What's the difference between fibrillar and fibrillary?
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.
Fibrillary
Definition:
(a.) Of of pertaining to fibrils.
Example Sentences:
(1) When compared with lissencephalic species, a great horizontal fibrillary system (which is vertically arranged in gyral regions) was observed in convoluted brains.
(2) Cultured cells from fourth to ninth passage showed positive labelling for S 100 protein, carbonic anydrase (CAA), glutamine synthetase (GS), alpha cristallin (alpha C) and polyclonal glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) antibody, but were negative for both monoclonal GFAP antibody and also for Muller cells in the retina.
(3) Imaging studies had shown no change in his brain stem lesion, which at autopsy was found to be a focal collection of fibrillary astrocytes.
(4) Myofibroblasts also occurred in plexiform lesions together with fibroblasts and "fibrillary cells".
(5) Ultrastructural examination of noncartilaginous regions of the tumor demonstrated mesenchymal cells with features suggestive of cartilaginous differentiation, viz, scalloped cell membranes, sac-like distension of abundant rough endoplasmic reticulum, and a matrix containing fibrillary and finely granular material.
(6) Immunoblotting showed a serum and CSF antibody apparently directed against glial fibrillary acidic protein.
(7) We examined the effect of lactic acid on cultured human glioma cell lines expressing glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), vimentin and neuron-specific enolase (NSE).
(8) We immunohistochemically examined the expression of Schwann cell-related markers, nerve growth factor (NGF) receptor, S-100 alpha- and beta-proteins, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), and galactocerebroside (gal C) in 5 malignant schwannomas, 21 benign peripheral nerve sheath tumors, and 4 apparently normal sural nerves.
(9) Glial fibrillary acidic protein, the intermediate filament protein specific for astrocytes, was demonstrated in the filament-rich and, to a lesser extent, in the granular cells.
(10) The functional status of cultured SC may also be studied via expression of SC specific antigens such as glial fibrillary acidic protein, CNPase, S100, laminin, P0 and myelin basic protein.
(11) This second neoplasm contained areas of papillary ependymoma that displayed phosphotungstic acid hematoxylin-positive glial fibers and immunoreactivity for glial fibrillary acidic and S-100 proteins.
(12) This phenomenon can be readily demonstrated by enhanced immunoreactivity for glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and a recently discovered 30 kD protein (J1-31 antigen).
(13) Uterine body--form, size, motility, measurements, adhesions, fibrillary apparatus, patency; Ovaries--form, size, position, motility, surface, follicles; Adhesions--type, dimensions, vascularization, position (in the pelvis and abdominal cavity); Data for endometriosis--presence, size and localization of endometriomas, endometriotic cysts and outgrowths, an increased vascular line.
(14) These fibrillary cells contained numerous, prominent filaments with a random orientation.
(15) They were distinct from astrocytes, which were identified with an antibody to glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and which did not contain oil red O myelin debris.
(16) Consistent non-expression of glial fibrillary acidic protein in mesotheliomas may help to distinguish them from nerve sheath tumours.
(17) Increased glial fibrillary acidic protein staining in the white matter of jimpy males correlates with the normal time of myelination in different tracts.
(18) Immunohistochemical staining for neuron-specific enolase was positive, but glial fibrillary acidic protein stained negative.
(19) The spore wall is encapsulated with granular fibrillary substances consisting of acid mucopolysaccharides.
(20) This work, based on Golgi impregnations, transmission electron microscopy and immunocytochemistry, demonstrates that the intermediate filaments found in the radial gliocytes of the adult newt spinal cord are both vimentin and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) structures.