(a.) Resembling flesh, or muscle; composed of sarcode.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thorough clinical investigation of the patient revealed sarcoid involvement of the skin, lungs, liver and lymph nodes and an extensive retroperitoneal surgically-verified lymph tumour.
(3) Ten symptomatic sarcoid patients (previously untreated) with radiological parenchymal shadowing and abnormal pulmonary function received inhaled budesonide, 800 micrograms m twice daily via a Nebuhaler for 16 weeks.
(4) Chemotactic activity was detected in BAL fluid from sarcoid patients with active pulmonary disease, but not from those without pulmonary involvement.
(5) Therapy was successful when used for periocular or solitary and smaller sarcoids.
(6) The presence of immunoglobulins and complement in sarcoid granulomata suggests that the humoral mechanism may also be important.
(7) These findings suggest that hyperprolactinaemia may be due to hypothalamic involvement by sarcoid granulomata.
(8) The diagnosis of ocular sarcoid is presumptive in the absence of systemic disease.
(9) These data indicate that the metabolite of 25OHD3 synthesized by sarcoid macrophages in vitro is 1,25-(OH)2D3 and that the macrophage is a synthetic source of the sterol metabolite in sarcoidosis.
(10) Thus, the epithelioid granulomas seen in the leiomyosarcoma were interpreted as a sarcoid-like reaction.
(11) Treatment for ulcerative sarcoid is also discussed.
(12) The present study was undertaken to test whether cultured lymphocytes and epithelioid cells from sarcoid granulomas obtained from patients with active stage 2 sarcoidosis produced chemotactic factors (CF) for leukocytes as assessed by modified Boyden's method.
(13) The distribution of equine leucocyte antigens (ELA) in Swedish Halfbreds affected by sarcoid tumors was determined and compared with that of control horses of the same breed.
(14) Five out of twenty-five (20%) of the sarcoid patients had classical non-caseating granulomata in their minor salivary glands, four of whom also had hilar lymphadenopathy and one had bone marrow involvement.
(15) Biopsies of cutaneous sarcoidal lesions were cultured for 24 hr in vitro, and the cell-free supernatants were examined for the presence of T cell growth factor (IL-2).
(16) Although irradiated sarcoid BAC supported antigen-induced T cell proliferation, normal BAC did so poorly (p less than 0.005).
(17) In a study designed to evaluate the concept of inherited susceptibility to sarcoid arthritis (SA), 42 patients with histologically proved acute disease underwent typing of HLA-A, -B, -C and -DR antigens.
(18) Antibody was detected in all 70 sarcoid and control sera; in general, titers were higher for the sarcoid patient than for the matched control subject, but the difference in the geometric mean titer was only 0.5 of a twofold dilution step.
(19) Another similar cases of the literature incite to propose the practice of special stains, above all Gomori-Grocott technical, before sarcoid-like lesions.
(20) They occur in a similar incidence in postcardiac injury syndromes, sarcoid heart disease or in dilated and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Sarcoma
Definition:
(n.) A tumor of fleshy consistence; -- formerly applied to many varieties of tumor, now restricted to a variety of malignant growth made up of cells resembling those of fetal development without any proper intercellular substance.
Example Sentences:
(1) A spindle cell sarcoma appeared 20 months after implantation of a pellet of 3-methylcholanthrene in the denervated foreleg of an adult frog, Rana pipiens.
(2) The p60v-src protein encoded by Prague Rous sarcoma virus was found to contain two sites of tyrosine phosphorylation.
(3) None of the compounds proved active against the replication of retroviruses (human immunodeficiency virus, murine sarcoma virus) at concentrations that were not toxic to the host cells.
(4) In the case of the reticulum cell sarcoma, the tumor had not reappeared in some of the animals two months after cessation of treatment.
(5) A young man being treated with primary adjuvant Adriamycin and DDP for osteogenic sarcoma is described who developed a gingival line which temporally was related to DDP administration.
(7) Autopsy revealed a primary intimal sarcoma with osteogenic elements arising in the posterior leaflet of the pulmonary valve and obstructing the main pulmonary artery and its right branch.
(8) These included 196 sarcomas, 20 carcinomas and 14 angiomas.
(9) In contrast, T lymphocyte cytolytic activity developed more slowly in regressing sarcomas and attained peak levels coincident with the beginning of tumor regression.
(10) Three of the tumours represented primary soft tissue lesions, while locally recurrent tumour or pulmonary metastases were studied from the 4 skeletal tumours, all of which had been diagnosed previously as Ewing's sarcomas.
(11) A hospital-based case-control study on soft tissue sarcomas (STS) was conducted in 1983-84 in Torino and in Padova (Italy).
(12) In the present study, we have compared the phosphorylation state of the fibronectin receptor in motile neural crest and somitic cells, in stationary somitic cells, and in Rous-sarcoma virus transformed-chick embryo fibroblasts, using immunoprecipitation following metabolic labeling.
(13) Subcutaneous polymorphic sarcomas were induced in 8 out 27 offspring of syrian golden Hamsters after treatment of pregnant mother animals at day 15 of gestation with Adenovirus 12.
(14) In cultures of medium ML-15 containing a feeder layer of Dog Sarcoma (DS) cells larvae successfully moulted and showed a small but significant increase in length.
(15) The radiological patterns of presentation of the gastrointestinal lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma are described, this being the most frequent location of the disease after the skin and lymph nodes.
(16) Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) has demonstrated antitumor activity against a variety of tumors and is particularly cytotoxic to capillary endothelial cells, which are the presumed cell of origin of Kaposi's sarcoma.
(17) Moloney sarcoma virus, however, does not induce myeloproliferation and leukemia in adult mice.
(18) Fusion of these segments created a DNA fragment in which coding regions similar to those observed in the viral oncogenes v-fes of the Gardner-Arnstein (GA) and Snyder-Theilen (ST) strains of feline sarcoma virus and v-fps found in Fujinami sarcoma virus could be identified.
(19) The distinction between this sarcoma and the Paget bone was clearer on CT than on MR.
(20) Ewing's sarcoma is considered a primary malignant tumor of bone.