(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.
Undifferentiated
Definition:
(a.) Not differentiated; specifically (Biol.), homogenous, or nearly so; -- said especially of young or embryonic tissues which have not yet undergone differentiation (see Differentiation, 3), that is, which show no visible separation into their different structural parts.
Example Sentences:
(1) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
(2) Macrophages, undifferentiated fibroblasts and highly differentiated fibroblasts can be observed.
(3) Carcinomas exhibiting atypical behavior are characteristically undifferentiated and aggressive.
(4) Because of its potential significance in human lung cancer, we investigated the expression of the CYP1A1 structural gene in 24 established human lung cancer cell lines including 15 non-small cell (eight adenocarcinomas, three large cell undifferentiated carcinomas, two bronchioloalveolar cell carcinomas, and two squamous cell carcinomas) and nine small cell lung carcinomas.
(5) All 51 undifferentiated NPCs contained significant numbers of EBV-genome copies per cell.
(6) Unfortunately, it does not contain a population of undifferentiated stem cells to supply the necessary healthy neurons.
(7) The anterior division can be further parcellated into dorsal, lateral, and ventral areas, and each of these areas, along with the posterior division, can be thought of as containing more-or-less discrete nuclei embedded within a relatively undifferentiated region.
(8) In undifferentiated glioblastomas, the reverse situation was observed, no SS receptors were found (0 of 14) but EGF receptors were present in a majority of tumors (8 of 14).
(9) The human epidermal growth factor receptor (hEGF-R) was introduced into murine P19 embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells, which do not express endogenous EGF-R. Undifferentiated stable P19 EC transfectants containing multiple copies of the hEGF-R complementary DNA were isolated.
(10) However, the tip cells are slow to differentiate, and hence immature fruiting bodies contain a small population of undifferentiated tip cells.
(11) We report on a patient with AL, which showed a very rapid switch from the lymphoblastic phenotype exhibited at presentation to a myelomonoblastic one, appeared at first relapse, and lastly progressed to an undifferentiated leukemia in the terminal phase.
(12) The pathologic diagnosis was rhabdomyosarcoma in 75% of cases, yolk sac tumor in 13% of cases, malignant mesenchymoma in two cases, clear cell carcinoma in two cases, and undifferentiated sarcoma in one case.
(13) Of 28 rats given 0.15 mg of 1,6-DNP, 21 (75%) developed squamous cell carcinomas, 2 (7%) developed undifferentiated carcinomas, and 2 (7%) had squamous metaplasias in the lung by 72 weeks.
(14) A case of large cell undifferentiated adenocarcinoma of the lung was complicated by an aggressive clinical course and documented placental metastases.
(15) In anurans, the oculomotor neurons receive a variety of visual, somatic, and vestibular afferents and appear relatively undifferentiated, whereas the nInt appears more developed.
(16) In previous specimens, solid undifferentiated carcinoma was absent or was a minor pattern.
(17) There was a nonsignificant trend toward higher MHPG levels in paranoid schizophrenic patients in comparison with patients who had undifferentiated schizophrenia.
(18) The process from the first undifferentiated stage to the second predifferentiated stage with well-developed ER and Golgi apparatus requires both collagen gels and hormones.
(19) The possibility of preventing or influencing the course of these diseases by vaccination has been advocated for a number of years [Epstein, 1976], especially in the case of undifferentiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma, which is the most common tumour of men in southern China and is prevalent in other specific regions; it therefore represents a major world cancer problem [Shanmugaratnam, 1971].
(20) Ultrastructurally, the tumor cells were composed principally of undifferentiated mesenchymal cells, and contained prominent pools of glycogen in the cytoplasm.