(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.
Sepia
Definition:
(n.) The common European cuttlefish.
(n.) A genus comprising the common cuttlefish and numerous similar species. See Illustr. under Cuttlefish.
(n.) A pigment prepared from the ink, or black secretion, of the sepia, or cuttlefish. Treated with caustic potash, it has a rich brown color; and this mixed with a red forms Roman sepia. Cf. India ink, under India.
(a.) Of a dark brown color, with a little red in its composition; also, made of, or done in, sepia.
Example Sentences:
(1) The assumption is made that, for eumelanins, there is only one nitrogen atom per monomeric unit, and thus, the empirical formula for the average monomeric Sepia melanin backbone chromophore was determined.
(2) In an earlier communication, we have presented the results of our study on in vitro interaction of bleomycin with collagens of sepia, fish and rat skins using spectrophotometry.
(3) Studies with radiolabelled polyethylene glycol (PEG4000) and EDTA show that the Sepia blood-brain barrier is as tight as the endothelial barrier of mammals.
(4) To add effects to a photo, select one from the menu - sepia, film reel - and swipe upwards to the photo from the icon representing that effect.
(5) This antiserum recognizes a 44 kDa (G alpha) and a 36 kDa (G beta) protein band from Sepia photosensory membrane preparation.
(6) The only catecholamines found present in nervous tissue of Eledone, Octopus and Sepia were dopamine and noradrenaline.
(7) A modification of the Oldendorf arterial injection technique is used to show that glucose transport at the Sepia barrier is mediated by a Na+-independent hexose carrier resembling that of mammalian red cells and blood-brain barrier.
(8) The effect of an intravenous injection of squid-ink (sepia-melanin) solution on adult mouse spheroid alveolar epithelial cells was observed by the electron microscope.
(9) Among them there were Todarodes pacificus, Ommastrephes bartrami, Berrytenthis magester, Sepia officinalis.
(10) A new technique using a stimulating chronically-implanted electrode has allowed us to study the motor responses induced by electrical stimulation of the optic lobe in a freely swimming Sepia.
(11) Effects of noradrenaline and the related compounds adrenaline, dopamine, octopamine, tyramine, clonidine and isoprenaline were studied in isolated heart preparations from the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis L. 2.
(12) Mackay had a difficult conversation with David Cameron , and subsequently appeared on TV with a sepia tan and embarrassed, bulging eyes.
(13) The musculature of the fins of the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis (Mollusca, Cephalopoda) was studied with electromyography to test predictions of the functional role of the various muscle masses.
(14) In contrast, at one week after injection of squid-ink solution, almost all alveolar macrophages were degenerated with destruction of the ectoplasm in which the ingested sepia-melanin particles were digested by lysosomes into fine particles, and the mitochondria of spheroid alveolar epithelial cells were degenerated and the inclusion bodies were hardly formed.
(15) The blood-brain interface was studied in a cephalopod mollusc, the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis, by thin-section electron microscopy.
(16) The HSA results further confirm that the Sepia blood-brain interface is relatively tight to proteins.
(17) The blood-brain barrier in the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis has been studied with the freeze-fracture technique.
(18) Most of all, however, Dingell mourned the sepia-toned era when Democrats and Republicans actually worked together.
(19) Tyrosine-enzymatic and Sepia melanin are quite similar and tyrosine-chemical melanin is fundamentally different from the other two melanins.
(20) They reached the quarter-finals of the 1958 World Cup but had never been in the semi-finals of a major tournament and the challenge was to surpass those sepia-tinted images.