What's the difference between nemaline and thread?
Nemaline
Definition:
(a.) Having the form of threads; fibrous.
Example Sentences:
(1) To test whether congenital nemaline myopathy (NM) might have a neurogenic basis, we evaluated the number and frequency distribution of L5 motoneuron cell bodies and their myelinated ventral root (VSR) axons in a typical case.
(2) A boy who had experienced generalized muscle weakness and hypotonia since early infancy was diagnosed as having nemaline myopathy on the basis of muscle biopsy at 3 years of age.
(3) Muscle biopsy appearances were unique but showed some similarities to both nemaline myopathy and myotonic dystrophy.
(4) In nemaline myopathy and some cardiac muscles, the Z-band becomes greatly enlarged and contains multiple layers of a zigzag structure similar to that seen in normal muscle.
(5) The clinical course and autopsy findings in a patient with fatal neonatal nemaline myopathy are described.
(6) The marked heterogeneity of nemaline myopathy is again shown in the present series of 13 patients.
(7) A biopsied specimen, obtained from the vastus lateralis muscle, showed abundant nemaline bodies from pathological study, and electron dense particles on Z-line by electron-microscopic examination.
(8) Muscle biopsies from both cases showed a selective atrophy of Type I fibers without any structural change except for very few nemaline bodies.
(9) A muscle biopsy specimen showed nemaline rods, increased variation in fiber size, apparent loss of Type IIb fiber differentiation, and a "moth-eaten" pattern of the intermyofibrillar network.
(10) Staining techniques for demonstration of various stored materials include: 1) toluidine blue at pH 2.8 for acid mucopolysaccharide in skeletal muscle fibers in Pompe's glycogenesis 2, 2) one-step trichrome stain for nemaline myopathy and for abnormal mitochondria in X-linked infantile cardiomyopathy, 3) periodic acid-methenamine silver stain for glycolipid-containing lysosomes in I-cell disease (mucolipidosis 2), 4) Sudan black B stain for lipid in skeletal muscle fibers in Reye's syndrome, infantile lactic acidosis, Leigh's infantile subacute necrotizing encephalopathy and Jansky-Bielschowsky late infantile ceroid lipofuscinosis, 5) iron stain for iron in cardiac and skeletal muscle fibers in thalassemia with advanced hemosiderosis, and 6) autofluorescence for "ceroid" in skeletal muscle fibers in Jansky-Bielschowsky disease.
(11) Histochemical and histological study of muscle indicated that 11 cases were of myogenic origin, including congenital muscular dystrophy in 10 cases from six families and nemaline rod myopathy in one.
(12) The third case of adult-onset rod disease (nemaline myopathy) with abundant myofibrillar as well as intranuclear rods is described.
(13) A boy with onset features common for a moderate form of congenital nemaline myopathy, after some years developed scapulo-humeral syndrome.
(14) The myopathies consisted of central core disease, nemalin myopathy, congenital fiber type disproportion, mitochondrial myopathy, congenital muscular dystrophy, and myositis.
(15) The histological and histochemical findings in the respiratory muscles of a patient with severe neonatal nemaline myopathy are described.
(16) Congenital nemaline myopathy (CNM) is generally classified as a non-progressive or slowly progressive neuromuscular disease.
(17) The possibility exists that this represents a severe and rapidly fatal form of nemaline myopathy that should be included in the differential diagnosis of infantile hypotonias.
(18) In the Nemaline myopathy the same genetic defect can act in muscular fibres and on dynain arms (cytoskeleton).
(19) The only relevant change found in centronuclear myopathy and to a lesser extent in nemaline myopathy was an unusual smallness and simplication of motor endings, suggesting delayed or impaired maturation.
(20) Nemaline myopathy shows certain well-defined clinical characteristics and rodlike structures derived from Z-band protein accumulate within the muscle fibers.
Thread
Definition:
(n.) A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted.
(n.) A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.
(n.) The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1.
(n.) Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse.
(n.) Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness.
(v. t.) To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.
(v. t.) To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid.
(v. t.) To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.
Example Sentences:
(1) Use 3-ml Luer-Lok syringes and 30-gauge needles and thread the needle carefully into the vessel while using slow and steady injection with light pressure.
(2) No infection threads were found to penetrate either root hairs or the nodule cells.
(3) When using a nylon thread for the attachment of a pseudophakos to the iris, it may happen that the suture is slung tightly around the implant-lens.
(4) This thread ran through his later writings, which focused particularly on questions of the transformation of work and working time, envisaging the possibility that the productivity gains made possible by capitalism could be used to enhance individual and social life, rather than intensifying ruthless economic competition and social division.
(5) Santi Cazorla, Sánchez and Mesut Özil were all involved, and when the ball came back to Cazorla he made a fine threaded pass to Walcott.
(6) We've brought on two experts to answer your questions from 1-2pm BST in the comment thread on this article.
(7) The astrocytes had generally two types of processes: (1) thread-like processes of relatively constant width with few ramifications and few lamellar appendages and (2) the sinuous processes with clusters of lamellar appendages.
(8) Electron microscopy showed the presence of bacterial ghosts and protein threads.
(9) George RR Martin , whose series of novels inspired the HBO drama , has woven a tapestry of extraordinary size and richness; and most of the threads he has used derive from the history of our own world.
(10) The left anterior descending coronary artery of dogs and the right common carotid artery of rabbits were subjected to partial constriction with suture thread (40-60% reduction in transluminal diameter).
(11) Neuronal thread protein is a recently characterized, approximately 20-kd protein that accumulates in brains with Alzheimer's disease (AD) lesions.
(12) Small threaded pins do not cause femoral head rotation.
(13) Nematocyst capsules and everted threads from both species contained levels of glycine and proline-hydroxyproline characteristic of vertebrate collagens.
(14) Load transfer from ring to bone is concentrated at the first and last threads where the subchondral bone layer is penetrated.
(15) Furthermore, large numbers of neuropil threads are scattered throughout the nuclear gray.
(16) The histological findings of actinomyces spores, thread-like foreign material and detritus drew out attention to the rare manifestation of abdominal actinomycosis.
(17) Monofilament nylon threads are used as drains in free skin grafting; 2-0 or 3-0 nylon threads are usually applied.
(18) Monoclonal antibodies, raised independently in two laboratories against either pancreatic stone protein (PSP) or pancreatic thread protein (PTP), reacted with the Mr 14,000 protein(s).
(19) With the initial technique, the gastrostomy tube was pulled in by a thread introduced percutaneously into the stomach.
(20) P19 gave by proteolysis a protein of 14 KD (P14), at first named protein X and also called pancreatic thread protein or pancreatic stone protein.