(n.) A complex, nitrogenous phosphorized substance widely distributed through the animal body, and especially conspicuous in the brain and nerve tissue, in yolk of eggs, and in the white blood corpuscles.
Example Sentences:
(1) We similarly evaluated the ability of other phospholipids to form stable foam at various concentrations and ethanol volume fractions and found: bovine brain sphingomyelin greater than dipalmitoyl 3-sn-phosphatidylcholine greater than egg sphingomyelin greater than egg lecithin greater than phosphatidylglycerol.
(2) These observations suggest that the liver secretes disk-shaped lipid bilayer particles which represent both the nascent form of high density lipoproteins and preferred substrate for lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase.
(3) Saturated acyl residues predominated in lysolecithin and unsaturated ones in acids released by hydrolysis of egg lecithin.
(4) The permeability properties of planar lipid bilayers made from egg lecithin, n-decane and a long-chain secondary amine (n-lauryl [trialkylmethyl]amine) are described.
(5) In the absence of lipid transfer protein activity in incubations containing purified lecithin: cholesterol acyltransferase, 73% of the esterified [3H]cholesterol was in HDL, 25% in LDL and only 1% in VLDL.
(6) perfringens was studied by gel-diffusion in agarose-lecithin gels.
(7) Several short-chain asymmetric lecithins with a total of 14 carbons in the acyl chains (ranging from 1-lauroyl-2-acetylphosphatidylcholine to 1-hexanoyl-2-octanoylphosphatidylcholine) have been synthesized and characterized.
(8) It was shown that indocyanin green (ICG) test, prothrombin time (PT), lecithin cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT), gamma-globulin, age of patients and total bilirubin appeared to be important factors to discriminate the subjected patients into two groups.
(9) We synthesized lecithinized superoxide dismutase (PC-SOD), in which a lecithin derivative was covalently bound to recombinant human SOD.
(10) The high level of serum free cholesterol in the female obese rat is not due to a deficiency in lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase activity.
(11) Mixed micelles (MM) formed from glycocholic acid and lecithin are suited to solubilize lipophilic drugs for intravenous use.
(12) Basal lecithin release from placental tissue was unaffected by any steroid concentration.
(13) Later, animals exposed to lifelong 5 or 2% soy lecithin preparations were hypoactive, had poor postural reflexes, and showed attenuated morphine analgesia.
(14) It has been concluded that purified lecithin: cholesterol acyltransferase is capable of increasing the size of HDL3 towards that of HDL2 but that other factors must operate in vivo to modulate the chemical composition of the enlarged particles.
(15) Compared to the group of controls, the group treated with Bromhexine metabolit VIII, as well as to the group treated with Betamethason, significantly higher values with regard to the content of total phospholipids, lecithine and palmitic acid could be found in the fetal rat lungs.
(16) In egg lecithin with a variety of polyunsaturated side chains, the side chains with the greater number of double bonds are preferentially displaced by high concentrations of cholesterol, which accounts for the increase in the ratio of outer to inner -N(+)(CH(3))(3) groups.
(17) The lecithins of the primary hepatoma induced by 3'-methyl-4-dimethylaminoazobenzene (DAB) and host liver of rat were isolated, and the individual molecular species were estimated quantitatively by combined thin-layer and gaschromatographic analysis and specific enzymic hydrolysis.
(18) On lecithin agar, interpretation was easier, phospholipase A was detectable, and opaque zones were visible 1 or 2 days earlier than on egg yolk agar.
(19) On the contrary, cell incubation with lecithin liposomes resulted in cholesterol depletion.
(20) Both the relative decrease in the mass of disaturated lecithins in the BA washes and the increase in the percentage of esterified unsaturated fatty acids in the lecithins may be directly related to the reduced lung function reported to occur during the course of murine M. pulmonis pneumonia.
Yolk
Definition:
(n.) The yellow part of an egg; the vitellus.
(n.) An oily secretion which naturally covers the wool of sheep.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whether hen's egg yolk can be used as a sperm motility stimulant in the treatment of such conditions as asthenospermia and oligospermia is subjected for further study.
(2) Results obtained from cumulative labeling and pulse-labeling and chase experiments with cells from late gastrulae, yolk plug-stage embryos, and neurulae showed that the 30S RNA is an intermediate in rRNA processing and is derived from 40S pre-rRNA and processed to 28S rRNA.
(3) The wall of the yolk sac thickens as a result of this infolding and the densely packed capillaries.
(4) When foods such as dairy products contain large numbers of egg yolk-negative strains of S. aureus, the PPSA agar has the advantage over egg yolk containing media such as Baird-Parker agar that fewer suspect colonies have to be confirmed.
(5) In lipid extracts of yolk, more than 90% of the radioactivity was as unchanged cholecalciferol and 5% as 25-hydroxycholecalciferol.
(6) This study provides evidence for a maternal yolk factor associated with increased tolerance and resistance of larvae to copper.
(7) Both genes are expressed in the fetal liver, gut, and visceral endoderm of the yolk sac and are repressed shortly after birth in the liver and gut.
(8) After clusters of pigmented epithelial cells have rested immobile in the yolk sac of Blennius pholis for 2-4 days (Trinkaus, '88), their constituent cells transform into mesenchymal, dendritic melanocytes.
(9) The patient, a 28-year-old woman, in her ninth week of pregnancy, was operated on for stage Ia, mixed germ cell tumor (grade 3 immature teratoma + yolk sac tumor) of AFP decreased to the normal level.
(10) Fe2+ and L-ascorbic acid induced oxidation of cholesterol was investigated in liposomes of egg yolk phosphatidylcholine (PC).
(11) Cadmium, anti-visceral yolk sac antibody (AVYS) and trypan blue all inhibited pinocytosis in a concentration-dependent fashion when added to the culture medium, although at low concentrations trypan blue was slightly stimulatory.
(12) Although small amounts of AFP are synthesized by sharks in the liver, the greatest site of synthesis is actually the stomach, with smaller amounts synthesized in the intestinal mucosa; no synthesis was observed in the shark yolk sac.
(13) In three experiments with semen samples from a single individual capacitated at 4 degrees C for 1, 2 or 3 days in TEST-Yolk buffer we obtained 33, 30 and 34 sperm karyotypes respectively.
(14) A stem cell line has been obtained with cell culture, having a germ cell character and a yolk sac configuration.
(15) We postulate that the apposition of trophotaenial epithelium to the internal ovarian epithelium constitutes a placental association equivalent to a noninvasive, epithelioform of an inverted yolk sac placenta.
(16) The histological characteristics and the presence of laminin in the stroma suggested that the malignant tumors belonged to the category of yolk sac tumors.
(17) PLA2-II was over ten times more potent than PLA2-I, although its lipolytic activity toward egg-yolk was even slightly weaker (73%) than that of PLA2-I.
(18) The majority of testicular germ cell tumors in adults are accompanied by neoplastic intratubular germ cells; these cells were uniformly absent in ten pure yolk sac tumors (endodermal sinus tumors) of the testicle in children studied morphologically and immunohistochemically.
(19) The beta-globin gene remained inactive at the fetal stage, whereas the normal A gamma-globin gene was expressed beyond the embryonic (yolk sac) stage into the fetal stage of development and then became inactive in adult erythroid cells.
(20) The yolk spheres, which were free of precipitates, gave the characteristic signal of the nitrogen K-edge.