(n.) A muscular segment; one of the zones into which the muscles of the trunk, especially in fishes, are divided; a myocomma.
(n.) One of the embryonic muscular segments arising from the protovertebrae; also, one of the protovertebrae themselves.
(n.) The muscular system of one metamere of an articulate.
Example Sentences:
(1) To improve the slightly disappointing voice rehabilitation results of the myotomized laryngectomees, a modified myotomy is proposed.
(2) Root anatomy and the concept of myotomes and dermatomes are reviewed, as is the pathophysiology of radiculopathy.
(3) The possible relationship of these data with the appearance of mononucleated differentiated cells in myotomes in vivo and the possible neural control of this stage of myogenesis are discussed.
(4) Parasagittal sections of the caudal myotomes of 10.5-d-old embryos showed that expression of contractile proteins preceded the expression of myogenin or MyoD and, when coexpressed, MHC and myogenin did not co-localize within all the cells of the myotome.
(5) "Ventral nerves" are seen on the midmedial surface of each myotome.
(6) The dermatomal and myotomal dissociation has been well-documented on the ipsilateral side, but involvement of the contralateral side is rare.
(7) Cells of the presumptive myotome layer in the unsegmented region of the mesoderm were also electrically coupled.
(8) Serial sections of stage 18-27 HH (3-5 days of incubation) chick embryo myotomes were investigated by electron microscope.
(9) The map may be important for the proper control of the many muscles arising from the myotomes in amniotes because it facilitates the development and evolution of motor systems in which anatomically and functionally different muscles have spatially separate motor pools in the cord.
(10) Using isoform-specific 35S-labeled antisense cRNA probes for in situ hybridization, we have detected BCK mRNAs in embryonic mouse and chick myotomes, the first skeletal muscle masses to form in developing embryos.
(11) In detailed examination of alpha Enhb-1 and 4D9 localization, we find previously undetected patterns of En protein localization in the prechordal plate, hindbrain, myotome, ventral body-wall mesoderm, and extraembryonic membranes.
(12) At early somite stages, FGFR-4 was also expressed in the myotomal component of the somite, and by 14.5 days p.c.
(13) The notochord and neural tube are well developed by 3 days and surrounded by sclerotome, myotome, and dermatome cells.
(14) At least 6-10 functional spinal segments and adjacent myotomes are required for early swimming.
(15) Microsomes were isolated from fresh and frozen myotomal tissue of Atlantic cod by two procedures.
(16) We found a spatial relationship between the three myotomal muscle fiber types and the corresponding motoneurons.
(17) At the onset of metamorphosis (stage 48-50) the myotome muscle becomes multinucleate, possibly by fusion with satellite cells at the ends of the fibres, and has the appearance of adult skeletal muscle.
(18) Functional changes of acetylcholine receptor (AChR) channels in embryonic Xenopus myotomal muscle cells were examined during their development in culture.
(19) In the two species, coexpression of alpha-sr and alpha-sm actins has been observed in cardiomyoblasts, myotomal myoblasts and myotubes.
(20) In the mouse, BCK transcripts are expressed in myotomes at 8.5 days post coitum (p.c.
Tissue
Definition:
(n.) A woven fabric.
(n.) A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
(n.) One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue.
(n.) Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.
(v. t.) To form tissue of; to interweave.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
(2) If ascorbic acid was omitted from the culture medium, the extensive new connective tissue matrix was not produced.
(3) The interaction of the antibody with both the bacterial and the tissue derived polysialic acids suggests that the conformational epitope critical for the interaction is formed by both classes of compounds.
(4) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(5) Bilateral symmetric soft-tissue masses posterior to the glandular tissue with accompanying calcifications should suggest the diagnosis.
(6) In cardiac tissue the adenylate system is not a good indicator of the energy state of the mitochondrion, even when the concentrations of AMP and free cytosolic ADP are calculated from the adenylate kinase and creatine kinase equilibria.
(7) Spectrophotometric determination of the sulfhydryl content in the animal tissue before (control) and after using 6,6'-Dithiodinicotinic acid is applied.
(8) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
(9) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
(10) Quantitative determinations indicate that the amount of PBG-D mRNA is modulated both by the erythroid nature of the tissue and by cell proliferation, probably at the transcriptional level.
(11) The human placental villus tissue contains opioid receptors and peptides.
(12) Some of those drugs are able to stimulate the macrophages, even in an aspecific way, via the gut associated lymphatic tissue (GALT), that is in connection with the bronchial associated lymphatic tissue (BALT).
(13) The diffusion of Myocamicin in the prostatic tissue of patients undergoing prostatectomy after a single oral dose of 600 mg has been studied.
(14) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
(15) However, decapitation did not eliminate the sex difference in the tissue content of P4 during control incubations.
(16) Content of cyclic nucleoside monophosphates was decreased in all the eye tissues in experimental toxico-allergic uveitis as well as penetration of cAMP into the fluid of anterior chamber of the eye.
(17) Histological studies of nerves 2 years following irradiation demonstrated loss of axons and myelin, with a corresponding increase in endoneurial, perineurial, and epineurial connective tissue.
(18) None of the other soft tissue layers-ameloblasts, stratum intermedium or dental follicle--immunostain for TGF-beta 1.
(19) One of these antibodies, MCaE11, was used for immunohistochemical detection of MAC in tissue and for quantification of the fluid-phase TCC in ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid plasma.
(20) A quantitative comparison of tissue distribution and excretion of an orally administered sublethal dose of [3H]diacetoxyscirpenol (anguidine) was made in rats and mice 90 min, 24 hr, and 7 days after treatment.