(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky; as, the lacteal fluid.
(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, chyle; as, the lacteal vessels.
(n.) One of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the small intestine through the mesenteric glands to the thoracic duct; a chyliferous vessel.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is suggested that the SP and CGRP-containing nerves in problem might be sensory in nature, possibly monitoring mechanical information from the lumen and wall of the central lacteal.
(2) The interconnected central lacteals in the villi overlying the interfollicular area were connected with the lymphatic plexus in the area.
(3) Likewise, a range of behavioural, physiological, lactational and lacteal changes related to other stressors are the effects of different types of stress.
(4) The passage of cells across the lymphatic endothelium of rat lacteals in both normal and non-pathological experimental conditions (fasting, lymphatic, stasis) was studied by means of serial thin sections and three-dimensional models.
(5) In the rats, Pu was retained in the epithelial cells on villi, but in the guinea pigs and primates it was confined to the macrophages under the epithelial cells in the lacteal region.
(6) These particles were present in the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus, and in intercellular spaces and lacteals; they were most abundant in mucosa from mid-jejunum.
(7) These particles, morphologically similar to chylomicrons, were also present as aggregates of well-individualized lipid droplets within dilated vesicles in the Golgi zone, but were not seen in the intercellular spaces and lacteals.
(8) In contrast to these findings, IgM levels were found to be higher in lacteal secretions of first-litter sows and in piglet serum during the first days of life as compared to their counterparts.
(9) Histological and ultrastructural morphometry was performed on villous epithelium, stroma, blood vessels and lacteals at the three levels.
(10) Villi in the upper small intestine were broader than those in the lower small intestine, and contained two to five lacteals.
(11) The presence of a vestigial, lacteal incisor tooth is described in the laboratory rat.
(12) During fat absorption, chylomicrons with sizes up to 5,000-10,000 A must traverse an interstitium that has estimated pore sizes of 120-200 A to reach the lacteals.
(13) Although the above-described findings essentially coincide with our previous observations in canine duodenum (Ichikawa et al., 1991), the present study in the ileum demonstrated occasional nerve fibers protruding into the lacteal lumen with a knob-like swelling.
(14) Epithelial cell islands from fibroadenomas and from normal lacteal secretions completely excluded the fibroblasts, and individual cell territories were maintained even in dense cultures.
(15) Nevertheless, the standard score of weight at six months of age, compared with that previous to the introduction of lacteal supplements, did not differ significantly.
(16) The association between bovine lactoferrin and the major bovine whey proteins, beta-lactoglobulin, alpha-lactalbumin and albumin has been studied by immunochemical techniques, gel filtration and affinity chromatography in lacteal secretions and using purified proteins.
(17) The appearance time is defined as the time between placement of radioactive fatty acid into the intestinal lumen and the appearance of radioactive lipid in the central lacteal.
(18) Most of the bulbar structures of the nerve fibers are in contact with or surrounded by the central lacteal endothelial cells.
(19) An entero-mammary cell circulation provides the mechanism for conveying such specificity to the lacteal IgA antibodies.
(20) Individual villi in the lower intestine contained only one central lacteal that drained through a thin lymphatic in the glandular layer into the submucosal lymphatic plexus.
Lactic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to milk; procured from sour milk or whey; as, lactic acid; lactic fermentation, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) 4) Parents imagined that fruit drinks, carbonated beverages and beverages with lactic acid promoted tooth decay.
(2) The following alterations in liver function tests are associated with phenytoin hepatotoxicity: elevations in serum aminotransferases, lactic dehydrogenase, alkaline phosphatase, bilirubin, and prothrombin time.
(3) S-lactic dehydrogenase (s-LDH), SGOT, and s-alkaline phosphatase were found to be too unspecific to indicate liver metastases unless all three tests were normal or abnormal.
(4) Several histidine derivatives are not susceptible to the enzyme but do inhibit the enzyme activity competitively; the most effective inhibitors are L-histidine methyl ester (Ki = 3.66 mM) and beta-imidazole lactic acid (Ki = 3.84 mM).
(5) Radioactive lactic acid was detected in the drained perfusion solution with D(U-14C)-glucose, but not when D(U-14C)-fructose was used.
(6) We examined the effect of lactic acid on cultured human glioma cell lines expressing glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), vimentin and neuron-specific enolase (NSE).
(7) With the aid of analysis of afferent impulse activity in the cat chorda tympani, it was shown that the effect of application of organic acids solutions of the same pH to the tongue could be represented as follows: propionic acid greater than lactic acid greater than pyruvic acid.
(8) Isolated urinary bladder strips were prepared from bladder base and body and the following metabolic determinations were made: glucose utilization, glycogen formation, CO2, and lactic acid formation.
(9) Preretinal pulsatile pressure juxtaarteriolar microinjections of neutral-pH solution of L-lactic acid also induced a segmental retinal arteriolar dilation.
(10) They analysed vascular resistance on the foetal side of the placenta, glucose consumption, production of lactic acid and pyruvic acid.
(11) Since hypoglycemia was associated with acidosis, the severe lactic acidosis in our patient may have been due to an overproduction of lactic acid as well as to an impaired hepatic gluconeogenesis in the presence of leukemic cells.
(12) Rumen pH decrease to below 5.0 in S2-, lasalocid-, and monensin-treated cattle was not due to lactic acid, but to increased production of volatile fatty acids.
(13) An autopsy case of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy with lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) is reported.
(14) It is possible that cell walls may be involved in the binding of mutagenic pyrolyzates to lactic acid bacteria.
(15) Ventilation (VE) and arterial pH were measured at rest and during exercise before and after infusions of lactic acid (70 meq), HCl (26 meq), NaHCO3 (45 and 90 meq), or normal saline alone (250 ml).
(16) Central nervous system (CNS) cultured neurons while exposed to different concentrations and pH of L-lactic acid exhibited in general chromatin clumping, vacuolization in the cytoplasm, appearance of lipid bodies, accumulation of polyribosomes, cytoplasmic lucency and swollen and aggregation of mitochondria.
(17) The severity of lactic acidosis in critically ill patients correlates with overall oxygen debt and survival.
(18) This increase of lactic acid persists 24 hours after the induction of infarction.
(19) In vitro exposure of rat thymocytes to arecoline resulted in a biphasic oxygen consumption response with progressive increase in oxygen consumption, reaching a maximum value at 10(-5) M and decreasing sharply at 10(-3) M. Exogenously added substrates such as glucose, pyruvic acid and lactic acid retarded the fall in the oxygen consumption induced at 10(-3) M arecoline.
(20) Glycolic acid and 3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-lactic acid were the specific substrates for MLO-I and MLO-II, respectively.