(a.) Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human shape; human nature; human sacrifices.
(n.) A human being.
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) Stimulation of human leukocytes with various chemical mediators such as TPA, f-Met-Leu-Phe, LTB4, etc.
(3) 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.
(4) The distribution and configuration of the experimental ruptures were similar to those usually noted as complications of human myocardial infarction.
(5) By electrophoresis and scanning densitometry, actin was found to constitute about 4% to 6% of the total cellular protein in the human corneal epithelium.
(6) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
(7) Assessment of the likelihood of replication in humans has included in vitro exposure of human cells to the potential pesticidal agent.
(8) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
(9) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
(10) Phospholipid methylation in human EGMs is distinctly different from that in rat EGMs (Hirata and Axelrod 1980) in that the human activity is not Mg++-dependent, and apparent methyltransferase I activity is located in the external membrane surface.
(11) This bone could not be degraded by human monocytes in vitro as well as control bone (only 54% of control; P less than 0.003).
(12) On the other hand, human IL-9, which is a homologue to murine P40, was cloned from a cDNA library prepared with mRNA isolated from PHA-induced T-cell line (C5MJ2).
(13) These results suggest the presence of a new antigen-antibody system for another human type C retrovirus related antigens(s) and a participation of retrovirus in autoimmune diseases.
(14) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
(15) Detergent-solubilized HLA antigens were isolated from a human lymphoblastoid cell using an anti-beta2-microglobulin immunoaffinity column.
(16) We postulate that FAA may affect the human peripheral and mucosal immune system.
(17) The human placental villus tissue contains opioid receptors and peptides.
(18) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(19) The result has been called the biggest human upheaval since the Second World War.
(20) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
Pylorus
Definition:
(n.) The opening from the stomach into the intestine.
(n.) A posterior division of the stomach in some invertebrates.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred and two rats were subjected to one of following three surgical procedures: Antiperistaltic duodenogastric reflux (ADGR) was made for duodenal juice to reflux through the pylorus into the stomach.
(2) A series of alkylazulene-1-sodium sulfonate derivatives which has an isopropyl group at 6-position were synthesized, and their anti-ulcer activities were examined in Shay pylorus-ligated rats.
(3) Metoprolol was introduced into the stomach with a homogenized meal containing a nonabsorbable marker, [14C]-PEG 4000, and another marker, PEG 4000, was perfused continuously into the duodenum just below the pylorus.
(4) The dumping-syndrome is a severe complication of gastric surgery after operations which destroy or weaken the sphincter mechanism of the pylorus.
(5) The nonsulfated form of CCK-OP was about 2 to 3 log units less potent in eliciting these excitatory responses in the pylorus (threshold, 9 x 10(-10) mol).
(6) Sodium bicarbonate, chlorpromazine, hexamethonium, atropine, metiamide, and bilateral vagotomy markedly inhibited the stress ulcers which developed in the pylorus-ligated rats.
(7) The distances from the pylorus to the most proximal branch (proximal branch) and the most distal branch (distal branch) of the anterior antral branches were measured in 37 duodenal ulcer patients.
(8) Analyses of gastric juice withdrawn 3 hours after the pylorus was ligated and of plasma corticosterone and blood glucose after animals were exposed to rotational stress revealed that gastric secretion was highest in controls, intermediate in stressed rats that developed ulcers, and lowest in stressed rats that did not develop ulcers.
(9) Seven piglets (3 to 5 days old, 1.5 to 2.0 kg) underwent operative transgastric insertion of a duodenostomy tube placed just distal to the pylorus.
(10) When pentobarbital, a GABAA stimulant, was given to pylorus-ligated rats after recovery from ether anesthesia, the drug did not modify gastric acid secretion.
(11) Anterior lesser curve seromyotomy with posterior truncal vagotomy (ASPTV) provides a simple, safe and expeditiously performed method of denervating the parietal cell mass, whilst preserving the pylorus.
(12) Bipolar electrodes were implanted on the gastrointestinal serosa from the pylorus to the sigmoid colon in male Wistar rats.
(13) A necessary condition of pyloropreserving resection is the leaving of the pylorus zone not more than 2-3 cm.
(14) In five dogs, the stomach and duodenum were separated enterically by transecting and oversewing the proximal duodenum and by anastomosing a Roux-en-Y jejunal limb to the pylorus.
(15) Parasites escape from the ruptured region of the peritrophic membrane at the pylorus to gain access to the ectoperitrophic space, where intense multiplication occurs.
(16) Conservation of ileal pylorus, consequently has an effective action on the control of ileal leakage, protecting its mucosa from serious histopathologic changes.
(17) Some of these compounds inhibited at low doses gastric secretion in pylorus-ligated rats and antagonized ulcers in pylorus-ligated rats plus acetylsalicylic acid and in cold+restraint-stressed rats.
(18) It was found in these pylorus-ligated rats that: the number of visible gastric lesions was significantly higher 1 h after aspirin administration than at other times; the severity of gastric lesions increased significantly at the 3rd and 4th hour after administration of aspirin; the volume of gastric secretory responses increased gradually after administration of aspirin and to a higher extent than the H+ output; the H+ output was significantly less after aspirin administration than that after pylorus ligation only; the gastric mucosal SOD activity significantly increased 1 h after administration of aspirin, decreasing significantly and gradually thereafter; the tissue level of MDA remained unchanged 1 h after aspirin administration, decreasing significantly thereafter.
(19) Carotene was injected into the rumen of a ram after surgical ligation of the pylorus.
(20) Our objectives in this study were (a) to determine the role of antroduodenal resistance in the control of fasting duodenogastric bile reflux in the dog and (b) to elucidate the contribution of the pylorus both to resistance and to reflux.