What's the difference between bivalent and quadrivalent?

Bivalent


Definition:

  • (p. pr.) Equivalent in combining or displacing power to two atoms of hydrogen; dyad.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bivalent F(ab')(2) also retains its insulin-like effects.
  • (2) It could be demonstrated that equimolar doses of the bivalent alpha,N-(epsilon,N-DNP-aminocaproyl-)-epsilon,N-DNP-L-lysine and the multivalent dinitrophenylated bovine serum albumin were equally effective in eliciting reactions in skin sites provided that a high affinity antibody was used for sensitization.
  • (3) The function of the other bivalent cations is unknown.
  • (4) We interpret these experiments in terms of a theory of equilibrium binding of bivalent haptens to cell surface antibody that is presented in the previous paper.
  • (5) Bivalent cations (Ca2+, UO2(2+) or Zn2+) in the subphase at pH 5.6 significantly modified the behaviour of mixed monolayers of fusogenic lipids with phospholipids; there was a parallel perturbing effect of fusogenic lipids on interactions between monolayers of phospholipids and bivalent cations.
  • (6) In continuation of the research on male human meiosis within the study of pachytene bivalents, results from the analysis of 125 cells are presented.
  • (7) These oocytes contain 6 distinct bivalent chromosomes in diakinesis.
  • (8) In meiotic prophase of spermatocytes, chromosomes 2 and 3 form pachytene-diplotene bivalents whose arms may be associated by chiasmata in postdiplotene stages, but the X, Y and fourth chromosomes participate in a complex multivalent.
  • (9) Experiments indicated that complement deposition altered functionally bivalent IgG3 antibody in the immune complex into a univalent one.
  • (10) Low melittin concentrations (1-2 mcM) increased in several times the rate of H+, K+, Na+ ions and Tris transport, in a lesser degree--bivalent ions and Cl- transport and did not affect the permeability for succrose.
  • (11) The first two opioid peptide bivalent ligands with different spacer lengths containing different numbers of hydroxyl groups, (Tyr-D-Ala-Gly-Phe-NH-CH2-CHOH-)2 (Tyr-D-Ala-Gly-Phe-NH-CH2-CHOH-CHOH-)2, were synthesized and their binding to mu, delta, and kappa opioid receptors was characterized.
  • (12) The bivalent vaccine was completely attenuated for children.
  • (13) Bivalent cations such as Mg2+ and Zn2+ differentially affect their binding to oligonucleotides which contain the HIV-enhancer domain.
  • (14) The purified enzyme showed a pH optimum 8.5 (Tris-HCl buffer) and required bivalent cations for catalysis.
  • (15) A method of radioimmunoscintigraphy using bivalent "Janus" haptens with an apparent enhanced affinity ("avidity") for the antibody is described.
  • (16) Two monovalent CD3 antibodies with mixed heavy chain isotypes were very poor in lysis but, in contrast, a monovalent antibody possessing two identical rat gamma 2b heavy chains but two non-identical light chains was found to be more lytic with human complement than the parental bivalent CD3 antibody.
  • (17) It is concluded that reactive oxygen species, especially hydroxy radical, play a significant role on renal injury in bivalent hapten immune complex glomerulonephritis.
  • (18) Dissociation of the X-Y chromosome bivalent in diakinesis-metaphase I spermatocytes of adult mice was significantly more frequent in the CBA strain (29%) than in C57, KP, or KE strains (7-11%).
  • (19) It is suggested that bivalent ligand binding is required as a signal to elicit chemotactic locomotion.
  • (20) Results included the following: (1) lymphocyte stimulation responses to PHA and SPL were generally depressed in the CA patients versus controls; (2) incubation with indomethacin produced bivalent effects in both controls and CA patients, depending on the concentration of indomethacin and lymphocyte stimulant; incubation with optimum concentrations of indomethacin generally produced augmented responses in both study groups whereas high concentrations of indomethacin were suppressive; (3) the immune potentiating effects were not observed in older patients with advanced disease; and (4) removal of adherent leukocytes (mainly monocytes) also restored depressed lymphocyte responses.

Quadrivalent


Definition:

  • (a.) Having a valence of four; capable of combining with, being replaced by, or compared with, four monad atoms; tetravalent; -- said of certain atoms and radicals; thus, carbon and silicon are quadrivalent elements.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We found that a translocation quadrivalent could be recognized easily in the light microscope using these methods.
  • (2) In the same boar, the lengths of the fully synapsed arms of the quadrivalent varies from one quadrivalent to the other and heterosynapsis was obvious.
  • (3) Our results showed that, at least for one locus, the homozygous gametes mainly resulted from pairing of homologous chromosomes rather than from pairing of homologous chromosomes, quadrivalent formation, and chromatin exchanges between homologous chromosomes.
  • (4) The pharmacokinetics of iproplatin, a quadrivalent second-generation platinum complex the dose-limiting toxicity of which is myelosuppression, was studied in patients with different degrees of renal function impairment.
  • (5) However the levels of seroresponse to this virus were no very different from those obtained with the quadrivalent vaccine.
  • (6) Meiotic studies showed a quadrivalent configuration at diakinesis and this was confirmed by C-banding.
  • (7) However, the 4X axis of these translocation quadrivalents undergoes extensive shortening.
  • (8) Therefore, the propositus' abnormal karyotype was interpreted as the result from an adjacent type 1 malsegregation of the meiotic paternal quadrivalent MI22,IV (5p 14;13q13).
  • (9) Feasible potential interventions include banning smoking in the jail and immunization with quadrivalent meningococcal vaccine of booked men sentenced for one month or more.
  • (10) A few show chromosome associations (bivalents, trivalents and, more rarely, quadrivalent chains) besides univalents.
  • (11) A non-random association was found between the quadrivalent and the sex vesicle in 77% of the pachytene nuclei analysed.
  • (12) We also examined the congression of two newly made quadrivalents when they orient with three kinetochores to one pole and one to the other.
  • (13) The percentage of spermatocytes displaying multivalent configurations varied with the translocation, but the average percentage appeared to depend on the species: fewer quadrivalents were observed in hamster than in guinea-pig heterozygotes and most were recorded for rabbit heterozygotes.
  • (14) The quadrivalents observed had a ring configuration (92.3%) or a chain configuration (7.7%).
  • (15) The quadrivalent second-generation platinum complex iproplatin and an in vivo divalent metabolite of iproplatin, cis-dichloro-bis-isopropylamine platinum (CIP) were tested for binding to DNA in vitro.
  • (16) Iproplatin is a quadrivalent second-generation platinum complex undergoing clinical evaluation.
  • (17) The nature of the contact between the quadrivalent and the sex vesicle is discussed in this paper.
  • (18) It is shown that a delay in synapsis affects the segments corresponding to the short arms of the acrocentrics involved in the formation of quadrivalents.
  • (19) Pentavalent configurations occurred in 74.5% of 98 Ts16 MI and 44.2% of 249 Ts19 MI oocytes; quadrivalents (with a univalent acrocentric) were found in 9.2% of Ts16 MI and 10.8% of Ts19 MI oocytes.
  • (20) We studied the orientation and segregation of a particular quadrivalent in living grasshopper spermatocytes.

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