(a.) Removing regularly or occasionally from one region or climate to another; as, migratory birds.
(a.) Hence, roving; wandering; nomad; as, migratory habits; a migratory life.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hence, the absence of NGF receptors on premigratory neural crest and early migratory neural crest cultures was not due to enzymatic alterations of the receptor.
(2) These observations suggest that the function of BMG is to evoke mesenchymal cell differentiation into prechondroblasts during the latent or migratory morphogenetic phase while the effect of the culture medium is to provide the bionutritional requirements for synthesis of hyaline cartilage matrix by chondrocytes during the patent phase of development.
(3) In the study reported here we examined the migratory responses of mouse peritoneal macrophages using a multiwell chamber.
(4) The migratory ability of neutrophils was assessed using a 48-well microchemotaxis chamber, with an incubation of 1.5 h at 12 degrees C. The two neutrophil populations showed different responses to N-formylmethionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (FMLP).
(5) The migratory phase is transient and therefore permits analysis of factors regulating the motile activity of cells in tissues.
(6) In these populations it is necessary to consider the relations between emotional distress and socio-political context, particularly the processes of terror and intimidation and the conditions of migratory illegality and social marginality.
(7) We investigated the role of 1,2-diacylglycerol, one of the products of receptor-linked phosphatidylinositol hydrolysis, in mediating the migratory response of leukocytes.
(8) As part of a concerted effort to avoid the in danger listing, the Queensland government came up with an alternative plan to dump the sediment within an enclosed area of the Caley Valley wetlands, which is considered nationally important habitat for more than 15 species of migratory birds.
(9) These migratory properties of lymphoblasts are probably relevant to their migration into inflammatory sites in vivo.
(10) The alveolar macrophages were increased in number and size but marked cytoplasmic vacuolation and a paucity of lysosomes are consistent with our previous suggestion that the phagocytic and migratory properties of these cells are weakened or inhibited.
(11) Three months later she developed subcutaneous nodules and migratory polyarthralgias.
(12) Explants isolated before normal migration had commenced required 3-8 h in vitro before neural crest cells started migration, but explants obtained at migratory stages showed an immediate onset of migration.
(13) Our results showed that phagocytosis of such particles did not alter these migratory responses of chronic granulomatous disease neutrophils and suggest that phagocytic stimulation of normal neutrophils may modulate migratory function by some mechanism dependent upon hexose monophosphate shunt stimulation.
(14) Percoll-purified high density small lymphocytes had little or no migratory capacity under these conditions, requiring a longer incubation time (4 hr) for consistent migration.
(15) Neutrophil migratory function recovered between 4 and 8 h but was again depressed at 24 h. The data demonstrate the complexity of the response to TNF, comprising direct and indirect effects which are concentration-, time- and place-dependent.
(16) Both types of cells are closely associated with processes of radial ependymal glia cells, which perhaps orient their migratory pathways.
(17) We have previously shown that fetal and adult human skin fibroblasts display distinctive migratory phenotypes when cultured on 3-dimensional collagen gels in vitro.
(18) This report describes a patient with a migratory abscess as a sequel to the surgical removal of a mandibular third molar tooth.
(19) The alterations in FMLP-induced migration caused by the three drugs tested were mainly chemokinetic and were due to changes in migratory speed.
(20) The cell surface phenotype of dinitrophenol (DNP)-specific memory B cells, defined by their capacity to transfer IgG responses into syngeneic irradiated recipients, was assessed using two markers of relevance to lymphocyte migratory properties: (i) peanut agglutinin, which binds to terminal galactosyl residues expressed at high levels by several nonmigrating lymphocyte subsets and, among lymph node B cells, is highly specific for germinal center cells; and (ii) MEL-14, a monoclonal antibody specific for lymphocyte surface receptors required for migration from the blood into peripheral lymph nodes.
Nomadic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to nomads, or their way of life; wandering; moving from place to place for subsistence; as, a nomadic tribe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Are we really any closer today in our understanding and appreciation of why the nomadic human made such a choice for their very existence during the transition to a more civilized society?
(2) Male risk factors, primarily associated with herding activities, included sleeping outside during seasonal migrations (also a risk factor for nomadic women), bite by a tick (adult male Hyalomma truncatum), tick bite during the cool dry season, and contact with sick animals.
(3) Pastoral nomadism is a way of life in many developing countries, especially in Africa.
(4) Nomads are a reservoir of susceptible individuals who require immunization strategies adapted to their particular life-styles.
(5) Persuading nomadic communities and local farmers of the merits of conservation has, he says, taken time.
(6) One of the hottest outings is the Unplugged Backyard Hangout (UBH) sessions: a nomadic all-night gathering, from 6pm to 6am, with a long lineup of the city’s musicians, live art, spoken word, and performances in the Kwazakhele neighbourhood.
(7) An exhibition of Japanese outsider art – all of it made in mental health institutions and daycare centres – continues throughout June at the Wellcome Institute in London and the nomadic Museum of Everything , created in 2009, continues its wanderings.
(8) Many individuals from nomadic communities complained of persistent pain in the lower limbs, which was often associated with radiologic evidence of osteoperiostitis of the long bones.
(9) These physical impairments would have greatly interfered with the individual's participation in subsistence activities and would have been a substantial handicap in a nomadic hunting and gathering group.
(10) He suffers from diabetes, a condition not helped by his nomadic lifestyle and manic disposition.
(11) The whole family has taken time to acclimatise to new surroundings, but such adjustments accompany the nomadic life of a football coach.
(12) With the index, we were able to compare the distribution and prevalence of emaciation between the population of nomadic herdsmen of the Adrar of Iforas and the population of sedentary agriculturalists of the Region of Gao in Mali.
(13) The Enterprise encounters NOMAD, a small space probe of incredible destructive power.
(14) In both nomads and settled residents known to have fully sensitive strains of tubercle bacilli pretreatment the 6-month regimen was highly effective with no failures during chemotherapy and only 3% relapses after stopping chemotherapy in 126 patients compared with a combined failure rate during chemotherapy and relapse rate of 21% in the 152 patients receiving the 12-month regimen (P less than 0.001).
(15) The fact that this individual reached adulthood throws new light on the attitude of these nomadic people towards such conditions.
(16) Eighteen (22.0%) of 82 cows kept under semi-intensive and 23(26.4%) of 87 cows kept under Fulani nomadic systems were shedding C. burnetii.
(17) His adrenalin-pumping shows are woven into American life, yet subvert its capitalist fundamentals, that innate American principle of screw-thy-neighbour, in favour of what he insists to be "real" America – working class, militant, street-savvy, tough but romantic, nomadic but with roots – compiled into what feels like a single epic but vernacular rock-opera lasting four decades.
(18) The Ethiopian authorities claim the PBS programme addresses the challenges of poverty through cost-effective service delivery to scattered and nomadic populations.
(19) Malaysia The Bakun dam in Sarawak, due to be completed this year, has displaced 10,000 tribal people, including many semi-nomadic Penan tribespeople.
(20) Nomads have developed special cultural and social patterns with a system of collective ownership in the clan or tribe.