(1) The macaque midget cells, like the beta cells of the cat's retina, showed no evidence of tracer coupling when injected with Neurobiotin.
(2) Type a midget ganglion cells appear to be in a one-to-one relationship with flat midget bipolar cell axon terminals ending in distal inner plexiform layer.
(3) Nomberg-Przytyk also recounts the death of Avram Ovitz, the leader of the group: "The old midget wanted his wife" and tried to slip through the barbed wire; a guard spotted him and, when Avram got close enough, shot him.
(4) This is the characteristic position for flat midget bipolar cells.
(5) While both midget and diffuse cone bipolar cell types were clearly glutamate-IR, rod bipolars were not noticeably stained.
(6) We confirm previous reports (Trujillo-Cenóz 1965; Boschek 1971) that monopolar cell bodies in the lamina form three structural classes: Class I, Class II, and midget monopolar cells.
(7) There are two distinct morphologic types of midget cells which differ from each other in the pattern of dendritic branching.
(8) According to their depth of stratification, there are two types of parasol cells (termed a-parasol and b-parasol), and two types of midget ganglion cells (a-midget and b-midget).
(9) The method collects the aerosol in a midget impinger containing dimethyl formamide, which inhibits the curing reaction between the epoxy and curing agent, preserving the unreacted epoxy functional groups present in the aerosol.
(10) 41:427-483), that the type a midget ganglion cell and its exclusive connectivity with a flat midget bipolar cell forms a single cone connected OFF-center pathway, whereas the type b midget ganglion cell with its exclusive connectivity to an invaginating midget bipolar cell forms a single cone connected ON-center pathway, through the retina to the brain.
(11) It is shown to have great similarity to the basic subunits of related toxins from the venoms of the South American and midget faded rattlesnakes.
(12) It is likely that 2C bipolars are a variant of the midget bipolars; and that they contact some members of the same population of cones, instead of the midgets.
(13) Finally, a hypothetical pathway is proposed for color-opponent surrounds of midget ganglion cells using both horizontal cells at the outer plexiform layer and amacrine cell pathways at the inner plexiform layer.
(14) Impoverished, monochrome, Depression-era Kansas beats candy-coloured Oz, with its midgets and flying monkeys?
(15) These epidemiologic studies were based on particulate concentrations determined by the midget impinger.
(16) GABA+ amacrines must play significant but different roles in ON and OFF midget and parasol pathways as well as the rod pathway.
(17) In her autobiography, Auschwitz: True Tales From A Grotesque Land , Sarah Nomberg-Przytyk describes in appalling detail the horrible death of two members of the Ovitz group, one of them an 18-month-old baby boy who died as a result of one of Mengele's experiments: "Around him, like pillars of stone, stood a large woman, along with the child's mother, slim and frail; the three midgets sat in miniature chairs."
(18) Both type a (with dendritic trees in distal inner plexiform layer) and type b (with dendritic trees in proximal inner plexiform layer) midget ganglion cells have been studied.
(19) Atmospheric air samples are collected in fritted midget bubblers containing aqueous sodium carbonate solution; wastewater samples are treated directly with sodium carbonate.
(20) Type b midget ganglion cells are in a one-to-one synaptic relationship with invaginating midget bipolar cell axon terminals in proximal inner plexiform layer.
Pygmy
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Pygmean
(n.) One of a fabulous race of dwarfs who waged war with the cranes, and were destroyed.
(n.) Hence, a short, insignificant person; a dwarf.
Example Sentences:
(1) We measured growth hormone-binding activity in plasma from 20 pygmies and 12 control subjects (7 white Americans and 5 non-Pygmy black Africans of normal stature).
(2) We believe these intramitochondrial inclusions to be lipid which accumulates divalent cations, particularly calcium, which acts as a sodium pump allowing the pygmy mouse to conserve water and adapt to its environment.
(3) King's heirs are not the pygmy protesters who move from one fashionable campsite and cause to another.
(4) Before the pygmy politicians line up to pay tribute to this giant, I want to remember how he lived so much for so many.
(5) In human pygmies, the absence of a growth spurt at adolescence is associated with the absence of an increase in serum levels of IGF-I (Merimee et al., 1981).
(6) Ruminal mucosae of 15 pygmy goats of different age (Z1 approximately 4-5 months, Z2 approximately 1 year, Z3 approximately 1.5-5 years) and sex were investigated histologically.
(7) The value of GPX1*2 for study of the genetic admixture between Negro and Pygmy populations is suggested.
(8) The former editor of the New York Times, Bill Keller, is the target of special ire for his allegedly unco-operative attitude, described as "a moral pygmy with a self-justifying streak the size of the San Andreas fault".
(9) The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control regions for common chimpanzee, pygmy chimpanzee and gorilla were sequenced and the lengths and termini of their D-loop DNA's characterized.
(10) 1934 Bantus and 379 Pygmies were investigated for Loa loa and Mansonella perstans filariasis in 7 villages in the Chaillu forest of the Congo.
(11) An epizootic of focal epithelial hyperplasia (FEH) or Morbus Heck in a pygmy chimpanzee (Pan paniscus) colony is described.
(12) Blood serum of pygmy goats (both sexes, and castrated males) was analyzed to establish biochemical reference values.
(13) This was an uncommon finding in other non-pygmy populations.
(14) With the aid of x-ray ventriculography, lesions were placed in the medial preoptic-anterior hypothalamic (MP-AH) area of 5 adult male pygmy goats.
(15) These conclusions are thought to be consistent with biochemical studies showing pygmies to have low levels of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1).
(16) Because the growth deficient mutation of the mouse, pygmy (pg), has also been mapped to Chromosome 10 (Falconer and Isaacson, 1965), we were interested in localizing Igf-1 in order to investigate the possibility that pg might be allelic to Igf-1.
(17) In an interspecies comparison of seven primate species, the expression of the erbB proto oncogene was found to be higher in fibroblasts derived from three relatively long-lived species, the human, gorilla, and chimpanzee than in cells from the orangutan, pygmy chimpanzee, squirrel monkey, or red-bellied tamarin.
(18) The older pygmy chimpanzee has begun to form requests of the form agent-verb-recipient in which he is neither the agent nor the recipient.
(19) In addition, the IGF-I gene of 64 constitutionally short subjects, five Pygmies, and 10 constitutionally tall subjects was analyzed.
(20) Thus, short stature in pygmies probably results not from an absolute deficiency of GH receptors per se, as in Laron dwarfism, but from a failure of cellular GH receptors to increase in a normal manner.