(n.) The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.
(n.) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down.
(n.) Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because the mitogenic action of IL 2 resembles that of some growth factors, the possible role of phosphatidylinositol breakdown in the activation of T cells by IL 2 was examined.
(2) It is also becoming apparent that effects of insulin and other acute regulatory agents on muscle breakdown are limited to nonmyofibrillar components.
(3) The coronary vasodilator adenosine can be formed in the heart by breakdown of AMP or S-adenosylhomocysteine (SAdoHcy).
(4) Post-operative levels of C3 breakdown products were significantly higher in atheromatic patients than in controls, most likely due to the insertion of dacron arterial prostheses in the first group.
(5) F(ab')2 anti-Ig stimulates the rapid breakdown of inositol phospholipids in B cells, resulting in the prolonged release of inositol (poly)phosphates and diacylglycerol.
(6) The kinetics of the luminescent signal with the different luciferin esters varied significantly, indicating possible differences in the rates of uptake, breakdown and enzyme inhibition.
(7) The muscle-protein breakdown is sustained and the released amino acids are taken up by the liver and other RE structures where they are used as substrates for energy and for synthesis of defense-related proteins.
(8) At follow-up, the initial presence of signs of repression was significantly more common in such initially nonregressive patients as had escaped a later psychotic breakdown.
(9) Third, an indirect activation of protein kinase C may occur via an increase in the rate of phosphoinositide breakdown.
(10) The response is dose dependent for LPA concentrations from 10(-8) to 10(-3) M. Incubation of oocytes in LPA does not induce germinal vesicle breakdown.
(11) The breakdown of systemic fibrinogen may be important because of the anticoagulant effect this can produce.
(12) The breakdown of homocysteine, via the transsulphuration pathway, was augmented by Zn deficiency.
(13) Parallel sections were analyzed for possible parenchymal changes associated with the BBB breakdown.
(14) The breakdown of answers to both questions revealed a significant partisan divide depending on people’s voting intention, with Labor supporters much more likely than Coalition backers to see the commission as a political attack and Heydon as conflicted.
(15) The commonest finding is a slight to moderate breakdown of BCB function without evidence of intrathecal immunoglobulin synthesis.
(16) HOE was the most active compound, being able to accelerate PIP2 breakdown at concentrations between 10(-12) and 10(-6) M, while in the case of HEE the effective doses ranged from 10(-11) to 10(-7) M and from 10(-9) to 10(-6) M in the case of HNE.
(17) The critical membrane potential difference for breakdown is therefore pulse-length independent.
(18) Della Roe, Dhu’s mother, said the loss of her daughter had triggered an emotional breakdown.
(19) With ribosomes the pH optimum of proteolytic breakdown is at about 7.
(20) The findings link terminal breakdown of the blood-brain barrier and extensive viral antigen expression in CSF leukocytes with experimental CDV infection resulting in death.
Histolysis
Definition:
(n.) The decay and dissolution of the organic tissues and of the blood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Histolysis and pyknosis begin in the prepupa and decrease considerably in the late pupa.
(2) Arms excised from metamorphosing larvae will undergo a sequence of contraction and histolysis that is identical to that occurring in intact larvae.
(3) The conversion of branch pads into atherosclerotic lesions includes edema, histolysis (elastolysis, collagenolysis, ground substance depletion and degenerative cell changes) and in a final step nodular proliferation of smooth muscle cells and abundant neoformation of collagen fibers.
(4) Investigation of the coronary arteries in 330 subjects aged 11 to 50 years showed that the "missing link" between age-dependent changes and atherosclerotic lesions appeared as a process of intimal histolysis.
(5) The analyses of biopsy specimens revealed that mild proliferative glomerulitis with preservation of capillary structure is followed by axial sclerosis or sclerosis of mesangial area of glomerular loops, whereas marked or severe proliferative glomerulitis characterized by disorganization of glomerular architecture due to proliferation of local fixed cells with reticular arrangement, chiefly of endothelial origin, following histolysis of loop walls results in crowding of proliferated cells accompanied by formation of fibers along them toward axis of the loop (axial fibrosis) and recanalization at its periphery.
(6) There was no evidence, however, for the appearance of new protein species that could be correlated with the onset of either pupation or gland histolysis.
(7) Morphological examination showed that in the acute phase, the DM-GN and GN groups underwent histolysis of the glomerular loops, which gave rise to proliferative glomerulitis.
(8) These results suggest that regional specificities of anuran larval skin, i.e., development of back skin and even histolysis of tail skin, are determined by regionally specific dermis.
(9) Intimal histolysis begins, histochemically, with the removal of sulfate esters of acid mucopolysaccharides and of sialic acid of glycoproteins.
(10) During hyperthermia, the EMT-6 tumour displays a characteristic response sequence which includes cellular swelling, progressive membrane damage, cellular shrinking and subsequent progressive histolysis.
(11) Examination of transcriptional pattern indicates that l(1)ogre is expressed in derivatives of the ectoderm, endoderm, and mesoderm (but not in the germ line) in two developmental contexts: (i) during and shortly after the proliferative phase and (ii) during histolysis of some larval tissues.
(12) The metamorphosis of insects can, in a general way, be divided between those organisms that undergo pupation accompanied by cellular histolysis and those that gradually develop into adults without an intervening pupal stage of development.
(13) Gut CCK-li decreased during metamorphosis coincident with gut histolysis.
(14) The processes of alveolar walls were characterized initially by histolysis of the alveolar walls and transformation of the tissue into mesh or reticular structure caused by proliferation of fixed cells probably of endothelial cell origin, subsequently by formation of basement membrane-like structures along the proliferated cells, and ultimately by either fibrosis of the entire thickness of the disorganized tissue or axial fibrosis with accumulation of proliferated cells towards axis and peripheral recanalization.
(15) The fine structure of the insemination-induced flight muscle degeneration (histolysis) in the queen fire ant (Solenopsis spp.)
(16) Using salivary chromosome maps provided here we have followed puff patterns from late second-instar larvae through the time of histolysis of the salivary glands 28-32 h after pupariation and find low puff activity correlated with low secretory activity throughout much of the third larval instar.
(17) The ischemic factor progressed with the advance of the inflammatory process and was aggravated by the development of foci of histolysis and hephrohydrosis and subsequently of vascular-parenchymatous block at the tubular level.
(18) These parameters continued retreating beyond their original values as the beta-dispersion progressively collapsed during the period of progressive histolysis.
(19) It is concluded that the histolysis of the salivary gland cells begins before the large DNA puffs appear, then it becomes very intensive and continues after these puffs undergo regression.
(20) The findings suggested deficient cellular nutrition secondary to enzymatic histolysis of the nucleus pulposus.