What's the difference between acidic and alkalize?
Acidic
Definition:
(a.) Containing a high percentage of silica; -- opposed to basic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The amino acid sequence deduced from the nucleotide sequence contained both amino- and carboxyl-terminal sequences.
(2) F(420) is photolabile aerobically in neutral and basic solutions, whereas the acid-stable chromophore is not photolabile under these conditions.
(3) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
(4) If ascorbic acid was omitted from the culture medium, the extensive new connective tissue matrix was not produced.
(5) The interaction of the antibody with both the bacterial and the tissue derived polysialic acids suggests that the conformational epitope critical for the interaction is formed by both classes of compounds.
(6) Arachidic acid was without effect, while linoleic acid and linolenic acid were (on a concentration basis) at least 5-times less active than arachidonic acid.
(7) An unsaturated fatty acid auxotroph of Escherichia coli was grown with a series of cis-octadecenoate isomers in which the location of the double bond varied from positions 3 to 17.
(8) The ability of azelastine to influence antigen-induced contractile responses (Schultz-Dale phenomenon) in isolated tracheal segments of the guinea-pig was investigated and compared with selected antiallergic drugs and inhibitors of arachidonic acid metabolism.
(9) After 4 to 6 hours of recirculation, accumulation of vasoactive amine, 5-hydroxytryptamine, its major metabolite, 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid, and its precursor amino acid, tryptophan were detected.
(10) Spectrophotometric determination of the sulfhydryl content in the animal tissue before (control) and after using 6,6'-Dithiodinicotinic acid is applied.
(11) This death is also dependent on the presence of chloride and is prevented with the non-selective EAA antagonist, kynurenic acid, but is not prevented by QA.
(12) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(13) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
(14) The LD50 of the following metal-binding chelating drugs, EDTA, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), cyclohexanediaminotetraacetic acid (CDTA) and triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid (TTHA) was evaluated in terms of mortality in rats after intraperitoneal administration and was found to be in the order: CDTA greater than EDTA greater than DTPA greater than TTHA greater than HEDTA.
(15) Estimations of the degree of incorporation of 14C from the radioactive labeled carbohydrate into the glycerol and fatty acid moieties were carried out.
(16) The second amino acid residue influences not only the rate of reaction but also the extent of formation of the product of the Amadori rearrangement, the ketoamine.
(17) Leumorphin is a 29-amino-acid peptide derived from preproenkephalin B. Intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.)
(18) Hepatic lymph flow increased only after ethacrynic acid and mannitol administration.
(19) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
(20) A phytochemical investigation of an ethanolic extract of the whole plant of Echites hirsuta (Apocynaceae) resulted in the isolation and identification of the flavonoids naringenin, aromadendrin (dihydrokaempferol), and kaempferol; the coumarin fraxetin; the triterpene ursolic acid; and the sterol glycoside sitosteryl glucoside.
Alkalize
Definition:
(v. t.) To render alkaline; to communicate the properties of an alkali to.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of intravenously administered distilled water was examined alone and during alkalization in a patient with gross hematuria associated with the sickle cell trait.
(2) Cimetidine was extracted from alkalized plasma with ethyl acetate, washed once over hydrochloric acid, re-extracted into ethyl acetate, and the organic phase was evaporated to dryness.
(3) Sodium bicarbonate induced significantly higher base excess and PCO2 values, while the tris buffer mixture seemed to have a greater alkalizing effect intracellularly.
(4) In these experiments aqueous calciumhydroxide suspensions demonstrate the comparably highest alkalization combined with a profound longacting antimicrobial action.
(5) In contrast, the alkalization induced by AII was abolished by both amiloride and Na(+)-free medium.
(6) P. mirabilis caused the strongest alkalization in infected urine.
(7) We recommend fecal alkalization before lyophilization in future measurements of fecal energy excretion.
(8) Two patients required oral alkalizing agents as a result of persistent systemic acidosis.
(9) However, conditions that activate phosphofructokinase, such as addition of ammonium sulfate or fructose 2,6-bisphosphate or alkalization, removed the inhibition of hexokinase without noticeably affecting the glucokinase component of usage.
(10) Treatment consists of administration of urinary alkalizing agents and alpha-mercaptopropionylglycine.
(11) A randomized double blind study was carried out to determine whether alkalization of a 0.25% bupivacaine solution in a fentanyl-bupivacaine mixture hastened the onset, and increased the duration and quality, of extradural analgesia during labour.
(12) In contrast to the ATPase reactions, SDH activity was decreased equally, in both extra- and intrafusal fibres, with increasing acidity and alkality of the preincubation medium.
(13) Feeding MSG had a marked alkalizing effect on the urine.
(14) The alkalization induced by ET was Ca2(+)-dependent and was inhibited by a calcium channel blocker, nicardipine.
(15) Histochemical study of so-called neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinoses (NCL) showed that the stored material is extractable in the unfixed state especially with alkalized or acidified chloroform-methanol mixtures when compared with other solvents.
(16) Alkalization-stimulated Ca2+ release from vesicles is analyzed kinetically.
(17) If potassium is added in the presence of sodium, a further alkalization is obtained; in contrast, potassium addition in presence of Li+ or NH+4 does not change the internal pH.
(18) IUD use causes an increase in the number of macrophages and neutrophils, in IgG and IgM levels, and alkalic phosphatase and local fibrinolytic activity in the endometrium.
(19) NH4Cl also caused intracellular alkalization, but independently of extracellular Na+.
(20) It can be concluded that alkalizing a 0.25% bupivacaine solution in a fentanyl-bupivacaine mixture for epidural analgesia in labour has no clinical value.