(n.) Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(2) Gains in gait pattern, ease of bracing, and reduced pelvic obliquity were noted.
(3) In the improved group, the families reported that the gait abnormality preceded the dementia in 11 patients and occurred at the same time in five.
(4) Candidates for a counselor-training program (136 Ss; 86% women; average age 44 yr.) took the GAIT in 18 groups and completed written forms for staff screening.
(5) On admission, neurological examination revealed staggering gait and the right cerebellar ataxia showing dysmetria and dysdiadochokinesis.
(6) In the gait initiation protocol, the amplitude and synchronization of the TA burst were directly correlated with velocity of movement, while the relative delay between soleus inhibition and TA activation was inversely correlated.
(7) No significant improvements or losses were found in a large series of gait parameters.
(8) Asymmetrical gait pattern with mild gait disturbance was found more often in infants lying in supine than in prone.
(9) In this paper, the authors reported a case of 6-year-old girl who complained of the progressive gait disturbance.
(10) The data suggest that throughout most of the gait cycle and normal stair climbing, the passive structures contribute a small portion of the total moment, usually well less than 10%.
(11) The function of the prosthesis was assessed through clinical assessment and force plate gait analysis.
(12) A 52-year-old female was admitted with a chief complaint of progressive gait disturbance over the previous 16 months.
(13) Mean tandem gait speed improved 48% after training.
(14) Normal gait was associated with flexor contraction only when the foot was lifted and placed on the ground, whereas during ischaemic blockade flexor contraction continued during the interval between foot lifting and foot placement.The `freezing' or `blocking' gait in Parkinson's disease was found to be associated with coactivation of flexor and extensor muscles and this phenomenon occurred only in patients with features of flexion dystonia in the electromyographic recordings of their tonic stretch reflexes.
(15) Moreover in the symmetrical gaits spatial phase shifts between unilateral limbs were equal to zero, which means that hind and fore limbs were placed in the same point during successive steps.
(16) Also, the FES antigravity action obtained raises hopes for substantially improving FES induced reciprocal gait.
(17) Clinical gait analysis is a term that can be applied to numerous methods of evaluating a subject's walking pattern.
(18) Six children with low-level myelomeningocele underwent gait analysis.
(19) The functional recovery of the patients was assessed every week by using the Barthel Index and the Action Research Arm test, by registering walking velocity, and by performing gait analysis.
(20) These changes were considered to be the result of talipes equinus and waddling gait, which are commonly demonstrated in patients with DMD.
Galt
Definition:
(n.) Same as Gault.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some of those drugs are able to stimulate the macrophages, even in an aspecific way, via the gut associated lymphatic tissue (GALT), that is in connection with the bronchial associated lymphatic tissue (BALT).
(2) The BSF have augmenting effects on class-specific Ig production by GALT sIgM-bearing B cells, when these are treated with the BSF alone.
(3) The effect of Cyclosporin (CS) on the gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) of inbred WKA rats was immunohistochemically studied by the immunoperoxidase method.
(4) Lymphocytes from a patient with classic galactosemia (GALT deficiency) were hybridized with a Chinese hamster cell line.
(5) Evaluation of the human GALT enzyme suggests that its locus is not on the deleted segment.
(6) The finding of an N-terminal hydrophobic segment which serves as the membrane anchor and signal sequence suggests that the C-terminal region of the GalT polypeptide is oriented within the lumen of the Golgi membranes.
(7) The association of gastrointestinal (GI) and Waldeyer's ring lymphoma and the unique lymphocyte migration pattern of gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) have been previously described.
(8) GALT contains Tcs cells which protect IgA responses under conditions of oral tolerance.
(9) It was demonstrated that stimulation of gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) (either by direct injection or by ingestion of antigen) followed by local administration of antigen into the bronchus was required to enhance clearance in this model.
(10) Activity of beta 1,4-GalT was compared with glycosyltransferase activities that are considered to be specific for O-linked glycoproteins: UDP-Gal:N-acetylgalactosamine-beta 1,3-galactosyltransferase (beta 1,3-GalT), and UDP-GalNAc:polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase (Gal-NAcT).
(11) Unusual isoenzyme patterns for galactose-1-phosphate-uridyltransferase (GALT) and phosphoglucomutase1 (PGM1) were detected in the tumor, compared with normal human fibroblasts and blood cells and isoenzyme patterns from the patient's lymphocytes.
(12) To understand the mechanism(s) of this effect of LDL, we have studied here the effects of LDL on the activity of UDP-GalCer:beta-galactosyltransferase (GalT-2).
(13) Electrophoretic valuation of GALT in 31 independently derived interspecific hybrid clones failed to demonstrate expression of the human GALT gene even when human chromosome 9 was present.
(14) Similar experiments in rats which had been immunized actively by injecting antigens into the GALT showed a corresponding rapid decline in titres of specific biliary antibodies after fistulation of the thoracic duct.
(15) First, we examined the effect of exogenous IL2 on Ag-specific immunoglobulin (Ig) production by gut-associated lymphoid tissues (GALT) (Peyer's patches, PP; mesenteric lymph nodes, MLN) and non-GALT (spleen, SPN) cells.
(16) The immune system of the gastrointestinal tract (gut-associated lymphoid tissue--GALT) differs from the peripheral immune system in a number of points, and can also react largely independently of the latter.
(17) This conclusion is in agreement with previous biochemical studies which indicated that the 51-kDa and 42-kDa soluble forms of the enzyme which encompass the C-terminal 324 and 297 amino acid residues of the entire GalT polypeptide, respectively, include the catalytic site.
(18) These plasma cells did not occur in either lymphatic capillaries or HEV in BALT as they did in GALT.
(19) The availability of the enzyme GalT-2 and corresponding antibody will allow functional studies in the near future.
(20) The occurrence of cytokeratins, vimentin, and desmin in the dome epithelia and adjacent non-dome epithelia in four locations of gut-associated lymphoid tissues (GALT) of adult and newborn rabbits (Peyer's patches, sacculus rotundus, caecal lymphoid patches and appendix) was studied with monoclonal antibodies, using the indirect immunoperoxidase technique.