What's the difference between follicle and interfollicular?
Follicle
Definition:
(n.) A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.
(n.) A small cavity, tubular depression, or sac; as, a hair follicle.
(n.) A simple gland or glandular cavity; a crypt.
(n.) A small mass of adenoid tissue; as, a lymphatic follicle.
Example Sentences:
(1) In some cervical nodes, a few follicles, lymphocyte clusters, and a well-developed plasmocyte population were also present.
(2) None of the other soft tissue layers-ameloblasts, stratum intermedium or dental follicle--immunostain for TGF-beta 1.
(3) Histiocytes, lymphocytes, immunoblasts, and plasma cells were present in expanded paracortical regions which encroached on, and occasionally effaced, lymphoid follicles.
(4) An experimental model was established in the ewe allowing one to predict with accuracy an antral follicle that coincidentally would either undergo ovulation (6-8 mm diameter) or atresia (3-4 mm diameter) following synchronization of luteal regression and the onset of the gonadotropin surge.
(5) The mechanism by which K+ accumulates in the follicle was insensitive to ouabain, so that a typical Na+, K(+)-ATPase mechanism does not appear to be involved.
(6) In contrast, in primordial follicles, FSH was restricted to the germ cell but was present in both the oocyte cytoplasm and germinal vesicle.
(7) After calving, probably the position of new follicles is temporally influenced by direct signals from the uterine horns affected differently by pregnancy.
(8) Immature follicles are practically devoid of receptors for this hormone.
(9) We have isolated a murine cDNA clone, pCAL-F559, for the calcium-binding protein calcyclin by differential screening of a cDNA library made from RNA isolated from hair follicles of 6-d-old mice.
(10) Protein contents in small and large follicles did not change significantly.
(11) at 13:00 h which restored DNA replication to follicles of Stages 2-10: FSH acted primarily on Stages 2-5 and LH on Stages 5-10.
(12) Treatment for 5 days with doses greater than 3 micrograms resulted in a significant increase in the total number of growing follicles and the development of antral follicles.
(13) Of nine affected bathers, five showed inflammation of Montgomery's follicles of the breast.
(14) Serum-free conditioned medium (CM) from thyroid follicles in suspension culture contains a dose-related mitogenic activity which stimulates endothelial cell growth up to 197%.
(15) The effects of Lisuride, a dopaminergic agonist, on the levels of plasma prolactin (PRL), testosterone, luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), and on the variations of libido and coital frequency of patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) have been investigated in a group of 20 male patients (ten normoprolactinemic and ten hyperprolactinemic).
(16) Follicle-stimulating hormone in group A (80 mm less than or equal to maxD) was significantly higher than those of group B (60 mm less than or equal to maxD less than 80 mm) and C (maxD less than 60 mm) for the last 4 days of the treatment.
(17) Of four normal tissues assessed, two (hair follicles and tissues responsible for development of leg contractures) showed no change in radioresponse after treatment with indomethacin, one (hematopoietic tissue) exhibited radioprotection, and one (jejunum) exhibited slight radiosensitization (enhancement factor, 1.12).
(18) In addition to descriptions of variants of the root appearance for hairs removed from follicles in the three classical growth phases, several other commonly occurring root configurations are described and illustrated with photomicrographs.
(19) The total number of follicles aspirated per cycle, preovulatory oocytes aspirated per cycle, and number of concepti of preovulatory origin transferred per cycle were not statistically different.
(20) Studies in cattle assessing changes in number and size of antral follicles, concentrations of estradiol, androgens and progesterone in serum and follicular fluid, and numbers of gonadotropin receptors per follicle during repetitive estrous cycles and postpartum anestrus are reviewed.
Interfollicular
Definition:
(a.) Between follicles; as, the interfollicular septa in a lymphatic gland.
Example Sentences:
(1) The formation of new follicles mainly took place with the differentiation of interfollicular islets separated from proliferating extrafollicular epithelial cords.
(2) Associated with this increase in epidermal wet weight is a two times increase in the number of epidermal cells per millimeter of interfollicular epidermis.
(3) The interconnected central lacteals in the villi overlying the interfollicular area were connected with the lymphatic plexus in the area.
(4) The follicle-associated epithelium had invaginations and small vacuoles in the apical cytoplasm, whereas the interfollicular surface epithelium had numerous microvilli on its apical surface and large mucin granules in the apical cytoplasm.
(5) Two main types of alterations of lymph node architecture--follicular hyperplasia or lymphoid depletion--can be associated with interfollicular lesions: vascular proliferation, numerous plasma cells, epithelioid reaction that may reflect an infectious process.
(6) In interfollicular areas, IL-6 gene-expressing cells were detected in all lymph nodes by both in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry.
(7) It appears that the turnover rate of follicular epithelial cells is very low and the electron-dense deposits are largely retained, though debris derived from degenerate follicular epithelial cells containing the dense deposits may be phagocytosed by macrophage-like cells in the interfollicular connective tissue.
(8) Although significant cell kinetic differences have been reported for other epidermal structures (interfollicular epithelium, upper hair follicle external root sheath, sebaceous glands) in seborrheic Cocker Spaniels, proliferation of hair root matrix cells apparently remains unaffected.
(9) Concomitantly, the epidermal cell proliferation was enhanced: an entry of increasing numbers of interfollicular cells into S phase occurred after 7-10 h of incubation and was maximal around the 20th h. Correspondingly, the mitotic rate rose after 20 h. During an incubation period of 48-72 h in solid medium, the mitotic activity of the proliferating tissues in mouse ear skin continued, and the interfollicular epidermis in the proximity of the cut edges became hyperplastic.
(10) The subepithelial sinusoids gather into the high endothelial venules (HEVs) which, collecting capillaries in the follicle and the interfollicular region en route, course down into the interfollicular region alongside the follicle.
(11) In contrast, in HIV lymph nodes cells expressing the SE B gene were distributed either in interfollicular areas or within follicles.
(12) While the mechanisms of epidermal immunity known from the interfollicular epidermis are possibly the same in the infundibula, we have to expect a basically different immunologic situation in the acrosyringia.
(13) HIV-1-mRNA-positive cells were observed both in follicles and interfollicular areas and showed no differences between various stages.
(14) The material which filtrates was composed of open cells and cell debris (fraction A); the material remaining on the sieve contained the basal lamina and the interfollicular material as shown by photon and electron microscopic observations (fraction B).
(15) The EBV-infected cells were present in both follicular and interfollicular areas and in both small and large lymphoid cells.
(16) Modifications in follicular ultrastructure and interfollicular connective tissue ultrastructure as well as the presence of small thyroid follicles, probably neoformed, are found to be dose-dependent.
(17) The interfollicular areas of the rectal patch contained about 15% tau delta T cells.
(18) The fate of interfollicular epidermis keratinocytes which filled the hair follicles bursas of collagen dermis framework was investigated in the autotransplantation experiment.
(19) These cells were mainly found in the interfollicular area around high endothelial venules.
(20) The extent and intensity of distinct HIV-1 proteins and HIV-1-mRNA gene segments in follicles were significantly correlated, as was their presence in interfollicular areas.