(1) Altogether 720 placental sera and 522 funic sera have been checked for the presence of antibodies to diphtheria and tetanus toxoids in the passive hemagglutination test.
(2) These alterations, observed in the enzymatic activity and in the rate of lipid peroxidation, which were detected in funic blood erythrocytes under conditions of hypoxia, may be responsible for some diseases during postnatal period of children ontogenesis.
(3) Peripheral blood neutrophil function and the content of circulating immune complexes in funic blood were examined in 35 premature neonates with low body weight, 27 neonates with grade I prematurity and in 24 normal full-term neonates (a control group) by days 1-2 and days 7-8 of life.
(4) In the funic blood of allergic children, antibodies against ovalbumin of the chicken egg were mostly demonstrable.
(5) Five patients were more remote from delivery and had successful funic reduction (manual replacement of the prolapsed cord).
(6) Their immune status was assessed by the level of IgA, IgG, IgM, circulating immune complexes (CIC) and specific antibodies in the serum obtained from peripheral and funic veins, as determined by enzyme immunoassay (ELISA).
(7) The placentas revealed villous edema, deciduitis, and funicitis.
(8) In the group of the radiated persons' progeny, the number of small-weight children appeared greater; a larger physiological reduction of the body weight was recorded as were later times of funic residue falling off.
(9) The effect of epidural anesthesia on neonatal acid-base status, before, during, and after labor, was determined by review of funic blood-gas values from 142 women with normal term pregnancies and normal fetal heart rate patterns.
(10) Low activity of catalase, superoxide dismutase, alterations in metabolism of glutathione as well as activation of lipid peroxidation and increase in Na+, K+-ATPase activity were found in erythrocytes of newborns funic blood under conditions of chronic hypoxia and simultaneous effects of acute and chronic hypoxia.
(11) Studies of the levels of serum IgA, IgG, and IgM, of B and T lymphocyte function in 20 neonates of days 7-8 of life (funic blood) and their mothers, in children aged 1,3,6,9 and 12 months made it possible to define the characteristic features of the establishment of humoral and cellular immunity during the first year of the child's life.
(12) It has been disclosed that the pattern of purine metabolism abnormality in funic red blood cells makes it possible to predict the course of the early period of adaptation.
(13) Patients who had elective cesarean section with epidural anesthesia had funic acid-base values similar to women who had general anesthesia.
(14) Altogether 98 premature children of different gestation age were examined for the content of T3, T4 and TTH in serum of funic and venous blood on days 3, 5-7 and 30 and part of the children on day 60 of life.
(15) Funic acid-base parameters were compared by type of anesthesia when stratified by mode of delivery (vaginal, cesarean section in the active phase of labor, or elective cesarean section).
(16) Funic reduction is proposed as a potentially beneficial initial step in the management of umbilical cord prolapse.
(17) Early diagnosis of the deficiency of glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase was made in examining 428 samples of funic blood from 230 boys and 198 girls.
Tunic
Definition:
(n.) An under-garment worn by the ancient Romans of both sexes. It was made with or without sleeves, reached to or below the knees, and was confined at the waist by a girdle.
(n.) Any similar garment worm by ancient or Oriental peoples; also, a common name for various styles of loose-fitting under-garments and over-garments worn in modern times by Europeans and others.
(n.) Same as Tunicle.
(n.) A membrane, or layer of tissue, especially when enveloping an organ or part, as the eye.
(n.) A natural covering; an integument; as, the tunic of a seed.
(n.) See Mantle, n., 3 (a).
Example Sentences:
(1) An essential predominance of the muscle tunic thickness and deterioration of blood supply has been stated in the arterial wall and in the distal parts of the lower extremities.
(2) Our examination focused on the organization of elastin and collagen which are the major components of this tunic.
(3) A tunic of crimson and dark blue velvet survived for centuries, hanging over the tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral.
(4) The intestinal tracts from seven different species of tunicates, some solitary, some colonial, were studied fine-structurally by freeze-fracture.
(5) Designs weren’t limited to abayas (a long tunic traditionally worn by Muslim women in the Middle East).
(6) The tunic of the ascidian Styela plicata is rich in a high molecular weight sulfated-L-galactan called the F-1 fraction.
(7) With this parameter, the tunicate hemocyte Thy-1 homology revealed significant relatedness to avian and mammalian Thy-1 molecules and was interestingly more related to mu chains of primitive vertebrates and to HLA class I and II encoded polypeptides than to Thy-1 molecules of higher vertebrates.
(8) The 1-H nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum of living tunicate blood cells was examined in an attempt to develop a biophysical assay for the native vanadium chromogen.
(9) Rodioimmunoassayable somatostatin (SRIF) was found in acid ethanol extracts from various parts of the gastro-entero-pancreatic (GEP) endocrine system in reptiles, amphibians, teleost bony fish, cartilaginous fish, and jawless fish, as well as in a deuterostomian invertebrate, the tunicate, Ciona intestinalis.
(10) Somebody had hung a guardsman's bright red ceremonial tunic on a road sign outside a pub.
(11) However, trauma to the vaginal tunic seemed to be crucial, causing damage to the differentiation of the seminiferous epithelium.
(12) So you can assure young Miss Paulus that it is very possible to be warm and fabulously fashionable at the same time, as this season is all about how to wear as many vests as possible under a loose tunic dress before you begin to take on the dimensions of the Michelin man.
(13) Leydig cells in the tunic and elsewhere in the testis show ultrastructural features commonly found in mammalian Leydig cells.
(14) Immunocytochemical and ultrastructural characterization revealed a predominant population of myofibroblasts, an as yet unrecognized observation in tumors arising from testicular tunics.
(15) Most of the cases occur in the testicular tunics, whereas a few originate from the epididymis.
(16) In so doing one can isolate compounds with novel structures or unsuspected activities from almost any phylum, including tunicates, sponges, insects, or even the much-studied terrestrial plants, as exemplified in several recent studies in our laboratory involving activities ranging from antiviral and antimicrobial activity to cytotoxicity and immunomodulation.
(17) As in mice, tunicate alpha- and alpha' -subunits each appeared to bear three N-linked oligosaccharides, one high mannose- and two complex-type glycans and focused as a number of heterogeneous spots on IEF gels.
(18) Antioxidant prenylated hydroquinones and non active chromene or chroman extracted from the marine colonial tunicate Aplidium californicum have been studied in order to throw some light on their biological activity.
(19) In the second sequence, the tunic over one of his shoulders was heavily bloodstained.
(20) This resulted in focal or multifocal loss of the muscular tunic in three ferrets.