(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.
Ferrocyanide
Definition:
(n.) One of a series of complex double cyanides of ferrous iron and some other base.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ferric ion and ferrocyanide are bound to nodes as colloidal precipitates, and may migrate away from their sites of formation.
(2) Glutaraldehyde-fixed testes were stained "en bloc" with the Ur-Pb-Cu technique of Thiéry and Rambourg ('76) or post-fixed and stained with the osmium tetroxide-potassium ferrocyanide method of Karnovsky ('71).
(3) The two-step method uses cationic cacodylate iron colloid which is substituted with Tween 20 at an OD460 nm = 0.5, followed by Perls' reaction with acid potassium ferrocyanide.
(4) Postfixation with unbuffered ferrocyanide-reduced osmiumtetroxide contributes to a better localization of microperoxisomes in both celltypes.
(5) It was recently reported that sequential block staining of tissue with ferrocyanide-reduced osmium tetroxide and lead aspartate produced excellent contrast for EM autoradiography, with sections relatively free of lead precipitate.
(6) In in vitro experiments ferrocyanide did not penetrate into erythrocytes, nor did it adhere to the red cell membrane.
(7) Ferrocyanide solutions absorb light energy in a photochemical reaction that causes cyanide radicals to be lost from the iron complex.
(8) A system consisting of an interlacunar network and thick fibrils was demonstrated in the matrix of human fetal and neonatal hyaline cartilage, using an osmium-ferrocyanide mixture as a second fixative.
(9) In particular the kinetics of the reaction of cytochrome cr and cytochrome cn (native) with ascorbate, ferrocyanide-ferricyanide, O2 and cytochrome c oxidase were investigated in considerable detail.
(10) In this pH range ferricyanide-oxidized cytochrome b-559 exists in a form not reducible by ferrocyanide.
(11) This rate also decreased at higher pH, with a pK of 7.4, indicating that ferrocyanide also was most reactive with a protonated form of the reaction center.
(12) Neutrophil iron-binding reactivity (NFeBR) visualized using the iron nitrilotriacetate-acid ferrocyanide technique was rated 0 to 5+ in 100 segmented cells; the ratings were totaled to yield a score (NFeBRS).
(13) A final precipitate of copper ferrocyanide is observed in the immediate vicinity of the tubules of the smooth endoplasmic reticulum, or in contact with their external faces.
(14) In intact dogs continuously infused with indicator, ferrocyanide also reached its ultimate distribution volume in 2 hrs and remained constant thereafter for up to 7 hrs after the start of the infusion.
(15) Accordingly, stable electron transfer dependent membrane potentials require cytochrome c, oxygen, and ferrocyanide.
(16) To evaluate the ultrastructural distribution of transferrin on the surface of L1210 ascites tumor cells, we used ferrocyanide to stain ferric iron (Prussian blue reaction) in transferrin, as well as in ferritin conjugated to antibody that was immunologically attached to the transferrin.
(17) The pattern of esterase activity in the thyroid of the guinea-pig is constant, irrespective of whether ferri-ferrocyanide (FFC) or certain copper compounds are used as oxidizing agents in the incubation medium.
(18) Ferric ion-ferrocyanide staining and safranin-0-counterstaining of neocortical tissue from cats with GM1 gangliosidosis have established that pyramidal neuron meganeurites occur proximal to axonal initial segments and that they are distinct from axonal spheroids.
(19) The rate of reaction of ferro- and ferricytochrome c (C(II) and C(III) with ferri- and ferrocyanide and of C(III) with 02- and CO2- was determined in H2O and in 2H2O in the temperature range 5-35 degrees C. No isotope effect was evident in any of the reductions of C(III); the apparent energy of activation was identical in H2O and 2H2O.
(20) The binuclear Cu2+ complex was found to accept only one electron from ferrocyanide.