(a.) Lying between cells or cellules; as, intercellular substance, space, or fluids; intercellular blood channels.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(2) The extrusion of granules into the intercellular space via exocytosis is frequently observed.
(3) The role of Ca2+ in cell agglutination may be either to activate the cell-surface dextran receptor or to form specific intercellular Ca2+ bridges.
(4) When compared with nonspecialized regions of the cell membranes, these contact sites were characterized by a decreased intercellular distance, subplasmalemmal densities and coated pits.
(5) Fibrinogen was scattered in the intercellular spaces, and located in the inner layer or edges of the thickened intima of the bifurcation with increasing plaque formation.
(6) The question of how the contraction of adjacent endothelial cells might widen the intercellular clefts and thus regulate permeability is discussed.
(7) These alterations include fenestration, widened intercellular junctions, increase in pinocytotic vesicles, and infolding of the luminal surface.
(8) Charged polymers, known to alter cell surface characteristics, reversibly inhibit the intercellular communication required in kidney tubule induction.
(9) The narrow intercellular ridge is smooth, whereas the epithelial cells have small cytoplasmic knobs between the cilia.
(10) Lanthanum nitrate used in this investigations is a valuable marker of the intercellular spaces.
(11) This epithelium was characterized by the presence of intercellular canaliculi.
(12) It was concluded that the condition where cells are in contact with each other has an important role in the expression of hepatocellular functions and collagen present in the intercellular spaces enhances the functional levels.
(13) One hypothesis to account for intercellular invasion proposes that a necessary condition for a cell type to be invasive to a given host tissue is that it lack contact paralysis of locomotion during collision with cells of that host tissue.
(14) Hypertrophy of the satellite cells with increase in the perineuronal intercellular spaces, often associated with irregular, scalloped nuclear and cell outlines, suggested that neuron shrinkage had occurred.
(15) During the entire process the passage between the lumen and the intercellular space remained blocked by the tight junctions, as shown by their impenetrability to ferritin.
(16) The lower lipid content, expressed as weight per unit weight of tissue, in palmo-plantar stratum corneum as compared to non-palmo-plantar stratum corneum may be related to the fact that a larger portion of the intercellular space of the former tissue is occupied by desmosomes.
(17) We have studied the effect of a calcium ionophore, A23187, and the purported calmodulin inhibitors, calmidazolium and chlorpromazine, on direct intercellular communication between smooth muscle cells in the myometrium of delivering rats.
(18) The human intercellular adhesion molecules ICAM-1, ICAM-2 and their counter-receptors, the beta 2 or leukointegrins, mediate a variety of homotypic and heterotypic leukocyte and endothelial cell-cell adhesions central to immunocompetence.
(19) This antigen thus seems to play a role in the intercellular contacts; this is the first function ascribed to this FDC specific antigen.
(20) The deposits also filled up the intercellular space.
Intracellular
Definition:
(a.) Within a cell; as, the intracellular movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the protoplasm of some vegetable cells.
Example Sentences:
(1) Changes in cardiac adenosine triphosphate (ATP), phosphocreatine (PCr) and inorganic phosphate (Pi) were followed and intracellular pH (pHi) was estimated from the chemical shift of Pi.
(2) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
(3) Stimulation of atrial H1-receptors is suggested to directly cause an increase in Ca-channel conductance independent of intracellular cAMP content.
(4) The behaviour of DAO suggests that the enzyme plays an important role in the control of intracellular diamine concentration.
(5) Intracellular localization of the labeled substance in the tumor tissue was examined autohistoradiographically.
(6) Since intracellular Ca2+ seems to play a role in stimulus-secretion coupling and ion movements, several aspects of Ca2+ homeostasis have been investigated in CF.
(7) These and other results suggest that the experimental agents do not provide protection against alloxan inhibition by preventing the entry of alloxan into the intracellular space of the islet.
(8) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
(9) It inhibits platelet and vascular smooth muscle activation by cGMP-dependent attenuation of the agonist-induced rise of intracellular free Ca2+.
(10) The nature, intracellular distribution, and role of proteins synthesized during meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes in vitro have been examined.
(11) It is concluded that a Na-H antiport system in vascular smooth muscle regulates Na influx rate, contributes to intracellular pH regulation and influences basal levels of Na,K-pump activity.
(12) The amount of intracellular, iodophilic, glycogen-like polysaccharide (IPS) present in cells of two strains of Streptococcus mutans at various stages of growth in a chemically defined medium was determined by quantitative electron microscopy.
(13) At the steady state the intracellular concentration of PteGlu was 120-fold higher from that of the medium.
(14) The mode of action is as yet undetermined, but intracellular vacuoles may be the primary targets.
(15) Glucagon can raise intracellular cyclic AMP about 30-fold; a half-maximal effect is obtained with 1.5 nM hormone.
(16) Histochemical and electron microscopic examinations confirmed that this biochemical lesion was associated with abnormal intracellular accumulation of unesterified cholesterol in mutant lymphocytes.
(17) A relationship between the two regulatory processes, possibly via intracellular calcium, seems likely but remains to be investigated at the molecular level.
(18) Previous evidence includes changes in Ca2+ fluxes and intracellular activity, membrane potential changes, and effects of ion-channel blockers.
(19) Vital staining of neuroblastoma cells with acridine orange produces a bright intracellular red-orange fluorescence most probably due to the occurrence of RNA.
(20) Electron microscopic radioautography is considered as the most adequate method for studying intracellular regeneration.