(a.) Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mechanical properties of compressed beam specimens of microcrystalline cellulose (Avicel pH 101) have been assessed in terms of the tensile strength (sigma t), Young's modulus (E) and the following fracture mechanics parameters: the critical stress intensity factor (KIC), the critical strain energy release rate (GIC) and the fracture toughness (R).
(2) The dissolution t50 and various pharmacokinetic parameters showed directly compressible starch and carboxymethylstarch to be the most effective disintegrants in the concentrations employed while magnesium aluminum silicate and microcrystalline cellulose were about equal but less effective than the previous disintegrants.
(3) The optical crystallographic or microcrystalline properties of the diliturate derivatives (5-nitrobarbituric acid) of the most used psychedelic amphetamine drugs have been determined.
(4) In an attempt to separate a number of methylated nucleoside constituents reportedly present in various mammalian RNA preparations, a comparison of the migration of selected nucleoside standards was assessed via thin-layer chromatographic techniques with respect to three solvent systems and an adsorbent of varying proportions of silica gel and microcrystalline cellulose.
(5) A microcrystalline collagen preparation and a gelatin foam were compared relative to their effects on hemostasis and healing in molar extraction sockets in cats.
(6) The adsorption-desorption effect of cellulose-like biopolymers such as chitin and chitosan, and microcrystalline cellulose on indomethacin was investigated.
(7) Antibiotic LL-D05139 beta was isolated from the fermentation filtrate by adsorption on granular carbon and further purified by chromatography on microcrystalline cellulose.
(8) The lubricating properties, as well as the tablet properties with the granulated lubricant, were evaluated on tablets prepared from a mixture of dicalcium phosphate, corn starch and microcrystalline cellulose.
(9) The drug or metabolites are extracted from plasma or urine with ether and applied to TLC plates of silica gel or microcrystalline cellulose.
(10) However, by using the microcrystalline collagen powder and the fibrinogen tissue adhesive, complete hemostasis and prevention of postoperative bleeding can be obtained, with minimal blood loss and hepatic ischemia.
(11) Ferritin has a high capacity as an iron store, incorporating some 4500 iron atoms as a microcrystalline ferric oxide hydrate.
(12) The known effect of increased absorption of a microcrystalline suspension of Iosumet acid caused by sodium bicarbonate was enhanced by intra-duodenal application.
(13) The effect of Phanerochaete chrysosporium cellobiose oxidase (CBO) on microcrystalline cellulose hydrolysis by Trichoderma cellulases was determined.
(14) Thermally reversible aqueous gels (crystallized from an under-cooled, rubbery melt) are described by a "fringed micelle" structural model for a three-dimensional polymer network, composed of microcrystalline junction zones crosslinking plasticized amorphous regions of flexible-coiled, entangled chain segments.
(15) Microcrystalline collagen was biodegraded 6 to 14 days after surgery.
(16) Systematic studies of compatibility, solubility, and bioavailability led to this study of a microcrystalline complex ferric orthophosphate (CFOP), Fe3H8(NH4)-(PO4)6.6H2O, a well-defined compound.
(17) All tablets except microcrystalline cellulose contained a cation-exchange resin as disintegrant.
(18) A new microcrystalline compound of aluminum oxide hydroxide (tentatively named PT-A) was synthesized in the hope of providing a better phosphate adsorbent for future clinical use than the currently marketed aluminum hydroxide gels (ALG).
(19) Adsorption onto microcrystalline cellulose (Avicel) is reduced approximately 30% for intact CBH I and nearly 50% for the core, whereas the effects with cellobiose are negligible.
(20) In case of tablets prepared from microcrystalline cellulose, the effect of stationary time of punch was not observed.
Microscopic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Microscopical
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of our microscopic model confirm that the continuum hypothesis used in our previous macroscopic model is reasonable.
(2) Light microscopic studies of pancreata from mice sacrificed at this time demonstrated insulitis and beta cell necrosis.
(3) Using serial section electron microscopic reconstructions as a reference, we have chosen as our standard procedure a method that maximizes both the preservation of the cytoskeleton and the proportion of cells staining, while minimizing the degree of nonspecific staining.
(4) It is concluded that the present method for demonstration of aryl sulphatase activity is not well suited for microscopical identification of lysosomes in rat liver parenchymal cells.
(5) Histological and electron-microscopic study of the lungs of 15 patients who had been treated with bleomycin for advanced squamous cell carcinoma demonstrated marked histological changes in nine.
(6) This light microscopic comparison of viable FDA- and nonviable PI-stained cysts of G. muris demonstrates that 2 types of cysts can be distinguished and implies that structural differences can be used to identify these subpopulations of cysts.
(7) Electron microscopic immunohistochemistry revealed histamine-immunostaining in granules in a small number of nerve fibers and varicosities.
(8) For routine use, 50 mul of 12% BTV SRBC, 0.1 ml of a spleen cell suspension, and 0.5 ml of 0.5% agarose in a balanced salt solution were mixed and plated on a microscope slide precoated with 0.1% aqueous agarose.
(9) Electron microscopic observations of the masseter nerve in the aged cats revealed a disruption of the myelin sheaths and a pronounced increase in collagen fibers in the endoneurium and perineurium.
(10) Widely varying numbers of endocrine cells were identified in 12 out of 64 cases of uterine cancer in the course of histochemical and electron microscopic examination.
(11) Significantly better survival was found in patients with T2 tumors in comparison with patients with T3 and T4 tumors, in patients with infrastructural localization in comparison with patients with suprastructural localization and in patients with microscopic residual tumor in comparison with MRT patients.
(12) At the light-microscopic level, adrenergic fibres were identified due to their formaldehyde-induced fluorescence.
(13) It has a poor prognosis prior to the current combined treatment of surgical ablation, radiation to the surgical field, and chemotherapy for microscopic metastases.
(14) Histochemical and electron microscopic examinations confirmed that this biochemical lesion was associated with abnormal intracellular accumulation of unesterified cholesterol in mutant lymphocytes.
(15) 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.
(16) Pure bile gave 32 correct diagnoses (67%) and 14 diagnoses of inadequate material (29%), which contained few nondegenerated cells and made microscopic diagnosis unreliable.
(17) Total excisional biopsy is necessary to properly assess an adenoma microscopically.
(18) Examination was by means of counter immunoelectrophoresis, radioimmunoassay and electron microscope with negative staining.
(19) Twenty-seven human septums were removed at post mortem, examined macroscopically, sectioned coronally and examined microscopically.
(20) A television camera scans the spread through microscope optics; computer and special purpose electronics process the video signals to generate run length histograms.