(n.) An electro-negative element, or the element which, in electro-chemical decompositions, is evolved at the anode; -- opposed to cation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both SAA and non-SAA enhanced ammonium excretion but only non-SAA enhanced organic anion excretion, an indicator of incomplete oxidation of organic acids.
(2) In the presence of high external Cl, a component of outward current that was inhibited by the anion channel blocker diphenylamine-2-carboxylate (DPC) appeared in 70% of the cells.
(3) Cell viability, ability to generate superoxide anion, and chemotaxis were found to be unaltered both before and after labeling.
(4) Interaction of viable macrophages with cationic particles at 37 degrees C resulted in their "internalization" within vesicles and coated pits and a closer apposition between many segments of plasmalemma than with neutral or anionic substances.
(5) In general, enzyme activity was strongly reduced by heavy metal inorganic cations; less strongly by organometallic cations, some anions, and certain pesticides; and weakly inhibited by light metal cations and organometallic and organic compounds.
(6) The order in which anions supported uptake was Cl- = SCN- greater than F- greater than NO3- = SO2(-4) for beta-alanine, whereas it was SCN- greater than F- = Cl- = NO3- greater than SO2(-4) for L-alpha-alanine.
(7) Moreover, it is the recombinant p70 polypeptides of slowest mobility that coelute with S6 kinase activity on anion-exchange chromatography.
(8) Superoxide anion (O2.-) was photogenerated upon illumination of riboflavin in fluorescent light.
(9) At hypothyroid patients there is an ADP excess which is degenerated to xanthine, the substrate of xanthine oxidase resulting in toxic anion superoxide and UA.
(10) The sigmoidal shape of the curve of rate constant vs mole percent anionic lipid is consistent with a positively cooperative effect of the negative surface charge.
(11) The changes included swelling, blunting, and flattening of epithelial foot processes, were accompanied by decreased stainability of glomerular anionic sites, and were largely reversed by subsequent perfusion with the polyanion heparin.
(12) The granules of human large granular lymphocytes have been reported to contain, in addition to perforin, a soluble HRF activity that can be eluted from anion-exchange columns at 115 mM NaCl.
(13) The channels studied here were more selective for monovalent cations than anions, but also showed some permeability to anions and larger electrolytes, suggesting a large functional pore diameter.
(14) The reduction of cytochrome c was found to be sensitive to both anaerobiosis and superoxide dismutase, suggesting the involvement of superoxide anions with this electron acceptor.
(15) The porins are a class of voltage-dependent, anion-selective, channel-forming proteins located in the outer mitochondrial membrane (OMM).
(16) In 254 findings of the acid-base balance ions and proteins, the authors evaluated mutual relations between the acid-base balance and calculation from the anion column.
(17) Proceeding from the observation that organic anions bound to albumin have hepatic extraction fractions that are unexpectedly high, we have studied a distributed model that accounts for this phenomenon by invoking sites on the cell surface that catalyze the dissociation of albumin-anion complexes.
(18) 6) The subunits alpha and beta of bovine follitropin were obtained by incubation in acidic urea, the chains being then separated by anion exchange chromatography.
(19) Here we report that phenol hydroxylation to hydroquinone is also catalyzed by human myeloperoxidase in the presence of a superoxide anion radical generating system, hypoxanthine and xanthine oxidase.
(20) The oxidation of the anion radical intermediate by O2 to the parent nitro compound is proposed to account for the well-known O2 inhibition of microsomal nitroreductase.
Antimonate
Definition:
(n.) A compound of antimonic acid with a base or basic radical.
Example Sentences:
(1) Precipitates of calcium antimonate were formed almost exclusively in swollen clear pinealocytes, in and along their cell membranes, over their nuclei, in mitochondria, the Golgi apparatus, endoplasmic and integrade reticulums, acervuli, in vesicles surrounding synaptic bars, cytoplasmic matrix, and flocculent extracellular material.
(2) The operon was found to have two functional regions, the promoter-proximal region encoding resistance to arsenite and antimonate and the promoter-distal region encoding arsenate resistance.
(3) The addition of oxalate to a suspension of rabbit peritoneal neutrophils before fixation with glutaraldehyde and postfixation with osmium tetroxide-antimonate greatly enhanced the amount of calcium antimonate precipitate subsequently detectable with the electron microscope.
(4) The resistance pattern included arsenate, arsenite, and antimonate ions.
(5) Results from in vitro titrations of cations with the various antimonate methods and from neutron activation analyses of fixed tissues supported conclusions drawn from fine structural distribution patterns and were interpreted as follows.
(6) During meiotic prophase an accumulation of cation-antimonate precipitates occurs dispersed through the middle pachytene nuclei, the stage in which RNA synthesis reaches a maximum.
(7) This produces a more copious precipitate of calcium antimonate than fixation without oxalate.
(8) The preparations were exposed to acetylcholine (ACh 1X10(-6) M), rapidly fixed at various functional states with 1% osmium tetroxide in 2% potassium antimonate and inspected with electron microscope.
(9) It is suggested that although matrix vesicles contain few calcium capable of reacting to antimonate immediately after their biogenesis, subsequently, large amounts of calcium are accumulated associated with the outer surface membrane of matrix vesicles in the extracellular matrix.
(10) Deposits were reduced at all sites following exposure of eggs to EGTA either prior to or after osmium-antimonate fixation.
(11) Cytochemical localization of Ca2+ in Meissner corpuscles and Merkel cell-neurite complexes in the palatine mucosa of the Mongolian gerbil was studied by a combined oxalate antimonate-microwave irradiation procedure.
(12) Potassium antimonate was used to precipitate calcium in the cochlea of the guinea-pig.
(13) When permeabilized mast cells were exposed to potassium antimonate solution, microtubules attached themselves to the endoplasmic reticulum and many Ca antimonate dots were observed.
(14) Treatment with intramuscular injections of meglumine antimonate (Glucantime) was successful.
(15) These findings suggest that some of the calcium released from cellular stores during fixation with glutaraldehyde is trapped within the neutrophil by oxalate which then reacts with potassium antimonate.
(16) Modifications of the Komnick potassium (pyro)antimonate precipitation method have been widely used for the subcellular localization of a variety of cations.
(17) The localization of pyro-antimonate-precipitable Ca2+ in the undecalcified femur and calvaria of neonatal rats was examined.
(18) Calcium-containing antimonate precipitates were localized principally in nuclei, smooth endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, mitochondria, and cytoplasmic processes of both oocytes and follicle cells, and along the plasma membrane in small oocytes.
(19) The strong reaction of neutrophil primary granules with antimonate and dialyzed iron afforded differentiation from unreactive monocyte-macrophage granules and thus distinguished these cell types in culture.
(20) At other stages (zygotene to diplotene), where RNA synthesis falls to a low level, that pattern is not seen; cation-antimonate deposits are restricted to a few masses in areas apparently free of chromatin.