(n.) One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.
(n.) One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.
(n.) That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have measured the antibody specificities to the two polysaccharides in sera from asymptomatic group C meningococcal carriers and vaccinated adults by a new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) procedure using methylated human serum albumin for coating the group C polysaccharide onto microtiter plates.
(2) These results show that lipo-PGI2 at a very low dose would be beneficial as a treatment for relieving the clinical symptoms of chronic cerebral infarction and that lipid microspheres are a useful drug carrier for PGI2 analogue therapy.
(3) Before carrier vaccines are applied, these risks must be thoroughly evaluated case-by-case.
(4) In lactate medium the capacity of each AIB carrier is unchanged but its affinity is reduced to one-third.
(5) The IgM antibody was found at high titers in each of 70 patients with inflammatory liver disease and at a low titer in one of six patients with inactive cirrhosis; it was not found in eight carriers with normal liver histology.
(6) To get a better understanding of the different cell interactions during the immune response to a hapten-carrier complex, the effects of immunogenic or tolerogenic injections of various hapten-containing compounds on the responses induced by immunization with the same hapten coupled to protein carriers were studied.
(7) There was no correlation between anti-TNP-precipitating antibody titer after sensitization and the ability to respond to challenge by hapten-heterologous carrier.
(8) The differentiated neuroblastoma cell possesses characteristics of an electrically excitable cell and can generate propagated potential spikes in which Ca2+ is the inward charge carrier.
(9) The latter phase of depletion was associated with a decrease in synaptosomal [3H]serotonin uptake due to a loss in the number of uptake sites with no change in the affinity of the carrier for serotonin.
(10) Direct detection of the mutation enables the identification of fragile X negative normal transmitting males and fragile X negative carrier females.
(11) They strongly suggest that the ADP-carrier comes to the close neighbourhood of the ATP synthetase on the matrix side of the inner membrane.
(12) It is thus important to know whether carriers of the AT gene have a risk of cancer or diabetes greater than comparable noncarriers.
(13) The fractional rate constants for the accumulation or disappearance of the metabolites could be determined after pharmacological blockade of catabolic enzymes or the acid metabolite carrier.
(14) The initial observation of Tn551 transition involved UV inactivation of the carrier plasmid; this would appear to be a general means of detecting transposable elements.
(15) This also implies that both tubular secretion and tubular reabsorption are susceptible to competition between similar substrates for a common carrier site.
(16) Seventeen different bacteria were used in the adherence tests; ten strains of alpha-hemolytic streptococci, five from children with infective endocarditis (IE) and five from healthy carriers, two S. aureus, two N. meningitidis, two N. gonorrhoeae and one E. coli.
(17) From this, it was suggested that a negligible amount of oestradiol was released from these compounds and that the oestradiol moiety was useful as a carrier for the nitrogen mustard moiety.
(18) The amount of formazan obtained after incubating vital cells with Meldola Blue as electron carrier was greater than that obtained with Methylene Blue, menadione, 2,6-dichloroindophenol, 1-methoxyphenazine methosulphate or phenazine methosulphate.
(19) Women who were the mothers of individuals with isolated cases of hemophilia appeared to be carriers in at least 85% of cases, suggesting that the frequency of cases due to fresh mutations is low.
(20) Three mouse models of male-limited, hybrid-type sterility are available: the sterility controlled by the T-t genetic complex, the hybrid sterility system including the Hst-1 gene, and the sterility of carriers of various chromosomal anomalies.
Cartridge
Definition:
(n.) A complete charge for a firearm, contained in, or held together by, a case, capsule, or shell of metal, pasteboard, or other material.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have compared two new methods (a solvent extraction technique and a method involving a disposable, pre-packed reverse phase chromatography cartridge) with the standard method for determining the radiochemical purity of 99Tcm-HMPAO.
(2) The recoveries using the cartridges were between 90-102% for urine and 81-93% for plasma.
(3) When imitation examination was carried out using pontamine blue dye solution in 7 kinds of syringes for the use of cartridge, dye reflux was observed in all of them.
(4) Following incubation of tissue fractions with desferrioxamine, the parent compound and its iron-bound form, ferrioxamine, are extracted using solid-phase cartridges and quantitated by reversed-phase HPLC using uv detection.
(5) The vigilantes use shotguns and cartridges and have been short in supply, so the leader left yesterday for Maiduguri to procure more in the event of any attack,” he told AFP.
(6) The method uses a highly fluorescent dienophile, 4-[2-(6,7-dimethoxy-4-methyl-3-oxo-3,4-dihydroquinoxalyl)ethyl]-1, 2,4- triazoline-3,5-dione (DMEQ-TAD), to fluorescence-label vitamin D. Vitamin D metabolites were roughly purified with a short cartridge column followed by HPLC, labeled with DMEQ-TAD, and the product was analyzed on HPLC.
(7) The water was analysed after purification and concentration on a C18 cartridge.
(8) A Puf- strain of Rhodobacter sphaeroides (PUFB1) was constructed by deleting a portion of the proximal region of the puf operon and inserting a kanamycin resistance gene cartridge.
(9) We obtained stable mutants in which the chromosomal lysA gene, encoding meso-diaminopimelate decarboxylase, was interrupted by a chloramphenicol resistance cartridge, or in which an essential internal part of the lysA gene was deleted.
(10) A C18 solid-phase extraction cartridge is used to ensure quantitative salt-free recovery of the HGs, and the purified glycolipids are then rendered uv-absorbing by a per-O-benzoylation derivatization reaction for which optimal conditions have been established.
(11) The samples were extracted into a hydrochloric acid - glycine solution and the extracts concentrated and purified on cyclohexyl-bonded reversed-phase cartridges.
(12) Bile acids in human bile were first prefractionated into free, glycine- and taurine-conjugated bile acids using a Seppak C18 cartridge and a piperidinohydroxypropyl Sephadex LH-20 (PHP-LH-20) column.
(13) Multipolar cells with cell bodies distal (MP1) or proximal (MP2) to the plexiform layer send processes to several cartridges.
(14) The best conditions for extractions of free pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) from crude biological samples were investigated with various organic solvents and Sep-Pak C18 cartridges.
(15) In addition to their behavior on Sephadex G-50, the immunoactive insulin-related materials from the microbial sources behaved like authentic vertebrate insulins in their ability to be adsorbed to and eluted from disposable octadecasilylsilica cartridges, DEAE-Sephadex, DEAE-cellulose, and one system of high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC).
(16) The 2-methyl derivatives of tamoxifen (2-methyltamoxifen and 2-methyl-4-hydroxytamoxifen) were extracted from a cell culture medium at pH 5.4 (Earle's Minimum Essential Medium) with an internal standard (tamoxifen) on a phenyl sorbent cartridge.
(17) A number of veins and arteries were penetrated with 25- and 27-gauge needles attached to standard dental aspirating cartridge-type syringes.
(18) A cartridge was constructed which contained the divergent tet promoters of transposon Tn10 between an exoglucanase gene (cex) and an endoglucanase gene (cenA) of Cellulomonas fimi.
(19) ANF was extracted from plasma using an octadecasilyl silica cartridge with a recovery of 78.7%.
(20) The extract is then cleaned up on a silica cartridge.