(n.) A flowing towards; that which flows to; as, an afflux of blood to the head.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prerequisite for efficient assist-ventricles and impulses in the pulsatile pumping function are sufficiently dimensioned afflux and flowing off connections.
(2) In 1982, 1983 and 1986 164 water-specimens were collected at 34 sites along the river Rhine and its affluxes in the Rhine-Neckar-Region and tested for the occurrence of Salmonellae.
(3) We suppose that the increased afflux of blood could favour the secretion of granules till the exhaustion of cells.
(4) The 11 pediatricians working in the afflux area unanimously judged the shortened stay in hospital positive.
(5) In the region of the direct inputs of splanchnic afferents into the spinal cord, the initial part of the early (propriospinal) component is evoked by afflux from the extraspinal pathway in the sympathetic chain and has the shortest latent period.
(6) During the period of May 1982 to January 1983 and March 1986 to May 1986, 164 water-specimens had been collected along the river Rhine and its affluxes in the overcrowded Rhine-Neckar-Region from 34 collecting-sites on 8 different days.
(7) The most likely explanation is decreased afflux of BCAA into plasma.
(8) The simultaneous occurence of a medianecrosis and conditions triggering tunica intima rupture, with blood afflux in the necrotic zone are undoubtedly rare.
(9) The injection in rabbits of vaccinal antigens combined with immunity adjuvants (in particular calcium phosphate) causes a local lesion in which it is possible to recognize histologically, after a transitory afflux of polymorphonuclear leukocytes, a central area of adjuvant deposit, a middle area of histiocytes and monocytes, and a peripheral immunogenic area of lymphocytes and plasmocytes.
(10) Intracellular potassium concentration (Kic), ouabain-sensitive 86 rubidium-uptake, and the furosemide-sensitive Na+ and K+ afflux did not differ significantly between the 2 periods of the cycle.
(11) An experimental stage focussed attention on the early modifications occurring in the alveolar surfactant and in the afflux of inflammatory and immune-effector cells following bleomycin-induced lung fibrosis in the rat (by intratracheal instillation).
(12) Indirect immunoperoxidase method revealed LF in alveolar macrophages of normal and tumour lung tissues, in afflux of these cells around the tumour cells, but never--in the original lung cancer cells.
(13) Based on these data, it has to be concluded, that the water of the Rhine-river and its affluxes in the Rhine-Neckar-Region is an uncontrolled germ-reservoir.
(14) The ambroxol-protected rats showed a slower drop of alveolar lecithins in the first few hours after bleomycin administration and a lower afflux of neutrophils, macrophages and lymphocytes.
(15) This increase in sensitivity permitted the observation of the time course of the influx and afflux of this 13C-labeled compound with a time resolution of approximately 2 min per spectrum.
Efflux
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of flowing out, or issuing forth; effusion; outflow; as, the efflux of matter from an ulcer; the efflux of men's piety.
(n.) That which flows out; emanation; effluence.
(v. i.) To run out; to flow forth; to pass away.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Cao-dependent Na+ efflux was half-maximally activated by [Ca2+]o = 2.0 mM in LiSW and 7.2 mM in Tris-SW; at saturating [Ca2+]o, [Ca2+]i, and [Na+]i the maximal (calculated) Cao-dependent Na+ efflux was approximately 75 pmol#cm2.s.
(2) In contrast sham-hemodialysis in group CA and group PS, respectively, did not result in significant increases in amino acid efflux from the leg implying that the protein catabolic effect of blood membrane contact depends on the chemical properties of dialysis membranes.
(3) During both influx and efflux experiments the lenses of both groups released a small of proteins, but no difference found between the two groups.
(4) 3) The magnitude of K+ release is the ratio of two opposing mechanisms, a passive efflux and an active reuptake.
(5) The Kact for phenylephrine-stimulated elevation in [Ca2+]i on the monolayer is 0.51 microM, which is similar to the Kact of 0.90 microM observed for phenylephrine-activated 45Ca2+ efflux.
(6) These results suggest that (i) CE reduction is selective to HDL, (ii) FC transfer from plasma membrane to lipoprotein (cholesterol efflux) expressed by reduction in radioactive FC is not selective to HDL but occurs to other lipoproteins, (iii) the CE-reducing capacity of HDL became weaker when cellular binding of HDL was reduced by chemical modification with tetranitromethane or a chemical cross-linker, dithiobis-succinimidylpropionate, suggesting an importance of the specific binding in the HDL-mediated CE reduction.
(7) Thus biliary GSSG efflux, a frequently used index of oxidant stress, is not increased in vitamin E-deficient perfused livers compared with control.
(8) In darkness, raising the concentration of K in the fluid of perfusion gives an increase of the efflux of (86)Rb and increasing the extracellular concentration of Ca yields a retention.
(9) Glutamine efflux decreased equally, by about 50%, with the 3 concentrations of K+.
(10) The same experimental conditions that favored a large component of Cao-activated Na efflux also caused a large increase in Ca influx.
(11) The omission of glucose induced a marked increase in the efflux of [3H]GABA, which was antagonized by TTX (1 microM), but not by MK 801 (1 microM) or DNQX (100 microM).
(12) The adenylate cyclase activator forskolin as well as 8-bromo-cyclic AMP enhanced the electrically evoked release of 3H-noradrenaline and 3H-5-hydroxytryptamine from superfused rat neocortical slices and that of 3H-dopamine from neostriatal slices with comparable EC50's of about 0.5 and 50 microM, respectively, without affecting spontaneous tritium efflux.
(13) The efflux rate for EB of strains with duplicated ebr genes was twice the rate of strains with a single ebr gene.
(14) After 140 min the rate of efflux of NA radioactivity was significantly slower than that of the labelled marker.4.
(15) In addition to the colicin Ia-induced rapid efflux of preloaded rubidium, sodium, phosphate, or choline from liposomes, a slower efflux of preloaded sucrose or glucose 6-phosphate occurs.
(16) Veratridine also evoked a large efflux of [3H] from this preparation, but this release was only partially Ca2+ dependent.
(17) At 19 degrees C, sodium efflux values were more scattered after storage, but the mean value was not significantly different even after 4 hours.
(18) The calcium channel blockers 'DMDP' [N-3,4-dimethoxyphenethyl)-N-methyl-2-(2-naphthyl-m-dithane-2-prop ylamine)] and verapamil inhibited the active efflux of adriamycin from adriamycin-resistant P388 leukemia cells but had no effect on the drug-sensitive cell line.
(19) The model shows quantitative agreement with the fraction of MTX polyglutamates found still to be bound to reductase in MCF-7 cells following 24 h of efflux, and qualitative agreement with the time dependence of bound MTX-polyglutamate concentration profiles obtained on the ZR-75 breast cancer line.
(20) More recently, attention has also been focussed on bicarbonate transport in attempts to identify a possible role for this ion in enhancing the rate of net fluid efflux by proximal tubules.