(n.) The sphere or globular mass of cells (blastomeres), formed by the clevage of the ovum or egg in the first stages of its development; -- called also mulberry mass, segmentation sphere, and blastosphere. See Segmentation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Laminin was already present on the cell surface at the 2-cell stage, while nidogen was first detectable on compacted 8- to 16-cell stage morulae.
(2) Embryos bisected at blastocyst stages had a higher survival rate in vitro than those bisected at the morula stage.
(3) Rabbit morulae and blastocysts were cultured in conventional culture media [Ham's F10 or BSM II supplemented with bovine serum albumin (BSA) or serum] or in Ham's medium supplemented with synchronous or asynchronous uterine flushings, mostly for 2 days, and afterwards investigated by light and electron microscopy and by autoradiography.
(4) Compaction of the morula is a prerequisite for subsequent differentiation of the mouse embryo.
(5) The development stage of the embryo was determined after examination in toto at 24 h or by counting the morula nuclei at 60 h on histological sections.
(6) Day 6 sheep morulae were cultured in vitro for 48 hours in a bicarbonate-buffered salt solution supplemented with various concentrations of ovine serum or of these components or protein fractions of serum.
(7) Neither stain induced spontaneous activation in mouse oocytes, nor did they impair the in vitro development and implantation of mouse zygotes, two-cell embryos, stressed morulae or blastocysts.
(8) Ham's F-10 medium supplemented with hFCS is routinely checked for its ability to support mouse two-cell embryo development to morulae and blastocysts.
(9) After 6 months storage, the embryos (12, all at the compact morula stage), were thawed in a water bath at 39 degrees C for 30 minutes.
(10) All three treatments decompacted mid-morula-stage embryos within one hour.
(11) It has been reported that these tripronuclear oocytes can develop to grossly normal-appearing morulae and that chromosomally, these embryos could be triploid, diploid, or severely depleted.
(12) Late morulae to blastocysts (n = 80) were collected nonsurgically from naturally mated, estrous-synchronized, superovulated crossbred beef cows.
(13) Pronuclear stages were predominant at 42 to 48 hours and 3 to 8-cell stages at 72 to 96 hours; morulae (containing up to 95 cells) entered the uterus at seven days.
(14) The in vitro development of frozen thawed 4- and 8-cell embryos (23% and 21% respectively) was found to be significantly lower than that of frozen thawed morulae (89%).
(15) In morphological studies, insulin increased the number of blastocysts and decreased the number of morulae by 10% after 54 h culture from 2-cell embryos with EC50s of about 0.95 pM.
(16) Preimplantation stage (16-celled and morula) rabbit embryos were successfully frozen to -196 degrees C. The cooling rate (from a room temperature to 0 degrees C), the presence of the mucin layer surrounding embryos, the ice-seeding treatment and the thawing procedure were examined to determine their effects on the survival of the frozen embryos of Japanese white, New Zealand white and Dutch-Belted rabbits.
(17) Passage through this block (pb1-ratio) was determined by the ratio of compacted morula stages on day 4 of incubation.
(18) A culture system using cells from the uterine tube supported the development of one 1-cell embryo to the morula stage.
(19) Recipients receiving morulae and blastocysts that had incorporated an average of 384 d.p.m.
(20) The process whereby the morula becomes a fluid-filled cyst is called 'cavitation', which can be regarded as the first functional expression of the trophectoderm phenotype.
Mulberry
Definition:
(n.) The berry or fruit of any tree of the genus Morus; also, the tree itself. See Morus.
(n.) A dark pure color, like the hue of a black mulberry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intravascular "mulberry-like" bodies in a stillborn female infant with moderate maceration are reported.
(2) Forty-eight intact male pigs were used to investigate the influence of source of protein supplement, corn moisture content, and supplemental vitamin E-selenium survived the cidence of mulberry heart disease, hepatosis dietetica and associated lesions.
(3) The first two approaches permitted classification of deposits into globular deposits, "Mulberry-like growths", opaque deposits, protein films and red spots.
(4) Kefalonia (near Sami) Where to stay: Karavomilos Beach Camping Not far from Sami – the old capital of the island, where much of Captain Corelli was filmed – this campsite is set on a good beach and the pitches are nicely shaded by eucalyptus and mulberry trees.
(5) Cowhide and goatskin are used to make Mulberry goods, as well as ostrich leather and alligator skins.
(6) When you can't afford a Mulberry mac, a Mac lipstick in mulberry might be just the ticket.
(7) Pharmacological studies were done on the root bark of mulberry tree and pharmacological effects were compared with the clinical effects of "Sohakuhi" in Chinese medicine.
(8) The second type is an easily recognized opaque, white, elevated, multinodular calcified lesion that is frequently described as resembling a mulberry.
(9) Mulberry has partnerships with manufacturers in Turkey, Spain, Portugal and China, but Speed is keen to highlight the company’s credentials as a British manufacturer.
(10) You know, sweet little British labels such as Mulberry, Betty Jackson, Whistles – labels that pretty much bellow, "Nothing to fear her!
(11) It is concluded, that intravascular "mulberry-bodies" most likely represent artifacts due to red blood cell autolysis.
(12) Photograph: Anna Gordon The crossbench peer, who founded Cobra Beer, appears as one of more than 100 shareholders in a Virgin Islands company called Mulberry Holdings Asset Limited.
(13) Like his 16 family members, and almost every other Afghan ensconced under the mulberry trees of Athens’ Victoria Square, his motto is “move, move, move”.
(14) Where Burberry also wins points over Mulberry is through story-telling and opportunity for personalisation, especially across digital channels.
(15) High power and oil immersion microscopy showed that the surface of the nuclei in the neoplastic cells were convoluted in form of cerebral gyrus or mulberry.
(16) n-Butanol- and water-soluble fractions of mulberry root had similar effects except for those on the cadiovascular system.
(17) The crystals grew by appositional layering into microliths and then by aggregation into mulberry-shaped stones.
(18) Zoe Lagadec, a solicitor at Mulberry’s Employment Law Solicitors, said the searches “should be considered working time and therefore paid in accordance with the national minimum wage provisions”, while the penalties were “arguably a breach of the national minimum wage, which carries both criminal and civil sanctions”.
(19) There appears to be a correlation between the experimental pharmacological results and the clinical applications of mulberry root found in the literature on Chinese medicine.
(20) These are highly skilled people and this will never be taken over by a machine, that’s for sure.” Back at head office, Godfrey Davis will be hoping that it is not just supermodel collaborations but skilled staff in Somerset that can reignite the British love affair with Mulberry.