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Hilus


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Hilum, 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two small populations of GLY + neurons were observed outside of the named nuclei of the SOC; one was located dorsal to the LSO, near its dorsal hilus, and the other was identified near the medial pole of the LSO.
  • (2) These laminae included the dentate hilus and strata oriens, pyramidale and lacunosum-moleculare of CA1.
  • (3) Independently from their drainage ways, all enlarged lymph nodes, also those situated in areas not accessible by lymphography like the hilus of liver, spleen, kidney, and retrohepatic, mesenteric, and intraperitoneal regions, can be visualized even without administration of a contrast medium.
  • (4) The other tumor was a small corticomedullary stromal luteoma with bilateral hyperthecosis and nodular hilus cell hyperplasia.
  • (5) Most of the GABA-negative calretinin-immunoreactive neurons were located in the hilus of the dentate gyrus and in stratum lucidum of the CA3 subfield.
  • (6) This assumed pathology is divided half in pancreatic causes (neoplasm, pancreatitis, pseudocysts) and half in hepatobiliary causes (metastatic cancer of the liver, cancer of the hilus, cirrhosis, hydatid cyst, alveolar echinococcosis or angioma).
  • (7) Intra-epithelial beaded nerve fibers, subepithelial fibers, and large-caliber nerves in the hilus region and tracheal wall were also CGRP-IR, and immunoreactive nerves were occasionally found in close association with NEB at the basal pole.
  • (8) Within the glandular body arteries, veins and excretory ducts vessels were found running their course through the connective tissue, finally emerging through the hilus of lobules into the lobules.
  • (9) This was particularly the case in the hypothalamus (areas of origin or termination of the tuberohypophyseal and incertohypothalamic dopamine systems) but also in the hippocampal formation (alveus, fimbria, hilus dentate gyrus), amygdaloid complex (anterior, basolateral, medial nuclei).
  • (10) Because of our anatomical and surgical findings we have used the retroperitoneal approach to the splenic hilus by means of the lumbar region.
  • (11) As a complication unknown as yet a laceration of the renal hilus vessels is described, and the possible causes are discussed.
  • (12) In additional experiments at least some of the GAD- and SS-immunoreactive hilar neurons were further characterized as commissural neurons by retrograde filling with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) following an injection of the tracer into the contralateral hilus.
  • (13) TOH-containing fibers were associated with 90% of the blood vessels (arteries, veins, arterioles and venules) in the hilus, medullary and internodular regions of lymph nodes and in trabeculae with no obvious relationship to blood vessels.
  • (14) A weak to moderate signal was observed over the pyramidal cell layer of the hilus and CA3 region of the hippocampus, over the anterodorsal thalamic nucleus, over Purkinje cells of the cerebellar cortex, and in scattered clusters over the external-most layer of the median eminence.
  • (15) By light microscopy, the majority of varicose processes with intense TH-like immunoreactivity (LI) were contained in the hilus of the dentate gyrus (DG) and strata radiatum and lacunosum-moleculare of the CA3 region of the hippocampus.
  • (16) Innervation was restricted primarily to vessels in the portal space and hilus.
  • (17) The commissural projection to the fascia dentata was observed to originate exclusively from cells within the hilus fasciae dentatae (CA4) of the contralateral area dentata.
  • (18) These results demonstrate a physiological difference between the excitatory drive to excitatory and inhibitory neurons in the hilus that certainly contributes to differences in synaptic strength and that may be applicable to other brain regions.
  • (19) Within 2 weeks of reconstitution, human cells were also identified in lymphoid structures in the vicinity of the liver hilus with a later spread to other lymphoid organs.
  • (20) The roentgenological picture of median oat-cell cancer is characterized by the presence of tumor conglomerate in the lung hilus, which consisted of the primary tumor penetrating in lymph nodes adjacent to the bronchus in 66.6% of canses.

Pilus


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ultrastructural studies of Aeromonas hydrophila strain AH26 revealed two distinctive pilus types: "straight" pili appear as brittle, rod-like filaments, whereas "flexible" pili are supple and curvilinear.
  • (2) Phagocytic killing in the presence of each monoclonal antibody paralleled the increase in chemiluminescence, suggesting that for this variant killing was an inevitable consequence of the interaction of polymorphonuclear leukocytes with gonococci opsonized with anti-pilus antibodies.
  • (3) These results show for the first time the role of a specific pilus structure in colonization of the human intestine by V. cholerae O1 and exemplify the significance of a genetic regulon in pathogenesis.
  • (4) The relative affinity of these peptides for anti-EDP208 pilus antibodies was determined by a competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using the Fab fragment of anti-EDP208 pilus immunoglobulin G. From these results we established that the antigenic region of this peptide was the N-terminal pentapeptide, N-acetyl-Thr-Asp-Leu-Leu-Ala, and the key residues responsible for the antibody-antigen interaction are the N-acetyl-Thr1, Leu3, and Leu4.
  • (5) The antigenic surface-associated colonization factor of E. coli strain H-10407 has been further characterized: this pilus-like antigen is produced under conditions of growth that repress the production of common pili of E. coli.
  • (6) The degree of S-pilin processing and the levels of membrane-associated pilin varied among the different classes of mutants, suggesting that each was blocked at a distinct step of pilus biogenesis.
  • (7) At the basis of each pilus, a cell wall differentiation was observed appearing, in face-on-view, as a ring-like structure made up of subunits, and in side-on view as a hollow cylinder penetrating through the cell wall.
  • (8) Using Western blot analysis of the immunizing pilus and its cyanogen bromide (CNBr) fragments, IgG antibody to pilin was detected before immunization in all individuals.
  • (9) K99+, 987P+, and type 1 pilus+ bacteria could be prevented from adhering to epithelial cells by Fab fragments specific for K99, 987P, or type 1 pili, respectively.
  • (10) One recombinant pilus was shown to elicit antibodies against the synthetic peptide in immunized rats.
  • (11) A purified Gal-Gal pilus vaccine prevented (P less than 0.05) subsequent colonization by a challenge wild-type strain that exhibited homologous pili.
  • (12) These results showed that trbC function is essential to the F plasmid conjugative transfer system and suggested that the TrbC protein participates in F-pilus assembly.
  • (13) These observations may indicate a possible evolutionary relationship(s) of plasmids unrelated by the criteria of incompatibility, pilus phage specificity, or plasmid host range.
  • (14) The presence of an invertible element (Min) is suggested which enables the formation of conjugative pili at 30 degrees C, but switches off the pilus formation at 37 degrees C incubation temperature.
  • (15) Three classes of pili, alpha, beta and gamma of ascending sub-unit size were identified among the 7 pilus antigen serogroups.
  • (16) A high titre of pilus antibodies was obtained by immunizing rabbits with mutants whose pili had lost their ability to retract into the cell.
  • (17) Earlier studies have shown that the majority of Escherichia coli isolates from urinary tract infections which possess a D-mannose-resistant adhesin contain gene sequences homologous to the pap pilus gene sequences encoded on the recombinant plasmid pRHU845.
  • (18) Like R100, R62 prevented transfer, pilus formation, and surface exclusion and, therefore, probably inhibits expression of the transfer operon traA through traI.
  • (19) The pilS1 locus contains six tandem pilus gene copies linked by a 39 bp repeat sequence also present in the expression loci.
  • (20) This mutant no longer produced a 20.5-kDa protein (TcpA) that we show is the major subunit of a V. cholerae pilus.

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