(a.) Pertaining to, coming from, or resembling, the stars; starry; starlike.
Example Sentences:
(1) When a strong solution of the antimicrotubule drug, MBC, was applied at anaphase A, tubulin immunocytochemistry showed that both astral and spindle microtubules were destroyed completely in less than a minute.
(2) The antimicrotubule drug, methylbenzimidazole-2-ylcarbamate (MBC), destroyed astral microtubules and virtually eliminated intra-astral motility in vivo, whereas the antiactin drug, cytochalasin E, did not greatly affect the frequency of intra-astral motility episodes.
(3) The formation of the astral mitotic spindle is initiated at the time of nuclear envelope breakdown from an interaction between the replicated spindle poles (i.e.
(4) Shorter astral fibers, however, remained present in the enlarged ARB; presumably these had not been cut by the irradiation.
(5) After stopping the drug action the astral microtubules appear, but no other patterns of normalization in the mitotic apparatus occur.
(6) During the cytochalasin B treatment, either in bipolar or multipolar metaphases, there are destructions in the ultrastructure of the mitotic apparatus: there are no astral microtubules; in the poles there are diplosomes and duplex of centrioles with fibrillar material around both centrioles; kinetochores are of prometaphase type.
(7) A second subsystem, called ASTRAL, has been developed for the high-resolution Evans & Sutherland PS300 colour graphics terminal and is designed to manipulate complex display structures.
(8) When treated with taxol, the oocyte spindle became astral and microtubules appeared in the cortex of the oocyte in the form of small strands or bundles.
(9) The existence, structural basis and function of astral forces that are active during anaphase B in the fungus, Nectria haematococca, were revealed by experiments performed on living cells.
(10) Disruption of either the astral microtubules or actin function resulted in improper spindle orientation in approximately 40-50% of the cells.
(11) Both polarization and electron microscopy showed a substantial loss of non-kinetochore spindle microtubules with an increase in astral microtubules: this was particularly evident in the region adjacent to the spindle domain.
(12) Astral and kinetochore MTs were sensitive to MT disassembly conditions, and shortening of kinetochore MTs always accompanied reactivation of anaphase A. Interphase and interzonal spindle MTs were relatively stable to cold and calcium until extraction of cells was promoted by longer periods in the PM, or by higher concentrations of detergent.
(13) In sections of dividing sea urchin eggs detailed images of spindle and astral fibers were revealed.
(14) Five Leaves Left is one of those albums that seem tied to exhorting and then playing on a particular mood in the listener – like Astral Weeks and Forever Changes certainly and arguably stationed on that particular echelon of creativity (though I wouldn’t personally like to enter into that particular argument).
(15) Tilda Swinton was recently reported to be in talks to play the Ancient One, a mystical Tibetan mentor to Strange whose traditional powers include astral projection, teleportation and the ability to create energy blasts.
(16) In the case of nocodazole and colcemid, non-kinetochore astral microtubules were depleted first and the kinetochore-to-pole distance shortened.
(17) It's a sign of Monáe's otherness that the closest comparison people could find for her, back in 2010, was one of pop's more astral figures.
(18) This is the first report of intra-astral motility of organelles in a fungus, and it lays the foundation for additional studies of aster function in vivo.
(19) Beads appeared to move along astral fibers, were generally excluded from the spindle proper, and accumulated at the spindle poles.
(20) The astral shape becomes more pronounced during mitosis, after which the cytasters regress, but retain the mature centrioles.
Austral
Definition:
(a.) Southern; lying or being in the south; as, austral land; austral ocean.
Example Sentences:
(1) Another strain of BHV-1, which exhibits a specific neuropathogenic potential [Hall et al., Austral.
(2) The Polar Psychology Project brings together three organizations from Canada and Argentina to study human adaptation to the boreal and austral circumpolar environments.
(3) Pompe's disease is characterised by an absence of lysosomal alpha-glucosidase, but this enzyme is also inhibited by Castanospermum australe seeds.
(4) All 18 2-year-old Brahman bulls grazing in a paddock containing Castanospermum australe trees were diagnosed as heterozygotes for Pompe's disease by measurement of mononuclear cell alpha-glucosidase activity.
(5) Correlated with the breakup of the austral landmasses (Gondwanaland) of the Neotropical and Australian regions from the Antarctic continent, the age of this host-parasite community is estimated to be between 60 and 70 million years old.
(6) It was therefore assumed that the bulls had consumed C. australe seeds.
(7) In this text, delivered at the inauguration of the 1988 academic year of the Universidad Austral, the author outlines the personality and academic career of Professor Amador Neghme, recently deceased.
(8) Crude sample solution prepared from the seeds of Castanosperum australe was fractionated by preparative liquid chromatography.
(9) Four risk factors are brought to the fore: male, more than 50 years old, birth in Austral archipelago and in this case AgHBs carriage.
(10) A large net trap was used to sample mosquito populations attracted to horses at three sites each in Santa Fe and Rio Negro Provinces, Argentina, during the austral summer of 1984.
(11) Does this tempt you to cycle the Carretera Austral?
(12) In 1988, a hepatitis immunization programme, using a Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell recombinant vaccine, was implemented for newborn children in the Austral archipelago (French Polynesia).
(13) Through comparing the morphological evolution to the host range and the geographical distribution we can suggest Dipetalonema sensu-largo may be interpreted as a gondwanian lineage which may have evolved after the three main austral continents drifted apart.
(14) Forty-one individuals from Rurutu Island (Austral Archipelagos) and 41 individuals from the Gambier Archipelagos have been typed for HLA; for blood groups ABO, Rh, MNSs, P, Kell, Kp, Lewis, Lutheran, Kidd; for the electrophoretic systems G6PD, 6-PGD, PGM1, PGM2, AcP, ADA, GPT, Est-D, GLO I, and for the immunoglobulin allotypes Gm and Km.
(15) It is concluded that immunization of newborns and infants, using vaccine alone, should be the most effective strategy for reducing HBV infection in the Austral Islands archipelago.
(16) An in vitro assay demonstrated that a crude aqueous extract of seeds from these C. australe trees contained a potent inhibitor of mononuclear cell alpha-glucosidase.
(17) The relative risk for birth in Austral archipelago reach to 9.23.
(18) Photograph: Karen Darke The Carretera Austral, the 1,240km highway through southern Chile, felt like being on a Patagonian forest roller coaster.
(19) Non-lactating female tammars were pinealectomized (N = 5) or sham-operated (N = 6) in October, during the austral period of increasing daylength.
(20) However, removal of the bulls to a paddock free of C. australe and retesting 2 months later indicated that 15 were homozygous normal.