See Also: Tetrazolium(medicine)
tetrazolium(dictionary)
Nitroblue tetrazolium(medicine)
Tetrazolium salts(medicine)
NADH tetrazolium reductase(medicine)
NADPH-tetrazolium reductase(medicine)
amine tetrazolium reductase(medicine)
nitroblue tetrazolium reduction(medicine)
nitroblue tetrazolium test(medicine)

pia mater (iou) and Tetrazolium (medicine)


pia mater (iou)



pia mater noun phr. LME.
[medieval Latin = tender mother, translating Arab. al-'umm ar-ra&kdbelow;i&kdbelow;a thin mother, tender mother: see DURA MATER.]
Anatomy. A delicate, fibrous, highly vascular membrane which forms the innermost of the three meninges enveloping the brain and spinal cord. Cf. PIA noun1.
pia-'matral adjective of or pertaining to the pia mater M19.

Tetrazolium (medicine)


tetrazolium


Any of a group of organic salts having the General structure which on reduction (cleaving the 2,3 bond) yields a coloured insoluble formazan; used as a reagent in oxidative enzyme histochemistry.

Nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT), a pale yellow dye that is converted on reduction to coloured formazans in the histochemical demonstration of dehydrogenases; used in haematology for staining of neutrophils to help indicate the presence of bacterial infections.