(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).
Reniform
Definition:
(a.) Having the form or shape of a kidney; as, a reniform mineral; a reniform leaf.
Example Sentences:
(1) Except for its conidia, which are mostly reniform to allantoid rather than ovoid as is characteristic for W. dermatitidis, and the undecided mode of conidiogenesis, the isolate closely resembles W. dermatitidis in gross and microscopic morphology, thermotolerance, and general and neurotrophic infectivity patterns in mice injected intraperitoneally.
(2) pneumocysts with reniform bodies and degradation inclusions within macrophages, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonitis (PCP) could be detected in 100% of cases.
(3) The pneumocysts presented as circular structures of 5 microns in diameter and of brilliant green-yellow fluorescence surrounding two mirror image reniform structures.
(4) This round to oval to slightly reniform structure was bound by a single limiting membrane and composed of an electron dense, slightly granular matrix without evidence of crystalloid formation.
(5) The 6 carcinoids with an insular pattern primary in the ovary or metastatic to it from the ileum displayed granules that were pleomorphic (dumbbell and reniform shaped) and varied from 90 to 410 mum, with an average diameter of 210 mum.
(6) The kidney thus keeps its reniform shape but does increase in size (bean or orange to grapefruit pattern).
(7) Instead of normal reniform shape, the kidneys appeared "inverted pyriform" or "inverted triangular".
(8) The histologic type of surgically resected specimens was a diffuse proliferation of atypical lymphoid cells with monocytoid appearance, i.e., abundant pale cytoplasm with distinct cell border and small reniform nucleus.
(9) The reniform shape was usually preserved and was present in 19 of 20 cases with CT and 13 of 15 cases with sonograms.
(10) At 3 and 4 h small cells with a reniform nucleus accumulate in the connective tissue core of the choroid plexus.
(11) Resected small-bowel specimens from patients with the reniform configuration revealed focal ischemic changes.
(12) These ultrastructural features combined with the frequent reniform nuclei and scattered lysosomes suggested histiocyte differentiation.
(13) Hydrodynamic comparisons were made between conventional valves (CV) and equivalent sized reniform valves (ERV) that would adapt to the same anulus.
(14) These killer cells included large cells with azurophilic granules in the cytoplasm and with a reniform nucleus, thus resembling large granular lymphocytes.
(15) The leukemic cell count increased rapidly; the cells became large and the nuclear outline, which had been reniform, became lobulated.
(16) This article describes a mitral bioprosthetic valve consisting of three bovine pericardial leaflets with a "reniform" base.
(17) This cell is a large lymphoid cell with strong alpha-naphthyl esterase activity concentrated in a limited area in the cytoplasm usually at the indentation site of a slightly reniform nucleus.
(18) By means of multilayered plastic reconstruction using serial semithin epoxide sections, it has been demonstrated that besides typical follicles there are some other ones in the thyroid gland of newborns: follicles that have a local thickening on one side, follicles that have reniform proliferates with a cavity, and also follicles with two cavities.
(19) Cytomorphologic features of EG were seen in all cases including Langerhans' cell histiocytes having oval to reniform shape nuclei with nuclear grooving and abundant pale cytoplasm.
(20) Ultrastructurally, the cells showed sparse organelles except for prominent paranuclear Golgi apparatus, frequent reniform nuclear indentations, and ruffled cytoplasmic membranes.