(1) In addition, congenital anemias such as sickle cell disease can impact on the health of the mother and fetus.
(2) Sickle and normal discocytes both showed membrane elasticity with reversion to original cell shape following release of the cell from its aspirated position at the pipette tip.
(3) Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy was used to examine the effect of oxysterol insertion into normal and sickle RBC membranes and the total lipid extracts of the membranes.
(4) The initial screening failed to detect sickle cell anemia in 4 infants, but the hemoglobinopathy in 3 of these infants was diagnosed correctly by routine retesting of those with suspected sickle cell trait.
(5) The sources were two adolescent patients with sickle cell disease and aplastic crisis who had unsuspected parvovirus infection.
(6) Thus, an abnormality of neutrophil oxidative metabolism cannot explain the propensity to bacterial infections in sickle cell disease.
(7) In order to examine sickle cell blood flow during MR imaging in vivo, laser-Doppler velocimetry was performed in normal control subjects and in sickle cell subjects before, during, and after MR imaging at 0.35 and 1.5 T. Mean blood flow and patterns of blood-flow variability were compared by two hematologists.
(8) Calcium-dependent ATPase, adenylate cyclase and phosphorylation of erythrocyte membrane proteins have been found abnormal in various conditions: hereditary spherocytosis, sickle-cell anemia, progressive muscular dystrophies, all of these disorders being associated with a decreased deformability of the erythrocyte.
(9) Sickle cell anemia and other hemoglobinopathies represent a major health problem in the United States.
(10) This suggests that there is little survival advantage or disadvantage in the combination of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency and sickle cell anaemia.
(11) We present a boy with sickle cell glomerulopathy and FSGS who is younger than patients with similar findings reported previously.
(12) Disruption of normal blood flow patterns in the medulla with impairment of function of the loop of Henle (functional papillectomy), presumably because of sickling in the hyperosmolar and anoxic environment of the renal medulla, may mediate these abnormalities.
(13) A study was conducted in a sample of 140 children with sickle cell anemia to evaluate the relationship between hematological variables (%HbF, %HbA2, %Hb, and mean cell volume) and disease severity.
(14) These include diseases diagnosed by restriction-site variation, such as Duchenne's muscular dystrophy and sickle cell anemia, those due to a collection of known mutations, such as beta-thalassemia, and those due to gene deletion, such as alpha-thalassemia.
(15) You’d think Michael Foot himself was running, attending debates in a hammer and sickle-print donkey jacket, from the amount we’ve been talking about him.
(16) Although these diseases are routinely screened for at birth, there is no general strategy among district health authorities for sickle cell screening.
(17) When red cells were loaded with Ca2+ using Ionophore A23187, both normal and sickle red cells enhanced their phosphorylation and sickle red cells to a greater extent than normal red cells.
(18) Nearly all sickle cell anemia patients carried the beta S mutation on a chromosome with haplotype 19 (or Benin) and all had severe anemia with sickling complications.
(19) The agent 12C79 which increases the oxygen affinity of sickle cells in vivo and prevent HbS polymerization is in clinical development.
(20) The results indicated that sickle cell patients have significant psychosocial distress in the areas of employment and finances, sleeping and eating, and performance of normal daily activities.
Suckled
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Suckle
Example Sentences:
(1) Examination of the SON in such animals revealed that the oxytocinergic system is already modified by day 12 of dioestrus; during suckling-induced lactation, the anatomical changes are identical to those seen during a normal post-partum lactation.
(2) These episodes continued for the duration of the suckling test and were enhanced when a second pup was placed on an adjacent nipple.
(3) DNA from 9% (47 of 529) of the E. coli colonies tested hybridized with the ST probe, whereas only 5% (28 of 529) produced ST as measured by the suckling mouse bioassay.
(4) A considerably greater increase in the peak plasma OT concentration resulted when hungry foster litters of 6 pups were suckled after the mothers' own 6 pups had been suckled.
(5) The results also suggest that both alkali metals most probably have been delivered to the suckling pups and some of their toxic effect was retarded.
(6) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
(7) Reinstitution of suckling after removal of pups causes an immediate rise in PRL and GH.
(8) Insulin, which slightly but significantly, depressed the level in 40 day old rats, increased it in suckling ones, as does prednisolone.
(9) From these results, we conclude that opiate peptides are released in response to the suckling stimulus in the cynomolgus monkey and that they mediate the effects of suckling on PRL secretion in both gonadal-intact and agonadal cynomolgus monkeys.
(10) Mechanisms are suggested whereby rudimentary appetitive programs already encoded along facing dendrite membrane pairs within the specialized intrafascicular milieu, may trigger and control nipple search and suckling in the still blind and only primitively mobile neonate.
(11) The yield and viability of isolated hepatocytes from suckling rats were 18.1 X 10(7) cells per gram liver and 95%, respectively.
(12) Lipase level per unit wet tissue and total pancreatic levels increased from 2 to 35 d of age in suckling pigs (P less than .01).
(13) The effects of undernutrition during suckling on neurochemical and behavioral parameters were investigated in adult rats.
(14) Peculiarities of the central area EEG have been exhibited in all the age groups, and it has been assumed that the central parts of the cortex of a suckling infant are a kind of "window" into the subcortical parts.
(15) Adam Suckling, the corporate affairs director of News Corp Australia, said the provision should be considered alongside mandatory data retention and other security legislation that had passed the parliament in the past year.
(16) Strain G-K-LP showed higher pathogenicity for suckling mice than strain G-K-SP.
(17) Body weight was not affected by hormonal treatment, but the tails of the hypophysectomized sucklings were significantly lengthened by thyroxine alone, the effect being enhanced when growth hormone was also given.
(18) These findings demonstrate that the metabolism of the suckling neonate is directly related to longitudinal changes in the composition of maternal milk.
(19) Chylous ascites is a disorder visible as a white fluid in the peritoneal cavity of suckling mice.
(20) (ii) In young sucklings (10 days old), SC was virtually absent in both villus and crypt cells, but its concentration progressively increased in weanling rats and reached adult levels by day 40 postpartum.