What's the difference between assimilate and resorb?

Assimilate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
  • (v. t.) To liken; to compa/e.
  • (v. t.) To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.
  • (v. i.) To become similar or like something else.
  • (v. i.) To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.
  • (v. i.) To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Essential parameters of hepatic functioning in 84 labourers, whose exposition to benzene is differing in assimilation as well as length of time is discussed.--45 persons from the same county without contact to benzene or hepatotoxic agents served as control-group.
  • (2) These results emphasize the potential importance of LPL-mediated lipid assimilation in the metabolic events that lead to energy production in response to environmental stresses and lend support to the notion that the regulation of LPL activity is tissue specific.
  • (3) The 13CO2 starch breath test is an attractive test for the study of factors affecting carbohydrate assimilation.
  • (4) In the animals the assimilation of the administered thiamin constituted 17,5-20% as compared with healthy animals; this phenomenon was accompanied by an increased urinary excretion of the vitamin.
  • (5) Results of these tests suggest that assimilation of protocatechuate and p-hydroxybenzoate may be a useful characteristic, when used in conjunction with traditional tests, for identifying C. parapsilosis and C. albidus.
  • (6) For each of the 3 major age groups (young, intermediate, and older), the paper describes general characteristics for children's though processes, ways in which children assimilate information about various aspects of AIDs, and implications for educating children about causes, prevention, and fear of AIDS.
  • (7) A gene (FRE1) was identified which encodes a protein required for both ferric iron reduction and efficient ferric iron assimilation, thus linking these two activities.
  • (8) Isotopes (153Sm, 186Re, and 166Ho) were assumed to assimilate as surface agents and the dose profiles were calculated on a microscopic scale using the Electron-Gamma Shower (EGS4) computer program.
  • (9) The dynamics and composition of labeled products formed upon assimilation of 14C-bicarbonate in the presence of unlabeled carbon oxide by the two organisms, the composition of products formed upon assimilation of 14CO by suspensions of S. carboxydohydrogena Z-1062 during 5 minutes, and the dynamics and composition of labeled assimilates of A. carboxydus Z-1171 after incubation in the presence of 14CO, were found to be consistent with those expected in the action of the reductive pentose phosphate Calvin cycle.
  • (10) The amino-oligopeptidase of the intestinal brush border possesses high specificity for oligopeptides having bulky side chains and is a candidate for a crucial role in the overall assimilation of dietary protein.
  • (11) Photosynthetic carbon assimilation and associated CO(2)-dependent O(2) evolution by chloroplasts isolated from pea shoots and spinach leaves is almost completely inhibited by 10mm-dl-glyceraldehyde.
  • (12) "They are over-assimilating to a culture that some men are now saying they don't want."
  • (13) NADH-GDH and AIDH are induced by ammonia, and it is suggested that these enzymes are involved in primary nitrogen assimilation.
  • (14) Close contacts of the yeast cells with the hydrocarbon being assimilated is important; assimilation may start in a close vicinity of the cell walls.
  • (15) The results suggest that the assimilation of amino acids by growing fungal cells was quantitatively comparable with their dissimilation to metabolites.
  • (16) This gene cluster is required for the assimilation of nitrate in A. nidulans, and the three genes encode a product required for nitrate uptake and the enzymes, nitrite reductase and nitrate reductase, respectively.
  • (17) The 21 biochemical and assimilation tests on the Rapid NFT test strips were treated according to the manufacturer's protocol, which included use of AUX medium (provided with the Rapid NFT system) for preparing assimilation tests, and by substituting phenol red broth base (BBL Microbiology Systems, Cockeysville, Md.)
  • (18) Previous studies indicate that schizophrenic thought processes show a disturbance in the balance between assimilation and accommodation, as Piaget uses these terms.
  • (19) Assimilation of kerosene and hexadecane was optimal at pH 2 and was stimulated by yeast extract.
  • (20) nit-4 is a pathway-specific regulatory gene which controls nitrate assimilation in Neurospora crassa, and appears to mediate nitrate induction of nitrate and nitrite reductase.

Resorb


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To swallow up.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) E-RFC enriched for T lymphocytes and depleted of macrophages synthesized considerable DNA in response to stimulation with PHA, but were unable to produce significant bone resorbing activity in tissue culture unless macrophages were re-added to the E-RFC.
  • (2) Most bone resorbing activity was released by activated leukocytes during the first 24 hours of culture, well before -3H-thymidine incorporation was increased.
  • (3) During the first 15 to 20 min of metamorphosis the larval arms are retracted and resorbed into the aboral surface of the juvenile.
  • (4) In the uremic patients as a group, there were significant correlations between serum iPTH and both percent marrow fibrosis and percent resorbing surface.
  • (5) It has a number of advantages: it is far more rapid, less painful and offers good visualisation of the nerve roots as compared with air myelography; unlike myelography with iodine-based oils, it is not necessary to remove the contrast medium after the examination since Metrizamide is spontaneously resorbable.
  • (6) Untreated grafts stimulated a severe inflammatory response and were almost completely resorbed by two weeks.
  • (7) This interleukin-1 (IL-1)-like factor(s) with acidic pI (4.8 and 5.2) exactly coeluted with the bone-resorbing activity upon DEAE-Sepharose ion exchange chromatography.
  • (8) We discuss the indications for operative treatment and the technique of internal fixation with 3 resorbable pins.
  • (9) In group B there was a decrease (P is less than 0.01) in bone-forming and bone-resorbing surfaces after both short-tern and long-term treatment.
  • (10) Evidence in support of collagenase in bone resorption from adjacent tissue (in this case, inflammatory connective tissue) would require identification of the enzyme in cells involved in the inflammatory process adjacent to the resorbing bone.
  • (11) On days 39-70 of gestation, the mean serum relaxin concentrations were significantly lower in ten resorbing ectopic gestations (P less than .001, permutation test) than in the normal control group of 13 intrauterine pregnancies.
  • (12) Within this group, fetal resorption had a significant effect upon the sex ratio, and this relationship was significantly affected by the number of implanted embryos: resorbing dams produced male-biased litters at small and intermediate numbers of implantation sites and female-biased litters when the number of implanted embryos was large.
  • (13) Resorbable sutures and an accurate skin tension ensure the new premalar position of the fatty pad.
  • (14) Ultrafiltration of CM (molecular weight cut-off of 5000) revealed bone resorbing activity in the filtrate and retentate.
  • (15) While many spontaneously resorb or exfoliate, some, as in this case, may need surgical removal.
  • (16) NBT staining was detected only in osteoclasts in cultures of resorbing bones.
  • (17) These results suggest that osteoclast resorbs bone by secreting protons through vacuolar H(+)-ATPase.
  • (18) Because of the life-long presence of alloplastic, nonresorbable orbital floor implants and the complications of their use mentioned in literature, the use of a resorbable material appears to be preferable in the repair of orbital floor defects.
  • (19) When later this was resorbed, and replaced by bone, the cartilage at the attachment zone remained, along with that of the articular surface of the patella.
  • (20) The resorbant organ, rich in odontoclasts, cementoblasts, fibroblasts, and macrophages, formed prominent resorption lacunae in root dentin.