(n.) An optical instrument, consisting of a lens, or combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye.
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.
Photomicrography
Definition:
(n.) The art of producing photomicrographs.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the same dose both adenosine and caffeine significantly increased percentage motility, although neither compound influenced the quality of sperm movement as assessed by time-exposure photomicrography.
(2) The dynamic nature of Chlamydia trachomatis inclusions was studied by video and 35 mm time-lapse photomicrography of live cells, and by immunolocalization of inclusions in fixed cells.
(3) To determine the shear force acting on a white blood cell sticking to the endothelium of a blood vessel, the flow field about a single white blood cell in a venule was determined by hign-speed motion picture photomicrography.
(4) The diameters of the various orders of microvessels and types of sinusoids were measured by serial photomicrography, and the velocity of the erythrocytes in these various microvessels and sinusoids by the dual-slit photometric technique.
(5) The development of these cultures was documented with sequential phase-contrast photomicrography.
(6) Photomicrography and reflectance microphotometry were used to monitor melanosome movement in frog skin melanocytes in vitro in response to hormonal stimulation and cytochalasin B (CB).
(7) PEWV determined by gravimetric analysis in dogs that had had open-chest procedures for lung biopsy and electron photomicrography was significantly less than that in dogs with their chests closed throughout the experiments.
(8) The migration of Schwann cells from adult sciatic nerve explant cultures has been examined by time-lapse photomicrography.
(9) Use of red filters during photomicrography aids in bone-osteoid discrimination in black and white photographs.
(10) This hamster model of human cerebral malaria allows the in vivo observation, still and video photomicrography, and manipulation of the peripheral vascular pathogenesis of a disease process similar to that seen in humans.
(11) A study was carried out using time-exposure photomicrography to investigate the potential usefulness of the transmembrane migration technique in the assessment of drug effects on human sperm motility.
(12) Cell reactions were registered by spectrophotometry, in vitro light microscopy, photomicrography and light and electron microscopy.
(13) Individual mucous glands in the toe web were studied in curarized decerebrate frogs using vital microscopy in combination with still or motion photomicrography.
(14) One potential artifact problem in election microscopy of micellar systems is that structural changes and aggregation could be induced by high vacuum dehydration in sample preparation prior to viewing and photomicrography.
(15) Flash photomicrography at frequencies up to 300 Hz and computer-assisted image analysis have been used to obtain parameters describing the flagellar bending patterns of mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
(16) For this study of photographic densitometry, sections of cartilage stained with Alcian Blue, safranin O and high iron diamine were photographed at x40 with Nikon photomicrography equipment on Kodak Panatomic X film with appropriate filters to enhance contrast.
(18) The measurements from Kodachrome 25 film and Kodak Photomicrography film varied in range and mean percent error without a pattern.
(19) It is, however, a clinical rather than investigative procedure and is not intended to replace the quantitative features of endothelial specular photomicrography for scientific studies.
(20) The technique, which may be suitable for other intracellular and extracellular fluorescent markers, permits early fluorescence photomicrography of whole mounts and subsequent recovery of the specimens for serial sectioning and further analysis.