(a.) Of or pertaining to thallium; derived from, or containing, thallium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with the thallic compounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Overall, thallous chloride Tl 201 perfusion scanning had a sensitivity of 75% and a specificity of 91% for coronary heart disease compared with 56% sensitivity and 86% specificity with exercise-induced ST segment depression on the ECG.
(2) The change in distribution of cardiac output in septic shock was examined by radionuclide imaging with thallium 201 thallous chloride (201Tl) which allows noninvasive evaluation of relative blood flow to various organs except for the brain.
(3) Dual radionuclide imaging of the neck (Tc-99m pertechnetate and TI-201 thallous chloride) was performed in 22 patients with chemical evidence of hyperparathyroidism (elevated blood calcium and parathormone [PTH] levels).
(4) This study evaluated thallous chloride Tl 201 single-photon-emission computed tomography in a series of 48 patients following blunt chest trauma.
(5) The monovalent thallous ion (Tl) was evaluated at the frog end plate in vitro with intracellular microelectrodes.
(6) Twenty-nine patients with primary hyperparathyroidism underwent double-tracer subtraction scanning after injection of 201Tl as thallous chloride for thyroid and parathyroid images followed by 99mtechnetium as sodium pertechnetate for thyroid images prior to surgical exploration of the neck.
(7) The high lung activity and early myocardial redistribution within the 1st hour contributed to the failure of 99mTc-TBI to detect 16 segmental defects seen in the immediate post-exercise thallous chloride scan.
(8) The locus of thallium affection is assumed to be a mitochondrial membrane with a specific affinity to the thallous ion.
(9) A mixture (0.1 ml) of 201Tl+ (thallous+ chloride-) and 99mTc-pertechnetate- (Na+ pertechnetate-) was given, by which 99mTc-pertechnetate- served as a reference substance with negligible intracellular accumulation.
(10) Gentamicin-thallous-carbonate (GTC) medium contained (per liter): 40.0 g of Trypticase soy agar, 5.0 g of KH(2)PO(4), 2.0 g of NaHCO(2), 1.0 g of glucose, 1.0 g of esculin, 0.5 g of thallous acetate (TA), 0.5 g of ferric citrate, 0.75 ml of Tween 80, and 2.5 mg of gentamicin sulfate.
(11) The patients were imaged after sequential IV injection of 201Tl-thallous chloride (74 MBq) and 99mTc-pertechnetate (222 MBq) using a gamma camera with a pinhole collimator.
(12) In this article the author reviews the biologic characteristics, the imaging protocols and the clinical usefulness of thallous chloride Tl 201, 99mTc-sestamibi and 99mTc-teboroxime (not yet available in Canada), as well as their complementary roles in the detection of coronary artery disease.
(13) Optically pure (R)-(-)-m-trimethylacetoxy-alpha-[(methylamino)methyl]benzyl alcohol hydrochloride was synthesized by the following sequence: (R)-(-)-phenylephrine was condensed with acetone in the presence of calcium carbide to give an oxazolidine derivative and then treated with thallous ethoxide in ether followed by trimethylacetyl chloride to yield the phenolic ester.
(14) In addition, a thallous-azide combination at pH 6.5 was used successfully for the primary isolation of Str.
(15) We have since progressed to the fields of research involving pharmacological stress testing with intravenous dipyridamole and use of technetium-based isonitrile as an alternative to the conventional myocardial perfusion agent, thallous chloride.
(16) The properties of this channel in solutions which do not contain thallous ion are consistent with the predictions of Läuger's theory for singly occupied pores (P. Lüger, 1973, Biochim.
(17) Application of either divalent cations (cobalt, cadmium) or monovalent thallous ions to the bath, even in mM concentrations, did not change these waveforms significantly.
(18) Thallous acetate-citrate (TAC) agar, a selective medium for isolating enterococci from frozen foods, was evaluated.
(19) SR channel properties in the presence of thallous ion can, however, be explained by a model which postulates the existence of two external modulatory sites on the channel, without implying double-occupancy in the permeation pathway.
(20) Three days later these animals ran on a treadmill, and 201-thallous chloride was injected into the right atrium at peak exercise.
Thallus
Definition:
(n.) A solid mass of cellular tissue, consisting of one or more layers, usually in the form of a flat stratum or expansion, but sometimes erect or pendulous, and elongated and branching, and forming the substance of the thallogens.
Example Sentences:
(1) Peripheral hyphae were separated from the remaining thallus of Rhizoctonia solani in exponential and stationary phases of growth.
(2) The plasmalemma of thallus cells of the aquatic liverwort, Riccia fluitans, is reversibly depolarized by L- and D-serine.
(3) Their variations depend on the physiological and biochemical states of the thallus and on the conditions of extraction and purification.
(4) Thallus development, zoospore size, zoospore ultrastructural complexity and organization, and flagellum length are cited as important in phylogeny of the Chytridiales (chytrids) and should be the bases for this classification.
(5) Previous results showed that cell disintegration in the fungus Podospora anserina occured through the action of two proteases, enzymes whose messengers were normally latent during the extension stage of the thallus.
(6) There are no significant differences in the durrent density over the thallus cell.
(7) Little bromoperoxidase activity was obtained when fresh thallus material was extracted in Tris buffer.
(8) Incipient zoospores are produced from a multinucleate eucarpic thallus and devlop within cleavage vacuoles containing flagella.
(9) The action spectra of light reaction I, we found under these conditions, are very similar to the thallus absorption, whilst the action spectra of light reaction II show, besides strong bands of the phycobilins, only minor bands of chlorophyll a, which account for only 10-20% of the total chlorophyll.
(10) When a particulate enzyme preparation from the thallus of A. niger was incubated with GDP-[(14)C]mannose, the main radioactive products were mannose 1-phosphate (57% of products) and mannose (18%).
(11) In the presence of 10(-5) to 10 (-8) M carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone (CCCP) the membrane potential of thallus cells of the aquatic liverwort Riccia fluitans responds to changes of the external pH between 5.5 and 8.3.
(12) Many things, in Thoreau's liberated state, are worth the while to see - the feeding manners of chickadees, and the trickles of spring thaw along the railroad cut, "resembling, as you look down on them, the laciniated lobed and imbricated thalluses of some lichens".
(13) By the four-cell stage, chloroplasts of the rhizoid cells have weakly staining lamellae, while chloroplasts of the thallus cells are actively dividing with deeply staining lamellae.
(14) These observations are interpreted as evidence that the thallus of A. niger contains a mannose transferase that uses the phosphate of exo-methylene-hexahydropolyprenols as an acceptor.
(15) This study demonstrates that it is possible to select for more and more toxigenic strains or for less and less active ones starting with the same thallus.
(16) Bromoperoxidase I (which has been described before) was located inside the thallus, particularly around the conceptacles, whereas bromoperoxidase II was present at the thallus surface of the alga.
(17) Using fluorescein isothiocyanate-labeled lectins of various specificities, differences in the cell wall polysaccharide composition among the different parts of the thallus and during the cycle of S communis were demonstrated.
(18) We selected three mutant strains in which the constitutive activity of the protease messengers was expressed by an arrest of growth early in development (10 to 30 hours after spore germination) and a reaction of cell disintegration, in the thallus, suppressible with beta-phenyl pyruvic acid, a protease inhibitor.
(19) The enzyme activity is first detected in a few algae undergoing aplanosporogenesis and later in medullary hyphae that reach the dividing algae by elongating perpendicularly to the thallus surface.
(20) The thallus and life cycle of Neocallimastix R1 are compared with those of aerobic chytrids.