(a.) Pertaining to chemistry; characterized or produced by the forces and operations of chemistry; employed in the processes of chemistry; as, chemical changes; chemical combinations.
(n.) A substance used for producing a chemical effect; a reagent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brain and ganglia of embryonic Periplaneta americana were grown for 2 to 3 weeks in a chemically defined medium.
(2) Stimulation of human leukocytes with various chemical mediators such as TPA, f-Met-Leu-Phe, LTB4, etc.
(3) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
(4) At 36 h postsurgery, RBCs were examined by 23Na-NMR by using dysprosium tripolyphosphate as a chemical shift reagent.
(5) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
(6) Changes in cardiac adenosine triphosphate (ATP), phosphocreatine (PCr) and inorganic phosphate (Pi) were followed and intracellular pH (pHi) was estimated from the chemical shift of Pi.
(7) Maximal aberration yields were observed for 2,4-diaminotoluene, 2,6-diaminotoluene and cytosine beta-D-arabinofuranoside from 17 to 21 h, eugenol from 15 to 21 h, cadmium sulfate from 15 to 24 h and 2-aminobiphenyl, from 17 to 24 h. For adriamycin at 1 microM, the % aberrant cells remained elevated throughout the period from 9 to 29 h, while small increases at 0.1 microM ADR were found only at 13 and at 25 h. For most chemicals the maximal aberration yield occurred at a different time for each concentration tested.
(8) 2.39pm BST The European Union called for a "thorough and immediate" investigation of the alleged chemical attack.
(9) "With hyperspectral imaging, you can tell the chemical content of a cake just by taking a photo of it.
(10) The deactivated columns had the residual silanols on the silica gel chemically inactivated to reduce the interaction with basic groups or analytes.
(11) A sperm whale myoglobin gene containing multiple unique restriction sites has been constructed in pUC 18 by sequential assembly of chemically synthesized oligonucleotide fragments.
(12) On the basis of obtained data on the uniformity of chemical compounds of the secretion of glands belonging to different groups their common origin has been suggested.
(13) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
(14) In contrast sham-hemodialysis in group CA and group PS, respectively, did not result in significant increases in amino acid efflux from the leg implying that the protein catabolic effect of blood membrane contact depends on the chemical properties of dialysis membranes.
(15) We investigated this suppression quantitatively, using a chemical assay for cell-bound and dissolved capsular polysaccharide.
(16) We previously established that the binding constant (Ka) of this receptor site for the chemically synthesized model AGE, 2-(2-furoyl)-4(5)-(2-furanyl)-1H- imidazole-butyric acid (FFI-BA), on cells of the mouse macrophagelike cell line RAW 264.7 is identical to that for AGE proteins.
(17) They included lectins such as wheat germ agglutinin (WGA), concanavalin A and phytohemagglutinin, and a chemical cross-linker, glutaraldehyde, in addition to anti-IL-2R monoclonal antibodies, HIEI and H-47.
(18) The reduction of such potentials can be explained in terms of collision between the antidromic volleys and those elicited orthodromically by chemical and thermic stimulation.
(19) In certain cases, the effects of these substances are enhanced, in others, they are inhibited by compounds that were isolated from natural sources or prepared by chemical synthesis.
(20) The use of gaseous insecticides in the chemical control of T. infestans is discussed.
Recrystallization
Definition:
(n.) The process or recrystallizing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The recrystallized surface protein arrays gave a resolution of approximately 1.3 nm in projection after correlation averaging of negatively stained preparations.
(2) A synthetic precursor to a potent dopaminergic agonist, (RS)-4-hydroxy-2-(di-n-propylamino)indan, has been resolved by classical recrystallization procedures, and the absolute configurations of the enantiomers have been established by X-ray crystallographic analysis.
(3) Pure alpha-epimer was obtained by recrystallization and low pressure silica gel column chromatography combined with HPLC method.
(4) Microsomal and low speed pellets with added cofactors formed products which recrystallized with either etiocholanolone or androsterone from [3H]T or [3H]DHT, respectively.
(5) The blood-brain barrier in the rhesus monkey was opened to intravascular Evans blue-albumin, without causing brain edema or altering brain electrolytes, by perfusing 2.5 molal recrystallized D,L-lactamide into the internal carotid artery for 20--30 sec.
(6) Electrophoresis, microscopical observation and pH dependency of encapsulability of recrystallized cores revealed that the electrostatic attractive force between gelatin molecules in solution and a polymer attached to the core particle cause gelatin adsorption on the core surface to result in a great improvement in encapsulability.
(7) The porosity in lased enamel was overall very similar to that seen in enamel heated in an electric furnace to a temperature of 600 degrees C. The presence of recrystallized enamel crystals indicated a temperature rise of approximately 1000 degrees C and the grain growth indicated that a temperature > or = 1000 degrees C existed for some time after the laser irradiation.
(8) Products of cholesterol auto-oxidation were concentrated from several lots of USP-grade cholesterol by recrystallizing cholesterol from the methanol extract, retaining the mother liquor, and evaporating the residuum to dryness under vacuum.
(9) Recrystallization of the synthetic product produced material identical in all respects with natural PGE1.
(10) Experiments showed that sulphadimidine crystals recrystallized from ethanol had better dissolution and absorption characteristics than sulphadimidine crystals recrystallized from methanol.
(11) Thermal studies (DSC and HSM) showed that form II melts at 196 degrees C, while form I melts at 193 degrees C, immediately followed by a resolidification and remelt at 196 degrees C. The conversion of form II to form I was accomplished by recrystallization from ethanol or methanol, and the form I-to-form II transition was obtained by controlled heating of form I around 194 degrees C. Quantitative XRD was used to determine the polymorphic composition, with a detection limit of less than 1% of the minor form and a linearity of 0-10% form I in form II (correlation coefficient of 0.999).
(12) Microcapsule batch reproducibility depended mainly on the variation in particle size distribution of the recrystallized core material.
(13) After the administration of 3-H-testosterone to castrated hamsters, extracts from crude nuclei were separated into bound and free fractions by gel filtration of Sephadex G-25, Subsequent analysis by thin-layer chromatography and recrystallization showed that dihydrotestosterone was the predominant radioactive steroid in the bound fraction and that it increased steadily with time until 1 hr after the injection.
(14) 1,2-Dimethyl-3-hydroxy-4-pyridone (1), a crystalline oral iron chelator, forms an acetic acid solvate (2) on recrystallization from acetic acid and carbon tetrachloride.
(15) Recrystallization of the purified enzyme under different conditions readily produces a variety of single crystals.
(16) Ice recrystallization was practically absent at the temperature normally used in cryo-sectioning (-70 degrees C).
(17) A convenient, detailed procedure is given for the recrystallization of commercial dithionite from 0.1 M NaOH-methanol under anaerobic conditions.
(18) Thus, the protein penetrates partway into the bilayer, distorts the packing of the lipid fatty acid chains, and prevents recrystallization, thus decreasing the phase transition temperature.
(19) Winter stem fluid from the bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara L., also showed the recrystallization inhibition activity characteristic of the animal thermal hysteresis proteins (THPs), suggesting a possible function for the THPs in this freeze tolerant species.
(20) The chimeric proteins varied in their effectiveness of inhibiting ice recrystallization according to the number of 11-amino acid repeats present in the antifreeze moiety.