What's the difference between active and nonpassive?

Active


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain active principles; the powers of the mind.
  • (a.) Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble; as, an active child or animal.
  • (a.) In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an active volcano.
  • (a.) Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy; -- opposed to dull, sluggish, indolent, or inert; as, an active man of business; active mind; active zeal.
  • (a.) Requiring or implying action or exertion; -- opposed to sedentary or to tranquil; as, active employment or service; active scenes.
  • (a.) Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; -- opposed to speculative or theoretical; as, an active rather than a speculative statesman.
  • (a.) Brisk; lively; as, an active demand for corn.
  • (a.) Implying or producing rapid action; as, an active disease; an active remedy.
  • (a.) Applied to a form of the verb; -- opposed to passive. See Active voice, under Voice.
  • (a.) Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive.
  • (a.) Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tryptic digestion of the membranes caused complete disappearance of the binding activity, but heat-treatment for 5 min at 70 degrees C caused only 40% loss of activity.
  • (2) A study revealed that the percentage of active sperm in semen 30 seconds after ejaculation was 10.3% when a nonoxynol 9 latex condom was used as opposed to 55.9% in a nonspermicidal condom.
  • (3) The most actively proliferating region of the excurrent duct system is zone 3 of the epididymis, whereas the least active region is the ductuli efferentes.
  • (4) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
  • (5) Activity of Na,K-ATPase activity was measured as a functional marker for synaptosomal membranes.
  • (6) The antiarrhythmic activity similar to that of quinidine (with ca.
  • (7) The microsomal preparations from untreated Syrian golden hamster livers exhibited higher activities of N-demethylation towards the macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin and troleandomycin, than those from untreated and phenobarbital-treated rats.
  • (8) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
  • (9) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
  • (10) Phospholipid methylation in human EGMs is distinctly different from that in rat EGMs (Hirata and Axelrod 1980) in that the human activity is not Mg++-dependent, and apparent methyltransferase I activity is located in the external membrane surface.
  • (11) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
  • (12) 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.
  • (13) Following in vitro C activation in NHS by delta IgG, the 40 KD C4d component increased markedly.
  • (14) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
  • (15) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
  • (16) This difference was not due to ATPase activity in the assay.
  • (17) In the surface epithelial cells, the basolateral cell surface showed moderate enzymatic activity.
  • (18) Both the vitellogenesis and the GtH cell activity are restored in the fish exposed to short photoperiod if it is followed by a long photoperiod.
  • (19) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
  • (20) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.

Nonpassive


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They seem prone to a nonpassive life-style and attend church infrequently.
  • (2) The estimated dimensionless carrier parameters for 2 are J*max = 0.16, Km = 0.08 mM, P*c = 2.0, and P*m = 0.25; for lisinopril, passive absorption is not significant and its absorption is nonpassive: J*max = 0.032, Km = 0.082 mM, and P*c = 0.39 (where J*max is the maximal flux, Km is the Michaelis constant, P*c is the carrier permeability, and P*m is the passive permeability).
  • (3) The nonpassive component of Cd accumulation was markedly reduced by addition of Zn in vitro, indicative of competition for uptake at the cellular level.
  • (4) This suggests that the mechanism of CSF absorption in the living dog is nonpassive and pressure-sensitive.
  • (5) Compound 2 is well absorbed by a nonpassive mechanism, in parallel with a small passive component.
  • (6) The electro-neutral pathways underlying this nonpassive distribution of Cl- are believed to include Cl(-)-HCO3- exchange, Na(+)-dependent cotransport (operating as Na(+)-Cl- and Na(+)-K(+)-2Cl- cotransport), and K(+)-Cl- cotransport.
  • (7) The permeability of both ACE inhibitors is concentration dependent and is decreased by the dipeptide Tyr-Gly and by cephradine, indicating a nonpassive absorption mechanism via the peptide carrier-mediated transport system.
  • (8) The macroscopic mass balance approach (MMBA) is a flow model approach that utilizes fundamental mass transfer theory for estimating the extent of absorption for passively as well as nonpassively absorbed drugs.
  • (9) Infants born to passive smokers weighed a mean of 55 g lighter than those born to nonpassive smokers (2890 kg vs. 2945 kg).
  • (10) The permeability of enalapril is concentration dependent and is decreased by the dipeptide Tyr-Gly and by cephradine but not by the amino acids L-leucine or L-phenylalanine, indicating a nonpassive absorption mechanism via the small peptide carrier-mediated transport system.
  • (11) Cd uptake into isolated ICs had passive diffusion and nonpassive (carrier mediated or active transport or both) components.
  • (12) It is suggested that Cl- is nonpassively distributed across the beta-cell plasma membrane.
  • (13) The results of the MMBA correlation are discussed with respect to the nonpassive absorption mechanism and solubility limitation of amoxicillin.

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