(a.) Smooth; having a surface without hairs or any unevenness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, the pattern of sensory innervation in the glabrous rat snout skin is similar to that found in other furred species described to date, but in addition, the sensory innervation of ridged skin in the rat also resembles that of epidermis organized into rete pegs.
(2) In the animals with partial denervation of a digit, the greatest disruption occurred when both ventral nerves to the glabrous skin were transected.
(3) The central axon of a primary afferent neuron that responded to indentation of the glabrous skin of the lower lip in a slowly adapting fashion was intra-axonally injected with horseradish peroxidase.
(4) On the basis of the onset and early peak latencies, two well-defined short and long latency neuronal clusters were found in the responses evoked from both glabrous and hairy skin; these were referred to as the SP1 and LP1 classes, respectively.
(5) This allows us to conclude that in the dog afferents from the glabrous skin of the central pad conduct centrally via the dorsal columns, susceptible to vitamin B6 intoxication, while muscle and hair receptor afferents ascend in the dorsal spinocerebellar and spinocervical tract, respectively, which are vitamin B6 resistant.
(6) Afferent activity of 111 single units from the glabrous skin area was recorded percutaneously in the median nerve of human subjects, using tungsten electrodes.
(7) Acral melanoma (for example, that arise from glabrous skin) has been reported to carry a grave prognosis.
(8) The central terminals of five rapidly adapting glabrous skin mechanoreceptors (RA), six hair follicle afferents (HFA), and four slowly adapting type I afferent fibres (SA I; two from glabrous and two from hairy skin) were recovered for detailed analysis.
(9) Epidermal Merkel nerve endings and other types of mechanoreceptors typically found in primate glabrous skin (lip or digit) are not present.
(10) Glabrous snout skin from young opossums was studied at birth (0 day) and postnatal days 1, 3, and 5.
(11) The clustering was not dependent on differences in the responses evoked from hairy and glabrous skin.
(12) The results indicate that the receptors in the human hairy skin do not differ considerably in their characteristics from the receptors in the human glabrous skin or from animal receptors in the hairy skin.
(13) Comparisons between the peripheral and the central representations of each nerve revealed that 1 mm2 of surface area of the superficial dorsal horn serves approximately 600-900 mm2 of hairy skin and roughly 300 mm2 of glabrous skin.
(14) Only when experimental shots at thick glabrous skin were performed, it could be established that long range shots led to intraepidermal gunshot deposit too.
(15) Acral melanoma a) has a strong racial predilection, b) carries a grave prognosis, and c) arises from glabrous skin.
(16) A gentle vibratory stimulus was delivered to the glabrous skin of the hand; it did not provoke awakening or change the sleep cycle of the macaque.
(17) Units with glabrous skin RFs were classified according to their response to a maintained mechanical stimulus as either rapidly adapting (n = 39) or slowly adapting (n = 6).
(18) During a period of 8 years 300 cases of dermatophytoses involving both hairy areas and the glabrous skin were found to be caused by M. canis.
(19) The resulting data indicate that Microsporum canis was the most wide-spread species (73.7%) among the isolated dermatophytes and keratinophilic fungi (Trichophyton rubrum, T. mentagrophytes, Epidermophyton floccosum and Scopulariopsis brevicaulis): 87.5% were isolated from hair and 65.9% from the glabrous skin.
(20) The probability of having no resting discharge, firing in bursts, or firing in single spikes was not related to cutaneous submodality [rapidly adapting (RA), slowly adapting (SA), Pacinian (Pc)], or to receptive field (RF) locus (glabrous versus hairy skin).
Hairless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of hair.
Example Sentences:
(1) Single postganglionic neurones to hairy skin and hairless skin of the hindleg were investigated on spinal cord heating and spinal cord cooling in chloralose anesthetized cats.
(2) Lymphocyte blastogenesis in hairless descendants of Mexican hairless dogs was examined using the following mitogens: phytohemagglutinin (PHA-M), Concanavalin A (Con A), lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and pokeweed mitogen (PWM).
(3) In the second series of studies, GTN was administered topically to freshly excised, intact hairless mouse skin in conventional in vitro diffusion cells.
(4) Experimental data are presented for: (a) the flux of diflorasone diacetate through hairless mouse skin, (b) the percutaneous penetration profile of propylene glycol, (c) the effects of vehicle concentrations of polyoxypropylene 15 stearyl ether and propylene glycol on the percutaneous flux of diflorasone diacetate, (d) skin--vehicle partition coefficients of diflorasone diacetate, (e) the solubility profile of diflorasone diacetate as a function of solvent concentration, and (f) the alteration of the skin's resistance to the penetration of diflorasone diacetate due to propylene glycol.
(5) In this study, oral therapy with vitamin A or a synthetic analogue, etretinate, was tested for ability to protect hairless mice (Skh-hr1) from the development of skin tumours following exposure to broad-band light (280-700 nm) for 25 weeks.
(6) During the early part of the experiments, when the sink condition was maintained, FAH was the most effective for hairless mouse skin, whereas Azone showed the highest effect in the rat skin.
(7) Hairless mice were irradiated three times a week for 10 weeks with sunlamps (UVA and UVB) and the skin was examined using immunochemical and biochemical techniques.
(8) From the results of mating experiments, an autosomal dominant semi-lethal gene was considered to be responsible for the hairlessness accompanied by defective teeth in the dog.
(9) Albino hairless mice (Skh:HR-1) exposed chronically to suberythemal doses of ultraviolet (UV) radiation display visible and histological alterations in the skin.
(10) An abnormal hairless mouse epidermis was produced by three different methods: ultraviolet light irradiation, topical vitamin A acid and topical acetic acid.
(11) The carcinogenic effect of 3 commercially available ultraviolet A (UVA) tanning sources was studied in lightly pigmented hairless mice.
(12) ISDN permeation through excised hairless rat skin from the different devices was measured in vitro.
(13) If it is to be denuded and buried, however, great care must be taken to select a donor area that is as hairless as possible.
(14) There are two mechanisms for flux enhancement relative to passive flux on "fresh" hairless mouse skin: (1) the effect of the voltage in increasing mass transfer over the passive diffusion level, the effect of electroosmotic flow dominating this contribution in the systems studied in this report; and (2) the effect of prior current flow in increasing the "intrinsic permeability" of the skin.
(15) A comparison of the enhancing effect of 3% 1 on permeation of 2 through rat, hairless mouse, and human cadaver skin was made.
(16) Treatment of herpes simplex virus (HSV)-infected hairless mice with a 2% phosphonoacetic acid (PAA) ointment prevented the appearance of virus-induced skin lesions and subsequent central nervous system (CNS) involvement.
(17) Hairless albino mice were painted with 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) and exposed to solar simulated radiation (SSR) for 0, 3 or 6 weeks and subsequently treated with the promoter 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA).
(18) Dopa phosphates have been shown to increase pigment production in the epidermis of hairless mice.
(19) Chronic irradiation (three times a week) with ultraviolet B light of the skin of hairless mouse Uscd (Hr) strains resulted in the induction of skin tumors after 25 to 41 weeks.
(20) Several physiological parameters were measured in hairless mice maintained on a diet supplemented with antioxidants.