(1) At initial concentrations of 0.1 and 1.0 M, glycerin and propylene glycol increase significantly the intestinal absorption rate of theophylline from the small intestine of anesthetized rats.
(2) In the composition of the water-methanol phase glycerin, serine, ethanolamine, phosphoryl-serine, phosphoryl-ethanolamine, glyceryl-phosphoryl-ethanolamine and glyceryl-phosphoryl-serine were detected by the method of thin-layer paper chromatography.
(3) Various routes of immunotherapy (injection, intranasal, oral) using lyophilized, aqueous, glycerinated, and modified allergenic extracts have all produced blocking antibodies and symptomatic improvement.
(4) In contrast, 1% digitonin and lower concentrations of the above agents, as well as sucrose or glycerine caused selective diffusion of catalase from a limited population of peroxisomes.
(5) Ca sensitivity and energy dependence in the contractile proteins of the glycerinated taenia coli of guinea pig were studied.
(6) At the same time, the absence of any effect of the compounds studied on the maximal rate of isotonic shortening and on the tension of glycerinized fibres and ATPPase of native and desenitized actomyosine indicates that the contractile mechanism is not involved in the effect described.
(7) The second formulation was a barrier-type product consisting of milk protein solubilized with lauryl sulfate, a surface active detergent and 4.8% glycerin.
(8) Aqueous glycerin solutions produced wall shear rate waveforms of the same magnitude and shape as the porcine blood.
(9) The fluorescence polarization from rhodamine labels specifically attached to the fast-reacting thiol of the myosin cross-bridge in glycerinated muscle fibers has been measured to determine the angular distribution of the cross-bridges in different physiological states of the fibers as a function of temperature.
(10) A significant fraction of the KCl-inextractable Mg bound to glycerinated cells fails to exchange with (28)Mg even after long equilibration.
(11) Treat the eye as follows: 1) 50% pyridine for at least 16 hr, 2) distilled water 3--4 hr, 3) 20% H2O2 until the eye is a light brown, 4) 95% ethanol overnight, 5) 1.5% AgNO3 for 2--6 days at 37 C, 6) in water, remove the vitreous, then direct 0.25% pyrogallic acid in 1.25% formalin against the retina for 2--5 secs until the optic fibers are reduced to a coffee-copper color (1--4 minutes), 7) dissect the retina and mount flat on a glass slide, 8) cover with glycerin, apply a coverslip, and fix in place with nail polish.
(12) In vascular smooth muscle that does not contract spontaneously, similar deposits of strontium were only seen if the muscle was depolarized during or glycerinated before exposure to the strontium-containing solution.
(13) Larvae for morphological study were collected by pepsin digestion, fixed in glacial acetic acid, and cleared in glycerin.
(14) These rate constants are similar to those that may occur for undistorted cross-bridges within glycerinated rabbit psoas fibers (Bowater, R., Webb, M. R., and Ferenczi, M. A.
(15) Data from chemically skinned and glycerinated single fibers were not significantly different from intact fibers, indicating that the membrane structure has little effect upon the diffraction phenomenon in muscle.
(16) Gly 90, a glycerine mutant defective by glycerokinase, obtained under the action of ethylmethanesulphonate, displayed a distinct difference from the initial virulent strains of salmonella by decreased invasive properties and the absence of any capacity to multiplication in the epithelial cells.
(17) Such molecules would be capable of promoting interactions between thick filaments which contain them, providing a means of accounting for the pH dependent stiffness observed in glycerinated preparations of molluscan catch muscles.
(18) These results support the hypothesis that contraction and relaxation in glycerinated rat uterine muscle are regulated primarily by phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of LC20.
(19) Spinal nerve block by intrathecal phenol-glycerine infusion is commonly employed for relief of severe pain in terminal carcinomatosis and, frequently, a dramatic regional anesthetic effect is achieved.
(20) All additives tested (ethyl alcohol, glycerine, chloral hydrate, ethylene and propylene glycol, and citric, malonic and maleic acids) in varying degrees limited the conversion of hematein to insoluble compounds.
Plasma
Definition:
(n.) Unorganized material; elementary matter.
(n.) A mixture of starch and glycerin, used as a substitute for ointments.
(n.) A variety of quartz, of a color between grass green and leek green, which is found associated with common chalcedony. It was much esteemed by the ancients for making engraved ornaments.
(n.) The viscous material of an animal or vegetable cell, out of which the various tissues are formed by a process of differentiation; protoplasm.
Example Sentences:
(1) The absolute recoveries of diazepam, nordazepam and flurazepam in human milk were 84, 86 and 92% and in human plasma 97, 89 and 94%, respectively.
(2) Cancer patients showed abnormally high plasma free tryptophan levels.
(3) In each sheep there was a significant negative correlation between the glucose and corticosteroid concentrations in both maternal and fetal plasma, and there were positive correlations between the maternal and fetal plasma concentrations of glucose, and between the glucose and fructose concentrations of fetal plasma.
(4) The extents of phospholipid hydrolysis were relatively low in brain homogenates, synaptic plasma membranes and heart ventricular muscle.
(5) Disease stabilisation was associated with prolonged periods of comparatively high plasma levels of drug, which appeared to be determined primarily by reduced drug clearance.
(6) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
(7) LHRH therapy leads to higher plasma LH levels and a lower FSH in response to an intravenous LHRH test.
(8) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(9) Maximum increases in portal plasma secretin concentrations of 143, 146 and 190% and maximum increases in VIP of 116, 155 and 147% after, respectively, intraduodenal 0.1 M NaHCO3, 0.1 M Na2CO3, and 0.025 M NaOH were found.
(10) Dialysis of dog plasma against an artificial c.s.f.
(11) One of these antibodies, MCaE11, was used for immunohistochemical detection of MAC in tissue and for quantification of the fluid-phase TCC in ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid plasma.
(12) Recovery of CV-3988 from plasma averaged 81.7% for the column procedure and 40% for the organic extraction.
(13) It includes preincubation of diluted plasma with ellagic acid and phospholipids and a starting reagent that contains calcium and a chromogenic peptide substrate for thrombin, Tos-Gly-Pro-Arg-pNA.
(14) Concentrations of several gastrointestinal hormonal peptides were measured in lymph from the cisterna chyli and in arterial plasma; in healthy, conscious pigs during ingestion of a meal.
(15) Plasma NPY correlated better with plasma norepinephrine than with epinephrine, indicating its origin from sympathetic nerve terminals.
(16) Neither the plasma prolactin level nor urinary excretion of aldosterone and ADHshowed any consistent change throughout the dive.
(17) Zinc in plasma and urine and serum albumin and alpha 2-macroglobulin were measured in 48 patients with burns.
(18) Arginine vasopressin further reduced papillary flow in kidneys perfused with high viscosity artificial plasma.
(19) Determination of plasma luteinizing hormone (LH) levels in the peripubertal female rats revealed that plasma LH was increased transiently immediately after NPY administration.
(20) Nicardipine lowered systolic and diastolic blood pressure to normal, plasma aldosterone was reduced and serum potassium levels were increased.