(a.) Consisting of, or containing, vessels as an essential part of a structure; full of vessels; specifically (Bot.), pertaining to, or containing, special ducts, or tubes, for the circulation of sap.
(a.) Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the vessels of animal and vegetable bodies; as, the vascular functions.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the higher division of plants, that is, the phaenogamous plants, all of which are vascular, in distinction from the cryptogams, which to a large extent are cellular only.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using mini-pigs with an indwelling vascular catheter, the pharmacokinetics of chloramphenicol were investigated in healthy and liver-damaged animals.
(2) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
(3) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
(4) This study compared the non-invasive vascular profiles, coagulation tests, and rheological profiles of 46 consecutive cases of low-tension glaucoma with 69 similarly unselected cases of high-tension glaucoma and 47 age-matched controls.
(5) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
(6) The present study examined whether the lack of chronic hemodynamic effects of ANP in control rats was due to changes in vascular reactivity to the peptide.
(7) Radioligand binding studies revealed the presence of a single class of high-affinity (Kd = 2-6 X 10(-10) M) binding sites for ET-1 in both cells, although the maximal binding capacity of cardiac receptor was about 6- to 12-fold greater than that of vascular receptor.
(8) After vascular injury, smooth muscle cells proliferate, reaching a maximum rate at day 2.
(9) Hexamethonium abolished vasodilatation in the hindquarters vascular bed only.
(10) The fibrous matrix and cartilage formed within the nonunion site transformed to osteoid and bone with increased vascularity.
(11) The operative arteriograms confirmed vascular occlusive phenomenon.
(12) An inverse relationship between the pumping capacity of the heart and vascular resistance was confirmed at different stages of examination and treatment of the patients.
(13) The capillary-adipocyte distances were shorter and the vascularization density was higher in old rats.
(14) When nifedipine was combined with ouabain the elevation of vascular resistance was completely abolished.
(15) A retrospective review was undertaken of 127 lower extremity fasciotomies performed for compartment syndrome after acute ischemia and revascularization in 73 patients with vascular trauma and 49 patients with arterial occlusive disease.
(16) It inhibits platelet and vascular smooth muscle activation by cGMP-dependent attenuation of the agonist-induced rise of intracellular free Ca2+.
(17) Base-line HPV was determined by measuring the change in pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) while sheep breathed 12% O2 for 7 min.
(18) The chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) model was used to study vascular effects of photodynamic therapy (PDT) and hyperthermia (HPT) and the synergism of these modalities.
(19) For obstruction of greater than or equal to 50% of the pulmonary vascular cross-sectional area and pulmonary hypertension thrombolytic therapy should be given and insertion of an inferior caval filter can be considered.
(20) It is concluded that a Na-H antiport system in vascular smooth muscle regulates Na influx rate, contributes to intracellular pH regulation and influences basal levels of Na,K-pump activity.
Xylem
Definition:
(n.) That portion of a fibrovascular bundle which has developed, or will develop, into wood cells; -- distinguished from phloem.
Example Sentences:
(1) As shown earlier, at zero turgor pressure the intracellular freezing point of the parenchyma cells matches closely the negative pressure in the xylem sap.
(2) UDP-glucose was found to be the most important sugar nucleotide isolated from both cambial and young xylem tissue.
(3) The abnormal proliferation of lateral buds in the former plants is probably linked to the elevation of cytokinin level in xylem sap caused by strain IC3342.
(4) Fe, Cu, Zn, Ca, and Mg composition was determined for native teas made from shoots of Tagetes lucida, T. filifolia, Elytraria imbricata, and Holodiscus dumosus, and from root xylem of Ceanothus depressus and Phaseolus ritensis.
(5) A cDNA clone (Ptomt 1) encoding a lignin-bispecific O-methyltransferase (OMT) was isolated by immunological screening of a lambda gt11 expression library prepared from mRNA of developing secondary xylem of aspen (Populus tremuloides).
(6) Virus particles were present in all cell types of the epidermis, mesophyll, phloem, and xylem.
(7) Ultrastructural examination of leaf tissue of Nicotiana benthamiana infected with Indian cassava mosaic virus (ICMV) revealed abnormalities in phloem and, occasionally, xylem cells.
(8) This protein is stored in xylem ray cells during the winter season and is degraded in late spring.
(9) When cells were grown in medium with only 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid for a period of 5--10 subcultures and samples were transferred to the induction medium at intervals during the subcultures, the amounts of phenylalanine ammonia-lyase activity and the number of xylem elements induced progressively declined.
(10) A photo-oxidized solution of 3,3'-diaminobenzidine (DAB) is used to stain xylem parenchyma mitochondria in specimens prepared from lupin hypocotyls fixed with glutaraldehyde and osmium tetroxide and embedded in Epon.
(11) Likewise, the PRPs are localized in xylem vessel elements and fibers in tomato, petunia, potato and tobacco stems.
(12) This agrees with the present data, that the fluid which exudes from the xylem by applying gas pressure on the leaves is practically pure water; freezing point is rarely above 0.01 to 0.02 degrees .
(13) Occasionally BNYVV antigen was detected predominantly, but not exclusively in the xylem vessels.
(14) The xylem in the body of the haustorium of E. bidwillii has the shape of an inverted conical flask with the expanded portion being known as the vascular core.
(15) Other explanations are discussed, including a possible particularity of the infection in xylem tissue or a specific property of an unusual CaMV isolate.
(16) The bark, xylem of stem, and root of (1) Bombax malabarica DC.
(17) A biphasic pattern of gene expression and enzyme activity for OMT was observed from xylem samples of aspen during the growing season which suggests linkage between gene expression for a monolignol biosynthetic enzyme and seasonal regulation of xylem differentiation in woody plants.
(18) The former possesses the xylem fibres and tracheids with steep, tertiary spiral thickenings, while the latter possesses sclereids at stem-nodes.
(19) The bean phenylalanine ammonia-lyase gene 2 (PAL2) is expressed in the early stages of vascular development at the inception of xylem differentiation, associated with the synthesis of lignin precursors.
(20) In plant pathogenesis, less specific mechanisms of pathogenesis occur: exopolysaccharides cause wilting by blocking xylem vessels, are partly responsible for water-soaked lesions, and may also aid in invasion, growth, and survival in plant tissues.