinal mucosal cells.
(13) Their visualisation appeared to be enhanced when ruthenium red was incorporated n the glutaraldehyde-osmium fixative but only when sections were stained with heavy metal salts, indicating that the fimbriae and capsule were not predominantly polysaccharide in nature.
(14) Type 1 fimbriae from Actinomyces viscosus T14V, composed of a complex protein of Mr 65,000, mediate the adherence of A. viscosus T14V to the host, whereas type 1 fimbriae-specific antibodies inhibit adherence.
(15) In the area of the fimbriae the majority of cells appeared to be ciliated epithelium, but near to the uterus their number decreased.
(16) Although their biochemical characteristics and amino acid composition were typical of fimbriae in general, these thin fimbriae were clearly distinct from other previously characterized fimbriae.
(17) Septal efferent fibers from the neurons in the medial septal nucleus are destroyed by fimbria-fornix aspirative lesion.
(18) Serogrouping of Bacteroides nodosus is based on antigenic differences in fimbriae of the different New Zealand prototype strains.
(19) A mutant, pUT2002, containing a deletion remote from the structural gene encoding the 17-kilodalton subunit protein of type 1 fimbriae failed to agglutinate guinea pig erythrocytes even though the bacteria expressed fimbriae morphologically and antigenically indistinguishable from those produced by the intact recombinant plasmid.
(20) The combining sites of type 1 fimbriae of the salmonellae and of other enteric bacteria are different from those of E. coli in that they are smaller and do not possess a hydrophobic region.