(n.) The nose; the snout; the mouth; the beak of a bird; a nib, as of a pen.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maternal smoking during pregnancy appears to alter the size and cellular composition of fetal NEB.
(2) Intra-epithelial beaded nerve fibers, subepithelial fibers, and large-caliber nerves in the hilus region and tracheal wall were also CGRP-IR, and immunoreactive nerves were occasionally found in close association with NEB at the basal pole.
(3) Air-sac lesions resulting from exposure to variants of strain Neb-3S were marked, whereas those resulting from exposure to variants of WVU-1853 were slight.
(4) We conclude that established NEBs promote growth of the developing airway by stimulating proliferation of local endoderm.
(5) Light microscopically, NEC and NEB were first observed at 8 and 9 weeks of gestation, respectively.
(6) These latter data indicate that cyclin synthesis and phosphorylation is not a sufficient condition for calcium-induced NEB in sea urchin embryos.
(7) The double injected cells resumed cycling, NEB, and mitosis after a delay of one cell cycle period, and remained one cell cycle out of phase with the sister (control) cell.
(8) Left infranodosal vagotomy decreased the NEB innervation index in the left lung to 0.1 by 24 h postoperatively.
(9) The modified Clara cells covered most of the surface of the NEB leaving only small oval areas for the exposed surfaces of the specialized cells which contained numerous cytoplasmic granules.
(10) From 2 days in culture to a time equivalent to term, NEB formation parallels that in vivo, indicating that developmental requirements are met in in vitro.
(11) After long-term (3 days) infranodose vagotomy, the ipsilateral NEB nerve endings have degenerated.
(12) In both control and DEN-treated animals, serotonin-immunoreactive cells organized into neuroepithelial bodies (NEBs).
(13) The strain distribution pattern of Neb-specific RFLPs segregating in the RI strains showed significant concordance with those of Pmv-7 and Hc, two loci previously located to proximal mouse Chromosome 2.
(14) High resistance to mastitis was determined in the progeny of AO-4, EM-01, NC-17, NB-10, NEB-15, NUN-3, Nx-33 bulls, while opposite results were recorded in the progeny of NAR-45, NAR-47, NER-01, NOM-19 and REN-100 bulls.
(15) However increase of morbidity was related to the duration of settlement in NEB (18% after 1 year vs 34% after 5 years, p less than 0.01).
(16) A few very heavily labeled small-granule cells (0.9%) occurred singly in the periphery of large, otherwise lightly labeled NEBs.
(17) The nodules appeared to arise from inconspicuous cell nests, which were rudiments of neonatal NEBs.
(18) In some animals the apical pole is in direct contact with the lumen of the duct, whereas in others the NEB is isolated from the lumen by either ciliated epithelial or Clara-like cells.
(19) Hence, transduction of stimuli in the NEB implies concomitant efferent modulation of the NEB corpuscular cells.
(20) Excipient-treated PIC barrows exhibited faster and more efficient growth (P less than .001) and a higher capacity for carcass protein accretion (P less than .001) but similar rates of lipid deposition compared to excipient-treated NEB barrows.
Nep
Definition:
(n.) Catnip.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast to the intact endothelial monolayers, in homogenates additional kininase activity was found which was not affected by either ACE and NEP inhibitors nor by amastatin and MGTA.
(2) These data indicate that mammalian tachykinins induce the release of NCA from BBEC and that NEP modulates these effects.
(3) The nuclear masses are known as (1) the area lateralis hypothalami (ALH), (2) the nucleus entopeduncularis (nEp), (3) the nucleus semilunaris accessorius (nSA), (4) the nucleus ventromedialis hypothalami (nVmH), and (5) the posterolateral portion of the zona incerta (ZI).
(4) The effects of the neutral metalloendopeptidase (NEP) inhibitor, thiorphan, and the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor, captopril, on airway responses to SP5-11 were examined in order to test the hypothesis that differences in degradation of SP and SP5-11 contribute to the difference in airway responsiveness to the two peptides.
(5) These results suggest that degradation of NKA and NKB by NEP but not by ACE is an important determinant of the bronchoconstriction induced by these peptides.
(6) By cleaving and thus inactivating tachykinins released from sensory nerves, NEP limits the actions of these peptides.
(7) We gave phosphoramidon to inhibit NEP and enalapril maleate or captopril to inhibit ACE.
(8) The effects of neutral endopeptidase inhibition (NEP-I) were studied in 6 conscious sheep with heart failure (HF) induced by rapid ventricular pacing for 7 days.
(9) The present work examined the susceptibility of these novel peptides to hydrolysis by various purified exo- and endo-peptidases including endopeptidases 24.11 (NEP), 24.15, 24.16, angiotensin-converting enzyme, leucine aminopeptidase and carboxypeptidase A. NEP attacked MCH at three sites of the molecule with an apparent affinity of about 12 microM and a kcat.
(10) On the other hand, transient or enhanced expression of NEP is observed during the development of several organs such as the sensory organs, the heart and the major blood vessels, the intestine, the bones and the genital tubercle.
(11) These studies confirm the presence of neutral endopeptidase (NEP) in the nuchal ligament of the fetal calf.
(12) Regional haemodynamic responses to atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP, 0.5 nmol kg-1) or proendothelin-1 [1-38] (1.0 nmol kg-1) were assessed in the same conscious Long Evans rats before and 20 min after administration of the novel neutral endopeptidase (NEP) inhibitor, SQ 28,603 (50 mg kg-1, i.v.).
(13) The activity of NEP, measured with an enzymatic fluorimetric method employing N-dansyl-D-alanyl-glycyl-L-4-nitrophenylalanyl-glycine as a synthetic substrate, was 18 times and eight times higher in the outer stripe of the medulla and inner cortex than in the outer cortex (OC).
(14) There were no significant differences in apparent volume of distribution, elimination half-life, and elimination clearance (CIe) for nEp and rEp in intact dogs.
(15) Also examined were the effects of inhibitors of neutral endopeptidase (NEP) and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE).
(16) This binding was displaced in a dose-dependent manner by NEP inhibitors.
(17) Using NEP-expressing MDCK cells and episcopic fluorescence microscopy, a specific labeling was obtained with 100 nM FTI which was completely displaced by 10 microM HACBOGly, a specific and potent inhibitor of NEP.
(18) We concluded that, although covalent bonds appear to be cleaved in NEP by papain, its activity and structure are sustained by S-S bridges.
(19) To determine the distribution of NEP, a possible regulatory enzyme for the neuropeptide-induced leukocyte activation, among human leukocytes, we investigated the enzymatic activity of NEP in each cell type of human peripheral blood leukocytes.
(20) N-ethyl piperidinyl diaminodithiol (NEP-DADT), complexed with 99mTc has been developed as an agent for the measurement of brain blood flow using SPECT.