(superl.) Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe.
(superl.) Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected; as, a mature plan.
(superl.) Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years.
(superl.) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
(v. t.) To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans.
(v. i.) To advance toward maturity; to become ripe; as, wine matures by age; the judgment matures by age and experience.
(v. i.) Hence, to become due, as a note.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
(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) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
(4) This experimental system allows separation of three B lymphocyte developmental stages: early differentiation in vitro, progression to IgM secretion in vivo, and late differentiation dependent upon mature T lymphocytes in vivo.
(5) Two fully matured specimens were collected from the blood vessel of two fish, Theragra chalcogramma, which was bought at the Emun market of Seoul in May, 1985.
(6) [5alpha-(3)H]5alpha-Androst-16-en-3-one (5alpha-androstenone) was infused at a constant rate for 180min into the spermatic artery of a sexually mature boar.
(7) Synapse loss was accentuated, however, within immature and mature plaques.
(8) Hormonal interactions play a determining role in pulmonary maturation.
(9) In the mature neutrophil, the number of binding sites for WEM-G11 were found to be about 20,000 per cell.
(10) In addition, transitional macrophages with both positive granules and positive RER, nuclear envelope, negative Golgi apparatus (as in exudate- resident macrophages in vivo), and mature macrophages with peroxidatic activity only in the RER and nuclear envelope (as in resident macrophages in vivo) were found.
(11) Plasma membranes were obtained from a homogeneous population of rabbit red blood cells at different maturation periods.
(12) The nature, intracellular distribution, and role of proteins synthesized during meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes in vitro have been examined.
(13) Between the 24th and 29th day mature daughter sporocysts with fully developed cercariae ready to emerge, or already emerged, could be seen in the digestive gland of the snail.
(14) The objective of this study was to examine the effects of different culture media used for maturation of bovine oocytes on in vitro embryo development following in vitro fertilization.
(15) Special conditions apply for the scoring of a first and a last bone stage in a sequence, which will introduce less bias in the estimation of individual skeletal maturity with the MAT-method than with the TW-method.
(16) Furthermore, the expression of the 'mature' markers was found to be correlated with the phagocytic capacity of the cells.
(17) Implantation is dependent on embryonic age and is independent of endometrial maturation within this window.
(18) After isolation of the complex IV only gpFII and tails are required for mature phage formation in vitro.
(19) In males, the percentage of animals having mucous cells increased with sexual maturation and attained 100 per cent at age six months.
(20) In late-passage and cloned HUT102 cells, an increase in HTLV production was concordant with a decrease in constitutive interferon production and the loss of mature T lymphocyte antigens.
Satiated
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Satiate
Example Sentences:
(1) Release of noradrenaline (NA), adrenaline (A) and dopamine (DA) was measured in vivo per minute before and after food presentation in satiated rats that had a cannula in the mediodorsal hypothalamic area (MDH).
(2) Averaged evoked potentials (EP) to a CS (flash) were recorded sequentially in classical appetitive conditioning, satiated state after appetitive conditioning, highly alert state by noncontingent shocks, and classical aversive conditioning from a rat.
(3) These results demonstrate that systemic administration of baclofen can stimulate ingestive behaviour in satiated rats and suggest a possible role for a GABAB receptor-mediated mechanism in the control of food intake.
(4) Similar experiments in which neurotensin (NT) was perfused in the LH, PVN and VMN revealed virtually the same inverse effects on NE release in the fasted and satiated rat, which again were anatomically specific.
(5) Thus, obese male mice were at least as sensitive to the satiating effect of CCK-8 as lean male mice.
(6) Explanations in terms of satiation theory, learning theory, instructions, and perceptual bias were discussed.
(7) These results indicate that 5-HT exerts its anorectic effect only after some food has been ingested, and support the hypothesis that 5-HT accelerates the development of satiation and satiety.
(8) In order to test this hypothesis in intact, free-moving animals and to determine if the MCCs play a role in satiation of feeding, the behavior of animals that had their MCCs destroyed by intracellular injection of proteases was compared with that of B Cell-Lesion and Dye injection control animals (Experiment 1) or surgical control animals (Experiment 2).
(9) But subsequent research has shown that because fat is more satiating, or filling, eating some higher fat foods can lead to lower calorie intake overall.
(10) The perifornical lateral hypothalamus displayed a different pattern, namely, a significant increase in NPY content in refed as compared to satiated and deprived rats.
(11) The rats' differential responses to alpha-adrenergic and beta-adrenergic drugs injected into different hypothalamic sites indicate the following: (1) the lateral hypothalamic "feeding" center contains beta receptors, the activation of which produces satiation, presumably by inhibition of the lateral "feeding" cells; (2) the ventromedial hypothalamic "satiety" center contains alpha receptors, the activation of which produces eating, presumably by inhibition of the ventromedial "satiety" cells; and (3) the medio-lateral perifornical area of the hypothalamus contains both alpha and beta receptors, which lead to inhibition of the ventromedial or lateral hypothalamic centers respectively.
(12) Spike activity of neurons (areas 3, 4) was studied in cats during conditioned placing reaction before and after food satiation.
(13) Beliefs about the satiating effect of foods varying in contents of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and fibre were investigated by face-to-face interviews with a random telephone sample of 101 subjects.
(14) Upon sexual satiation with the second male, females either received a novel third male or were reexposed to the original male.
(15) The lack of response of the amygdaloid cortical nucleus to adrenergic stimulation in the satiated rat, under simultaneous stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus with either placebo or an adrenergic blocker, was also demonstrated.
(16) To that end, the present study examined the effects of 90-dB white noise on eating in satiated rats.
(17) 2 This anorexia is also observed in satiated rats, which had ad libitum access to food.
(18) Injected NPY can override a variety of satiating factors, including those arising from normal feed intake, artificial distension of the reticulorumen, and intraruminal infusion of sodium propionate.
(19) Amphetamine also increased all behaviours when rats were tested with their cagemates, when the desire for SI is largely satiated.
(20) This 'satiation' response occurred even though the initial diet was originally highly attractive to foraging workers.