(n.) An organized being; a living body, either vegetable or animal, compozed of different organs or parts with functions which are separate, but mutually dependent, and essential to the life of the individual.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
(2) These organic compounds were found to be stable on the sorbent tubes for at least seven days.
(3) The main clinical features pertaining to the concept of the "psycho-organic syndrome" (POS) were investigated in a sample of children who suffered from severe craniocerebral trauma.
(4) After 3 and 6 months, blood collected by cardiocentesis using ether anesthesia and then sacrificed to remove CNS and internal organs.
(5) Addition of phospholipase A2 from Vipera russelli venom led to a significant increase in the activity of guanylate cyclase in various rat organs.
(6) For the first time it was organized on the basis of population.
(7) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
(8) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
(9) We conclude that chloramphenicol resistance encoded by Tn1696 is due to a permeability barrier and hypothesize that the gene from P. aeruginosa may share a common ancestral origin with these genes from other gram-negative organisms.
(10) Recovery of CV-3988 from plasma averaged 81.7% for the column procedure and 40% for the organic extraction.
(11) One of the main users is coastal planning organizations and conservation organizations that are working on coral reefs.
(12) Infection with opportunistic organisms, either singly or in combination, is known to occur in immunocompromised patients.
(13) The causative organisms included viruses, fungi, and bacteria of both high and low pathogenicity.
(14) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
(15) Neither Brucella organisms, nor increased numbers of neutrophils could be found in semen samples collected from the experimental animals.
(16) The lineage and clonality of Hodgkin's disease (HD) were investigated by analyzing the organization of the immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor beta-chain (T beta) gene loci in 18 cases of HD, and for comparison, in a panel of 103 cases of B- and T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs) and lymphoid leukemias (LLs).
(17) A review is made from literature and an inventory of psychological and organic factors implicated in this pathology.
(18) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
(19) Data is available to support the early influences of enamel organ epithelium upon a responding mesenchyme in the determination of dental morphogenetic fields (Dryburg, 1967; Miller, 1969).
(20) The four deaths were not related to the injuries of parenchymatous organs.
Organogenesis
Definition:
(n.) The origin and development of organs in animals and plants.
(n.) The germ history of the organs and systems of organs, -- a branch of morphogeny.
Example Sentences:
(1) This attack can take place during organogenesis, during early differentiation of neural anlagen after neural tube closure or during biochemical differentiation of the brain.
(2) Separation and recombination experiments, employing a variety of tissue configurations in organ culture, were performed to determine the extent to which the epithelium of the maxillary process influences the viability of the underlying mesenchyme during organogenesis.
(3) The histochemical study of the LDH in the Trout embryo during the early organogenesis shows a specific localization in notochord cells, in mesodermic cells of the terminal knob and in some prosencephalic neuroblasts.
(4) Further research is necessary to investigate possible teratogenic effects that might occur if the spirochete reaches the fetus during the period of organogenesis.
(5) In the present study the distribution of various sugar residues in the cells of the male gonad during postnatal organogenesis was examined employing eight lectin-horseradish peroxidase conjugates (BS-I, ConA, DBA, PNA, RCA-I, SBA, UEA-I, WGA) on paraffin-embedded testicular tissue.
(6) Renal dysplasia was associated with extrarenal malformations in 2 of our cases and we therefore believe that the significance of the dysplasia lies rather in the period of the insult during organogenesis than in the obstruction.
(7) In the present study we investigated (1) the developmental pattern of expression of the chicken insulin gene in the pancreas; (2) the expression of the insulin gene in three nonpancreatic tissues, liver, brain, and lower limb, during chicken development; and (3) the expression of the insulin gene at prepancreatic stages and during chicken embryo organogenesis.
(8) However, the stress associated with maternally toxic doses can be expected to result in associated, often transient, fetal abnormalities that may not be the result of deviant organogenesis.
(9) Insulin and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF I) play an important part in these events in the later stages of embryogenesis, when organogenesis is completed.
(10) We briefly review evidence from in vitro models that supports a role for the extracellular matrix in two essential steps of organogenesis: the establishment of appropriate three-dimensional cell-to-cell relationships, and the determination of a correct cell polarity.
(11) The experiments indicate that D-mannose may be employed in model systems with rodents for precisely timed interruptions of organogenesis in vivo.
(12) Estradiol-17 beta (E2) and 17 alpha-ethinyl estradiol-17 beta (EE) were compared in terms of their relative capacities to alter growth and developmental patterns of cultured whole embryos during the early stages of organogenesis.
(13) However, we established an enhanced level of [14C]acetate incorporation at the time of extensive gene activation during gastrulation as well as some quantitative differences in the pattern of acetylation during gastrula and organogenesis.
(14) It describes the entire gestation period including the period of organogenesis.
(15) Lysosomes participate in the following processes during the course of embryonal organogenesis: 1. destruction of cells of transient embryonal organs; 2. destruction and demolition of whole cells during the course of normal embryonal development; covering with a membrane and lysis of inferior cellular organelles; 5. lysis with consecutive assimilation of cytoplasmic inclusion; lysis of secretory products.
(16) The expression of vimentin, cytokeratins (CKs) and neurofilament (NF) proteins was analysed (using monoclonal antibodies) in the mouse inner ear at the otocyst stage (13th gestational day), when organogenesis was largely completed (16th gestational day) and at birth (21st gestational day).
(17) We conclude: 1) ANP is present in the fetus shortly after the completion of organogenesis; 2) 16 K ANP is the principal intracardiac species in the fetus and the adult; and 3) the existence of ANP soon after cardiac development suggests a possible role for ANP in fetal blood pressure and sodium and water homeostasis.
(18) Morphogenesis was retarded during the early organogenesis stages, but only a slight delay was seen in the treated embryo on day 12.
(19) Congenital rubella syndrome occurred in 2 newborn infected at the organogenesis period (4-8 weeks).
(20) We have used monoclonal antibodies to study the changes in the expression of four kidney antigens during organogenesis in the sheep.