(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, gums and micilaginous substances; specif., denoting an acid obtained by the oxidation of gums, dulcite, etc., as a white crystalline substance isomeric with saccharic acid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Assimilation of mucic acid occurred in more than 50% of the tremellaceous species and only in 5% of the species related to the Ustilaginales.
(2) Important tests used were acid-fast staining, rapidity of growth, pigmentation, nitrate reduction, arylsulfatase activity, mucic acid utilization, acid production from galactose, rhamnose, and inositol, and growth at 45 C and 52 C.
(3) In a more comprehensive survey 442 yeast strains belonging to 138 species, mostly of basidiomycetous affinity, were also screened for the assimilation of different aldaric acids: D(-)-tartaric acid, meso-tartaric acid, L(-)-malic acid, D(+)-glucaric acid (saccharic acid), and galactaric acid (mucic acid).
Mucin
Definition:
(n.) See Mucedin.
(n.) An albuminoid substance which is contained in mucus, and gives to the latter secretion its peculiar ropy character. It is found in all the secretions from mucous glands, and also between the fibers of connective tissue, as in tendons. See Illust. of Demilune.
Example Sentences:
(1) This cell type often showed supranuclear lysozyme reactivity and apical neutral mucins, sialomucins, and sulphomucins in variable amounts.
(2) The influence of mucin on the corrosion behaviour of seven typical dental casting alloys was investigated.
(3) This study suggests that amylopectin sulfate may bind to gastric mucins only under conditions of low pH.
(4) The acylation of salivary mucin with fatty acids and its biosynthesis was investigated by incubating rat submandibular salivary gland cells with [3H]palmitic acid and [3H]proline.
(5) The most important variable for anastomotic recurrence was mucin histochemical changes at the resection margins according to the Wald statistic value.
(6) Granules in a few cells also contained sulphated mucin.
(7) Assay of CA 125 has become a routine method in the follow-up of nonmucinous ovarian cancer, and tumour-associated trypsin inhibitor (TATI) shows promise of being useful for mucinous ovarian cancer.
(8) Goblet cells and mucin production appeared only on the 20th-21st day of gestation.
(9) A detailed morphologic analysis demonstrated that two of these six cases were incorrectly diagnosed as being pure mucinous carcinomas--they were actually of the mixed type.
(10) Two mucins were isolated from bovine submandibular glands and termed major and minor on a quantitative basis.
(11) The development of assays using a panel of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) or lectins directed against the different carbohydrate epitopes expressed on this mucin may provide better diagnostic accuracy for pancreatic cancer than current marker assays which rely on detection of a single epitope.
(12) Structural relationships between colonic mucin species were assessed using a library of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) directed against purified human colonic mucin (HCM).
(13) All types of hyperplasia were frequently seen in areas adjacent to carcinomas, including ductal, pleomorphic, mucinous, adenosquamous, small and spindle cell and cystadenocarcinomas.
(14) In the remaining five strains (Streptococcus gordonii G9B and 10558, S. sanguis 10556, and Streptococcus oralis 10557 and 72-41), interactions with multiple salivary components, including the low-molecular-weight salivary mucin, highly glycosylated proline-rich glycoproteins, and alpha-amylase, were detected.
(15) Discontinuance of the acceptable brand of mucin made it necessary to search for an effective alternative.
(16) This length corresponds to an extended mucin peptide of about 450 kDa.
(17) Mucin histochemistry revealed an intestinal type of cancer.
(18) After an overnight fast, luminal and tissue mucin antibody reactivities were determined in the rat stomach, colon and small intestine.
(19) Primary mucinous carcinoma is a rare sweat-gland neoplasm of the skin with a tendency to grow slowly.
(20) Our results suggest that substantial amounts of ocular mucous glycoprotein are present in the eyes of patients with CP and SJS, diseases which have been previously described as mucin-deficient dry eye syndromes.