(a.) Of or pertaining to vesicles; esp., of or pertaining to the air vesicles, or air cells, of the lungs; as, vesicular breathing, or normal breathing, in which the air enters freely the air vesicles of the lungs.
(a.) Containing, or composed of, vesicles or vesiclelike structures; covered with vesicles or bladders; vesiculate; as, vesicular coral; vesicular lava; a vesicular leaf.
(a.) Having the form or structure of a vesicle; as, a vesicular body.
Example Sentences:
(1) Electronmicroscopical investigations have revealed that, under normal conditions, a minor vesicular transfer of intravenously injected peroxidase occurs across the endothelium in segments of arterioles, capillaries and venules, especially in arterioles with a diameter about 15-30 mu.
(2) ACh released from the vesicular fraction was about 100-fold more than could be accounted for by miniature end-plate potentials; possible causes of this overestimate are discussed.
(3) Two similar calici agents, San Miguel sea lion virus (SMSV) and vesicular exanthema of swine virus (VESV) are susceptible to the virucidal activity of disinfectants of differing formulation.
(4) H-2b mice primed with the wildtype of vesicular stomatitis virus serotype Indiana (VSV-IND wt) mount an in vitro measurable cytotoxic response against the nucleoprotein (NP) of VSV-IND and are protected against a challenge infection with a vaccinia-VSV recombinant virus expressing the NP of VSV-IND (vacc-IND-NP).
(5) A temperature-sensitive (ts) mutant of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), tsG31, produces a prolonged central nervous system disease in mice with pathological features similar to those of slow viral diseases.
(6) After clinical examination and semen analysis, we studied 4100 patients by scrotal US with sector mechanical (7.5 MHz) probe with water bag and by transrectal US for prostatic vesicular region evaluation with 5-6.5 MHz linear probe (lately we used biplanar probe).
(7) It has been shown previously that oligodendrocytes, which synthesize and maintain myelin in the central nervous system (CNS), are susceptible to attack by homologous complement and that injury may be reversible when lysis is resisted by vesicular removal of membrane attack complexes.
(8) We analyzed cell extracts from BHK(21) cells infected with vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) and rabies virus for in vitro RNA polymerase activity.
(9) Translation of mRNA encoding vesicular stomatitis virus envelope glycoprotein G by as membrane-free ribosomal extract obtained from HeLa cells yielded a nonglycosylated protein (G1 (Mr 63,000).
(10) The effect of the enzyme on multiplication of the viruses of vesicular stomatitis, Newcastle and cariolovaccine diseases was investigated.
(11) Pompholyx (Dyshidrosis) is a disease of unknown etiology presenting as symmetrical, vesicular hand and foot dermatitis.
(12) Some of the parallel fibers, which display presynaptic vesicular grids, established synaptic contact with stellate cells and the dendritic spines of the few Purkinje cells that survived the treatment.
(13) But one component of glutamate release from neurons is calcium-independent, suggesting a non-vesicular release that may be due to a reversal of glutamate uptake.
(14) Histopathological examination alone could not be relied upon to differentiate between well-established skin lesions caused by swine vesicular disease and foot and mouth disease.
(15) In an attempt to elucidate the role of the 5'-terminal 7-methylguanosine residue in translation of mammalian mRNAs, vesicular stomatitis virus (VS virus), and reovirus mRNAs containing and lacking this residue, and also Qbeta RNA, were translated in cell-free extracts from reticulocytes and wheat germ under a variety of ionic conditions.
(16) Complete transcripts of the genome of vesicular stomatitis virus Indiana strain have been used to hybridize to virion RNA to determine if there is RNA sequence homology among these viruses.
(17) The data in combination with the morphological observations support the hypothesis of vesicular release of transmitter and provide new evidence as to rates and sites for filling of vesicles.
(18) The membrane-reactive, photoactivatable probe 125I-TID [3-(trifluoromethyl)-3-(m-[125I]iodophenyl)-3H-diazirine] was found to label the M protein of vesicular stomatitis virus about 40% as much as G protein in intact virions, in agreement with labeling studies with other probes.
(19) Where basement membrane and perivascular clefts were not yet inundated with HRP, sites of vesicular emptying of HRP at the tissue front were identified.
