(n.) A mixture of starch and glycerin, used as a substitute for ointments.
(n.) A variety of quartz, of a color between grass green and leek green, which is found associated with common chalcedony. It was much esteemed by the ancients for making engraved ornaments.
(n.) The viscous material of an animal or vegetable cell, out of which the various tissues are formed by a process of differentiation; protoplasm.
Example Sentences:
(1) The absolute recoveries of diazepam, nordazepam and flurazepam in human milk were 84, 86 and 92% and in human plasma 97, 89 and 94%, respectively.
(2) Cancer patients showed abnormally high plasma free tryptophan levels.
(3) In each sheep there was a significant negative correlation between the glucose and corticosteroid concentrations in both maternal and fetal plasma, and there were positive correlations between the maternal and fetal plasma concentrations of glucose, and between the glucose and fructose concentrations of fetal plasma.
(4) The extents of phospholipid hydrolysis were relatively low in brain homogenates, synaptic plasma membranes and heart ventricular muscle.
(5) Disease stabilisation was associated with prolonged periods of comparatively high plasma levels of drug, which appeared to be determined primarily by reduced drug clearance.
(6) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
(7) LHRH therapy leads to higher plasma LH levels and a lower FSH in response to an intravenous LHRH test.
(8) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(9) Maximum increases in portal plasma secretin concentrations of 143, 146 and 190% and maximum increases in VIP of 116, 155 and 147% after, respectively, intraduodenal 0.1 M NaHCO3, 0.1 M Na2CO3, and 0.025 M NaOH were found.
(10) Dialysis of dog plasma against an artificial c.s.f.
(11) One of these antibodies, MCaE11, was used for immunohistochemical detection of MAC in tissue and for quantification of the fluid-phase TCC in ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid plasma.
(12) Recovery of CV-3988 from plasma averaged 81.7% for the column procedure and 40% for the organic extraction.
(13) It includes preincubation of diluted plasma with ellagic acid and phospholipids and a starting reagent that contains calcium and a chromogenic peptide substrate for thrombin, Tos-Gly-Pro-Arg-pNA.
(14) Concentrations of several gastrointestinal hormonal peptides were measured in lymph from the cisterna chyli and in arterial plasma; in healthy, conscious pigs during ingestion of a meal.
(15) Plasma NPY correlated better with plasma norepinephrine than with epinephrine, indicating its origin from sympathetic nerve terminals.
(16) Neither the plasma prolactin level nor urinary excretion of aldosterone and ADHshowed any consistent change throughout the dive.
(17) Zinc in plasma and urine and serum albumin and alpha 2-macroglobulin were measured in 48 patients with burns.
(18) Arginine vasopressin further reduced papillary flow in kidneys perfused with high viscosity artificial plasma.
(19) Determination of plasma luteinizing hormone (LH) levels in the peripubertal female rats revealed that plasma LH was increased transiently immediately after NPY administration.
(20) Nicardipine lowered systolic and diastolic blood pressure to normal, plasma aldosterone was reduced and serum potassium levels were increased.
Plasmic
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or connected with, plasma; plasmatic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Testosterone was assumed to synthesize the specific factor, capable of activating Na,K-ATPase of plasmic membranes.
(2) It also strongly inhibited non-plasmic fibrinolysis with human leukocyte proteinase and earthworm proteinase.
(3) This finding suggests that the defect in fibrinogen Paris I derives from an abnormality in the carboxy-terminal region of the gammaParis I-chain, so that in the presence of Factor XIII, these chains are not crosslinked and Fragment D-D molecules are not liberated upon subsequent plasmic degradation.
(4) Specific primers, deduced from the aminoterminal sequence of the purified protein, were tailored to facilitate direct expression of plasmic clones, and the large fraction of positive clones obtained, revealed the presence of isogenic variation.
(5) The results show that such resin leads to an increase in haematic glucose, accompanied by a reduction in plasmic IRI and an increase in ammonia levels.
(6) It was noted that prolonged use of the antibiotics for 10 to 12 days inhibited proliferation of the plasmic cells, the inhibitory effect of tetracycline being more pronounced.
(7) The effect of triterpen glycosides, such as cauloside C from Caulophyllum robustum, stichoposide A from Stichopus japonicus S and the asaponine from Thea sinensis L on permeability of the plasmic membranes for amino acids was studied.
(8) The greatly reduced binding of [3H] diethylstilboestrol to the 4 S plasma plasmic receptor in the Müllerian duct (precursor of the uterus) of 20-day-old foetuses.
(9) In case of treatment with INH and R-AMP the plasmic half-life of rifampicin would be longer in rapid acetylizers than in slow ones.
(10) Plasmic membrane damage of human platelets was evidenced by the release of entrapped alpha-[14C]aminoisobutyric acid used as a cytoplasmic marker.
(11) geometrical properties of perikarya, staining intensities of cell compartments and nucleo-plasmic area-ratio) including pyramidal (Golgi-category I) and non-pyramidal (Golgi-category II) neurons.
(12) In apparently recent lesions astrocytes displayed cyto-plasmic oedema but otherwise were still fairly normal.
(13) The specific binding of an antiestrogen tamoxifen to receptors of estradiol of target cells plasmic membranes of the human endometrium was studied in some hyperplastic processes.
(14) Phospholipid methylation is involved during plasmic membrane stimulation.
(15) Our findings indicate that plasmic degradation of soluble fibrin polymers in plasma may be an important source of fragment DD during thrombolytic therapy.
(16) The cytosole of hepatocytes and the blood serum of adult testosterone-treated rats activated the Na,K-ATPase of isolated plasmic membranes of hepatocytes of adult and old intact rats.
(17) The energetic consequences of acute and chronic adjustments of two primary-active transport processes, Na-K transport across plasma(sarco) lemma and Ca transport across the endo(sarco)plasmic-reticular membrane, are illustrated.
(18) Experiments on adult (6-8-month-old and 26-28-month-old) Wistar rats revealed the hyperpolarization of plasmic membranes and activation of Na,K-ATPase of adrenocorticocytes in animals of both age groups and of hepatocytes of adult rats.
(19) Immunochemically, there was detected luminescence of IgE on the basal membranes of the mucous glands, on the basal membranes of the mucosa, as well as in lymphoid, plasmic, and mast cells infiltrating the mucosa.
(20) On sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) run according to the method of Laemmli, we noticed two gamma chain species in fibrinogen and its plasmic fragments D1 and D2, consisting of a normal species and an apparently lower molecular weight (mol wt) variant in respective fractions.