What's the difference between kidney and pronephros?
Kidney
Definition:
(n.) A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland.
(n.) Habit; disposition; sort; kind.
(n.) A waiter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Biochemical, immunocytochemical and histochemical methods were used to study the effect of chronic acetazolamide treatment on carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoenzymes in the rat kidney.
(2) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(3) In kidney, both age groups responded with an increase in activity.
(4) Oral administration in domestic cats causes malignant hepatomas and tumors of the esophagus and kidney.
(5) Results suggest that Cd-MT is reabsorbed and broken down by kidney tubule cells in a physiological manner with possible subsequent release of the toxic cadmium ion.
(6) Arginine vasopressin further reduced papillary flow in kidneys perfused with high viscosity artificial plasma.
(7) Findings on plain X-ray of the abdomen, using the usual parameters of psoas and kidney shadows in the Nigerian, indicate that the two communities studied are similar but urinary calculi and urinary tract distortion are significantly more prominent in the community with the higher endemicity of urinary schistosomiasis.
(8) Plasma membranes were isolated from rat kidney and their transport properties for sodium, calcium, protons, phosphate, glucose, lactate, and phenylalanine were investigated.
(9) Sixteen patients (27%) manifested anomalies of the urinary tract: 12 had markedly altered kidneys, 8 of which were unilateral and ipsilateral to the diaphragmatic defect.
(10) To identify the NHE-1 protein and to establish its cellular and subcellular localization in the rabbit kidney, we prepared antibodies to a NHE-1 fusion protein.
(11) The kidney disease was characterized by diffuse beaded deposition of rat gammaglobulin along the glomerular capillaries and proteinuria.
(12) High radioactivities were observed in the digestive organs, mesenteric lymphnodes, liver, pancreas, urinary bladder, fat tissue, kidney and spleen after oral administration to rats.
(13) In 60 rhesus monkeys with experimental renovascular malignant arterial hypertension (25 one-kidney and 35 two-kidney model animals), we studied the so-called 'hard exudates' or white retinal deposits in detail (by ophthalmoscopy, and stereoscopic color fundus photography and fluorescein fundus angiography, on long-term follow-up).
(14) The yeasts amounts used did not protect the test animals from the kidney infiltration with lipids and cholesterol; 12 g of yeasts per 100 g of the ration promoted elevation of sialic acid content in the blood plasma.
(15) Urine tests in six patients with other kidney diseases and with uraemia and in seven healthy persons did not show this substance.
(16) A study of the time-course of the response during aortic stenosis of 30 min duration showed early release of renin from the innervated kidney at a time (5 min) when little release occurred from the denervated one.
(17) Rates of PC in vitro metabolism by liver and kidney cytosolic cysteine conjugate beta-lyases (beta-lyases) were similar, but metabolism by renal mitochondrial beta-lyase occurred at a 3-fold higher rate than the rate obtained with hepatic mitochondrial beta-lyase.
(18) In the kidneys the index of incorporation inthe epithelial cells of the renal cortex was 7.5-fold and in the brain cortex epithelium 15-fold as increased, respectively.
(19) We conclude that heparin plus AT III partially prevents the endotoxin-induced generation of PAI activity which seems to correlate with the reduced presence of fibrin deposits in kidneys and with a reduced mortality.
(20) The relative contributions of transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression to the increase in constitutively expressed cellular proteins were examined in mouse kidneys undergoing compensatory growth following unilateral nephrectomy (UNI-NX).
Pronephros
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Pronephron
Example Sentences:
(1) In both species the primary haemopoietic organs are the pronephros, the mesonephros and the spleen.
(2) These six metameres also are responsible for the existence of the pronephros.
(3) This strain could, however, be frequently reisolated from the pronephros of fish in the test group concerned.
(4) The separation techniques used seemed to be suitable for isolation of different populations of pronephros cells.
(5) We tested the ability of fish sublethally infected with virulent and avirulent A. salmonicida to mount a humoral immune response to sheep erythrocytes and found fewer plaque forming cells in the pronephros and lower serum anti-SRBC antibodies in infected fish as compared to controls.
(6) The brain, the optic stalk, the auditory vesicle, the pronephros, and single cells in the spinal cord and the hindbrain express Pax-2 in both species.
(7) Moreover, responses to the immunogen preceded responses to donor pronephros tissue by 2 days, occurring on day 2 or day 4.
(8) N-cadherin is present in several mesodermal derivatives such as the notochord, the pronephros, and the heart.
(9) After challenge with strains from eel mucus and seawater, mortality was not produced, and furthermore, these strains could not be reisolated from the pronephros.
(10) The formation of eosinophils and heterophils occurred in the interstices of the pronephros and opisthonephros, in the mesenchymal sheath surrounding the pronephric duct, as well as in the mesentery and mesenchymal coat of the bile duct and hepatic ducts.
(11) The potencies of isolated embryonic hemopoietic organs (pronephros and liver) of Rana temporaria L. to the formation of the foci of hemopoiesis were studied.
(12) Cells isolated from the pronephros of carp were incubated in vitro with the organophosphorus insecticide trichlorfon or dichlorvos, each of which is used in aquaculture to eliminate fish ectoparasites.
(13) Emphasis is placed on the decreasing functional significance of the pronephros with evolutionary development, to the extent that the role of the pronephros in the human is questioned.
(14) Embryogenesis of hemopoietic cell populations in the pronephros of Rana pipiens was examined during embryonic and early larval development.
(15) Peculiarities of renal corpuscle's structural organization of a number of animals representing various classes of vertebrates have been studied on submicroscopic level at the stages of excretory organs formation: pronephros, mesonephros and metanephros.
(16) Lymphocytes from the pronephros of carp (Cyprinus carpio L) have been subjected to transformation by mitogens, concanavalin A (Con A), phytohemagglutinin (PHA), and lipopolysaccharides (LPS), with Zn or Mn at varying concentrations.
(17) The isolates rarely formed pronephros, mesothelium, or mesenchyme, derivatives of ventral mesoderm, during normal development.
(18) In vitro degradation of 125I-formaldehyde treated human serum albumin (fHSA) in char (Salmo alpinus L.) pronephros cells was studied.
(19) Two weeks after the second immunization, recipient splenocytes were tested for alloreactivity toward donor and third-party pronephros cells.
(20) During kidney morphogenesis, expression is initially restricted to the epithelial compartment of the pronephros and mesonephros.