islets in English
Two days later we are building a small driftwood fire on a tiny islet in the Barrier Islands a mile out into the open North Pacific.
Use "islets" in a sentence
1. Keep dogs alive till acini degenerate leaving islets.
2. The Islets of Granada are rich in tropical plants and wildlife.
3. Glandular Acinuses and Langerhans islets are clearly seen (hematoxyline—eosin, 20×)
4. • In 1951, some nesting Burrows, occupied, were found on islets near Castle Roads.
5. Glandular Acinuses and Langerhans islets are clearly seen (hematoxyline-eosin, 20£)
6. An Atoll is a ring-shaped coral reef, island, or series of islets
7. The individual islets are accessible from one another at low tide and by small bridges.
8. Hundreds of islands and islets with mangrove trees can be seen in the shallow coastal waters
9. The cradle of some great early civilizations, the Aegean Sea is studded with islands and islets.
10. To the north, it includes a 1,000-metre (3,300 ft) long beach, reef and islets.
11. Adrenalectomy and the diet exerted independent effects on glucose phosphorylation and fatty acid oxidation in islets.
12. Vascular changes, result developing of necrosis in Acinuses and of atrophya of exocrine tissue of pancreatic islets
13. Cyclades is a group of 56 islands and islets scattered across the deep blue Aegean Sea
14. Both of the major South Korean telecommunications companies have installed cellular telephone towers on the islets.
15. National park Kornati is the most indented archipelago on the Mediterranean with 140 unhabited islands, islets and cliffs.
16. Monomethylated-Adenines potentiate glucose-induced insulin production and secretion via inhibition of phosphodiesterase activity in rat pancreatic islets
17. Objective To study the effect of amylin on the secretion of glucagon and insulin in isolated rat islets.
18. The Archipelago Sea is the second largest Archipelago in the world with around 40,000 islands and islets
19. The Cyclades, a group of islands in the southwestern Aegean, comprises some thirty small islands and numerous islets
20. The province of Cebu belongs to the Visayas region and features no less than 168 islands and islets
21. The 45 islands and islets of the archipelago form a total land area of 50 square miles (130 km2).
22. The rate of Alloxan-induced insulin release was measured from rat islets maintained in a simple perifusion system
23. Like the nearby rocky islets of Chicken Rock and Kitterland, it is part of the parish of Rushen.
24. At the back he eroded the once rectangular lawn into undulating islets of herbaceous beds and fruit trees.
25. According to Wikipedia, Darwin defined Atolls as “…circular groups of coral islets […] and [the word] is synonymous with ‘lagoon-island’.
26. In particular there are close associations between nesting density on islands or islets, foraging habits, breeding ecology, and behaviour.
27. Paired aglomerular (mechanosensory) regions and paired glomerular (antennal) lobes, which are organized into nine islets, occur in the deutocerebrum.
28. Autotransplantation of pancreatic islets was developed for patients with chronic pancreatitis, in whom total pancreatectomy once provided the best option for treatment
29. Finally, the sun dispersed the mist to reveal dozens of islets scattered around the bay, as beautiful as emeralds on blue velvet.
30. 29 In this study we demonstrated the presence of 5-HT immunoreactive cells in the endocrine (islets) and exocrine pancreas of the guinea-pig.
31. These findings probably indicate that the amyloid of the islets of Langerhans is a product of degenerating β cells even if other possibilities are not excluded.
32. The original Spanish name of the islets is normally used for the geological formations, hence, Parece Vela megamullion, Parece Vela ridge, Parece Vela rift or Parece Vela basin.
33. This paper examines how Greece nearly went to war with Turkey in 1996 over the uninhabited islets of Imia, to the detriment of the Greek decision makers involved.
34. A group of islands and islets some 25 miles off the Tanzanian coast, the Zanzibar Archipelago is headlined by Unguja (often referred to simply as Zanzibar) and Pemba
35. In addition to the reef itself —actually a series of reefs— the reserve includes some 450 cays, or islets, and three coral atolls, ring-shaped reefs enclosing picturesque lagoons.
36. The highest enzymatic activity was found in pancreatic islets and heart muscle, and this was 2 to 5 times the activity obtained in pancreatic acini, liver and skeletal muscle.
37. In male adult rats treated with alloxan, in which the B-cells of the pancreatic islets are largely destroyed, the A-cells increase in number, both relatively and absolutely.
38. Calcification of the islets occurred, however, only if the animals had fasted during the critical period; that is, after the sensitization and up to the onset of action of alloxan.
39. It is disclosed herein that in the adult human pancreas, a small number of ZSCAN4-positive cells are present among cells located in the islets of Langerhans, acini, and ducts.
40. The land area of Andros consists of hundreds of small islets and cays connected by mangrove estuaries and tidal swamplands, together with three major islands: North Andros, Mangrove Cay, and South Andros.
41. Histochemically, this calcification was associated with an accumulation of acid mucopolysaccharides, with an intensified activity of the acid and alkaline phosphatases, and with a loss of activity of the succinic dehydrogenase in the islets.
42. The name of the group refers to an imaginary circle that all of these together form, around the sacred island of Delos.The Cyclades comprise about 220 islands and islets, from which 33 are inhabited.
43. At a time when European sailors often clung to shore in fear of plunging off the edge of a flat earth, Pacific mariners were apparently making long mid-ocean crossings between relatively tiny islets.
44. The absence of significant radioactivity in the islets of growing animals after tracer doses of 14C-2-alloxan suggests that the ability of the β cells to concentrate alloxan is confined to the adult age.
45. A part of French Polynesia, this magical island has some of the most beautiful sights to behold- a tropical island sorrounded by the amazing blue lagoon and coral reefs, accompanied by small islets (Motus) scattered around Bora Bora.
46. The diabeticogenically effective dithizon is certainly and alloxan very probably increased in the islets ofLangerhans by the intracellularly deposited zinc after the intravenous injection. The increase in the diabetogen compounds is a supposition for their specific cell-destroying effect.
47. Islet fatty-acid oxidation, the expression of key lipid metabolism genes, and glucose-stimulated insulin secretion were determined in freshly isolated islets from trained and sedentary control rats after a 48 h rest period from the last exercise.
48. By this experience the importance was emphasized, to obtain tissue from the center portion of the tumor to include the typical epithelial islets pathognomonic for “adamantinomas”, which in our case, were found only 10 years after the first operation.
49. The observation of an exaggerated serum insulin response to glucose load in clinically “inactive” acromegalics suggested that chronically elevated levels of circulating growth hormone may have led to permanent changes in the responsiveness of the pancreatic islets to glucose stimulation.
50. Spratly Islands, Chinese (Pinyin) Nansha Qundao or (Wade-Giles transliteration) Nan-sha Ch’un-tao, Malay Kepulauan Spratly, Pilipino Pangkat Islang Kalayaan, Vietnamese Quan Dao Truong Sa, large group of reefs, shoals, Atolls, and small islets in the South China Sea of the Pacific Ocean.