(a.) Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conditions consistent with a buildup of reduced flavoprotein, however, favored filament formation.
(2) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
(3) Ordering of these filaments into a parallel array is the basis of birefringence in the A region, and loss of birefringence is therefore a measure of decreased order.
(4) Structural studies indicate that caveolae are decorated on their cytoplasmic surface by a unique array of filaments or strands that form striated coatings.
(5) Accumulations of filaments in the axons and in the perineural cells were accompanied by Rosenthal fibres.
(6) Electron microscopic examination of all leptomeningeal and meningioma cultures revealed desmosomes and dense tonofilament formation; in addition, granular, filamentous basement membrane-like material was abundant in the extracellular spaces of all cultures.
(7) A new method of staining the keratin filament matrix allowing a visualization of the filaments in cross section of hair fibres has been developed.
(8) These force-generators are identified with projections (cross-bridges) on the thick filament, each consisting of part of a myosin molecule.
(9) In smooth muscles there is no organized sarcomere structure wherein the relative movement of myosin filaments and actin filaments has been documented during contraction.
(10) The results indicate that synthesis of lamellar bodies depends on an intact microtubular system, whereas secretion requires actin filaments in a functional state.
(11) The latter reaction is linked to a conformation change of the actin subunit that causes a destabilization of the actin-actin interactions in the filament, i.e., a structural change of the filament.
(12) In the capsule of the fibrocartilage cells, parallel orientated filaments exhibit a periodical arrangement.
(13) The images of 56 tubular myosin filaments of the fleshfly and 62 filaments of the housefly were digitized and computer processed by rotational averaging.
(14) It does not appear to react with the anti-IFA antibody, suggesting that it is not a member of the intermediate filament class of proteins.
(15) This suggests that cytokeratin 14 acts as an indiscriminate type I cytokeratin in filament formation in the established cell lines.
(16) Gene II protein is required for all phases of filamentous phage DNA synthesis other than the conversion of the infecting single strand to the parental double-stranded molecule.
(17) This supports the view that the pH is of no major importance for filamentation in vivo.
(18) Ultrastructural examination of a tumor with a typical cribriform pattern showed spaces of two types; the more frequent type was bounded by cells with straight plasma membranes and contained filamentous and basement-membrane-like material, and the less frequent type was surrounded by cells with numerous microvilli and contained nonfilamentous homogeneous material.
(19) The bright lines in the difference image represent the paths along which the filaments have moved and are measured using a crosshair cursor controlled by the mouse.
(20) Astrocytes showed a transitional swelling, later followed by an accumulation of glycogen and filaments.
Parenchymatous
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Parenchymous
Example Sentences:
(1) The four deaths were not related to the injuries of parenchymatous organs.
(2) The computer tomographic appearances of lesions of parenchymatous organs following blunt abdominal trauma are described in 13 patients (five liver, four renal, two splenic and two pancreatic injuries).
(3) The decortication is aimed at removing the chronic pleural sack and the possible parenchymatous lesions and at the recovery of the maximum functional pulmonary parenchyma.
(4) On the 5th day after infection the first alterations due to dissemination were found in the lungs, then in other parenchymatous organs.
(5) Sometimes injuries to parenchymatous organs may be treated without operation.
(6) They must be considered as tumors and can be seen at angiography as they present a fine parenchymatous stain.
(7) Neuroradiological study and operations demonstrated multiple hemangioblastomas in the cerebellum, medulla oblongata and the spinal cord in association with abnormal enlargements of the medulla and the spinal cord which suggested coexistence of the parenchymatous tumor, probably glioma, in them.
(8) With a scintigram of the liver, parenchymatous lesions of 2-4 cm and larger can be diagnosed with an optimal examination technique.
(9) The authors report a new surgical procedure destined to realize the hemostasis suture of parenchymatous organs, mainly spleen and liver.
(10) The data on 27 cases of parenchymatous jaundice resulting from acute virus hepatitis (16) chronic hepatitis (6), primary biliary liver cirrhosis (5) are analyzed in this work.
(11) The slight diminution of this increase when (+)-erythro-DOPS was administered after inhibition of peripheral decarboxylase, might result from the algebraic sum of two inversely acting processes: suppression of NE synthesis in the capillary walls and enhancement of parenchymatous NE in some brain areas.
(12) They were unsatisfactory in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of diffuse parenchymatous abnormalities such as rejection or damage during storage.
(13) This is a rare case of adrenoleukodystrophy presenting as spinocerebellar degeneration and showing marked atrophy and several parenchymatous lesions of the cerebellum and brain stem.
(14) A total of 120 patients with chronic renal failure secondary to parenchymatous kidney disease were biopsied.
(15) after parenchymatous haemorrhages and infarctions as well as generalized hypoxic encephalopathies with increased echogenicy and progressive brain atrophy nearly always showed neurological defects, though the dimension of the brain's alteration does not clearly correlate to the clinical symptoms and the child's development.
(16) Neoplasms of all the adrenal parenchymatous elements [i.e., a compound adrenal medullary tumor (MT) consisting of pheochromocytoma (Pheo) and ganglioneuroma (GN) and a cortical adenoma] were found in the right adrenal gland of a 53-year-old man.
(17) This report describes a 35 yr old patient who developed a cavity, a parenchymatous infiltrate and hilar adenopathy in association with pulmonary schistosomiasis.
(18) The plasma surgical device UMPR-20 has good prospects in using during operations on parenchymatous organs and for treatment of their injuries.
(19) There was no anaphyactic shock in 81.2% of the thymectomized animals as a result of the inhibited immunoallergic reactivity, but dystrophic and inflammatory changes in their parenchymatous organs were more frequent and graver in comparison with the nonthymectomized animals.
(20) The fate of crystals in the parenchymatous sheaths around vascular bundles in alfalfa leaves was followed through the bovine digestive tract by scanning electron microscopy.