(n.) Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle.
(n.) Any one of the colored substances found in animal and vegetable tissues and fluids, as bilirubin, urobilin, chlorophyll, etc.
(n.) Wine flavored with species and honey.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results also suggest that the dispersed condition of pigment in the melanophores represents the "resting state" of the melanophores when they are under no stimulation.
(2) Differences between the albino vs pigmented strains were observed following injections of saline.
(3) Two lectins, wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and peanut agglutinin (PNA), were used to compare domains within the interphotoreceptor matrices (IPM) of the cat and monkey, two species where the morphological relationship between the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and photoreceptors is distinctly different.
(4) Uptake studies with 22Na were performed in cultured bovine pigmented ciliary epithelial cells, in order to characterize mechanisms of Na+ transport.
(5) CW Nd:YAG light transmitted by fiber optic cable and sapphire crystal was applied transsclerally to the ciliary body of pigmented and albino rabbits.
(6) The evolution and function of multiple forms of a given photosynthetic pigment in vivo are discussed.
(7) Changes in protein phosphorylation induced by phagocytic challenge were identified in cultured rat retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) following exposure to isolated rat rod outer segments (ROS) or to polystyrene latex microspheres (PSL).
(8) Both categories frequently showed pellagrous pigmentation and mucocutaneous signs of B-vitamin deficiency.
(9) We show that, in digitonin-permeabilized goldfish xanthophores, the pigment organelles can be induced to disperse by a combination of cAMP, ATP, and xanthophore cytosol.
(10) A red pigment produced by the actinomycete strain B 4358 was identified as butyl-meta-cycloheptylprodiginine (4) by 1H, 13C and correlation via long range coupling NMR spectra.
(11) Two unusual types of oral mucosal pigmentation are reported.
(12) These results are consistent with the idea that RPE pigment dispersion is triggered by a substance that diffuses from the retina at light onset.
(13) Rhabdomeres are substantially smaller and visual pigment is nearly eliminated when Drosophila are carotenoid-deprived from egg to adult.
(14) It is hypothesized that deposition of bilirubin in tissues takes place as an ongoing event, the deposited pigment being eliminated by bilirubin oxidase in healthy infants.
(15) The calculated separation between the centers of these two pigments (using an extended version of the exciton theory) is about 10 A, the pigments' molecular planes are tilted by about 20 degrees, and their N1-N3 axes are rotated by 150 degrees relative to each other.
(16) We have investigated enhancement of pigmentation in inbred C3H- mice using tail skin as a model for testing the effects of phosphorylated DOPA (DP) and ultraviolet radiation.
(17) Although mucocutaneous pigmentation was not present in two of the three patients, the features of intestinal polyposis are consistent with those of Peutz-Jeghers syndrome.
(18) Cytochromes b, c(555), possibly c(1), cytochrome oxidase, a carbon monoxide-binding pigment, and flavoproteins were detectable in the spectra of both intact cells and mitochondria.
(19) The addition of alcohol to the drinking-water resulted in the formation of stones rich in pigment.
(20) The total number of neuronal cell bodies was 25% lower in AIDS (P less than 0.01) than in 12 age-matched controls, although the volume density of neuronal melanin did not differ from that of controls because the percentage of pigmented cell bodies was higher (P less than 0.01) and the cell bodies were more fully packed with melanin in AIDS.
Pigmentary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to pigments; furnished with pigments.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison of the melanin-related metabolites excreted in urine of people with different capacities for melanin biosynthesis indicates that, of all measured substances, 5H6MI2C is the best urinary marker of melanin formation in the skin pigmentary system.
(2) Although neither patient exhibited a toxic effect, these levels may be associated with an increased risk of thioridazine-induced irreversible pigmentary retinopathy, cardiac arrhythmias, and tardive dyskinesia.
(3) Of the ten eyes in the five patients who did not show this pigmentary change, two (20%) had subretinal neovascularization.
(4) Somewhat fewer systemic reactions occurred after intradermal than after im vaccination, but the intradermal route was associated with local reactions in almost all vaccinees and with some residual pigmentary changes.
(5) The clinical and histopathological features of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) include a relationship with age, and the presence of pigmentary disturbances, drusen, thickening of Bruch's membrane, and basal laminar deposits.
(6) A 9-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy had ptosis, progressive external ophthalmoplegia, pigmentary retinopathy, and sensorineural hearing loss.
(7) Three new concepts are advanced in this report: (1) the cul-de-sacs provide a major portion of the normal outflow resistance, (2) the cul-de-sac area is markedly reduced in pigmentary glaucoma and primary open angle glaucoma, accounting for a major portion of the increase in resistance in these conditions, and (3) macrophages are the major cell type responsible for trabecular meshwork clearance of pigment and debris.
(8) We report our results of treatment of pigmentary retinal abiotrophy with a drug known in the Soviet Union as Encad.
(9) Age specific prevalence rates are presented based on 110 cases of pigmentary retinopathy (RP) recorded in the Danish child population of a little over one million individuals on January 1, 1988.
(10) The other patient showed patchy choroidal ischemia with subsequent development of wedge-shaped areas of pigmentary atrophy and mottling in the midperiphery.
(11) The case histories of 3 elderly patients with senile pigmentary dystrophy of the retina are presented.
(12) Inflammation peak occurs 48 hours after ALT and clinically relevant inflammation is seen in 100% of pigmentary glaucomas (PIG), 75% of pseudoexfoliative glaucomas (PEXG) but only in 25% of primary open angle glaucomas (POAG).
(13) Ragged-red fibers with abnormal mitochondria, cerebral spongiosis mostly involving white matter, perimacular pigmentary retinopathy and scattered myocardial fibrosis interrupting the Hiss'bundle were found.
(14) Thus, gamma-MSH peptides have low intrinsic melanotropic activity in mammalian melanoma cells; the specific pigmentary responses appear to be affected by the structure of the C-terminal portion.
(15) Simultaneous ERG and VEP investigations were performed in 42 patients presenting reduced visual acuity and characteristic signs of retinopathy on direct ophthalmoscopic inspection: 1) primary retinal pigmentary degeneration - 15 cases; 2) secondary retinopathy - 11 cases; 3) infantile retinal degeneration - 16 cases.
(16) One of the affected members also presented a Prader-Willi syndrome and a chromosomal anomaly, both being probably unrelated to the pigmentary disorder.
(17) The authors describe an analysis of visual functions and subjective changes in 44 eyes of 22 patients with pigmentary dystrophy of the retina followed up for a period of 2 to 55 months.
(18) Furthermore, in 7 eyes areas of pigmentary atrophy at the posterior pole were observed.
(19) Ocular complications included chronic cystoid macular edema, macular pigmentary changes (37%), sheathing of retinal vessels (22%), venous collaterals of the disc (33%), macular hole formation (1%), neovascularization of the disc (1%), retina (1%), and iris (19%), neovascular glaucoma (8%), and vitreous hemorrhage (7%).
(20) Obstruction of the trabecular meshwork occasionally leads to pigmentary glaucoma, with increased intraocular pressure, optic nerve head changes, and visual field loss.