(1) While the diameter of the red rod outer segments varies with their location along the vertical meridian of the retina, the incisure number also changes similarly.
(2) Schmidt-Lantermann incisures were more abundant in thick and heavily myelinated fibers than in thin and lightly myelinated fibers.
(3) At 12 h and 24 h after crush, however, no ovoids were apparent and the number of incisures present was determined from teased fibres by light microscopy using oil immersion.
(4) The Schmidt-Lanterman incisures are formed in the phase of "loose" myelin at 15-17 weeks of prenatal development with the formation of nodes of Ranvier.
(5) In spite of easy access, inserting the fibula into the incisure can be difficult in the case of bony or ligamentous injuries of the distal tibiofibular syndesmosis.
(6) Consequently they appear in transverse section as sectoral incisures (occupying less than half the circumference) and in longitudinal section as asymmetric incisures (involving one side only of the myelin sheath).
(7) It is concluded, that changes of incisural ultrastructure are sensitive indicators of human neuropathies offering clues to the type of the underlying pathomechanism.
(8) Taxol-induced abnormalities in Schwann cells did not prevent their ability to produce myelin sheaths, although the accumulation of microtubules between myelin lamellae caused swellings of Schmidt-Lanterman incisures and paranodal myelin loops.
(9) We report a patient with a progressive, predominantly sensory neuropathy and a IgM kappa M-protein that binds to Schmidt-Lantermann incisures.
(10) In this report we show that the microfilament components, F-actin and spectrin, co-localize with MAG in periaxonal membranes, Schmidt-Lanterman incisures, paranodal myelin loops, and inner and outer mesaxons of myelinating Schwann cells.
(11) Incision of the tentorium prior to removal of a tumor when it invades the incisural hiatus may have merit.
(12) Incubation of nerve with Ca2+ and the divalent cation ionophores A23187 or ionomycin, causes a prompt vesiculation of the myelin at the paranodes and Schmidt-Lanterman incisures.
(13) Within the lesser curvature there is an increasing incidence from the oesophageal end towards pylorus, with maximal incidence in the incisural area (1).
(14) The fact that the supratentorial perfusion pressure was the only parameter which did not differ significantly under the different experimental conditions suggests that the mechanism responsible for the respiratory arrest is local brain tissue ischemia, probably near the tentorial incisure.
(15) The basal membrane of outer hair cells is distinguished from that of inner hair cells by plaques consisting of cross-hatched incisures in the external membrane leaflet.
(16) The formation of mature Schmidt-Lanterman incisure is completed in the second foetis period.
(17) NaK ATPase levels increased and HCO3 ATPase decreased in incisural, body and fundic mucosa which had intestinal metaplasia and atrophic gastritis.
(18) One is the incisural sclerosis theory by Penfield and his associates and the other is the Ammon's horn sclerosis theory by Sano and Malamud.
(19) Paranodal myelin and some Schmidt-Lanterman incisures were the first regions of the sheath to show an increase in PLA2 staining post-crush, areas where the first ultrastructural changes occur in myelin after trauma, with staining of compact myelin closely following.
(20) These are 1) the presence of 'atypical' Schmidt-Lanterman incisures, 2) irregularities of the nodal and internodal termination of Schwann cell cytoplasm and 3) the presence of non-myelinated segments without associated Schwann cell processes, but covered by basal lamina.
Indent
Definition:
(v. i.) To contract; to bargain or covenant.
(v. t.) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.
(v. t.) To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp.
(v. t.) To bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant.
(v. t.) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or less distance from the margin; as, to indent the first line of a paragraph one em; to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first. See Indentation, and Indention.
(v. t.) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
(v. i.) To be cut, notched, or dented.
(v. i.) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
(n.) A cut or notch in the man gin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
(n.) A stamp; an impression.
(n.) A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.
(n.) A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
(2) Attachment appeared to involve a very close physical proximity of treponemes to the cultured cells; at the site of attachment, no changes such as swelling or indentation of the cultured cell surface were observed.
(3) Analysed were the results of surgical treatment, causes of the failure and early recurrence in 108 patients with retinal detachment in whom was performed an indentation of the sclera by means of a balloon (1st group--50) or by an episcleral implant (2d group--58).
(4) Thus, the area with separated HL, which is restricted to the region of the PMC released at the stage of PMC ingression, spreads almost entirely throughout the area of the indenting vegetal plate at gastrulation.
(5) Evidence for net C3 synthesis was based on (a) incorporation of 14C-labeled amino acids into C3 protein, (b) indentity of the allotype of C3 produced in vitro with that of the doner's serum C3, even in the presence of carrier C3 protein of a different allotype; (c) correspondence of electrophoretic mobility, size, and subunit structure of C3 protein produced in vitro with serum C3; (d) inhibition of C3 production with cycloheximide.
(6) The light touch stimulus was a slight indentation of the skin produced through a displacement controlled stimulating probe (tip diameter of 2 mm).
(7) Dendritic cells were characterized by their slender cytoplasmic processes, indented nucleus and pale cytoplasm.
(8) The monocytes are large cells with an indented nucleus and cytoplasm containing numerous vesicles of different sizes and also a few lysosomes.
(9) Kitten units responsive to skin indentation showed no evidence of encoding stimulus magnitude information.
(10) The anti-inflammatory effect of dexamethasone was also indentical in both normal and EFAD rats.
(11) (1) was employed to calculate the strain rate and stress from the indentation time and the size of the indentation.
(12) A mathematical solution has been obtained for the indentation creep and stress-relaxation behavior of articular cartilage where the tissue is modeled as a layer of linear KLM biphasic material of thickness h bonded to an impervious, rigid bony substrate.
(13) The responses of slowly-adapting neurons were separated into two components, a "dynamic" response corresponding to activity elicited by the initial indenting ramp and a "static" response produced by the sustained indentation.
(14) Therefore, the pleural indentation sign does not exclusively appear in the lung cancer.
(15) In the fluoride group, a moderate increase of the indentation length and a reduced calcium loss were observed.
(16) Histologically, in addition to diffuse infiltrate of large lymphoid cells with deeply indented nuclei, there were many epithelioid cell granulomas, remarkable tissue eosinophilia and stromal fibrosis, mimicking inflammatory disease.
(17) By utilizing high-speed, microcomputer-controlled data logging techniques, simultaneous monitoring of signals from a dynamic load cell and a displacement transducer could be made throughout an indentation test.
(18) The central axon of a primary afferent neuron that responded to indentation of the glabrous skin of the lower lip in a slowly adapting fashion was intra-axonally injected with horseradish peroxidase.
(19) In addition to the macroglossia, the typical facial signs of this syndrome such as capillary haemangioma of the glabella, soft tissue folds under the eyes and linear indentations of the ear lobes are demonstrable.
(20) Cuplike indentations were present on the paunch epithelial surface and were sites of bacterial aggregation.