(n.) An erythematous affection of the skin, with severe constitutional and nervous symptoms, endemic in Northern Italy.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of that work Joseph Goldberger developed a diet which produced a condition analogous to pellagra in dogs.
(2) Pellagra diagnosis was made on the basis of the typical clinical skin picture, and low urinary excretion of N'methylnicotinamide and N'methyl-2-pyridone-5-carboxamide (reduced by 70 and 80%, respectively, compared with controls).
(3) These results suggest that Zn interacts with niacin metabolism in alcoholic patients with pellagra through a probable mediation by vitamin B-6.
(4) D-xylose absorption tests and jejunal morphology have been shown to be unaltered in 12 African patients with pellagra when compared with normal values for Zambian Africa adults; that result is contrary to two previous investigations in India and Egypt respectively.
(5) 231 cases of pellagra among 8,000 consulting patients has been observed from May 1977 to June 1978 in the Dermatological Dispensary of the Hospital G.E.C.A.-Mines of Lumbumbashi (Zaire).
(6) Two types of pathologic state are unquestionably the concern of vitaminotherapy: More or less specific and intense vitamin deficiencies: Rickets, scurvy, beri beri, pellagra, vitamin deficiency related to alcohol consumption, polyneuritis, encephalopathy, malabsorption, mucoviscidosis, etc.
(7) Pellagra is a classical disease rarely seen in this country.
(8) Pellagra in the human is characterized by the clinical "three D's," namely, dermatitis, diarrhea, and dementia.
(9) Dermatoses with photosensitivity are divided into three groups: photo-aggravated dermatoses (solar herpes, lupus erythematosus), photosensitivity caused by protective system defect (xeroderma pigmentosum), and photosensitivity caused by metabolic defects (porphyrias, pellagra).
(10) His CNS lesions were composed of disseminated necrotic foci in the cerebral cortices with many Alzheimer type II astrocytes, pachymeningitis hemorrhagica interna, and lesions similar to pellagra and Wernicke encephalopathy.
(11) The nicotinamide nucleotide concentrations in the erythrocytes of subjects suffering from pellagra (pellagrins) were not lower than those in normal subjects, but the ability of erythrocytes to synthesize these nucleotides in vitro was significantly lower in pellagrins.
(12) In pellagra, symmetric keratotic areas on the face are always accompanied by lesions elsewhere on the body.
(13) It is concluded that pellagra per se does not alter intestinal structure or monosaccharide absorption.
(14) It is noted that some of the manifestations of prolonged sleep deprivation are similar to changes seen in pellagra.
(15) We evaluated the effects of SMS 201-995 in 14 such patients, 12 with diarrhea, 8 with flushing, 3 with wheezing, one with tricuspid valve incompetence, 6 with facial telangiectasia, 3 with a pellagra type dermatosis and one with myopathy.
(16) Tryp deficiency caused classical manifestations of pellagra although niacin intake was in excess of normal requirements.
(17) The first symptom of the disease was a serious and prolonged pellagra-like photodermatitis.
(18) Photosensitivity has also been associated with pellagra.
(19) The condition manifests as a pellagra-like skin rash within 8 weeks after birth, with signs of cerebellar ataxia and developmental retardation.
(20) A patient who was treated with isoniazid and who developed pellagra is presented.
Pellicle
Definition:
(n.) A thin skin or film.
(n.) A thin film formed on the surface of an evaporating solution.
Example Sentences:
(1) At this stage of development the inner membrane of the pellicle of the schizont is no longer detectable.
(2) Several functional properties of MG1, MG2, and PRG have been examined, including their presence in two-hour in vivo enamel pellicle, binding to synthetic hydroxyapatite, lubricating properties, and interactions with oral streptococci.
(3) Subculture as a surface pellicle on Sauton's medium has a powerful effect in reducing the relative size of a minority population yielding non-spreading colonies, and thereafter maintaining 99+% of spreading forms.
(4) However, with subsequent subcultivation, eight isolates reverted back to the standard of exhibiting motility and pellicle formation.
(5) The technique holds essentially to the reconnaissance of these types of fibers in fragments or pellicles of said specimens, stained by the methods of Azan and Weigert-Moore, modified, without needing to take succour in histologic methodology applicable to other preparations, which, according to the A., would cause a break of continuity in the observation, and also in the interpretation of findings, and this is not always easy to be re-instated with ease and precision.
(6) In addition to numerous ribosomes, rhoptries, micronemes, and trimembranous pellicle, subpellicular microtubules were observed in the segmenting merozoites.
(7) The same salivary proteins adsorb, however, also selectively to the tooth surface forming a protein layer, the acquired pellicle.
(8) To determine the nature of the salivary components responsible for promoting adhesion, pellicles were prepared from fractions of submandibular and parotid saliva obtained by chromatography on Trisacryl GF 2000 columns.
(9) The high molecular weight proteins found in isolated pellicles of Tetrahymena have been compared in several individual strains within the genus using SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(10) Collectively, these data indicate that actinomyces type 1 fimbriae may specifically interact with several proline-rich salivary molecules, forming experimental pellicles on HA or polystyrene surfaces.
(11) The fim(+) bacteria did not show selective outgrowth in mixed cultures grown in broth aerated by continuous shaking, in static broth incubated anaerobically in hydrogen, and on aerobic agar plates, i.e., under conditions not allowing an advantage from pellicle formation.
(12) During prophase the former gradually associates with the surface of the condensing chromosomes and forms the coat or pellicle around the metaphase and anaphase chromosomes.
(13) Thus the existence fibronectin which is present in the salivary flow, acquired pellicle and dental plaque, was investigated in used acrylic resin dentures with a direct immunohistochemical fluorescent technique using antihuman fibronectin goat serum which was labeled with fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC).
(14) The differences are in formation of apical parts of daughter merozoites which is not coincidental with nuclear division and in formation of the outer membrane of pellicle which arises within the mother cell.
(15) Throughout development the macrogamete retains a normal pellicle which possesses numerous micropores.
(16) Mucin was the protein used to simulate the pellicle.
(17) Chemical alteration of the acquired pellicle appears to be the major reason for these brown integuments.
(18) Micropores in the pellicle were often associated with micronemes.
(19) The cellulose content (greater than 90%, dry weight, depending on the efficiency of water washing) and the beta-D-homopolyglucan nature of these pellicles were assessed by physical, chemical, and enzymatic methods.
(20) SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed that the pellicle contained 50 mol% of nonpolar amino acids.