(a.) Of or pertaining to the kidneys; in the region of the kidneys.
Example Sentences:
(1) Renal micropuncture and microdissection techniques with ultramicro fluid analysis have been applied to evaluate single nephron function in the skate, Raja erinacea.
(2) It is concluded that acute renal denervation augments the pressure diuresis that follows carotid occlusion.
(3) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are frequently accompanied by deteriorated renal functions and by pathological lesions in the glomeruli.
(4) In this review, we demonstrate that serum creatinine does not provide an adequate estimate of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and contrary to recent teachings, that the slope of the reciprocal of serum creatinine vs time does not permit an accurate assessment of the rate of progression of renal disease.
(5) We studied 15 renal transplant recipients for evidence of tubular dysfunction.
(6) One of the main components was confirmed to be caffeic acid which had inhibitory effect on renal failure in mice by Ac1-P.
(7) A leg ulcer in a 52-year-old renal transplant patient yielded foamy histiocytes containing acid-fast bacilli subsequently identified as a Runyon group III Mycobacterium.
(8) Erythrocyte membrane choline transport is abnormally high in chronic renal failure.
(9) These results indicate that both the renal brush-border and basolateral membranes possess the Na(+)-dependent dicarboxylate transport system with very similar properties but with different substrate affinity and transport capacity.
(10) These findings may not indicate a redistribution of renal blood flow through resistance changes in specific parts of the renal vasculature but may represent the consequences of focal cortical ischaemia, most prominent in the outer cortex.
(11) Associated renal and other abnormalities were common.
(12) Changes in renal renin levels after the administration of glycerol were not significant, although lower renal renin values were consistently found in rabbits with more severe impairment of renal function.
(13) Four patients had previously been diverted and the other six were reconstructed because of intractable incontinence or deteriorating renal function.
(14) The role of adrenergic agents in augmenting proximal tubular salt and water flux, was studied in a preparation of freshly isolated rabbit renal proximal tubular cells in suspension.
(15) In 2 patients who had received cadaveric renal allograft, ureteral obstruction was detected six and one-half and five and one-half years after transplantation.
(16) Cytochemical studies on renal peroxisomes were in agreement with these biochemical findings.
(17) Instead of later renal failure and, of course, mental retardation, it was the histological features of the fetus eyes which permit to diagnose and exhibit both congenital cataract and irido-corneal angle dysgenesis.
(18) Furthermore, renal function in the elderly patient with CHF is markedly compromised.
(19) Unbound fractions was significantly correlated with serum albumin concentration (r = -0.344, p less than 0.046) and renal clearance (r = 0.394, p less than 0.021) but not with total body clearance or volume of distribution.
(20) The superior mesenteric artery and the abdominal aorta made the mean angle of 35.5 degree in patients with normal left renal vein, the mean angle of 45.4 degrees in those with left renal vein compression without nutcracker phenomenon, and the mean angle of 11.9 degrees in those with nutcracker phenomenon.
Reniform
Definition:
(a.) Having the form or shape of a kidney; as, a reniform mineral; a reniform leaf.
Example Sentences:
(1) Except for its conidia, which are mostly reniform to allantoid rather than ovoid as is characteristic for W. dermatitidis, and the undecided mode of conidiogenesis, the isolate closely resembles W. dermatitidis in gross and microscopic morphology, thermotolerance, and general and neurotrophic infectivity patterns in mice injected intraperitoneally.
(2) pneumocysts with reniform bodies and degradation inclusions within macrophages, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonitis (PCP) could be detected in 100% of cases.
(3) The pneumocysts presented as circular structures of 5 microns in diameter and of brilliant green-yellow fluorescence surrounding two mirror image reniform structures.
(4) This round to oval to slightly reniform structure was bound by a single limiting membrane and composed of an electron dense, slightly granular matrix without evidence of crystalloid formation.
(5) The 6 carcinoids with an insular pattern primary in the ovary or metastatic to it from the ileum displayed granules that were pleomorphic (dumbbell and reniform shaped) and varied from 90 to 410 mum, with an average diameter of 210 mum.
(6) The kidney thus keeps its reniform shape but does increase in size (bean or orange to grapefruit pattern).
(7) Instead of normal reniform shape, the kidneys appeared "inverted pyriform" or "inverted triangular".
(8) The histologic type of surgically resected specimens was a diffuse proliferation of atypical lymphoid cells with monocytoid appearance, i.e., abundant pale cytoplasm with distinct cell border and small reniform nucleus.
(9) The reniform shape was usually preserved and was present in 19 of 20 cases with CT and 13 of 15 cases with sonograms.
(10) At 3 and 4 h small cells with a reniform nucleus accumulate in the connective tissue core of the choroid plexus.
(11) Resected small-bowel specimens from patients with the reniform configuration revealed focal ischemic changes.
(12) These ultrastructural features combined with the frequent reniform nuclei and scattered lysosomes suggested histiocyte differentiation.
(13) Hydrodynamic comparisons were made between conventional valves (CV) and equivalent sized reniform valves (ERV) that would adapt to the same anulus.
(14) These killer cells included large cells with azurophilic granules in the cytoplasm and with a reniform nucleus, thus resembling large granular lymphocytes.
(15) The leukemic cell count increased rapidly; the cells became large and the nuclear outline, which had been reniform, became lobulated.
(16) This article describes a mitral bioprosthetic valve consisting of three bovine pericardial leaflets with a "reniform" base.
(17) This cell is a large lymphoid cell with strong alpha-naphthyl esterase activity concentrated in a limited area in the cytoplasm usually at the indentation site of a slightly reniform nucleus.
(18) By means of multilayered plastic reconstruction using serial semithin epoxide sections, it has been demonstrated that besides typical follicles there are some other ones in the thyroid gland of newborns: follicles that have a local thickening on one side, follicles that have reniform proliferates with a cavity, and also follicles with two cavities.
(19) Cytomorphologic features of EG were seen in all cases including Langerhans' cell histiocytes having oval to reniform shape nuclei with nuclear grooving and abundant pale cytoplasm.
(20) Ultrastructurally, the cells showed sparse organelles except for prominent paranuclear Golgi apparatus, frequent reniform nuclear indentations, and ruffled cytoplasmic membranes.