(n.) One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books.
(n.) Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building.
Example Sentences:
(1) Forty-five children with stable chronic renal failure, not on dialysis, were treated conservatively with a regimen of mild dietary phosphate restriction and high-dose phosphate binders for up to 5 years.
(2) The use of the pellet binder "Lingnosol FG" in broiler diets at three levels plus a control group revealed differences in the consistency, quantity and color of the caecal contents between the treated and untreated groups.
(3) Epithelial components in both pulmonary blastomas and hamartomas showed a reactivity for R-binder, suggesting that these tumors contained components composed of cells with bronchiolar cell differentiation.
(4) We have studied the time-resolved and the steady-state fluorescence of the DNA groove binders 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) and Hoechst 33258 with the double stranded DNAs poly(dA-dU) and poly(dI-dC) and their halogenated analogs, poly(dA-I5dU) and poly(dI-Br5dC).
(5) Extracts from solubilized kidneys were shown to contain a folate binder with the same relative affinities for folates and methotrexate as the in vivo system.
(6) In the present study the vitamin B12 complexes of the two vitamin B12 binders were separated at a pH of 1.8 using the cationic exchange chromatograph Mono S attached to the fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) system.
(7) (5) There was renal release or production of TC II (6) Some TC II but more of a larger molecular size binder came from the liver.
(8) "They brought us whole binders full of women," he relates after he complained that there weren't enough qualified women candidates.
(9) Association and binder dilution curves were prepared in order to optimize the reagent concentrations and the analytical conditions.
(10) Health hazards from environmental pollution may be irritation of the mucous membranes when the indoor environment is painted and fish mortality due to slowly degradable polyacrylate binders.
(11) These findings support the view that abdominal binders assist breathing in tetraplegic patients who are seated or raised to near vertical positions.
(12) The assay incorporated an antibody against purified human salivary R binder as the binding reagent.
(13) Are the 'Set Piece' binders to stay like we are playing a weird version of American Football?'
(14) Transcobalamin I (TCI) is a member of the R binder family of vitamin B12 binding proteins.
(15) Evaluation of the binding parameters of the high affinity binders in both AP and PP gave similar association constants.
(16) Cholestyramine was found to be the most effective bile acid binder, with more than 90% of bile acids adsorbed at all of the pH values studied.
(17) In competition experiments with T cell hybridomas, the poor binder I-Ed molecule required 10- to 15-fold higher competitor concentrations than the good binder I-Ak molecule to achieve 50% inhibition of antigen presentation.
(18) High definition microfocal radiography permitted the quantitative assessment of the radiographic features of renal osteodystrophy in the phalanges of 11 children in stable chronic renal failure, treated with phosphate binders for 1 year.
(19) Use of magnesium hydroxide-containing antacids as phosphate binders in patients with CRF was largely discontinued 2 decades ago after reports described increases in serum magnesium concentrations to toxic levels.
(20) At pH 7.4 the relative affinities are quite disparate, with folic acid showing the greater affinity for milk binder.
Binding
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bind
(a.) That binds; obligatory.
(n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, binds.
(n.) Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling.
(pl.) The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tryptic digestion of the membranes caused complete disappearance of the binding activity, but heat-treatment for 5 min at 70 degrees C caused only 40% loss of activity.
(2) Comparison of the S100 alpha-binding protein profiles in fast- and slow-twitch fibers of various species revealed few, if any, species- or fiber type-specific S100 binding proteins.
(3) Competition with the labelled 10B12 MAb for binding to the purified antigen was demonstrated in sera of tumor-bearing and immune rats.
(4) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(5) Power urges the security council to "take the kind of credible, binding action warranted."
(6) The binding properties of formalin-fixed amelanotic melanoma cells were not identical to those of endothelial or unfixed target cells.
(7) Such an increase in antibody binding occurred simultaneously with an increase in the fluidity of surface lipid regions, as monitored by fluorescence depolarization of 1-(trimethylammoniophenyl)-6-phenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene.
(8) It has been generally believed that the ligand-binding of steroid hormone receptors triggers an allosteric change in receptor structure, manifested by an increased affinity of the receptor for DNA in vitro and nuclear target elements in vivo, as monitored by nuclear translocation.
(9) Lp(a) also complexes to plasmin-fibrinogen digests, and binding increases in proportion to the time of plasmin-induced fibrinogen degradation.
(10) Theoretical computations are performed of the intercalative binding of the neocarzinostatin chromophore (NCS) with the double-stranded oligonucleotides d(CGCG)2, d(GCGC)2, d(TATA)2 and d(ATAT)2.
(11) The LD50 of the following metal-binding chelating drugs, EDTA, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), cyclohexanediaminotetraacetic acid (CDTA) and triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid (TTHA) was evaluated in terms of mortality in rats after intraperitoneal administration and was found to be in the order: CDTA greater than EDTA greater than DTPA greater than TTHA greater than HEDTA.
(12) It was also able to inhibit the binding both of alpha-bungarotoxin and rabies virus glycoprotein to the acetylcholine receptor.
(13) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
(14) The procedure used in our laboratory was not able to provide accurate determination of the concentrations of these binding forms.
(15) The occupation of the high affinity calcium binding site by Ca(II) and Mn(II) does not influence the Cu(II) binding process, suggesting that there is no direct interaction between this site and the Cu(II) binding sites.
(16) PMN were found to be nonpermissive for HSV replication and were unable to bind virus in the absence of antibody.
(17) Radioligand binding studies revealed the presence of a single class of high-affinity (Kd = 2-6 X 10(-10) M) binding sites for ET-1 in both cells, although the maximal binding capacity of cardiac receptor was about 6- to 12-fold greater than that of vascular receptor.
(18) The transported pIgA was functional, as evidenced by its ability to bind to virus in an ELISA assay and to protect nonimmune mice against intranasal infection with H1N1 but not H3N2 influenza virus.
(19) The monoclonal antibody (mAb), SY38, binds to a cytoplasmic domain of synaptophysin.
(20) Binding data for both ligands to the enzyme yielded nonlinear Scatchard plots that analyze in terms of four negatively cooperative binding sites per enzyme tetramer.