(a.) Resembling or forming fibrous tissue; made up of fibers; as, fibroid tumors.
(n.) A fibroid tumor; a fibroma.
Example Sentences:
(1) In premenopausal women, submucous fibroids were the main findings and in post-menopausal women, 59 per cent had an atrophic endometrium.
(2) These can be divided aetiologically in to: 54 cases of simple hyperplasia of the endometrium (15.9%), 34 cases with submucous fibroids (10.6%), 26 cases of adenomyosis (5.9%).
(3) Only 2 of 12 fibroids, which showed a smaller response (less than 50%) to GnRH therapy, were reduced by more than 35% after 4 and 8 weeks.
(4) Retrospective statistical analysis showed that a 50% reduction in fibroid size due to GnRH treatment is preceded by a 35% reduction after 4 weeks in 81% of cases, and after 8 weeks in all cases.
(5) Of the six cases that did not meet the MR criteria for the diagnosis of leiomyoma, three were proved to be degenerated fibroids, one was squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix, and two were ovarian malignant tumors.
(6) It is easy to fall into diagnostic and therapeutic traps when uterine fibroids are known to be present, especially when they occur concomitantly with a condition such as irregular uterine bleeding, infertility, or pregnancy.
(7) Six patients with large uterine fibroids were given a single subcutaneous implant of an LHRH analogue (goserelin 3.5 mg) prior to elective hysterectomy.
(8) Both unoccupied oestradiol receptors (measured by separating bound from free hormone with dextran-coated charcoal; DCC) and 'total' receptor populations (as measured by an enzyme immunoassay) were measured in each fibroid and adjoining myometrium.
(9) There are variations in the type and frequency of ultrasound equipment, maternal anatomical characteristics (obesity, coexisting fibroids, uterine version), and in the visual acuity of observers.
(10) A sample of 58 cases of genital malignancies are compared with 50 cases of benign neoplasms (fibroids) and their effects on sexuality, as a parameter of the quality of life, are studied and reported.
(11) Twelve patients (group II) had abnormal hysteroscopic findings including small uterine septa, small submucous fibroids, uterine hypoplasia and cervical ridges.
(12) Inflammatory fibroid polyps are lesions occurring in the submucosa of the gastrointestinal tract.
(13) Cao suffered from several conditions, including tuberculosis, liver disease and uterine fibroids, according to the New York-based group Human Rights in China .
(14) Risk factors for uterine fibroids were analyzed in a hospital-based case-control study conducted in the greater Milan area, based on 275 women with histologically confirmed fibroids and 722 controls with acute nongynecologic or hormone-related conditions.
(15) Macroscopically the tumor reveals a striking resemblance with an uterine fibroid.
(16) Among 3,200 polyps of the stomach, we diagnosed inflammatory fibroid polyp in 143 patients (4.5%).
(17) Whereas leiomyoma exhibited higher estradiol binding capacity, the concentration of progesterone receptors was low in fibroid tumors.
(18) Postoperative pathological examination of the resected stomach disclosed a widely spreading early carcinoma and two concomitant submucosal lesions which were histologically compatible with inflammatory fibroid polyp (IFP).
(19) A new method of vaginal removal of submucous fibroids was attempted on 151 patients.
(20) In women with uterine fibroids, therapy leads to reduction of uterine volume and alleviation of symptoms although the benefit is rapidly reversed when therapy ceases.
Fibroin
Definition:
(n.) A variety of gelatin; the chief ingredient of raw silk, extracted as a white amorphous mass.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 6.2-kilobase (kb) DNA fragment used for the assay, from 5.7 kb upstream to 0.5 kb downstream from the cap site, was end-labeled at the Xho I site (position +514) within the intervening sequence of the fibroin gene.
(2) Their analysis shows that fibroin synthesis is important enough to orient the overall cellular activities.
(3) Transcription of the Bombyx mori fibroin gene in a posterior silk gland extract can be separated into three functional steps on the basis of sensitivity to Sarkosyl: 1) formation of an initiation complex, which is blocked by 0.025% Sarkosyl; 2) conversion of the initiation complex to an elongation complex, a step sensitive to 0.05% Sarkosyl; 3) the subsequent elongation of RNA chain which occurs in the presence of 0.05% Sarkosyl.
(4) The pauses observed during translation generate subsets of smaller discrete peptides, visualized in the gels as ladders of variable relative intensities, appearing exclusively and concomitantly with the fibroin.
(5) 3) In the posterior silk gland, which produces fibroin, the acceptor activities for glycine and alanine increased more than that for serine.
(6) The addition of exogenous histones has an inhibitory effect on fibroin gene transcription in posterior silk gland extracts.
(7) One of these tRNAs appears to be specific to the silk gland, where its accumulation is associated with the rapid production of fibroin.
(8) The increased polysome association of fibroin mRNA and the adequate supply of cognate tRNAs in the 5th instar, together contributes to the translational regulation of fibroin in a developmental stage-specific manner.
(9) The sequence that codes for the gly-ala repetitious peptide characteristic of fibroin begins somewhere between 1340 and 1600 bp from the 5' end.
(10) The alpha 1-tubulin promoter generates about four-fold lower levels, and the fibroin promoter shows no detectable activity in S2 cells.
(11) To clarify the cause of the low transcription efficiency, various chimeric genes were constructed from the actin and fibroin genes, and their transcription efficiencies were examined in vitro.
(12) The patterns of accumulation of fibroin RNA were similar in both the instars.
(13) The fibroin was composed of at least two protein groups of large molecular size and three or four components of small molecular size, and, in addition, a mixture of proteins ranging in size from about 25,000 to more than 100,000 daltons with almost the same amino acid compositions.
(14) In chimeric genes having the actin transcription initiation region and an upstream sequence of the fibroin gene, the transcription efficiency was as low as that of the natural actin gene.
(15) Fibroin mRNA stimulated [3-H]alanine incorporation about 3- to 4-fold in the presence of 80 mM K+ and 4 mM Mg-2+.
(16) About 60% of the fibroin mRNA has a complete cap (m7GpppAmUmCXG), and the remaining 40% has an unmethylated cap (GpppAPyXXG).
(17) The excised cylindrical glands remain metabolically active for several hours in a simple culture medium, where fibroin synthesis can be monitored through the incorporation of 14C alanine.
(18) When the posterior silk gland cell extract is first incubated with pBR322 DNA and then challenged for the fibroin gene transcription on ccc DNA, the pBR322 DNA of the ccc form, but not of the linear one, inhibits the reaction.
(19) In fibroin, only 13% because of its compact beta-pleated sheet structure and low susceptibility to swelling.
(20) This finding, along with saturation hybridization studies (Suzuki, Gage, and Brown, 1972), demonstrate that the fibroin gene is present in a single copy per haploid genome.