(n.) A minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril.
Example Sentences:
(1) Evidence is presented which suggests that these plasmid-mediated, temperature-inducible surface fibrillae are responsible for autoagglutination and are related to production of one prominent, Sarkosyl-insoluble polypeptide of ca.
(2) Fibrocytes are of roupher outlines and contain no reticulum of collagenous fibrillas on their surface.
(3) The cribriform meshwork appeared dense, with deposition of fibrillae and collagen or basement membrane-like material; Schlemm's canal was absent in 3 specimens; in some the lumen was narrowed or locally obliterated; and Descemet membrane-like substance covered the trabecular meshwork.
(4) FaeC was also detected in purified K88ac and K88ad fibrillae.
(5) Bacteria bind to receptors on cell surfaces by different adhesins like fimbriae, fibrillae or lipoteichoic acid.
(6) (5) Tyrosine residues are most probably not present in the adhesive or antigenic sites of K99 fibrillae.
(7) Labeling the sections with anti-fibrinogen or anti-fragment D showed that the fibrinogen-binding region lay within a 25-nm segment of the fibrillae beginning approximately 30 nm from the inner surface of the cell wall.
(8) Immunoblotting of subcellular fractions and of purified fibrillae, and agglutination experiments using whole cells revealed that the FaeC protein is present in the periplasm and as a minor component in the K88ab fibrillae.
(9) They are surrounded with elastic and collagenous fibrillas, which cover also membranes and connect all the layers of the wall of arteries into one morpho-functional system with a high structural stability and plasticity.
(10) The outermost layer consists of collagen and elastic fibrillae, with cytoplasmic processes of fibroblasts in between.
(11) The role of the penultimate and conserved tyrosine residue of the K99 major fibrillar subunit (FanC) in fibrillae biosynthesis and functioning was investigated.
(12) Production of this rare rodent-positive MREHA was correlated with the presence of fine fibrillae of estimated diameter 2.5 nm that were demonstrated by negative staining and immuno-gold labelling with MREHA-specific anti-serum.
(13) Minicell analysis, immunoblotting and immunoelectronmicroscopy revealed a pool of FanF in the periplasm of K99-producing cells and showed, furthermore, that FanF is a minor component of K99 fibrillae, present at the top and in or along the shaft of the K99 fibrillar structures.
(14) Degenerated fibrillae were stated to form two bundles and terminate near the neurons of nonspecific thalamic nuclei: n. ret, MD, pf, sprf, as well as in the neurons of specific thalamic nuclei: n. Vna, cgl, cgm, pul.
(15) Literature for the recent years on chromatin fibrilla structure is reviewed in the work.
(16) Fibrillae produced by an adhesion-negative strain carrying a mutation in the K99 major fibrillar subunit were shown to contain a normal amount of FanF.
(17) A cyanogen bromide fragment derived from the K88ab adhesin inhibited the hemagglutinating activity of K88 fibrillae.
(18) When cultivated at 37 degrees C in static broth, human clinical isolates of Yersinia enterocolitica (serogroups O:3, O:8, and O:9) and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis (serogroup O:III) produced numerous nonflagellar surface appendages, which appeared as a lawn of fine fibrillae, each having a diameter of 1.5 to 2.0 nm and a length of 50 to 70 nm.
(19) Cultivation at 22 degrees C resulted in complete disappearance of the fibrillae.
(20) They are realized by fine fibrillae terminating mainly in large terminal boutons which form synapses on big and small dendritic branches.
Fibrillar
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to fibrils or fibers; as, fibrillar twitchings.
Example Sentences:
(1) Differences in the mean volume values of nucleoli, fibrillar centers and the RNP-part between some cell populations are sufficiently well pronounced.
(2) Electron microscopy revealed an absolute correlation between expression of four plasmid-dependent, temperature-inducible properties related to the bacterial surface: (i) a fibrillar matrix covering the outer membrane, (ii) outer membrane protein YOP1, (iii) spontaneous autoagglutination, and (iv) mannose-resistant hemagglutination of guinea pig erythrocytes.
(3) The ultrastructural study of nucleoli and ribonucleoprotein-containing structures in human seminiferous tubules revealed that the nucleoli of spermatogonia, spermatocytes and Sertoli cells exhibited a tripartite structure consisting of: a fibrillar center, a compact granular portion, and a reticular portion containing both pars fibrosa and pars granulosa.
(4) This technique contrasted the fibrillar component and the granular component in interphase nucleoli as a reflection of the degree of packing.
(5) From these findings it can be concluded that the transcription of ribosomal DNA takes place in the dense fibrillar component of the nucleolus.
(6) Immunoelectron microscopy revealed that in spermatogonia, leptotene and pachtyene spermatocytes, and in Golgi phase spermatids, B23 and nucleolin were localized in the dense fibrillar component and granular component of the nucleolus but not in the fibrillar centers.
(7) Precoating with fibrillar collagen markedly increased endothelial cell attachment and proliferation as compared to fibronectin.
(8) These vacuoles contained one or several typical collagen fibrils and had either an electron-lucent matrix or contained an electron-dense material obscuring the fibrillar outlines and cross-striations.
(9) There was also electron microscopical evidence of vascular basal lamina reduplication and the deposition of a fine fibrillar material in and around these vessels.
(10) Toyocamycin treatment caused the gradual disappearance of the granules from the particulate region of the nucleoli, and resulted ultimately in the nucleoli appearing homogeneously fibrillar.
(11) The protein specifically bound to fibrillar collagen with the apparent dissociation constant of 5.6 x 10(-8) M for the high affinity site and 5.5 x 10(-7) M for the low affinity site.
(12) The interaction of human gel-filtered platelets (GFP) with surfaces coated with fibrillar calf skin collagen (CSC) or monomeric human type I, III, IV, and V collagen (CI, CIII, CIV, CV) includes both energy dependent and independent stages.
(13) Some tumor cells have been demonstrated by this method to be glial despite the complete lack of blue fibrillar staining with PTAH and the absence of all morphological similarity to glial cells.
(14) An increase tendency of the fibrillar apparatus beginning from the childhood to the adulthood and then a differentiated decrease or stabilization towards the old age with the appearance of senile keratosis lesions were noticed.
(15) Collagenous carcass of human derma is formed by interconnected fibrils, fibrillar fasciculi, fibers and their fasciculi.
(16) The LSSC had large euchromatic nuclei with multiple irregular nucleoli containing both fibrillar and granular components.
(17) To know their tissue-specific localization, fibrillar and tubular type muscle fibers were individually dissected from freeze-dried flies and separately subjected to 2D gel electrophoresis.
(18) In the detergent-resistant, adherent cytoskeletons of the glioma cells, both GFAP and vimentin persisted as fibrillar cytoplasmic arrays.
(19) In addition, it was found that the lumens of some vessels were filled with fibrillar material and that the cells underlying the vessel stayed apart, not forming a continuous circle.
(20) Volume fractions of fat and fibrillar and extrafibrillar space were equal in the two groups.