Sentence examples for as facet from inspiring English sources

Apart from wif-1, the expression of BMP-2 and BMP-7 was also strongly reduced in AS facet joints.

In summary, our study found no evidence of chondrocyte hypertrophy in AS facet joints as a putative mechanism which could support cartilage fusion and subsequent joint remodeling.

However, we neither found an activation of the wnt pathway according to beta-catenin expression nor an upregulation of COL10 or MMP13 expression in chondrocytes of AS facet joints.

The low expression of beta-catenin in AS facet joints underlines this assumption, because Zhu et al. showed that activation as well as inhibition of beta-catenin signaling in articular chondrocytes results in articular cartilage destruction [ 8, 35].

A low percentage of beta-catenin-positive chondrocytes was also found in AS facet joints (0.6 ± 0.9 %) while in OA joints the number of beta-catenin-positive chondrocytes was significantly increased (18.7 ± 18.5 %; Fig.  3a).

However, our histomorphometric study as well as a study in which we performed computed tomography (CT) scans of the facet, i.e., zygapophyseal joints provided no evidence for a major contribution of capsular ankylosis or extraarticular osteophytes in AS facet joints [ 4].

In the "accordion style" lists expanded out as facets were selected to explore, and contracted as facets were deselected.

The cutting known as faceting gradually developed from the first attempts in the 15th century, probably in France and the Netherlands.

Of decisive significance for the modern treatment of gemstones was the kind of cutting known as faceting, which produces brilliance by the refraction and reflection of light.

Easy walks and small pivots, lunges and bounces get each of the men from the beginning to the end of each particular dance, as distinctive as facets on innumerable small jewels.

Ideas of the time seem especially resonant in a 1952 ink drawing by Salvadore Grippi that treats human bodies as faceted biomorphic units covering the frontal plane in an interlocking pattern of darks and lights.