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At 2 weeks and thereafter, the lumen diameters were significantly larger than those of controls, which were accompanied with decreased wall thickness (Figure 1and table 1).
Mesenteric artery and vein segments (15 mm in length) were ligated with suture thread and fixative solution containing 4% paraformaldehyde and 3% glutaraldehyde in 0.1 M phosphate buffer (pH 7.4) was injected into the lumen to partially distend the vessel.
A critical property of the intestinal epithelium is the ability to distinguish between pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria, and under stress, to flush pathogens from the lumen of the intestine.
In the two animals studied the epididymal epithelia and the sperm in the lumen of test slides were consistently a brighter green (Fig.
Thus, much as we have a unit of heat, called the calorie , and a unit of light, called the lumen , social scientists have devised a unit of pain, called the dukkha , from the Pali word for "suffering."