(n.) The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two terrestrial species autotomized their chelipeds after the chelae were firmly attached to the predator.
(2) He played poorly when he lost against Argentina's Juan Ignacio Chela in the first round of the Australian Open in January, seemingly uncertain whether to attack or stay back.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Chela Praeli cheers with her daughter Lorella, left, and friends Ligia Jimenez Moreta and daughter Cristina as Barack Obama delivers remarks on immigration at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas on Friday.
(4) Both indirect (using logarithms of distance measures) and direct (using per molt cycle calculated values) comparisons of specific growth rates indicate that test individuals exhibited reduced growth of the right chela relative to the anterior carapace, while control individuals did not.
(5) Oduor, who is now working on her first novel, had been shortlisted with South Africa’s Diane Awerbuck for her short story Phosphorescence, Efemia Chela from both Ghana and Zambia for Chicken, Zimbabwe’s Tendai Huchu for The Intervention, and Kenya’s Billy Kahora for The Gorilla’s Apprentice.
Chelate
Definition:
(a.) Same as Cheliferous.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) These membrane perturbation effects not observed with bleomycin-iron in the presence of a hydroxyl radical scavenger, dimethyl thiourea, or a chelating agent, desferrioxamine, were correlated with the ability of the complex to generate highly reactive oxygen species.
(3) Symptoms, particularly colicky abdominal pain, improved during the period of chelation therapy.
(4) The present study explored the possibility that SOD-mimics such as desferrioxamine-Mn(III) chelate [DF-Mn] or cyclic nitroxide stable free radicals could protect from O2-.-independent damage.
(5) Chelators and sulfhydryl group reacting substances reduced the enzyme activity.
(6) Co2+ partially restored the activities lost by chelation.
(7) A chelator, dichloromethane diphosphonate (Cl2MDP), used to treat for malignancy-induced hypercalcemia, has nephrotoxic potential.
(8) This procedure, using mixed ligand chelate systems, may well be one which is limited to conditions more narrowly similar to those reported by Schubert and Derr (1978).
(9) Since the enzyme requires a metal ion (Co2+) we suggest that the RNA and heparin are inhibitory by virtue of their capacity to chelate the Co2+.
(10) Due to the higher stability constant, of MgCDTA, as compared to MgEDTA, addition of CDTA to a medium containing free Mg2+ and MgEDTA will not only chelate the free Mg2+, but it will also shift the equilibrium from MgEDTA towards MgCDTA, i.e.
(11) Their ability to inhibit iron-ion-dependent formation of .OH from H2O2 by chelating iron ions was also tested.
(12) The interest of monitoring lead excretion during chelation therapy is particularly emphasized.
(13) The data obtained testify to the presence in the granular fraction of the endopeptidase LTH-converting activity which is sensitive to pepstatin A, an aspartyl proteinase inhibitor as well as to chelators and a serine proteinase inhibitor.
(14) Chelation of extracellular calcium with ethyleneglycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)N,N,N',N' tetraacetic acid (EGTA) did not abolish the increase in calcium.
(15) One was identified as viridomycin A, the ferrous chelate of 4-hydroxy-3-nitrosobenzaldehyde; the second (actinoviridin A) was the corresponding carboxylic acid chelate and the third (viridomycin E) was a hybrid chelate containing both the aldehyde and acid ligands.
(16) The ferrous iron chelator, bipyridyl, enhanced the production of chemiluminescence catalyzed by FeSO4 and ferritin but had little effect on the K3Fe(CN)6-catalyzed reaction.
(17) Kininase activity in the glomerulus and the proximal tubule was completely inhibited by chelating agents.
(18) Both enzymes are strongly inhibited by metal-chelating agents.
(19) Accumulated cysteine may chelate iron, accounting for the local increase in iron content in Hallervorden-Spatz disease.
(20) The efficiency of hydroxyl radical generation varied with the nature of the iron chelators used and increased in the order of phosphate alone approximately ADP less than EDTA less than diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DETAPAC).