(20) The Semliki Forest virus spike subunit E2, a membrane-spanning protein, was transported to the plasma membrane in BHK cells after its carboxy terminus, including the intramembranous and cytoplasmic portions, was replaced by respective fragments of either the vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein or the fowl plague virus hemagglutinin.
Vesiculate
Definition:
(a.) Bladdery; full of, or covered with, bladders; vesicular.
(v. t.) To form vesicles in, as lava.
Example Sentences:
(1) The breaking up of the microtubular cytoskeleton is followed by vesiculation of the rough endoplasmic reticulum and partial atrophy, as well as dispersion of the stacks of Golgi cisternae.
(2) Moderate pulmonary edema, characterized by substantial fluid cuffing around extra-alveolar arteries and veins and by fluid accumulation restricted to the thick sides of the alveolar septa, is associated with increased vesiculation in alveolar vessel endothelium.
(3) Vesiculation and stripping of myelin by mononuclear cell processes were seen as mechanisms of myelin break-down.
(4) At the ultrastructural level, all three toxins caused dose-dependent vesiculation of rough endoplasmic reticulum, formation of concentric whorls composed of rough-ER, mitochondrial swelling, large cytoplasmic vacuoles and altered bile canaliculi.
(5) The high incidence of chronic vesiculities and postinflammatory obstruction is attributed to underlying bilharziasis.
(6) Pancreatic islets, newly formed in vitro were incubated in the presence of streptozotocin (STZ; 0.4 mM) for up to 6 h. Ultrastructural changes first appeared between 2 and 4 h; heterochromatization, was followed by swelling of nuclear and reticular membranes, vesiculation of the Golgi apparatus, fragmentation of cell membranes and finally mitochondrial destruction.
(7) Seventy-two hours p.i., the cellular secretory system of infected PC12 cells showed degenerative changes with vesiculation, disorganization, and dispersion of the Golgi complexes and fragmentation, focal cystic dilation, and dissolution of the RER in the same manner as those seen in the secretory system of JE-virus-infected neurons in the mouse brain.
(8) A variety of chemicals that share the common ability to bind to free sulfhydryl groups have been shown to act as membrane vesiculants as a result of their apparent ability to induce a unique form of cell injury which results in the shedding of cell surface vesicles.
(9) For PMS-treated RBCs, there is a strong correlation between membrane protein thiol oxidation and vesiculation temperature (r = .977, P less than .001).
(10) In addition, platelets at greater than or equal to 50 microM ganodermic acid S showed the occurrence of membrane vesiculation.
(11) Under electron microscopic magnification of 3000-12000 diameters, ultrastructural observations revealed dilatation and vesiculation of the endoplasmic reticulum as well as of the Golgi complexes.
(12) Although the presence of membrane vesiculation and myelin figures in platelets indicates that exocytotic processes were occurring at the moment of aldehyde fixation, the finding of membrane vesiculation in aldehyde-fixed platelets does not indicate a separate type of exocytosis.
(13) Control experiments showed that our results are not explained simply by hemolysis, RBC vesiculation, or development of prelytic pores.
(14) During the first eight hours after injury, myonuclei undergo pyknosis, mitochondria become enlarged and vesiculated, myofilaments appear less distinct than normal and the sarcolemmata either disappear or become extensively fragmented.
(15) As a consequence of membrane vesiculation, the erythrocytes lost up to approximately 50% of their immunoreactive decay-accelerating factor and 25% to 30% of their immunoreactive membrane inhibitor of reactive lysis (MIRL).
(16) CGRP immunostaining was localized exclusively in vesiculated efferent fibers.
(17) By the time of consultation examination, all had progressed to a relatively late state, exhibiting not only capsular cataract but also vesiculation and opacification of the proximal subcapsular lens substance.
(18) Ciliated cells had a slightly vesiculated cytoplasm, and many were in the process of being sloughed from the epithelial surface.
(19) On studying the histopathology three aspects are observed; 1) pure eosinophilic spongiosis with two modalites: diffuse or vesiculate; 2) mixed eosinophilic spongiosis and, 3) alternate eosinophilic spongiosis.
(20) The sarcolemma is more highly vesiculated in contraction than in relaxation.