(n.) A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the capsule of the fibrocartilage cells, parallel orientated filaments exhibit a periodical arrangement.
(2) Findings at surgery included chondromalacia of the ulnar head (19), tears of the triangular fibrocartilage complex (11), and excessive mobility of the ulnar head (10).
(3) By 16 weeks, fibrocartilage had filled the void in the curetted disc spaces.
(4) In the control males given the vehicle alone, the proximal segment of the os penis, composed of a compact cell mass found at day 0, developed at 5 days into the membrane bone with bone marrow and hyaline cartilage; the distal segment, composed of mesenchymatous cells until 10 days, developed at 30 days into fibrocartilage characterized by a distribution of type I collagen.
(5) Thus, fibrocartilage is least conspicuous where there is little motility near an attachment site.
(6) Interactions among the important constituents of the fibrocartilage matrix cause meniscal tissue to behave as a fiber-reinforced, porous, permeable composite material similar to articular cartilage, in which frictional drag caused by fluid flow governs its response to dynamic loading.
(7) Transverse loading tests demonstrated that the triangular fibrocartilage is less stiff in neutral forearm rotation.
(8) Finally, the cells are once transformed in cartilage cells with a small reticulum or cells of fibrocartilage with a capsule and a decreased cytoplasm; some cells are disintegrated.
(9) A positive correlation was found between radiographic abnormalities (ie enlargement of the nutrient foramina) and the frequency of thinning of the fibrocartilage.
(10) Calcified fibrous tissue or calcified fibrocartilage sometimes contributes to the thickening of enlarged styloid processes.
(11) Removal of the articular disc portion of the triangular fibrocartilage complex decreased the load on the intact ulna from 18.4% to 6.2%.
(12) The physis of the tibial tuberosity is composed primarily of fibrocartilage and fibrous tissue, with bone being added to the anterior portion of the tibial metaphysis by membranous bone formation.
(13) A case is described in which a new arthroplasty material-glutaraldehyde treated bovine fibrocartilage-was used as a spacer to restore carpal height.
(14) At operation, synovectomy, excision of osteochondral bodies, and removal of the entire triangular fibrocartilage complex was done.
(15) Abnormalities that can be detected include interosseous ligament tears, capsular tears, triangular fibrocartilage perforations and separations, cartilaginous defects, loose bodies, and synovial abnormalities including adhesive capsulitis.
(16) Defects of the triangular fibrocartilage and lesions of the articular cartilage, including loose bodies, are detectable and easily treated with wrist arthroscopy.
(17) The microvascular anatomy of the triangular fibrocartilage complex was investigated in 10 cadaver specimens by histology and tissue clearing (Spalteholz) techniques.
(18) The matched ulna resection maintains the continuity of the distal ulna to the ulnar sling mechanism, including the triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC), and resects the distal ulna in a smooth, curved, convex fashion to match the contour of the radius throughout forearm rotation.
(19) The comparison related to chronological age documented a morphologic change of the greater tuberosity and progressive degeneration of all elements of the tendinous structures with progressive (1) osteitis of the greater tuberosity, cystic degeneration, and irregularity of the cortical margin; (2) degenerative sulcus between the greater tuberosity and the articular surface; (3) disruption of the integrity of the attachment of the tendon to the bone by Sharpey's fibers; (4) loss of cellularity, loss of staining quality, and fragmentation of the tendon; (5) diminution of the vascularity of the tendon; and (6) diminution of fibrocartilage.
(20) Neovascularization, occurring at the edges of fibrocartilage fragments, was present in 50% of prolapsed disk specimens and in none of the control autopsy disks (p = 0.0004).
Matrix
Definition:
(n.) The womb.
(n.) Hence, that which gives form or origin to anything
(n.) The cavity in which anything is formed, and which gives it shape; a die; a mold, as for the face of a type.
(n.) The earthy or stony substance in which metallic ores or crystallized minerals are found; the gangue.
(n.) The five simple colors, black, white, blue, red, and yellow, of which all the rest are composed.
(n.) The lifeless portion of tissue, either animal or vegetable, situated between the cells; the intercellular substance.
(n.) A rectangular arrangement of symbols in rows and columns. The symbols may express quantities or operations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Within the outflow tract wall, the labelled cells were enmeshed by strands of alcian blue-stained extracellular matrix.
(2) If ascorbic acid was omitted from the culture medium, the extensive new connective tissue matrix was not produced.
(3) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(4) Discrimination errors were used to generate a matrix of interletter and interpattern similarities.
(5) The fibrous matrix and cartilage formed within the nonunion site transformed to osteoid and bone with increased vascularity.
(6) A complex linkage between the cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix is illustrated both in the cord forming Sertoli and granulosa cells, and in the adjacent mesenchymal cells.
(7) Thus, our results indicate that calbindin-D28k is a useful marker for the projection system from the matrix compartment and that its expression is modified in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and striatal degeneration.
(8) 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.
(9) To exclude potential interactions with components of the extracellular matrix which contains binding sites for PAI-1, ligand binding to HepG2 cells in suspension was assessed.
(10) This was followed by the appearance of microfibrils of various sizes and other components of the extracellular matrix.
(11) The first observable change before the acrosome reaction was a partial decondensation of the acrosomal matrix.
(12) In contrast, boundary layer diffusion is operative in the release from the matrixes prepared by compression of physical mixtures.
(13) 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.
(14) As an extension of the previous study which indicated that mesoglea is a primitive basement membrane which has retained some characteristics of interstitial extracellular matrix, the present study was undertaken to analyze the role of mesoglea components during head regeneration in Hydra vulgaris.
(15) Its features are consistent with observed structural dimensions and the molecular periodicities related to transcription, replication and matrix attachment domains.
(16) A significant proportion of the soluble protein of the organic matrix of mollusk shells is composed of a repeating sequence of aspartic acid separated by either glycine or serine.
(17) The increased release of alkaline phosphatase from the particulate matrix by lysophosphatidylcholine was confirmed by disc electrophoresis.
(18) The cytoplasmic matrix was labelled only 30 min after injection.
(19) Type beta transforming growth factor (TGF beta) was shown to regulate the production of several extracellular matrix proteins.
(20) They strongly suggest that the ADP-carrier comes to the close neighbourhood of the ATP synthetase on the matrix side of the inner membrane.