(1) The four hosts (Mollusc -- Crustacean -- Odonat -- Amphibian) are obligatory in the life cycle for it is impossible to infect the Insects directly with the cecariae or the frog (tadpoles as well as adults) with the mesocercariae.
(2) A newly developed method of internal dialysis was applied together with the voltage clamp method to the isolated neurons of molluscs Helix pomatia and Limnea stagnalis.
(3) We have demonstrated that M. edulis, a marine bivalve mollusc, reacts to the vertebrate monokines interleukin-1, -6 and TNF.
(4) On the other hand, the major arsenic compound in fish, crustacea and molluscs has been identified as arsenobetaine, which is an arseno-analog of glycinebetaine, a very common osmo-regulator in living organisms.
(5) The microsporidia are a group of unusual, obligately parasitic protists that infect a great variety of other eukaryotes, including vertebrates, arthropods, molluscs, annelids, nematodes, cnidaria and even various ciliates, myxosporidia and gregarines.
(6) Natural crystals of ferritin occurring in the yolk platelets of a mollusc oocyte were studied.
(7) Sensory neurons of the photic pathway in the nudibranch mollusc Hermissenda crassicornis are cholinergic and the synaptic interactions between the photic and vestibular systems have been well characterized electrophysiologically.
(8) Whatever the type of TM-NTM association (lasting association, during prepatent period and production period, association only during the exposure of the molluscs to the miracidia), the presence of NTM involved a significant increase of S. mansoni cercarial production.
(9) It was demonstrated earlier that PAF-positive cells located in the gut epithelium of the same molluscs show immunostaining with mammalian anti-insulin serum which indicates the production of insulin or insulin-like substance.
(10) The fluorescent dye 5(6)-carboxyfluorescein (5-CF) travels quickly up the nerves of the gastropod mollusc, Lymnaea stagnalis into the buccal ganglia and fills the cell bodies in 1-3 h. 5-CF filled neurones can be located in the intact ganglia with low intensity blue light.
(11) Recently, such a developmental strategy has been used to investigate the functional assembly of different forms of non-associative learning (habituation, dishabituation and sensitization) in the marine mollusc Aplysia.
(12) Habituation, one of the simplest behavioral paradigms for studying memory, has recently been examined on the cellular level in the gill-withdrawal reflex in the mollusc Aplysia and in the escape response in cray-fish.
(13) The anti-G beta, gamma antibodies recognized a 35-36-kDa protein in brain of vertebrates such as mammals (rat), avians (pigeon), amphibians (frog), fish (trout), and reptiles (turtle) but not in the invertebrates such as molluscs (snail) and insects (locust).
(14) We have studied the effects of dopamine on the gill withdrawal reflex evoked by tactile siphon stimulation in the margine mollusc Aplysia.
(15) It seems that most mollusc infections occur in February-March and at the end of summer-beginning of autumn periods.
(16) The development of microparticulate food particles for marine suspension-feeders is discussed with respect to the difficulties of nutrient delivery in the aquatic environment and to feeding and digestion in crustacea and bivalve molluscs.
(17) The structure and function of the digestive gland of the gastropod mollusc, Bithynia tentaculata, was investigated using ultrastructural, histochemical, and cytochemical techniques.
(18) The bag cells of the marine mollusc Aplysia are well-characterized neuroendocrine cells that initiate egg laying, but the natural stimulus triggering bag-cell activity has not been determined.
(19) Immunochemically, the major common epitope expressed by the neutral fraction glycolipids of the 3 taeniid species is the same or very similar to the glycosphingolipid, neogalatriaosyl ceramide derived from the marine mollusc Turbo cornutus (Gal(beta 1-6) Gal(beta 1-6) Gal(beta 1-1)Cer).
(20) Pharmacologic activation of endogenous protein kinase C (PKC) together with elevation of the intracellular Ca2+ level was previously shown to cause reduction of two voltage-dependent K+ currents (IA and ICa2+-K+) across the soma membrane of the type B photoreceptor within the eye of the mollusc Hermissenda crassicornis.
