(1) This resembles the situation in mouse liver [E. Maser and K. J. Netter, Biochem Pharmacol 38: 3049-3054, 1989] where microsomal metyrapone reductase was inhibited by steroids and the purified enzyme was demonstrated to mediate androsterone oxidation.
(2) An equivalent electrical resonator can also be used to describe the active medium of masers.
(3) These findings lead to a new theory of static balance and the action of Corti's organ: the labyrinth functions as a traveling wave maser of which the cochlea is the slow wave structure.
(4) These results--together with previous findings, which have shown that there exist functional as well as structural relationships between microsomal mouse liver metyrapone reductase and 3 alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas testosteroni [E. Maser, U. Oppermann and K. J. Netter, Eur J Pharmacol 183:1366, 1990]--suggest that metyrapone reduction in human liver microsomes might be catalysed by a microsomal hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase.
(5) An AFL-1 helium-neon optical maser generation radiation at a wave of 632.8 mM and at an output power of 18-20 mW has been employed in the treatment of cystalgias in the past 5 years.
(6) Our experience utilizing a new design Lash-Maser silicone implant in the surgical management of impotence has been detailed.
Mater
Definition:
(n.) See Alma mater, Dura mater, and Pia mater.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors tested their own technique, using transplants or implants of corium, fascia, dura mater and polyester net, internally in the tendons, fastening them with an external cross suture.
(2) Receptor glomeruli have been studied in the arterial walls of the pia mater of the human brain and spinal cord by means of the light and electron microscopy methods.
(3) Within the arachnoid mater the immunoreactivity was concentrated in the basal zone of the arachnoid membrane, thus appearing as a narrow fluorescent band near the border of the dura.
(4) The anatomical arrangement of the pia mater suggests that it may act as a regulatory interface between cerebrospinal fluid and the surface of the brain and between arterioles within the brain and the surrounding neural tissue.
(5) Filopodia extending from the processes were found beneath the pia mater.
(6) Simultaneous opening of the dura mater on both sides with slow evacuation of the contents of the hematomas is an important stage of surgical intervention in BTSH.
(7) When administered at high concentrations (1 mg kg-1) methiothepin and metergoline decreased plasma protein extravasation in rat dura mater.
(8) Some occipital types of headache, "venous headache" or "strain headache", may benefit of a cross section of the occipital dura mater.
(9) The ES value is determined by differences in rates of size increment of the vertebral canal and in rates of size increment of the spinal cord dura mater (SCDM).
(10) We now report that, compared to controls, rats with acute EAE exhibit fewer detectable mast cells in their dura mater and velum interpositum.
(11) A six month prospective survey in 1990 of sports injuries presenting to the A+E department of St James and the Mater hospitals revealed 1594 patients, accounting for 3.8% of the total number of new patients seen in that period.
(12) A middle-aged woman presenting with multiple cranial neuropathies, hemiparesis, and CSF pleocytosis had tuberculous infection of the cranial dura mater at autopsy.
(13) After ligation of BCCA, the 5-HT granules of the walls of the brain vessels and the CA fibers of dura mater vessels decreased, but CA fibers occurred in the walls of the brain arteries.
(14) Quantitative and qualitative composition of catecholamines (noradrenaline and dophamine) and indolalkylamines (serotonin and tryptamine) and their localization have been studied in cells and neural fibers of the rat dura mater.
(15) MRI demonstrated hypertrophic dura mater in the posterior fossa and compressed cervical spinal cord.
(16) After removal of the dura mater, implantation of a closed cranial window, and intravenous injection of fluorescein, three-dimensional reconstructions of cortical capillaries were performed down to a depth of 250 microns below the pial surface.
(17) A case of primary malignant melanoma of the dura mater occuring in a 10-year-old girl is reported.
(18) In the second operation, instead of reinforcement of the dura mater, a shunt operation was performed to decompress the cyst and the locally dilated ventricle, which was thought to contribute to the intracranial expansive forces.
(19) All of the arachnoid villi and arachnoid cells in five normal cases were found to have expression of GST-pi, although no positive reaction for the enzyme was present in other tissues of the dura mater.
(20) Instead there is a complex, tight layer of cells, the interface layer, composed in the innermost portion of the dura mater (the dural border cells) and the outermost portion of the arachnoid (the arachnoid barrier layer).