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lu·men

 (lo͞o′mən)
n. pl. lu·mens or lu·mi·na (-mə-nə)
1. Anatomy The inner open space or cavity of a tubular organ, as of a blood vessel or an intestine.
2. Biology The interior of a membrane-bound compartment or organelle in a cell.
3. Abbr. lm Physics The SI unit of luminous flux, equal to the amount of light per unit time passing through a solid angle of one steradian from a light source of one candela intensity radiating equally in all directions. See Table at measurement.
[Latin lūmen, an opening, light; see leuk- in Indo-European roots.]
lu′men·al, lu′min·al adj.
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Noun1.Luminal - a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative
phenobarbital, phenobarbitone, sodium thiopental, purple heart
barbiturate - organic compound having powerful soporific effect; overdose can be fatal
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lu·mi·nal

a. luminal, rel. a la luz de un conducto.
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(27,28) The intermediate cells between the basal and luminal layers show moderate differentiation and express CK18, CD44, and CK5/6 at reduced levels.
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According to this still currently valid classification, ER-positive tumors demonstrate gene expression from luminal cells of breast glands, cytokine profile, and markers associated with other luminal cells.
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In the present study 50 % of the cases (67 cases) were of luminal A type, 26.9% (36 cases) were of Luminal B type, 13.4% cases (18 cases) were basal -like (Triple negative) and 9.7% cases (13 cases) were Her2 enriched type.
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The authors envision that the ability to readily integrate 3-D nanostructured fluidic motifs with the entire luminal surface of elastomeric channels will open new avenues for emerging applications in areas such as soft microrobotics and biofluidic microsystems.
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Developed by a research team from the Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) in Boston, Massachusetts, US, the new compound named LuCI (for Luminal Coating of the Intestine) delivers a sticky, gut-coating paste that provides a barrier on the first part of the intestine mimicking the effect of gastric bypass.
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Through this collaboration, MGH and Innovate seek to understand how certain toxins, which are normally contained within the luminal compartment of the intestine, are breaching the gut vascular barrier via ethanol-induced disruption and infiltrating the systemic circulation causing liver disease via an inflammatory loop of the gut-liver axis.
Innovate enters into collaboratin with Massachusetts General Hospital
CLEAR stands for Customizable, Luminal, Evacuation, Aspiration, and Retrieval.
Insera Therapeutics Awarded Competitive Grant from the National Science Foundation

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