Pallium
Definition:
(n.) A large, square, woolen cloak which enveloped the whole person, worn by the Greeks and by certain Romans. It is the Roman name of a Greek garment.
(n.) A band of white wool, worn on the shoulders, with four purple crosses worked on it; a pall.
(n.) The mantle of a bivalve. See Mantle.
(n.) The mantle of a bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the extensive projections of the medial pallium to the dorsal thalamus and pretectum in anurans may be primitive features of the medial pallium retained in anurans, or uniquely derived features in anurans.
(2) Noradrenergic varicose axons innervate the reticular formation, motor nuclei, and interpeduncular nucleus of the brain stem, the hypothalamus and habenular nuclei, various parts of the area dorsalis telencephali (forebrain pallium), and the olfactory bulbs.
(3) In the telencephalon, immunoreactive perikarya were detected in the dorsal, medial, and lateral pallium; the medial septal nucleus; the dorsal and ventral striatum; and the amygdala.
(4) This suggests that bulbopetal neurons in the frog pallium belong to neuronal populations which differ in their neurotransmitter specificities.
(5) A set of model predictions is presented, concerning mechanisms of habituation and cellular organization of the medial pallium.
(6) Lower densities of LENK+ and SP+ perikarya and fibers occur in the medial pallium and the pars centralis of the dorsal pallium.
(7) Some cells in all telencephalic centers, except the corpus striatum and the pars lateralis of the amygdala, project to the ipsilateral medial pallium.
(8) Moderate ANF-binding was found in the bulbus olfactorius, pallium, septum, striatum, lateral forebrain bundle, nucleus infundibularis, hypophyseal pars distalis and tectum.
(9) Two exceptions to the similarity of pattern were in a caudal part of the pallium and in the mesencephalic tegmental area.
(10) During their courses they become intermingled with fibers related to the primordial septum, the primordial hippocampus, the primordial dorsal pallium and the primordial piriform areas.
(11) In a twin pregnancy of a 25-year-old woman one fetus was a normal male, while the other had hydrocephalus (6 mm thick pallium in the 23rd week) and a neural-tube defect in the thoracic-lumbar region.
(12) In frogs, on the base of the axonal transport of horseradish peroxidase, the connections ascending to the primordial hippocamp were shown from the ipsi- and contralateral pyriform pallium, contralateral primordial hippocamp, ispilateral amygdala and nucleus accumbens, as well as from rostral parts of the postero-central thalamic nucleus (bilaterally).
(13) No evidence was found to suggest the existence of either a dopamine fiber projection to cortex comparable to that of mammalian neocortex or the presence of an epinephrine pathway to turtle cortex equivalent to the epinephrine-containing fibers in the pallium of amphibians.
(14) In all the stages the labelled cells are also found in the periventricular layers of the controlateral optic tectum, in the dorsal pallium and in the striatum.
(15) The ascending connections to the pallium originate for the major part from nucleus dorsolateralis anterior of the dorsal thalamus.
(16) The dorsomedial part of the lepidosirenid telencephalon corresponds to the septum in the most plesiomorphic living lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, but it differs considerably from the dorsomedial telencephalon (medial pallium) in amphibians.
(17) Following a quasi-natural vibrating sphere stimulus, neural responses were recorded in the medullary medial octavolateralis nucleus (MON), the dorsal (DMN) and anterior (AN) nucleus of the mesencephalic nuclear complex, the diencephalic lateral tuberal nucleus (LTN), and a telencephalic area which may correspond to the medial pallium (Figs.
(18) Immunoreactive fibers of varying density were observed in all major subdivisions of the brain with the densest accumulations of fibers occurring in the dorsal pallium, the lateral and medial forebrain bundles, the amygdala, the periventricular hypothalamus, the superficial region of the caudolateral brainstem, and in a tract that appeared to be homologous to the tractus solitarius.
(19) In Neoceratodus, AchE staining is pronounced in the septal area, but absent in the pallium.
(20) (3) In the 67 children who did not suffer CNS infection but did require a shunt, intelligence was related to sensory level found at birth and to thickness of the pallium measured within four weeks of birth.