(a.) Of or pertaining to regeneration; tending to regenerate; as, regenerative influences.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study we investigated the recovery or regenerative process of nasal mucosa in rabbits after mechanical injury on the basis of ultrastructural as well as functional observations.
(2) It was concluded from this that treatment with gangliosides stimulated the regenerative potential of the damaged nerves.
(3) By this action, oxytocin is believed to increase the probability of successful regenerative spikes and thereby initiate electrical activity in quiescent preparations, increase the frequency of burst discharges, the number of spikes in each burst, and the amplitude of spikes in individual cells.
(4) This study demonstrates that a second classical neurotransmitter, dopamine, can act to suppress regenerative neurite outgrowth.
(5) It is concluded that a number of mechanisms can account for the conduction failure resulting from phospholipase A2, including disruption of sodium channels needed for propagation of regenerative nerve impulses and the depletion of high energy phosphates needed to maintain ionic gradients.
(6) These data suggest that the mechanism by which gonadal steroids act in the injured nervous system is partly through the differential regulation of the regenerative properties of the injured cell, presumably via hormone receptor-mediated action at the level of the neuronal genome.
(7) These surplus chromophores become esterified and are temporarily taken up by the pigment epithelium to be re-entered into the visual cycle as fast as they can be processed by the regenerative machinery of the rod outer segments.
(8) We believe that this method may prove to be as beneficial to other investigators who are using experimental peripheral nerve lesions to study the regenerative aspects of the nervous system.
(9) Diethylnitrosoamine is found to alter the course of the regenerative processes induced by partial hepatectomy, which is manifested in essentially other, than in the control, changes of polyribosomes and mRNA.
(10) It is planned to employ this method (after further improvements) in investigating the possible effects of changes in the crevicular fluid composition on the developmental and regenerative processes in the juvenile periodontium.
(11) In both treatments, the proximal axon stumps exhibited regenerative growth as early as 1 day after axotomy, and, by the third day, neurites had extended.
(12) The sustained regenerative responses are considered intriguing and may have relevance both for head-injured humans and for future studies of central nervous system regeneration.
(13) The regenerative response of myelinated axons of the mammalian central nervous system was investigated by inserting peripheral nerve grafts in the vicinity of traumatized rat optic axons.
(14) The hypothetical pattern is regenerative and shows how epithelial cell patterns where cells divide might arise.
(15) After amputation, limbs of both early and late stages form a regenerative blastema and support lens formation from the outer cornea.
(16) This calculation shows a regenerative process during the treatment with the high dose.
(17) Explant exposure to lymphokine was shown by light and electron microscopy to significantly suppress chondrocyte glycosaminoglycan regenerative capacity.
(18) CCl4-induced serum enzyme elevations were significantly lower in 2 days post-PH (PH2) rats when compared to SH rats or 7 days post-PH (PH7) rats maintained on CD diet, indicating that CD potentiated CCl4 hepatotoxicity is significantly reduced in livers stimulated for regenerative activity by PH.
(19) Review of the FNA smears showed the findings to be more typical of a reparative or regenerative process; these findings had been cytologically overinterpreted, partly due to the lack of adequate clinical information submitted with the aspirate.
(20) From this point of view, the appearance of "myasthenic" synapses may be considered as a result of the proceding destructive-regenerative process.
Rejuvenation
Definition:
(n.) Rejuvenescence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similar infusions of young blood rejuvenated muscle tissue in older mice, boosting their strength and exercise endurance, according to another paper in Science.
(2) It’s not just the people who want a cleaner country; China’s leaders too have a vision for national rejuvenation — the “China dream”.
(3) "We are seeing huge changes, and we urgently need to rejuvenate the UK's energy infrastructure.
(4) Five years ago, as Brazilian waxes became more common, demand for labial plastic surgery increased, then for "vaginal rejuvenation", perhaps the creepiest of the rejuvenations.
(5) Incubation with inosine alone restored ATP levels of the aged erythrocytes to some extent, but did not result in morphological rejuvenation.
(6) The Nobel Laureate and ex-director of Fermilab, Leon Lederman, described superconductivity as "the elixir to rejuvenate accelerators and open new vistas to the future".
(7) The 50-year-old former record company assistant, who began his career at EMI, has delivered ratings success by rejuvenating the talent show format.
(8) In 1889 Brown-Séquard claimed that injections of testicular extract rejuvenated the elderly, and in 1893 he introduced organotherapy.
(9) Circulating levels of FSH, LH, prolactin (Prl), estradiol (E), and progesterone (P) were determined by RIA in four intact and four monkeys luteectomized (CLX) at parturition in order to a) characterize the patterns of these hormones during the puerperium, and b) examine a possible inhibitory role of the "rejuvenated" corpus luteum (CL) on the resumption of follicle growth post partum.
(10) Analysts were somewhat surprised that AOL has found a buyer because they believed Bebo would require large investment to rejuvenate and because it only has a meaningful presence in the UK & Ireland.
(11) In our experience, this technique offers certain advantages and has fewer complications than subperiosteal lifting, allowing natural and harmonious rejuvenation of the upper two-thirds of the face, leaving no sequelae other than the coronal scar which is concealed in the scalp.
(12) Red cells stored in SAGM medium for 42 days at +4 degrees C were rejuvenated by bicarbonate, pyruvate and adenosine.
(13) Although all three studies were done in mice, researchers believe a similar rejuvenating therapy should work in humans.
(14) They more often want to create great educational opportunities for all students but the system fails them by not allowing them to refresh, reinvigorate, rejuvenate and revitalise themselves and their teaching materials in meaningful ways.
(15) The advantages of proliferation as a means of repair are described and it is proposed that cell proliferation is required for full rejuvenation.
(16) She will also go head to head with another ITV export, James Goldston, who has been credited with rejuvenating ABC's Good Morning America, which has eclipsed NBC's Today from its longstanding position at number one in the breakfast ratings war.
(17) It would have been exceedingly harsh on the rejuvenated home team.
(18) He declared that he alone had the strength to secure the homeland and rejuvenate the economy in a 75-minute speech that pushed familiar buttons.
(19) This theory assumes that aging is due to the accumulation of multiple forms of molecular damage and that rejuvenation is due to repair.
(20) Submalar augmentation is a new approach that effectively deals with many of the problems encountered in midfacial rejuvenation.