(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.
Pellicular
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a pellicle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The calmodulin-dependent guanylate cyclase of Tetrahymena pyriformis was shown previously to be localized in surface membranes (ciliary and pellicular membranes) (Kudo, S, Nakazawa, K, Nagao, S & Nozawa, Y, Japan j exp med 52 (1952) 193) [21], whereas in a recent report Schultz et al, (Schultz, J E, Schonefeld, U & Klumpp, S, Eur j biochem 137 (1983) 89) [12] demonstrated the localization of this enzyme in ciliary membrane, arguing against its presence in pellicular membrane.
(2) We have been able to use immunogold labeling with monoclonal antibodies specific for tyrosinated alpha-tubulin to define new microtubule assembly within the T. brucei pellicular cytoskeleton.
(3) There was evidence of a redistribution of the CS antigens away from the pellicular region of the sporozoite.
(4) The enzyme was either in free solution or immobilized on a pellicular support which consisted of a porous carbonaceous layer on solid glass beads.
(5) Six fracture faces, derived from the plasma membrane and 2 pellicular membranes, have been identified at the surface of the free merozoite.
(6) After incorporation of the drug or dosage form in a solvent mixture and addition of an internal standard, tribenzylamine, an aliquot is chromatographed using a pellicular silica gel medium followed by UV spectrophotometric detection at 254 nm.
(7) It has no detectable microfilaments under the plasma membrane, except at the desmosomes in the region of flagellar binding, and it also has a pellicular cortex of microtubules.
(8) The outer and inner pellicular membranes are uniformly spaced and connected by "cross-bridges."
(9) This process was characterised by the occurrence of subpellicular microtubules exclusively in the anterior half of the sporozoite, by a degeneration of the 2 inner pellicular membranes, by an outpocketing of the parasite's surface, and by the arrangement of microtubules in clusters.
(10) Excess pellicular microtubules are formed after treatment of trypanosomes with NCS, suggesting that in trypanosomes the microtubules replicate by induction, not by division.
(11) Triethylaminoethyl cellulose gave somewhat better resolution of PGA2 and PGB2 as compared with the pellicular strong anion-exchange column, but the advantage of this effect is offset by the tediousness of packing columns of triethylaminoethyl cellulose.
(12) The structure of the sub-pellicular microtubules appears well defined and it was possible to distinguish the 13 protofilaments which compose the microtubule wall.
(13) Thus, both stalk and body contractile bundles have linkage complexes that link their associated membrane systems to the microfibrils and, in turn, connect this membrane-microfibrillar interface to the pellicular membranes.
(14) Infections of DS cell and mouse peritoneal macrophage cultures showed amastigotes with a high ribosomal density and deep invaginations of the pellicular layer.
(15) In this way pellicular anion chromatography in combination with this postcolumn reaction reaction to be a sensitive and specific HPLC procedure for analysis of monosaccharides and oligosaccharides in complex biological matrices.
(16) A monoclonal antibody (McAb 3C3) reacting with a pellicular antigen of Eimeria nieschulzi sporozoites has been selected among hybridomas produced against this organism by immunofluorescence assay.
(17) Soon after this, pellicular microtubules disappeared without change of axonemal microtubules.
(18) Areas of close proximity between cells and the pellicular material were seen and were interpreted as adherence junctions.
(19) The released, depolymerized, pellicular tubulin from T. brucei cross-reacted with a monoclonal antibody raised against yeast tubulin.
(20) The ultrastructure of the cell envelope was not greatly affected by carbon source or by growth habit except that a slime layer was more prevalent in pellicular cells compared with those grown in submerged culture.