(a.) Of or pertaining to interstices; intermediate; within the tissues; as, interstitial cavities or spaces in the tissues of animals or plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Developing seminiferous tubules and interstitial cells were first seen on day 26, and were well established one day later.
(2) Only group IV showed significant histological alterations such as glomerular sclerosis, interstitial damage, and increased glomerular area.
(3) The epithelial changes occur during the same time period that interstitial cells with ultrastructural and histochemical properties of steroid-secreting tissue appear in the ovarian stroma.
(4) However, cimetidine did not show any effect on the proliferation of collagenous fibers in the interstitial space of the mucosa.
(5) However, there is increasing evidence suggesting that interstitial protein distribution is nonuniform.
(6) Furthermore, the changes in both interstitial fluid and testicular venous blood levels of testosterone do not always parallel those in peripheral venous blood, suggesting that changes in testicular blood flow and peripheral clearance rates of testosterone may also be important in the control of circulating testosterone concentrations.
(7) Moreover, the most recent combined application of the rat interstitial cell testosterone (RICT) bioassay and a novel multiple-parameter deonvolution model has allowed investigators to dissect plasma concentration profiles of bioactive LH into defined secretory bursts, which have numerically explicit amplitudes, locations in time, and durations, and are acted upon by determinable subject- and study-specific endogenous metabolic clearance rates.
(8) As an extension of the previous study which indicated that mesoglea is a primitive basement membrane which has retained some characteristics of interstitial extracellular matrix, the present study was undertaken to analyze the role of mesoglea components during head regeneration in Hydra vulgaris.
(9) This can be done at the interstitial stage, when it cannot be detected by physical examination.
(10) After 40 minutes of coronary occlusion and 20 minutes of reflow, significant cardiac weight gain occurred in association with characteristic alterations in the ischemic region, including widespread interstitial edema and focal vascular congestion and hemorrhage and swelling of cardiac muscle cells.
(11) Lung biopsy in two patients and autopsy in two additional patients showed interstitial changes consistent with drug injury.
(12) These results have important implications for the understanding of renal interstitial autoimmune diseases as well as the interstitial nephritis that occurs in response to foreign Ag.
(13) They alter most immune functions and create a state of immunity deficiency; they damage the tubules which may lead to interstitial fibrosis and increased postglomerular capillary resistance furthering the trapping of macromolecules in the glomeruli; and they probably increase tissue permeability to macromolecules.
(14) A minor portion of the lymph is produced also in the lymph-fold from where it is transported in the interstitial tissue either by transfer vesicles of the circulatory blood capillaries or by pores and fenestrae of the transudatory blood capillaries.
(15) Comparison of these theoretical results with variations in reabsorption observed in micropuncture studies makes it possible to place upper and lower bounds on the difference between interstitial oncotic and hydrostatic pressures in the renal cortex of the rat.
(16) This has shown that, in spite of higher dose rates in the corridor areas because of the use of an MDR system and the increase in interstitial techniques, the doses to ward nurses have been significantly reduced by encouraging staff to comply with the ALARA principle and the introduction of afterloading systems.
(17) Among the tubulo-interstitial lesions subcapsular interstitial fibrosis, acute tubular necrosis, cellular tubulo-interstitial rejection and Ciclosporin associated lesions are briefly described.
(18) Tubules were perfused with a control solution that resembled interstitial fluid but lacked calcium.
(19) Fluid overload, which could have been caused by the hyperosmolar properties of dextran, worsened progressively as fluids were drawn from the interstitial space and urine output was reduced.
(20) Four hours after infusion, the animals displayed a clinical and pathological pattern which closely resembled post-traumatic acute respiratory distress syndrome, including hypoxia, hypocarbia, thrombocytopenia, increased pulmonary capillary permeability to albumin, interstitial edema, hypertrophy of alveolar lining cells, and intra-alveolar hemorrhage.
Interstition
Definition:
(n.) An intervening period of time; interval.
Example Sentences:
(1) Continuous measurements of renal interstital pressure are of importance for several reasons.
(2) At necropsy, gross lesions were characterized by diffuse, pulmonary edema and interstital emphysema; and the lungs were dark red, firm, and heavier than normal.
(3) Fibrin deposition often surrounds tumour plugs and is found in interstitional tissue, whereas Ca 125 is expressed mainly at tumour cell surface.
(4) Interstital nephritis is the most common histologic abnormality.
(5) Experimental results show very small fractions of trace metals to be in the form of interstital water or soluble ions.
(6) Four cases of adult respiratory distress syndrome secondary to viral interstital pneumonia were treated successfully.
(7) Control tissue tested simultaneously revealed minimal responses, but obstructed tissue containing modified interstital cells revealed statistically significant evidence of contraction in response to all three drugs studied.
(8) The data of the authors show that the general pattern of chiasmata in the interstitional region of chromosomes corresponds to the Poisson distribution.
(9) The results obtained indicate a frequent and in some cases predominant involvement of the tubules as well as interstition in the patients with hyperuricemia.
(10) This phenomenon was apparently possible because of the microanatomy of the pancreas, in which interstital spaces allowed accumulation of virus particles.
(11) The chest roentgenogram also apprises of the development, and consequently of the need for treatment, of such complications as interstital emphysema, pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, pneumoperitoneum and subcutaneous emphysema.
(12) A new ultrastructural classification of the processes leading to portal hypertension differentiates primarily hepatocellular (e.g., increased hepatocellular size) from interstitional causes (e.g., sinusoidal capillarization).
(13) In chicken-pheasant hybrids, a strong positive reaction for 3 beta-HSD was observed in the interstital tissue and within the seminferous tubules suggesting that, in hybrid testes, both Leydig cells and cells of seminiferous tubules may be capable of steroid biosynthesis.
(14) Comparison of the neonatal effects of FSH and TSH in the cockerel testicle test revealed that the latter caused a greater increase of testicular weight, tubular diameter and testicular interstital tissue.
(15) In medium-sized animals, spermatids and some interstital cells appear, and in the largest lizards, spermatogenesis is completely established and Leydig cells abound.
(16) Electron microscopic examination of the developing ovary of 15-20-day chick embryos revealed that the interstital cells well innervated.
(17) The renal biopsy revealed immunofluorescence of the interstital infiltrates and the importance of this finding in the differential diagnosis of interstitial nephritis is considered.
(18) The lungs from animals resuscitated with baboon serum albumin showed evidence of interstitial edema, including dispersion of collagen fibers, interstitial smudging and increased interstital sodium concentrations.
(19) According to the decreasing interstital electrolyte and urea gradients the osmolarity of the collecting ducts of the glomerulonephritic kidneys are diminished.