Sentence examples for major tissue for from inspiring English sources
Mussel gills showed lower detoxification capability of QDs, while the digestive gland is the major tissue for storage and detoxification of both Cd forms.
The fat body is the insect's equivalent of the liver, and is the major tissue for metabolism and storage of nutrients, and the source of most of the proteins that circulate in the hemolymph [21].
The intestine is a major tissue for energy storage, perhaps indicating that, in C. elegans, metabolic adaptations to anoxia occur primarily in the intestine.
Similar patterns of cell type specific expression have been reported for the ZFERV virus of the zebrafish; for this ERV the thymus appears to be a major tissue for retroviral activity [ 78].
Interestingly, the ratio of the weight of WAT, which is a major tissue for excess energy storage, to body weight significant decreases following electro-acupuncture, both for Epi-WAT and Ini-WAT.
Mutations in glycogen debranching enzyme (GDE) gene cause glycogen storage disease type III (GSD III), resulting in accumulation of cytoplasmic glycogen in liver and muscle, the two major tissues for glycogen metabolism (Illingworth and Cori, 1952; Illingworth et al., 1956).
Quantification of viral RNA extracted from caecum and colon, the major tissues for virus replication during persistent infections (Arias et al., 2012a), also confirmed that viral RNA could not be detected in these three treated mice that contain no amplifiable infectious virus in faeces and tissues, further supporting that virus infection was cleared in these animals.
Similarly, the abundance (or absence) of certain gene products in major tissues (for example lysozyme abundance in gut and salivary gland) can create an apparent under (or over-) expression in the bacteriome, and for such genes these results should be considered with caution.
Muscle is suggested to be the major tissue of interest for monitoring of environmental contamination with metals [ 9].
Effective cytoprotection to xenoislets would circumvent the major tissue limitation for pancreatic islet transplantation (PIT).
Skeletal muscle is the major tissue responsible for whole-body glucose disposal following a glucose challenge [ 24].
