(1) In several respects they are very similar to contralateral responses in nonoperated gerbils.
(2) Confluent monolayers of capillary endothelial cells derived from Mongolian gerbil brain were irradiated with a single exposure of x-rays, and their radiosensitivity and sequential changes in morphology, staining intensity for factor VIII-related antigen (F VIII RAg), and capacity to produce prostacyclin (PGI2) were examined.
(3) The levels of the neurotransmitter amino acids glutamate, aspartate, and GABA were determined in different brain regions during ischemia and post-ischemic recirculation periods using the unilateral carotid artery occlusion model of stroke in gerbils.
(4) Seizures elicited by posture change and intraperitoneal administration of convulsants were studied ontogenetically in the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus).
(5) We examined the immunocytochemical localization of amylase in cryofixed serous acinar cells of gerbil major salivary glands by indirect immunostaining, using anti-gerbil parotid amylase antibody and protein A-gold complex.
(6) An artist's rendition of the entire normal gerbil tympanic membrane is presented.
(7) The profile of the distribution of parvalbumin in the brain of the developing and adult gerbil was similar to that of the rat, but there were some differences.
(8) Thus, hippocampal pyramidal and cortical neurons in both rat and Mongolian gerbil (M. unguiculatus) show abundant lysosomal dense bodies and disorganisation of the protein-synthesising apparatus.
(9) We conclude that the longer developmental period of the gerbil is associated with 1) a longer period of neurogenesis resulting in greater retinal cell number, 2) the expression of spatial gradients in neurogenesis, and 3) a larger eye at maturity.
(10) GABAergic neurons and terminals are also increased in the hippocampus of seizure-sensitive gerbils, and kindling of the hippocampus and amygdala appears to enhance GABAergic inhibitory mechanisms.
(11) Three areas of responsive cortex were demonstrated by electrical stimulation in the gerbil.
(12) Preliminary biological screening data for gerbil colon smooth muscle stimulation, rat blood pressure and substrate specificity toward 15-hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase is presented.
(13) The effect of methallibure (ICI 33828) on spermatogenesis was studied in the gerbil, hedgehog, and mouse.
(14) Aging in gerbil as well as human brain is also associated with increased oxidative damage.
(15) In gerbils, guinea-pigs and rabbits tissue osmolality was also estimated during in vitro conditions.
(16) Radioimmunochemistry (RIA) and immunocytochemistry (ICC) were used to measure proenkephalin and prodynorphin peptides in the brain of a genetic model of epilepsy, the seizure-sensitive (SS) Mongolian gerbil.
(17) could trigger seizures, and this suggests that the pathophysiology of epileptiform events in gerbils may have a unique association with exploratory behavior.
(18) The effects of transient forebrain ischemia on the extracellular concentration of the excitatory amino acids glutamate and aspartate were studied in the gerbil hippocampus using microdialysis.
(19) Thus we were able to obtain accurate values of the amount and the fatty acid composition of 1,2-diacylglycerols in gerbil forebrains using HPLC and in situ freezing technique.
(20) In the three normoglycemic control groups neurologic status stabilized 120 minutes after the onset of ischemia, in the brief hyperglycemia group stabilization occurred at 210 minutes, and in the prolonged hyperglycemia group neurologic deficit progressed for approximately 360 minutes, coinciding with the death of all but one gerbil, in which the neurologic deficit remained stable until death 23 hours after ischemia.
Rotate
Definition:
(a.) Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one.
(v. i.) To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.
(v. i.) To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.
(v. i.) To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.
(v. i.) To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office.
Example Sentences:
(1) To determine the accuracy of double-contrast arthrography in complete rotator cuff tears, we studied 805 patients thought to have a complete rotator cuff tear who had undergone double-contrast shoulder arthrography (DCSA) between 1978 and 1983.
(2) When the posterior capsule was sectioned, no significant changes were noted in the severity of the sag or the rotation.
(3) The Ta loop was a smooth, elongated ellipse in configuration and showed clockwise rotation in all planes, as did the P loop.
(4) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
(5) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
(6) This series of tests included tests for pathologic nystagmus, saccades, smooth pursuit, and optokinetic nystagmus, as well as bithermal caloric testing and rotational testing.
(7) The adherence of 51Cr-labeled platelets to rabbit aortae everted on probes rotated in platelet-red cell suspensions has been measured.
(8) We have used a modification of the rotating-frame imaging technique to measure PCr-to-ATP ratio non-invasively in human heart.
(9) Experimental evidence suggested that nucleosome rotational positioning is determined by the DNA sequence itself.
(10) The X-ray tube rotates outside the detector array at the rate of one revolution per second.
(11) The data collection scheme for the scanner uses multiple rotations of a linearly shifted, asymmetric fan beam permitting user-defined variable resolution.
(12) The purity and configuration of each isomer of the free acid and N-chloroacetylated derivative were ascertained by: (a) paper chromatography in five solvent systems, (b) elemental analysis, (c) Van Slyke nitrous acid determination of alpha-carbonyl carbon, and (d) Van Slyke ninhydrin determination of alpha-carbonyl carbon, and (e) optical rotation.
(13) Based on our experience with the mark I prosthesis we have designed and developed a mark II model which has freedom of axial rotation of the saddle.
(14) The reported study demonstrates that performance asymmetries between normal or reflected letters presented in the right and left visual field favors the right visual field when stimulus patterns are blocked and rotated 90 degrees clockwise and favors the left visual field when they are blocked and rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.
(15) Moreover, the majority of the 'out of phase' units showed an increased discharge during side-up animal tilt and side-down neck rotation.
(16) 3-D curves were computed with an apparent rotation around the vertical axis Z.
(17) Subsequently, due to the rotation of the original polar axis in one hemisphere, the third cleavage plane through one half of the egg is transverse to the third cleavage plane through the other half.
(18) This suggests that S1 is a flexible protein with at least two domains that can rotate independently.
(19) Per-rotational nystagmus was recorded in rabbits with unilaterally narrowed vertebral arteries or following unilateral cervical sympathectomies.
(20) We found that the Gallie system generally allowed significantly more rotation in flexion, extension, axial rotation, and lateral bending than the other three fixation techniques.