(n.) That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion.
(n.) A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.
(n.) An artificial oyster bed.
Example Sentences:
(1) By 24 hr, rough endoplasmic reticulum in thecal cells increased from 4.2 to 7% of cell volume, while the amount in granulosa cells increased from less than 3.5% to more than 10%; the quantity remained relatively constant in the theca but declined to prestimulation values in the granulosa layer.
(2) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
(3) None of the other soft tissue layers-ameloblasts, stratum intermedium or dental follicle--immunostain for TGF-beta 1.
(4) Adding a layer of private pensions, it was thought, does not involve Government mechanisms and keeps the money in the private sector.
(5) Intraepidermal clefting starts at the junction between the basal and epidermal layers, and later involves all of the levels of the stratum spinosum.
(6) These data suggest that basophilic cell function in the superficial mucous layer in the nose is of greater significance in the development of nasal symptoms in response to nasal allergy than either mucociliary activity or nasal mucosal hypersensitivity to histamine.
(7) Likewise, they had little or no effects on the fluorescence anisotropy of TMA-DPH, which is also thought to be located in the interfacial region of the lipid bilayer, either when the probe was located in the outer layer of the plasma membrane or when the probe was located in the inner membrane compartment.
(8) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
(9) Separation of PL by thin-layer chromatography revealed a prevalence of phosphatidylcholine followed by phosphatidylethanolamine.
(10) Thin layers of carbon (20 microns) and vacuoles (30 microns) suggested a large temperature gradient along the tissue ablation front.
(11) In cat, DARPP-32-immunoreactive cell bodies identified as Müller cells were demonstrated in the inner nuclear layer (INL) with processes closely surrounding the cell soma of photoreceptors in the outer nuclear layer.
(12) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
(13) We demonstrated that while the protein was incorporated into the cell layer at 6, 24, 48, and 72 hr, a far greater amount was secreted into the media.
(14) From this proliferating layer, precursor cells migrate outwards to reach the developing neostriatum in a sequential fashion according to two gradients of histogenesis.
(15) In many areas there are additional indications of thalamic terminations in deeper layers.
(16) Their narrowed processes pass at a common site through the muscle layer and above this layer again slightly widen and project above the neighbouring tegument.
(17) One month after unilateral transection of the fimbria-fornix an almost complete lack of cholinergic fibers persists in all layers of the dorsal hippocampus and fascia dentata ipsilateral to the lesion when compared to the contralateral hippocampus or to unlesioned control rats.
(18) After methylene blue, the gradient in resting potential across the circular layer was greatly reduced or abolished.
(19) In contrast, boundary layer diffusion is operative in the release from the matrixes prepared by compression of physical mixtures.
(20) This hydrostatic pressure may well be the driving force for creating channels for acid and pepsin to cross the mucus layer covering the mucosal surface.
Periderm
Definition:
(n.) The outer layer of bark.
(n.) The hard outer covering of hydroids and other marine animals; the perisarc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Immunoreactivity was restricted to the periderm and intermediate layers of fetal epidermis at 55 d of gestation, when the first wave of wool follicles are initiated.
(2) Simple epithelial CK are expressed in all cell layers during the early stages, essentially in peridermal cells.
(3) The ER stained with DiOC6 (3) was prominent in both the periderm and basal cells.
(4) The H antigen showed a variable and weak expression on peridermal cells from day 57 to day 84 estimated gestation age (EGA).
(5) After 140 days, however, keratin appears in the superficial layers of the periderm; the bladder cells degenerate and become 'rosette' cells, and glycogen and alkaline phosphatase begin to disappear.
(6) When a semipermeable membrane is interposed between the cells and the epidermis, the latter does not degenerate, but keratinizes without showing the usual stages of differentiation.The malignant cells sometimes cause hypertrophy of the epidermis when cultured beneath the dermis of intact skin, but have no effect when grown on the peridermal surface of this tissue or of isolated epidermis.Freeze- or heat-killed dermal cells, whether normal or malignant, provide an unsuitable substratum for epidermal survival, possibly due to adsorption of intracellular constituents on to their surfaces.IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THE MALIGNANT FIBROBLASTS EXAMINED PRODUCE AT LEAST TWO SUBSTANCES HAVING AN EFFECT ON EPIDERMIS: one of small molecular size affecting differentiation, and a toxic macromolecule.
(7) Dense bodies are present within mitochondria, nuclei, glycogen pools and the peridermal cytoplasm.
(8) Immunostaining was seen in vivo in all regions of the palatal epithelium with superficial peridermal cells staining most intensely.
(9) In the 18 to 20 day fetuses, no periderm is present.
(10) This study shows that different patterns of scutate scale type beta keratins are accumulated in the three adjacent structures of the embryonic chick beak: periderm, egg tooth, and cornified beak.
(11) The periderm is lost during the first week of postnatal development.
(12) The periderm in these fetal cultures formed blebs early but was sloughed with the stratum corneum in older cultures.
(13) In the epithelial cells both the periderm and basal cells contained these procollagens within the cytoplasmic organelles.
(14) The periderm cell layer had disorderly fusion at the outer canthus, premature flattening, and failure to fuse in the inner canthus.
(15) Type V collagen was also localized in basal and periderm cells of the epidermis.
(16) These proteins were retained in the outer layers of peridermal cells and in some cells of the basal layer (probably Merkel cells).
(17) Acting in concert, growth factors could regulate events critical to formation of the secondary palate, including cessation of medial epithelial cell proliferation, synthesis of extracellular matrix proteins in the mesenchyme, programmed cell death of medial epithelial peridermal cells, and transformation of basal epithelial medial cells to mesenchymal cells.
(18) In the 12-day embryo, the periderm forms a complete layer.
(19) The changes in the periderm observed with the scanning electron microscope have been correlated with and supplemented by cytologic studies with the transmission electron microscope in the periderm and other epidermal layers.
(20) The periderm cells present form a flattened band along the eyelid margin rather than, as in normal eyelids, along the fusion line.