(n. pl.) The long, branching filaments of which the mycelium (and the greater part of the plant) of a fungus is formed. They are also found enveloping the gonidia of lichens, making up a large part of their structure.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fungicidal activity of six rabbit neutrophil cationic peptides (NP) against resting (dormant) spores, preincubated (swollen) spores, and hyphae of Aspergillus fumigatus and Rhizopus oryzae was examined.
(2) They are characterized in tissue by broad hyphae which are surrounded by eosinophilic material.
(3) Hyphae and yeast cells of C. albicans were found on direct microscopy.
(4) Fungal hyphae and, occasionally, the characteristic conidial morphology of Aspergillus fumigatus were seen in sections and direct smears from lesions in the respiratory and alimentary tracts.
(5) The ultrastructure of some aggregating microorganisms, including fungal hyphae and sheath-forming and stalked bacteria, was studied in detail, and several modes of aggregation were suggested.
(6) When examined microscopically with potassium hydroxide, the agents of these disorders resemble those of dermatophytosis, showing narrow, septate, branching hyphae.
(7) cpd-3 showed short aerial hyphae with dense formation of conidia.
(8) On post-mortem examination characteristic haematoxylin-staining, broad, aseptate fungal hyphae were found in the right eye, orbit, and lung.
(9) Investigations on 85Sr containing malt extract broth Aspergillus fumigatus cultures revealed that fungal hyphas did not contain the major proportion of radioactivity, but culture filtrates did, and suggested that a fungal metabolite may be responsible for radiostrontium binding.
(10) A phenotypically expressed incompatibility reaction occurs when unlike het alleles are present within the same somatic nucleus, and this parallels the heterokaryon incompatibility reaction that occurs when unlike alleles in different haploid nuclei are introduced into the same somatic hypha by mycelial fusion.
(11) A complete conversion of yeasts to hyphae was obtained by the appropriate change in the amino acid used as nitrogen source.
(12) In view of the facts that uric acid is a common end-product of human and animal metabolism, it is abundantly present in the avian faecal matter and is capable of inducing mucoid growth and capsule formation in dry growing non-encapsulated strains or in an otherwise rough looking hypha forming isolate, its role in studying the phylogenesis of C. neoformans and its pathogenicity seems to be an important proposition.
(13) A number of characteristic aspergillus hyphae were recognized in the resected cyst.
(14) Another approach to understanding morphogenesis is to study how the difference in the shape of buds and hyphae is generated.
(15) In P. expansum shrinkage occurred in all hyphae at rates of cooling of less than 15 degrees C min-1; at faster rates intracellular ice nucleation occurred.
(16) The adherence of candidal hyphae within the superficial cells was seen in the area of the fissure.
(17) From these studies, we conclude that neutrophils are capable of killing Candida hyphae selectively within human vascular endothelial cell monolayers and may have protective rather than detrimental effects on endothelial cell integrity.
(18) Entomophthoromycosis was diagnosed by finding wide eosinophilic sleeves intimately surrounding thin-walled hyphae.
(19) It was found that fragmenting hyphae are similar in structure to the vegetative hyphae of known actinomycetes.
(20) Scattered individual and small groups of septate hyphae and chlamydospores were found in histologic sections.
Soredium
Definition:
(n.) A patch of granular bodies on the surface of the thallus of lichens.