(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.
Whimbrel
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several species of small curlews, especially the European species (Numenius phaeopus), called also Jack curlew, half curlew, stone curlew, and tang whaup. See Illustration in Appendix.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clark also said ministers had breached the EU birds directive, by failing to properly protect the whimbrel, a rare and vulnerable wading bird native to Shetland.
(2) Sustainable Shetland went to the supreme court after appeal judges in Edinburgh overruled a judicial decision in October 2013 that the scheme breached the EU birds directive, by threatening nesting populations of the endangered whimbrel.