What's the difference between serosal and serous?

Serosal


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is concluded the decrease in cellular volume associated with substitution of serosal gluconate for Cl results in a loss of highly specific Ba2+-sensitive K+ conductance channels from the basolateral plasma membrane.
  • (2) In goldfish intestine (perfused unstripped segments and mucosal strips) the serosal addition of ouabain (10(-4) M) resulted in a vanishment of the transepithelial potential difference and in a continuous increase in transepithelial resistance.
  • (3) Blood flow was measured from gastric serosal vessels (average diameter, 1.6 mm) severed immediately after, 24 hours after, and 48 hours after ethanol injection.
  • (4) Application of a mirror at the serosal surface opposite to the probe, resulted in an average increase of the output signal by 50% using the large fibre diameter probe, whereas no increase was observed with the small fibre probe.
  • (5) The basal-lateral epithelial plasma membranes were labeled by exposing the serosal side to pyridoxal phosphate and reducing the resultant Schiff base with sodium borotritide (3H-NaBH1).
  • (6) When present in the serosal medium at a concentration of 2 mM, however, berberine reduced PD and Isc and abolished residual ion flux (bicarbonate secretion) but had no significant affect on basal net Na and Cl transepithelial transport.
  • (7) Survival rates after curative gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer among 238 patients in whom the cancer was invading the serosa were compared with 283 patients without serosal invasion.
  • (8) In some bladders the voltage step produced current oscillations similar to those obtained after the epithelium had been challenged with a serosal osmotic step (Gordon, 1988).
  • (9) Serosal bumetanide reduced aClc by 10 mM without affecting electrical parameters.
  • (10) Vascular endothelial cells and serosal mesothelial cells were stained.
  • (11) However, safe management of large duodenal defects may require the use of other methods, such as a serosal patch or creation of a duodenojejunostomy.
  • (12) The serosal membrane potential (Vs), measured with conventional microelectrodes, averaged -79.7 mV in tissues bathed in Cl- -free medium; the mucosal membrane potential (Vm) averaged -80.9 mV.
  • (13) Furthermore, removal of serosal Ca2+ also failed to inhibit the change in Isc produced by ET-3.
  • (14) Effects on these fluxes of ouabain, 10(-3) M in the serosal solution, and amiloride, 10(-4) M in the mucosal solution, were studied for both dietary states.
  • (15) The effects of these agents on Isc are markedly inhibited by serosal addition of bumetanide and depend on the presence of Na+ in the serosal bathing solution.
  • (16) Increasing the concentration of lanthanum from 0.1 to 10 mM in both the serosal and mucosal media produced a progressive decrease in tissue calcium retention and calcium transport.
  • (17) This increase was accounted for by an increased mucosal to serosal net flux of Na+.
  • (18) In addition, the bag does not abrade or desiccate the bowel, potentially reducing serosal injury and adhesion formation.
  • (19) Concurrent with the inhibition in transmural galactose fluxes, theophylline and dibutyryl cyclic AMP increase the tissue accumulation of [galactose] and the specific-activity ratio R of 3H : 14C-labelled galactose coming from the mucosal and serosal solutions respectively.
  • (20) Qualitatively similar changes occurred in the serosal potential when the ionic composition of the serosal fluid was varied.6.

Serous


Definition:

  • (a.) Thin; watery; like serum; as the serous fluids.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to serum; as, the serous glands, membranes, layers. See Serum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma has distinctly different clinical behavior compared to serous carcinoma and should be regarded as an aggressive epithelial histologic type.
  • (2) The percentage of positive cases was highest in the serous MEE group (81.2%) and decreased in the purulent MEE group (57%), the mucoid MEE group (30%), and the hyperviscous MEE group (13.6%), in that order.
  • (3) The serous fluid of mice was used as a source of endogenous DNAse I.
  • (4) Incorporation of [2-14C] sodium acetate into 7-dehydrocholesterol ketoderivative, cholesta-4,7-dien-3-on, was studied in the tissues of the rat stomach secretory and esophageal parts and in the mucous and serous membranes of the small intestine.
  • (5) Ovarian tumors were noted in all 27 patients, including 2 primary carcinomas and 14 serous cystadenomas.
  • (6) In the case of a massive serous pleural effusion examination of the ingredients leads to diagnosis.
  • (7) We examined the immunocytochemical localization of amylase in cryofixed serous acinar cells of gerbil major salivary glands by indirect immunostaining, using anti-gerbil parotid amylase antibody and protein A-gold complex.
  • (8) However, in human lungs, lysozyme was identified in serous submucosal glands but not in alveolar type II pneumocytes.
  • (9) The amount of the fluid flowing off the vessels, perfusate penetration into the intestinal lumen and its transudation through the serous membrane were determined.
  • (10) The terminology of the pericardial sinuses and recesses has been inconsistent, and the authors propose a nomenclature for standardizing the names of the recesses of the serous pericardium.
  • (11) Flow cytometric analysis of DNA content and ras p21 expression were studied in paraffin-embedded normal ovary (NO, n = 10), serous cystadenoma (SA, n = 11), serous tumors of low malignant potential (LMP, n = 13), and papillary serous cystadenocarcinoma (SCa, n = 7).
  • (12) Two previously unnamed recesses within the serous pericardium are defined and named, one the inferior aortic recess of the transverse sinus and the other, the right pulmonic recess of the transverse sinus.
  • (13) In hypertension, all the components are affected in the microcirculatory bed of serous membranes: arterioles, precapillaries, capillaries, postcapillaries, venules, lymph capillaries and postcapillaries.
  • (14) Serous granules were stained by toluidine blue, or by hematoxylin and eosin (H and E), but showed little or no reaction with periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) or Alcian blue.
  • (15) Chronic serous otitis media was a frequent finding but deafness was rarely profound.
  • (16) We created serous retinal detachment in the cat eye by means of photodynamic injury produced by activation of intravascular rose bengal using filtered, focused light (550 nm).
  • (17) Uterine papillary serous carcinoma (UPSC), FIGO grade 3, nuclear grade 3, and age were the major independent prognostic factors.
  • (18) A patient with a strongly positive family history underwent a prophylactic oophorectomy and, 5 years later, developed a primary peritoneal papillary serous adenocarcinoma.
  • (19) Ophthalmoscopic examination disclosed a single, white, elevated mass lesion surrounded by serous retinal detachment located in the upper part of the macula of the right eye.
  • (20) These cells express serous cell phenotype as reflected by ultrastructure, histochemistry, and lysozyme activity.

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