What's the difference between sclerotia and sclerotic?
Sclerotia
Definition:
(pl. ) of Sclerotium
Example Sentences:
(1) Tul., isolated from sclerotia grown on rye, produce under submerged conditions ergocryptine and ergotamine, ergocornine and ergosine, and ergocristine, respectively.
(2) Further, sclerotia of Claviceps purpurea were found in cereals repeatedly, which demonstrates that also ergot alkaloids can be found in feedstuffs.
(3) Sulfur, in elemental form, is present in several fungi especially in self-inhibited and resting structures such as dormant spores and sclerotia.
(4) Furthermore, both H1 and H1(0) in sclerotia were highly phosphorylated.
(5) Sclerotia formed by repeated branching of several hyphea.
(6) Sclerotia and spores of Chainia olivacea were studied by transmission and scanning electron microscopy.
(7) Both translocation of L-[14C]threonine and incorporation of L-[14C]leucine were significantly related to the circadian formation of sclerotia.
(8) Transformation of these rescued DNA fragments into A. parasiticus CS10 resulted in production of wild-type levels of aflatoxin and abundant formation of sclerotia.
(9) Although functional mRNA and ribosomes exist in sclerotia, protein synthesis is suppressed at the level of initiation.
(10) Our determination indicates that in both wild and cultured sclerotia of Grifola umbellata the contents of reducing sugar decrease with the growing years; the contents of Polysaccharide peak in the second year of growth; the contents of protein increase with the growing years; the contents of fat reaches maximum in the first year of growth; in cultured sclerotia ergosterol becomes highest in contents when the plant is two years old, while in wild sclerotia it remains lowest.
(11) Taken together with the results of the mitogenic activity of the representative extracts from sclerotia, at least two kinds of the mitogenic substances would exist in sclerotia; one would be extracted by mild conditions, and the other would be difficult to extract and require drastic conditions such as hot water extraction.
(12) Whetzelinia sclerotiorum produced heavy aerial mycelia and few, if any, sclerotia in synthetic glucose-nitrate liquid medium containing 10(-3) and 2 X 10(-3) M PTU.
(13) Effective mycoparasitism on sclerotia was restricted to those belonging to R. solani.
(14) Alkaloid did not disappear from the sclerotia during germination.
(15) Macroconidia of Sporidesmium sclerotivorum, a mycoparasite of Sclerotinia spp., germinated after 3 days in soil adjacent to sclerotia of S. minor and on membrane filters placed on soil containing sclerotia.
(16) Sclerotia-like mutants forming mostly arthrospores and only a low number of conidiospores were exceptional in that they were characterized by an inverse relationship between alkaloid synthesis and conidial formation.
(17) Since sclerotia are considered as structures capable of withstanding dramatic shifts in the environment, the production of these in tissue may affect the efficacy of antifungal therapy.
(18) ex Fr., were grown on autoclaved crushed sclerotia of the species Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, which they parasitize.
(19) Sclerotium rolfsii produced unusual patterns of aerial mycelia and no sclerotia on media containing 2 X 10(-3) M PTU.
(20) Most of the polysomes and actin mRNA were located in the CSK of plasmodia, while most of the ribosomes and actin mRNA were located in the SOL of sclerotia.
Sclerotic
Definition:
(a.) Hard; firm; indurated; -- applied especially in anatomy to the firm outer coat of the eyeball, which is often cartilaginous and sometimes bony.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the sclerotic coat of the eye; sclerotical.
(a.) Affected with sclerosis; sclerosed.
(n.) The sclerotic coat of the eye. See Illust. of Eye (d).
(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from ergot or the sclerotium of a fungus growing on rye.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conclusion, increased cell turnover is a significant component of the sclerotic process both at the onset and in the late stages of this model.
(2) A sclerotic border and osteoid seams were noted, two features that seem not to have been previously reported in early lesions.
(3) The centre-left leader saw himself – and was widely regarded – as a dynamic force capable of reforming Italy after two decades of sclerotic politics.
(4) Vascular insufficiency due to sclerotic changes in vessels of various diameters undoubtedly contributes to the pathogenesis of the optic nerve impairments in the involved and clinically healthy eyes.
(5) The observers assessed the panoramic and periapical radiographs of the teeth, which were evenly distributed throughout the jaws with a 50% probability that either an osteolytic or sclerotic lesion was present.
(6) A sclerotic patriarchal social system is also to blame.
(7) Using microscopic sections of the kidney from 153 autopsies (99 SIDS infants and 54 control infants) in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Cooperative Epidemiologic Study of Risk Factors for SIDS, we counted relative numbers of sclerotic glomeruli in four fields of renal cortical tissue in two sections from each infant.
(8) In comparison to normal kidneys, a reduction in HLA class II antigens of ICAM-1 and of renal antigens defined by the monoclonal antibodies TN8-TN10 was observed in sclerotic glomeruli.
(9) The roentgenographic appearance of most lesions consisted of a radiolucent central nidus encircled by sclerotic bone.
(10) Sclerosing hemangioma of the lung (SHL) was investigated immunohistochemically, histochemically and ultrastructurally with reference to cellular components associated with the histologic pattern: cuboidal cells in the papillary type, round cells in the solid type, flat cells in the hemorrhagic type and stromal cells in the sclerotic type.
(11) The unusual histologic features were the presence of both sclerotic and cavernous hemangioma variants in the same tumor and extensive areas of calcium deposits in the tumor.
(12) The other change was a diffuse or multifocal hyperplasia of the parafollicular (C) cells that was present in other parts of the thyroid parenchyma--sometimes with gradual development of sclerotic tumors that had been exclusively formed by these cells.
(13) The distribution and configuration of the sclerotic formations in nine such cases were studied and compared by light microscopy and SEM.
(14) At 44 degrees C, LD values were decreased in patients with respect to controls for both sclerotic and and non-sclerotic skin.
(15) Examinations of 202 patients (337 eyes) with different forms of macular dystrophies, such as idiopathic flat detachment of the retina in the macular area, central sclerotic dystrophy of the retina, tapetoretinal macular degeneration, outcome of local inflammation of pigmented epithelium, post-traumatic central chorioretinitis, etc., allowed to receive data confirming high information value of a method based on the phenomenon of dynamic scotoma of disadaptation as compared with examinations on the Amsler's grid and campimetry.
(16) It was also shown that the degree of sclerotic degeneration of the thoracic aorta in group 2 was lower by 55% as compared to group 1 animals.
(17) We used light microscopy to study 87 human temporal bones (from 47 cases) with no known otological disorders, and found that certain cases had sclerotic changes around the endolymphatic duct and sac.
(18) Sclerotic changes, periosteal reaction and sequestration were present in three patients.
(19) This technique is very convenient for adult cholesteatomas developed in a sclerotic mastoid with an extension limited to mesotympanum and attic, to the children cholesteatomas developed in the mesotympanum with a sclerotic mastoid, for the correction of retraction pockets after a closed technique, rehabilitation of radical mastoidectomies, fibroadhesive otitis and some idiopathic glue tympanic membrane with a large cholesterol granuloma.
(20) Lesions in the seminal vesicles were suggestive of diminished testosterone production even though Leydig cells were discernible in the sclerotic testicular intertubular tissue.