(n.) The marrow of bones; the deep or inner portion of an organ or part; as, the medulla, or medullary substance, of the kidney; specifically, the medula oblongata.
(n.) A soft tissue, occupying the center of the stem or branch of a plant; pith.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, the local interneurons make extensive efferent synaptic connections with unidentified neurons in the terminal medulla.
(2) These findings suggest that AAT participates in the synthesis of transmitter aspartate in the medulla oblongata of the rat.
(3) These included the noradrenergic, TH- and DBH-immunoreactive cell groups of the pons and medulla.
(4) Size of both areas gradually decreased as the medulla filled with plasma cells, 7-30 days after injection.
(5) Obvious restitution of the thymic medulla was evident about 14 days after withdrawal of FK506.
(6) + inf., pons + medulla), rCBF increased toward the control level gradually, and it completely recovered 60 min after recirculation.
(7) It is well established that the renal medulla exerts a potent endocrine-like antihypertensive action.
(8) It was found that within the dorsal part of the well known pressor area there is a narrow strip, 2.5 mm lateral from the mid line, starting ventral to the inferior colliculus and ending in the medulla close to the floor of the IV ventricle, from which vasodilatation in skeletal muscles is selectively obtained.
(9) Urea decreased and valine increased in the TD medulla-pons.
(10) The sizes of adrenaline (A) and noradrenaline (N) cells in the adrenal medulla of nonoperated (NO), sham-operated (SPX), and pinealectomized (PX) male rats (n = 126) were investigated by quantitative light microscopy.
(11) Injection of horseradish peroxidase into the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) led to heavy retrograde and anterograde labeling in the region of the hypothalamus that yielded the CRDR when stimulated electrically.
(12) The object of these studies was to investigate whether destruction of the renal medulla in normal rats would alter vascular capacitance.
(13) The presence in lamprey kidney of a loop which is similar to Henle's loop in mammals and birds indicates that the development of the system of osmotic concentration conditioned by the formation in the kidney of the medulla and from a sharp increase in renal arterial blood supply.
(14) Our results suggest that multiple receptors and signal transduction pathways are involved in the regulation of the tyrosine hydroxylase gene in the rat adrenal medulla.
(15) In hypertensive rats (SHR) the density of alpha 2-adrenoceptors was reduced in the cerebral cortex, hypothalamus and medulla oblongata (20-27%), as was the dose-pupillary response curve for clonidine (1.8-fold).
(16) An antihypertensive function in systemic blood pressure control has been attributed to the renal medulla.
(17) 1 After the injection of labelled procaine and lidocaine in mice, the location and concentration of radioactivity was demonstrated by autoradiographical methods.2 An accumulation in some endocrine cells such as the pancreatic islets, the hypophysis, the adrenal medulla and certain cells of the thyroid (probably representing the calcitonin-producing parafollicular cells) was shown.3 After the injection of [(14)C]-procaine in chicks, an accumulation of radioactivity was observed in the ultimobranchial gland (which produces calcitonin in birds), but not in the thyroid.4 Radioactivity was also shown to be strongly concentrated in structures containing melanin, such as the pigment of the eye, skin and hair and in some organs involved in the metabolism and excretion of these drugs.
(18) Histologically, increased amounts of fibrotic tissue in the medulla and the cortex were found together with tubular atrophy.
(19) Two well-defined zones are observed both in the medulla and in the cortex.
(20) One infant had a unilateral infarction in the medulla and another showed extensive gliosis in the brainstem tegmentum along with a large infarction in the region of the anterior cerebral artery.
Medullar
Definition:
(a.) See Medullary.
Example Sentences:
(1) MRI revealed cranium bifida and agenesis of anterior medullar velum.
(2) Signs of cerebellar or medullar involvement were not seen.
(3) Only BCG induced a marked increase of the secretory activity of the thymic epithelium at all histological sites (cortex, corticomedullary junction and medullar).
(4) It was shown that cyclosporine induced cell depletion in the thymus cortical and medullar zones, inhibition of lymphocyte mitotic activity, alteration of the Hassall corpuscles and impairment of their formation.
(5) The superior medullary velum was not recognized in 10 cases and the corpus medullare in 5.
(6) Among the 34 patients who continued to use the medullar stimulation, good results were obtained in 75% of cases of backache , 100% of patients with angina and vasculopathies, and 50% of patients with neurogenic pain.
(7) Ontological studies of thymic tissue demonstrated that the epitope recognized by this MAb was expressed before Day 14 of gestation, although the restricted subcapsular and medullar expression of 8.1.1 was not apparent until sometime after birth.
(8) Significant decrease (p less than 0.01-0.05) of renal cortical blood flow (RCBF), total renal blood flow (TRBF), ratio of RCBF to renal medullar blood flow, renal perfusion pressure (RPP), cardiac index and urinary output, and increased renal vascular resistance and inferior vena caval pressure were observed in group III, but in group IV, values of these parameters returned to control level.
(9) The main lateral trunks are situated in the medullar parenchima.
(10) The axons originate in dorsal dendrites, run dorsally along the border of the gray matter and pierce the velum medullare on the contralateral side.
(11) Syndrome of multiple endocrine neoplasia, type IIa, is a rare disturbance made by medullar carcinoma of the thyroid gland, pheochromacytoma and hyperparathyroidism.
(12) These data, together with a quantitation of bone marrow, blood, and peripheral eosinophils, indicated that in chronic schistosomiasis, the systemic medullar supply of eosinophils is supplemented in tissues by their local proliferation, mediated by macrophages mobilized in local granulomatous and diffuse inflammatory reactions.
(13) A characteristic feature of API in HFRS was a high degree of sequestration of the blood flow in the medullar layer.
(14) cold lesions) are due to marked medullar necroses accompanied by diminished development of an abscess wall and reduced concentration of granulocytes within the necroses.
(15) In our accident emergency hospital (Ludwigshafen) the medullar cavity is not drilled open.
(16) For intramedullary nailing in particular, it is a major postulate that sufficient stability can only be attained if the medullar cavity is drilled open.
(17) Induction of suppressor T cells in culture requires cell to cell interaction of cortical type and medullar type T cells.
(18) Few 5-HT nerve terminals occurred only on the roof of the fourth ventricle (velum medullare, lamina epithelialis of the tela chorioidea), and the surface of the choroid plexus epithelia was devoid of such nerves.
(19) In addition to their medullar production and migration to tissues involved by parasitosis, eosinophil populations in inflammatory infiltrates may be locally amplified by their in situ proliferation.
(20) cold lesions) are seen in chronic osteomyelitis with extended medullar fibrosis accompanied by reduced blood flow in comparison to the normal medullar bone of the contralateral side.