(a.) Knotty; having numerous or conspicuous nodes.
(a.) Having nodes or prominences; having the alternate joints enlarged, as the antennae of certain insects.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case of a 74-year-old woman, with a histological diagnosis of Transient Arteritis two years before and Nodose Polyarteritis, is described.
(2) Neurons that mediated the increase in venular permeability had their cells bodies in the jugular (superior sensory) ganglion of the vagus nerve or rostral portion of the nodose (inferior sensory) ganglion.
(3) Here we describe the differentiation of these precursors in vitro, from dorsal root and nodose ganglion cell suspensions.
(4) The labeled cells were located mainly in the rostral one-third of the lateral side of the nodose ganglion.
(5) Results with both techniques revealed the presence of GAL-containing cell bodies and fibers in the nodose ganglion.
(6) The question raised was whether cells from the graft would be able to yield the neural crest derivatives normally arising from the hindbrain and vagal crest, such as carotid body type I and II cells, enteric ganglia, Schwann cells located along the local nerves, and the nonneuronal contingent of cells in the host nodose ganglion.
(7) Cytochrome oxidase (CO) activity, an endogenous metabolic marker, was examined in visceral sensory neurons of the rat nodose and petrosal ganglia by using enzyme histochemistry.
(8) Injection of the retrograde tracer True Blue into the thyroid gland labelled cell bodies in the thyroid ganglion, the laryngeal ganglion, the superior cervical ganglion, the jugular-nodose ganglionic complex, the dorsal root ganglia (C2-C5) and the trigeminal ganglion.
(9) The histological study using the teasing method demonstrated the existence of unmyelinated fibres, in the thoraco-cervical region of the vagus nerve, becoming progressively myelinated from the periphery to the nodose ganglion.
(10) The number of single- and double-labeled cells in the nodose, dorsal root and coeliac-superior mesenteric ganglia and the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus were counted and expressed as percentages of total labeled cells.
(11) These miniglomera are innervated by afferent fibres emerging from the nodose ganglion; sometimes these fibres are contained in the aortic or common carotid baroreceptor nerves, but sometimes they emerge as independent nerves.
(12) Isolated living cell bodies were obtained by mechanical and enzymatic dissociation from adult rabbit nodose ganglion followed by separation of fibres and cells using a Percoll gradient.
(13) In addition, some preliminary results from guinea-pig nodose ganglion neurones are presented.
(14) The volume of the nodose ganglion and the total number and size of the placodal nodose neurons were unaffected by NGF.
(15) Therefore these results are consistent with functional AVP V1 receptors occurring in the nodose ganglion.
(16) Lastly, the role of Australia antigen in the development of panarteritis nodose is discussed.
(17) Hybridization of antisense Hox 2.1 RNA is also seen in the spinal ganglia, in the nodose ganglia of the Xth cranial nerve (which contains derivatives of the neural crest arising from the posterior hind brain), and in the myenteric plexus.
(18) In the jugular-nodose ganglionic complex and the dorsal root ganglia the majority of the labelled nerve cell bodies stored calcitonin gene-related peptide.
(19) Application of TB to the rat superficial temporal artery labeled perikarya in the superior cervical ganglion, the otic ganglion, the sphenopalatine ganglion, the jugular-nodose ganglionic complex, and the trigeminal ganglion.
(20) The selective excitant and neurotoxic action of capsaicin on vagal sensory neurons in the rat has been investigated in vitro using three techniques: extracellular recording of compound spike potentials from the whole nerve; intracellular recording from ganglion cells using single-electrode current and voltage clamp; and electron microscopy of the nerve and nodose ganglion.
(1) Combined SEM and TEM examination of the endothelium of compressed segments revealed "craters" and "balloons", blebs and vacuoles, swollen mitochondria, dilated granular endoplasmic reticulum, and subendothelial edema.
(2) Mild fibrosis, swollen mitochondria, and hyper-contracted and overdistended sarcomeres were typical ultrastructural alterations.
(3) The fungicidal activity of six rabbit neutrophil cationic peptides (NP) against resting (dormant) spores, preincubated (swollen) spores, and hyphae of Aspergillus fumigatus and Rhizopus oryzae was examined.
(4) Precipitates of calcium antimonate were formed almost exclusively in swollen clear pinealocytes, in and along their cell membranes, over their nuclei, in mitochondria, the Golgi apparatus, endoplasmic and integrade reticulums, acervuli, in vesicles surrounding synaptic bars, cytoplasmic matrix, and flocculent extracellular material.
(5) Her chest roentgenogram showed a moderate amount of pleural effusion in the left pleural cavity without infiltration in the lung fields and no evidence of swollen hilar or mediastinal lymphnodes.
(6) Effects of alpha- or beta-D-glucose on the respiration of germinated spores (only germinated spores not including swollen spores and elongated spores) of Bacillus subtilis and B. megaterium were studied.
(7) Central nervous system (CNS) cultured neurons while exposed to different concentrations and pH of L-lactic acid exhibited in general chromatin clumping, vacuolization in the cytoplasm, appearance of lipid bodies, accumulation of polyribosomes, cytoplasmic lucency and swollen and aggregation of mitochondria.
(8) The enzyme changes in response to trauma varied widely; some enzymes controlling tissue respiration showed early and rapid changes, increasing in hyperactive, swollen glial cells and vascular endothelium and decreasing in nerve cells and neuropile.
(9) It's possible that it upsets her to think about the past, or perhaps, these days, she saves her animation for the times when she is holding a microphone and standing in front of a swollen, angry crowd.
(10) In acute inflammation, circumscribed ulcers were often seen; along their margins the epithelial cells were swollen and isolated from the surrounding cells.
(11) A diffusely reddish and swollen vaginal mucosa from a 5 year old caucasian female, which experienced recurrent haemorrhages since the first year of life, proves to be a venous angiosis or varicosis, representing a congenital vascular malformation.
(12) Ultrastructurally, swollen and degenerating nerve processes have been found after lithium treatment suggesting a particular sensitivity of these structures to lithium ion.
(13) Investigations with scanning and transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that the HOS test caused the membrane of the sperm tail to swell and the tail fibers to coil several times within the swollen membrane.
(14) The type I epithelial cells of the lung tissue are swollen and show poor cellular structures.
(15) Within 24 h of injection, axons in this nerve became swollen and fused at points along their length.
(16) After 24 h, the extensor digitorum longus and tibialis anterior muscles appeared grossly swollen (edematous) and discolored.
(17) A 70-year-old man died when his car crashed into a swollen river near Earith, Cambridgeshire.
(18) Maximally swollen mitochondria from intermediate-age ARO rats, contracted more rapidly with antimycin addition than those from PF or AF controls.
(19) Clinical index consisted of the Landsbury index, number of swollen joints and duration of morning stiffness.
(20) The chloride cells were swollen and alterations had occurred in their mitochondria and nuclei.