(n.) The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kininase activity in the glomerulus and the proximal tubule was completely inhibited by chelating agents.
(2) A bilateral projection to a single glomerulus in each antennal lobe is present in all cases.
(3) Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis is a renal disorder characterized by proliferation of cells and changes in the basement membrane of the glomerulus.
(4) The basement membranes of the proximal and distal convoluted tubules, those of Bowman's capsule and glomerulus, and the mesangial matrix were labeled for all the antigens but to differing extents.
(5) Virus particles were rarely found in the glomerulus after the 5th day of infection and chronic renal disease was not observed.
(6) To stop the arteriolar flow and allow perfusion pressure, as set by a mercury manometer, to be built up in the lumen of the vessel, the glomerulus was sucked into a constriction pipette.
(7) In vitro ultrafiltration studies support the hypothesis that decreases in urinary clearance were due to decreased filterability of aluminum at the glomerulus as its blood concentration was increased.
(8) These data suggest that codeine undergoes filtration at the glomerulus, tubular secretion and passive reabsorption.
(9) The mesangium of the glomerulus is a connective tissue tree arising at the vascular pole of the glomerulus and supporting the glomerular capillaries.
(10) A model that treats the capillary wall as a barrier containing uniform cylindrical pores, and permeating solutes as hard spheres, is shown to be successful in describing the size-selectivity of the glomerulus.
(11) We describe a unique mesangial matrix component of the rat glomerulus identified by a murine monoclonal antibody.
(12) The relationship was linear for all patients with a glomerular process but no longer held true once the patients were treated with immunosuppressives, or when the underlying disease excluded the glomerulus.
(13) In sections of rat kidney, angiotensin II receptors were detected in the glomerulus, vasa recta and ureter.
(14) The developing glomerular capillary wall, which filters plasma from very early stages, becomes decreasingly permeable to perfused macromolecules such as ferritin or immunoglobulin as the glomerulus matures.
(15) This glomerulus bypass shunt occurred in 36% of the glomerular casts examined.
(16) This model provides a method of studying this function in the intact glomerulus in both normal and disease states.
(17) These data suggest that codeine-6-glucuronide undergoes filtration at the glomerulus and tubular reabsorption.
(18) In every case the NS appeared as a straight tube with its long axis oriented radially in relation to the glomerulus.
(19) However, in various types of glomerular injury, the mesangial cell may acquire characteristics of a "myofibroblast", which may in fact be injurious to the glomerulus.
(20) Afferent arterioles were dissected together with their glomerulus and perfused with a pressure head of 120 cmH2O.
Urine
Definition:
(n.) In mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys; in birds and reptiles, a solid or semisolid excretion.
(v. i.) To urinate.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
(2) As a consequence, similar response curves were obtained for urine specimens containing morphine or barbiturates.
(3) One thing seems to be noteworthy in their opinion: the bacterial resistance of the germs isolated from the urine is bigger than the one of the germs isolated from the respiratory apparatus.
(4) This difference is probably secondary to the different rates of delivery of furosemide into urine.
(5) No associations were found between sex, body-weight, smoking habits, age, urine volume or urine pH and the O-demethylation of codeine.
(6) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
(7) Zinc in plasma and urine and serum albumin and alpha 2-macroglobulin were measured in 48 patients with burns.
(8) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(9) A sensitive, selective and easy to use high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of cicletanide, a new diuretic, in plasma, red blood cells, urine and saliva is described.
(10) Investigations on the influence of the diuresis effect on the results of quantitative estrogen and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) determination revealed that the estrogen values increase with the 24-hour amount of urine.
(11) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
(12) We recommend analysing the urine for porphyrins in HIV-positive patients who have chronic photosensitivity of the skin.
(13) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
(14) Urine tests in six patients with other kidney diseases and with uraemia and in seven healthy persons did not show this substance.
(15) The antigenic composition of an extract of rat dust, as a source of aeroallergens for rat-sensitive individuals, has been investigated and compared to the antigenic composition of rat saliva and urine.
(16) There is a considerably larger variability of the mercury levels in urine than in blood.
(17) Metabolites of nafiverine in blood, bile, and urine were determined quantitatively.
(18) Cost-effective immunoassays for the detection of amphetamines, benzodiazepines, and methadone in urine have been developed using Syva EMIT reagents and a Cobas Bio centrifugal analyser.
(19) Sulphuric acid fluorescence is used for quantitation and specificity is achieved by the addition of tritiated oestrone to the urine hydrolysate.
(20) Their levels in urine are a useful indicator of the integrity of membrane barriers of the kidney glomerular capillary wall.