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Premature delivery carries a small risk for the development of hyaline membrane disease.
The cartilage, which only partly surrounds the auditory tube, is hyaline near its junction with the bone.
Excess plasma proteins may form hyaline droplets.
The presence of a gelatinous hyaline layer surrounding the eggs has been observed in some species.
Typically, muscle fibres contain nonhyaline and dense hyaline deposits of various shapes and sizes.

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Early studies that suggested the adhesive properties of the hyaline layer involved treatment of embryos with calcium-free seawater.
Some fibres contain pleomorphic hyaline, granular and amorphous deposits, ranging from red-blue to dark blue in trichrome stain.
Early on at 2.5 weeks of postnatal age, the mice were noted to have endotheliosis and hyaline deposits in their kidneys.
The hyaline layer is a collagen-containing extracellular matrix in sea urchin embryos and reaggregating cells.
Morphological changes include the coalescence of lipid droplets and the appearance of a hyaline layer beneath the cuticle.
The cyst is surrounded by a cyst wall which in consequence of its nonstaining properties appears as a hyaline layer.
Inhaled nitric oxide improves gas exchange and lowers pulmonary vascular resistance in severe experimental hyaline membrane disease.
Function of the hyaline layer and its major constituent, is the adhesion of cells during morphogenesis.
When dissociated cells are returned to artificial seawater, they regenerate the hyaline layer and the dissociated cells reaggregate to form almost normal embryos.
In addition, they have the classic subendothelial hyaline deposits.
Fore wing hyaline with slightly infuscate band behind basal half of marginal vein.
Fore wing hyaline with bare area near leading edge (fig. 42).
The supernatant seawater containing embryos with fully formed hyaline layers was aspirated leaving a mat of loosely adherent cells.
The heads of larvae and adults are anchored to surrounding host tissues by a cap of hyaline-like substance, which is presumably secreted by the nematodes.
Recently, new technologies have been developed with the aim of stimulating hyaline cartilage growth over the damaged articular surface (3;18).
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