Sentences with word «medullary»

She had just soaked a fragment of medullary bone in dilute acid to remove some calcium phosphate.

During the early stage of medullary thyroid cancer, the cancer cells spread to the lymph nodes.

Among others, RET plays a role in around 50 percent of medullary thyroid cancers, 20 percent of papillary thyroid cancers, and up to two percent of non-small cell lung cancers.

It's a chemical found in medullary bones but not other types.

They include applying genetic and genomic information for medical and surgical management for medullary thyroid cancer for the affected patient as well as as yet unaffected family members.

Unlike terrestrial theropods, the pelvic girdle is downsized, the hind limbs are short, and all of the limb bones are solid without an open medullary cavity, for buoyancy control in water.

So in Aug 13, I got blood work done and a couple months later was diagnosed with medullary thyroid cancer.

However, Schweitzer and her colleagues conducted a number of different tests on the T. rex sample, including testing for keratan sulfate using monoclonal antibodies, and compared their results to the same tests performed on known medullary tissue from ostrich and chicken bone.

Adrenal Medullary Tumors.

Schweitzer had noticed that the femur had a special inner layer, known as medullary bone, which had previously been found only in ovulating female birds.

She is studying the molecular and cellular mechanisms that control the development and homeostasis of medullary thymic epithelial cell, key actors in T - cell tolerance induction.

Although the USPSTF recommends against screening in the general asymptomatic adult population, several factors substantially increase the risk for thyroid cancer, including a history of radiation exposure to the head and neck as a child, exposure to radioactive fallout, family history of thyroid cancer in a first - degree relative, and certain genetic conditions, such as familial medullary thyroid cancer or multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome (type 2A or 2B).4

Adrenal medullary pheochromocytomas are most common in Boxer dogs.

Based on data that included those from the fly, AstraZeneca took the drug into human clinical trials, and in 2011, vandetanib became the first drug approved for late - stage medullary thyroid cancer.

Small medullary pheochromocytomas usually have no clinical effect, but approximately half are larger and invade the main vein (vena cava) returning to the heart.

The femur of MOR1125 was already broken when Schweitzer got it, and she acknowledges that most paleontologists wouldn't want to cut open or demineralize their fossils in order to search for rare medullary bone.

This is because medullary bone has to be laid down and mobilized quickly in order for birds to shell their eggs.

Birds, and evidently some dinosaurs, grow medullary bone to store up calcium so egg production doesn't weaken the load - bearing outer layer of their bones.

Vascular endothelial growth factor signaling is necessary for expansion of medullary microvessels during postnatal kidney development.

Autosomal dominant medullary cystic kidney disease 1 (MCKD1) is a rare hereditary renal disease that ultimately requires dialysis or kidney transplantation for patients.

In this study, the authors examined the effects of sex hormones on systematic and renal hemodynamic parameters, mean arterial pressure, renal cortical flow and renal medullary blood flow in castrated male and spayed female diabetic rats, compared with sham - operated animals.

Single - cell suspensions (1 × 105 cells) in a final volume of 10 μl were injected into the upper half of the tibia medullary cavity, as felt by a lack of resistance when pushing cells into the cavity.

Detecting medullary bone means that scientists now can identify dinosaurs that were in lay.

In 2005, a team spotted what looked like medullary bone.

The medulla (medullary portion) produces the epinephrine we all need to deal with sudden stresses.

The tumors of medullary origin are most commonly found in dogs.

The second phase is easily diagnosed in the clinic by the appearance of radiodense, mottled medullary tissue, beginning in the vicinity of the nutrient foramen, that hole in the side of the bone where blood vessels enter and leave.

Medullary ganglioneuromas are usually benign but the neuroblastomas that develop in young animals may spread throughout the body cavity.

Enzymatic Activity of Renal H - K - ATPase in the Outer Medullary Collecting Duct of Transgenic Mice

Catecholaminergic abnormalities in the brainstems of infants with SIDS are controversial, with reports of positive and negative findings using immunocytochemistry and tissue autoradiography.26 - 29 Our study does not support a major abnormality in SIDS cases in medullary 5 - HT nuclei that receive projections from rostral catecholaminergic cell bodies in the pons and midbrain.

Familial medullary thyroid cancer, which is a rare type of thyroid cancer, is caused by an inherited mutation in the RET proto - oncogene.

From each brainstem, 2 blocks of medullary tissue (3 mm) were collected: 1 from the mid-medulla, at the level of the nucleus of Roller (corresponding to Plate X in the atlas of Olszewski and Baxter18) and 1 from the rostral medulla, at the level of the nucleus praepositus (corresponding to Plate XII in that atlas)(Figure 1).

Adrenal medullary tumors are rare but pheochromocytomas are the most common type and usually occur in middle aged to older dogs.

And when a bird is in lay, some of her bones temporarily develop a tissue known as medullary (MED - ju - laar - ee) bone.

Revised American Thyroid Association Guidelines for the Management of Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma.

Special guests will also join Robertson during the trip to help raise funds for the charity, which is close to his heart after he was diagnosed with medullary thyroid cancer in January 2012.

In 2005, Mary Schweitzer, an NC State paleontologist with a joint appointment at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences and lead author of a paper describing the research, found what she believed to be medullary bone in the femur of a 68 million year old T. rex fossil (MOR 1125).