(a.) Inserted or introduced among others in the calendar; as, an intercalary month, day, etc.; -- now applied particularly to the odd day (Feb. 29) inserted in the calendar of leap year. See Bissextile, n.
(n.) Introduced or inserted among others; additional; supernumerary.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the past several years, the cost of excising and preparing intercalary allografts has been $600 per implant, while the cost for osteochondral allografts varied between $900 and $1,200.
(2) In the parotid glands numerous adrenergic and cholinergic axons are found beneath the basement membrane of acini and intercalary ducts in intimate association with the cells.
(3) We suggest that the lower efficiencies of the replication origins, or special regions of termination at these sites, are the primary cause of the under-replication, and that this under-replication is sufficient to confer the properties of intercalary heterochromatin.
(4) Arguments that the duplications are the result of cell interactions and intercalary growth that themselves arise from an abnormal polarity of the embryonic segment are presented.
(5) The loci-specificity of the X-chromosome intercalary parts' attachment to the nucleus envelope is found in Anopheles messeae.
(6) Terminal fields were identified in lamina intercalaris and medial habenular nuclei.
(7) Glycoproteins demonstrated in the epithelium are similar to those of intercalary ducts of parotid and submandibular glands, and may represent a primitive form of salivary secretion.
(8) Filaments incubated in low stain concentrations (0.0005%) showed cell abnormalities with all stain types, with FB-28 producing the most extreme deformations of both intercalary and apical cells.
(9) The molecular organization of the cloned DNA was compared with that of sequences isolated from regions of intercalary heterochromatin and also with genes which have been characterized from more conventional euchromatic regions.
(10) These data are compatible with a cell-movement:intercalary cell division hypothesis in which duplication is dependent upon specific positional confrontation and subsequent cell division.
(11) Incidence of supernumerary tests was 28%, their distribution being caudal (80%), intercalary (8%), ramal (5%) and anterior 1%; 6% had both caudal and intercalary teats.
(12) It is argued that the terms n. geniculatus dorsalis p. principalis and p. intercalaris, n. superficialis magnocellularis (in its wrong usage), n. lamminaris precommissuralis, n. lentiformis mesencephali p. medialis, p. parvocellularis and p. magnocellularis should be considered obsolete, on various embryological and hodologic grounds.
(13) Study of the genetics of mutant haplotypes suggests that the observed effects on meiosis and embryonic development may be due to an altered form of intercalary DNA (iDNA) in the relevant chromosomal region (band 17B).
(14) We treated 21 aggressive and malignant bone tumors by wide resection and replacement with deep-frozen osteoarticular and segmental (intercalary and block) allografts.
(15) This pattern has not been observed previously and is designated as type E. Other new observations were: chromosome 5 was composed of pericentromeric heterochromatin, a lightly stained intercalary band at the middle portion of the short arm, and a lightly stained interstitial band at the terminal region of the long arm.
(16) Preparation and banking of massive osteoarticular allografts and intercalary bone allografts have been performed for the past 12 years.
(17) The labeling index of the nuclei of the centroacinar cells was 2.5 times higher than that of the acinar epithelium and amounted to 0.48 plus or minus 0.17%, whereas the epithelium of the intercalary ducts had an extremely low labeling index: 0.09 plus or minus 0.09%, compared with 0.27 plus or minus 0.09% for the intralobular ducts and 0.50 plus or minus 0.08% for the interlobular ducts.
(18) Staining for esteroproteases was confined to the periluminal rims of intercalary and striated ducts.
(19) Homologous 125I-5S rRNA was found to hybridize to three sites in the polytene chromosomes of P. coccineus: the proximal heterochromatic segment in the long arm of chromosome pair I (which also bears the sequences complementary to 25S, 18S and 5.8S RNAs), most of the proximal heterochromatic segment plus a small portion of adjoining euchromatin in the long arm of chromosome pair VI and the large intercalary heterochromatic segment in the same chromosome pair.
