(n.) A fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust. of Tuberous.
(n.) A genus of fungi. See Truffle.
(n.) A tuberosity; a tubercle.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, lightly immunostained cells were distinguished in the caudal portion of the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus, area of tuber cinereum, retrochiasmatic area, and rostral portion of the paraventricular thalamic nucleus after colchicine treatment.
(2) This paper describes a family in which the first child, a girl born in 1988, has tuberous sclerosis (TS).
(3) Tuning curves of afferent electroreceptive fibers in the anterior lateral line nerve of the weakly electric fish, Sternopygus macrurus, indicate that the tuberous electroreceptors of each individual are well-tuned to its own electric organ discharge (EOD) frequency.
(4) 100 degrees C. Thus residues did not migrate into the flesh of the tubers.
(5) Aromatase immunoreactive cells (ARO-ir) were found in the medial preoptic nucleus, in the septal region, and in a large cell cluster extending from the dorso-lateral aspect of the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus to the tuber at the level of the nucleus inferioris hypothalami.
(6) Injections of horseradish peroxidase into the telencephalon retrogradely labeled neurons ipsilaterally in various thalamic, preglomerular, and tuberal nuclei, the nucleus of the locus coeruleus (also contralaterally), the superior raphe, and portions of the nucleus lateralis valvulae.
(7) Isolated nuclei from green leaf tissue of tomato plants infected with potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) were bound to microscope slides, fixed with formaldehyde and hybridized with biotinylated transcripts of cloned PSTVd cDNA.
(8) A simple and efficient method is presented for the extraction, cleanup, and liquid chromatographic (LC) determination of oxamyl residues in potato tubers.
(9) The study of the selective renal arteriogram enables preoperative diagnosis of angiomyolipoma even when not associated with tuberous sclerosis, and a partial nephrectomy.
(10) The association of diffuse lipomatosis with tuberous sclerosis is reported.
(11) Developing pyramidal cells in the remaining three tuberous organ-receptive lateral ELL segments are unreactive.
(12) CD rats were much less responsive to mPOA stimulation (spaced electrodes) than O-M rats, but the responses of both strains to tuberal stimulation were essentially alike.
(13) It did not allow distinction between true pachygyria, focal cortical dysplasia, or the forme fruste of tuberous sclerosis.
(14) cDNA clones of potato virus X (PVXcp strain), potato virus Y (PVYo strain), potato leaf roll virus (PLRV) and potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTV) were used separately or combined for the detection of the corresponding RNAs in extracts of infected plants.
(15) The export of pectate lyase, polygalacturonase, and cellulase and the maceration of potato tuber tissue occurred with Out+, but not Out-, strains of E. carotovora subsp.
(16) We conclude that neurons in the lateral tuberal nucleus show an early stage of AD-related cytoskeletal pathology (Alz-50 positivity), but without plaques or neuronal death.
(17) The possibility of incorporating Icacinia manni among the edible starchy plant tubers is discussed.
(18) Western blots of extracts from P(i)-deficient cells were probed with rabbit anti-(potato tuber PFP) immune serum and revealed equal intensity staining immunoreactive polypeptides of M(r) 66,000 (alpha-subunit) and 60,000 (beta-subunit) that co-migrated with the alpha- and beta-subunits of homogeneous potato tuber PFP.
(19) In six patients the clinical symptoms were atypical; in those instances computed tomography makes diagnosis of tuberous sclerosis possible.
(20) Angiomyolipomas produce pathognomonic appearances on modern imaging methods and a tissue diagnosis is no longer required particularly when multiple tubers can be confidently diagnosed and if a CT brain scan shows periventricular calcifications.
Tuberculum
Definition:
(n.) A tubercle.
Example Sentences:
(1) A total of 63 patients (95%) showed varying degrees of hyperostosis involving the cribiform plate, planum sphenoidale, or tuberculum sellae (including the chiasmatic sulcus).
(2) The results demonstrated that partial di-mesencephalic hemitransections produced a marked reduction of DA fluorescence (quantitative histofluorimetry) on the lesioned side in the nucleus caudatus putamen, anterior nucleus accumbens and posterior lateral tuberculum olfactorium.
(3) By means of quantitative receptor autoradiography in combination with inactivation of dopamine (DA) receptors by N-ethoxycarbonyl-2-ethoxy-1,2-dihydroquinoline (EEDQ), it was demonstrated in the male rat that [3H]spiperone predominantly labels D2 receptors in the striatum, nucleus accumbens and tuberculum olfactorium, and predominantly non-DA receptors in the frontoparietal cortex, probably mainly serotonin type 2 (5-HT2) receptors in layer IV.
(4) The highest concentrations of these fibers were in the dorsal area of the vagal lobe, the nucleus isthmi, the tuberculum posterium, the distal part of the PVO, and the dorsal regions of the olfactory tubercle.
(5) High or very high densities of binding sites were found in the hyperstriatum, tuberculum olfactorium, hypothalamic nuclei, tectum opticum and some medullary nuclei.
(6) Radiologically, it was extremely difficult to differentiate from tuberculum sellae meningioma.
(7) Positive cell bodies and nerve fibers were identified in the dorsocaudal hypothalamic region of the tuberculum posterius, in the nucleus sacci vasculosi and nucleus tuberculi posterioris.
(8) On the hemitransected side chronic nicotine treatment increased DA stores in the DA nerve terminals of the nucleus caudatus putamen and the posterior lateral tuberculum olfactorium.
(9) Chronic SCH 23390 treatment increased D-1 receptor density by 30 to 40% in the striatum, accumbens and tuberculum olfactorium; receptor affinity remained unchanged.
(10) Repeated treatment with haloperidol and sulpiride induced tolerance to the increases in homovanillic and dihydroxyphenyl acetic acids in the striatum, nucleus accumbens, tuberculum olfactorium and frontal cortex of the rat.
(11) The distribution of tumor location was 6 cases in tuberculum sellae, 3 cases in the inner side of sphenoid ridge, and 3 cases in olfactory groove.
(12) AHA were ectopic in 3 cases, with adenohypophyseal tuberculum origin.
(13) The alterations in the levels of the indoleamine in tuberculum olfactorium and its relationship with dosage as well as duration and intensity of LON-954 tremor indicate the involvement of the mesolimbic system in its action.
(14) In the diencephalon, numerous FMRFamide-positive cell bodies were observed in the hypothalamus, ventral thalamus and posterior tuberculum.
(15) The DA levels in the various DA nerve terminal systems in neostriatum, nucleus accumbens and tuberculum olfactorium were unaffected with the exception of the dotted and CCK positive type of DA nerve terminals of the nucleus accumbens, where a small reduction of the DA stores was shown following acute intermittent exposure to smoke from 4 cigarettes.
(16) Dopamine injected directly into the caudate--putamen, nucleus accumbens or tuberculum olfactorium of rat brain, following a nialamide pretreatment, caused dose-dependent hyperactivity.
(17) The diencephalic TH+ cells were located in the posterior tuberculum, in the ventromedial and ventrolateral thalamic nuclei, and in the inferior lobe of the hypothalamus.
(18) A computerized tomography scan revealed a 2-cm suprasellar mass which was thought to be a tuberculum sellae meningioma.
(19) Papaverine and dipyridamol enhanced DA disappearance in the caudate nucleus and the tuberculum accumbens, but not in the median eminence.
(20) Marked hyperostosis of the planum or tuberculum existed in 7 cases.