(20) The authors concluded that atrophic changes found in the intercalary nucleus may be probable of transsynaptic in character.
Intercalate
Definition:
(v. t.) To insert, as a day or other portion of time, in a calendar.
(v. t.) To insert among others, as a verse in a stanza; specif. (Geol.), to introduce as a bed or stratum, between the layers of a regular series of rocks.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is suggested that the intercalated disc functioned as a barrier to the freezing process.
(2) The chiral intercalators, at micromolar concentrations, inhibit the reaction of EcoRI, but for each enantiomeric pair it is the lambda enantiomer, which binds only poorly to a B-DNA helix, that inhibits EcoRI preferentially.
(3) The effect of DNA-crosslinking agents (cisplatin and mitomycin C), a DNA-intercalating agent (adriamycin) or monofunctional psoralen (4-Met-4', 5'-dihydropsoralen plus near-ultraviolet radiation) on DNA replication in cultured mouse FM3A cells was studied by sedimentation of the pulse-labeled DNA in an alkaline sucrose gradient.
(4) In 1:1 saturated complexes with the octamers [d(GGATATCC)]2 and [d(GGTTAACC)]2, [N-MeCys3,N-MeCys7]TANDEM binds to each octamer as a bis-intercalator bracketing the TpA step.
(5) These cells were transformed into intercalated duct cells.
(6) We found that the Na-Ca exchanger is distributed throughout all membranes in contact with the extracellular space, including the sarcolemma, the transverse tubules (T-tubules), and the intercalated disks.
(7) : the non-specialized parts of the muscle cell membranes were stained by La3+ as well as the membranes of micropinocytotic vesicles, of the T-system and of the intercalated disc.
(8) In submandibular glands, 1 to 4 weeks after ovariectomy, no changes were observed in percentages of the acinar, intercalated duct, and granular convoluted tubular areas occupying photomicrographs.
(9) Repair not only implies the closing of DNA nicks, but very likely the degradation of the BLM molecules intercalated in the DNA interrupting the reactions responsible for the generation of free radicals.
(10) High content of CA II was found in intercalated cells as determined by morphology, although a weak diffuse cytoplasmic staining of this enzyme could be observed also in a subpopulation of principal cells.
(11) Laser scanning confocal microscopy has confirmed that the localization of ventricular myocyte gap junctions is solely within intercalated disks.
(12) The value of K (4000 M-1) is similar for anti-BADE and 3-MCDE, although the latter is not intercalated in the classical sense since the short axis of the molecule is tilted closer to the axis of the DNA double helix.
(13) The complex of 1 is the first example found to date of this type of intercalation of the methyl group with DNA.
(14) Transcription proceeded to immediately upstream of CpA sequences in nine of these sites, and this defines the most preferred intercalation site as CpA.
(15) Changes in the mode of DNA packaging in nuclei during spermatogenesis were studied by measuring of the fluorescence anisotropy decay of an ethidium dye intercalated in the DNA in whole nuclei.
(16) Na-K-ATPase, localized to the basolateral membrane, was more abundant in principal cells than in intercalated cells in the CCD.
(17) We have conducted stopped-flow kinetics association and dissociation experiments on the interaction of these anthraquinones with calf thymus DNA and with DNA polymers with alternating AT and GC base pairs to experimentally determine the binding mode and how the threading mode affects intercalation rates relative to similarly substituted classical intercalators.
(18) This effect is attributed to intercalation of the ellipticine chromophore.
(19) Nerve fasciculi consisting of neuronal processes and enteroglial cell sheaths formed a three-dimensional network intercalated between blood and lymph vessels.
(20) A number of unfused tricyclic aromatic intercalators have shown excellent activity as amplifiers of the anticancer activity of the bleomycins and the 4',6-diphenylpyrimidines, 2a and 2b, with terminal basic functions (4-methylpiperazino groups) have been synthesized to test the structural requirements for amplifier-DNA interactions.