What's the difference between cluster and locusta?
Cluster
Definition:
(n.) A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch.
(n.) A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; a group; as, a cluster of islands.
(n.) A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
(v. i.) To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters.
(v. t.) To collect into a cluster or clusters; to gather into a bunch or close body.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
(2) We used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the breakpoint area of alpha-thalassemia-1 of Southeast Asia type and several parts of the alpha-globin gene cluster to make a differential diagnosis between alpha-thalassemia-1 and Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis.
(3) In some cervical nodes, a few follicles, lymphocyte clusters, and a well-developed plasmocyte population were also present.
(4) The 68C intermolt puff of Drosophila melanogaster contains a cluster of three glue protein genes, Sgs-3, Sgs-7, and Sgs-8.
(5) This analysis demonstrated that more than 75% of cosmids containing a rare restriction site also contained a second rare restriction site, suggesting a high degree of CpG-rich restriction site clustering.
(6) Typically the iron-iron axis (gz) of the binuclear iron-sulfur clusters is in the membrane plane.
(7) The fourth cluster included the type strains of Actinobacillus lignieresii, A. equuli, A. pleuropneumoniae, A. suis, A. ureae, H. parahaemolyticus, H. parainfluenzae, H. paraphrohaemolyticus, H. ducreyi, and P. haemolytica.
(8) Each species has approximately 500 core histones cluster repeats per haploid genome.
(9) mycoides cluster' at a similarity level (S) of 66% and which remained undivided at up to 78% S. At higher similarity levels, these strains fell heterogeneously into mixed sub-phenons containing strains of both subspecies.
(10) Thus, succinate dehydrogenase is the first enzyme which has been shown to contain all 3 of these Fe-S clusters.
(11) We examined 10 life areas clustered around the general categories of "substance use," "social functioning," and "emotional and interpersonal functioning."
(12) Genetic regulation of the ilvGMEDA cluster involves attenuation, internal promoters, internal Rho-dependent termination sites, a site of polarity in the ilvG pseudogene of the wild-type organism, and autoregulation by the ilvA gene product, the biosynthetic L-threonine deaminase.
(13) Neutral sucrose density sedimentation patterns indicate that neutron-induced double strand-breaks sometimes occur in clusters of more than 100 in the same phage and that the effeciency with which double strand-breaks form is about 50 times that of gamma-induced double strand-breaks.
(14) The difference in Brazil will be the huge distances involved, with the crazy decision not to host the group stages in geographical clusters leading to logistical and planning nightmares.
(15) Fifty-four cases were analysed, and a two-fold excess of clustering within one year was observed, both within single districts and between adjacent districts.
(16) All of the multivariate data were treated with mathematic method of cluster analysis.
(17) The perinatal development of the levator ani (LA) muscle in male and female rats was investigated by measuring the total number of muscle units (MU) (i.e., mononucleate cells, clustered or independent myotubes, and muscle fibers) in transverse semithin sections of the entire muscle and the MU cross-sectional area in 22-day-old fetuses (F22), 1-day-old (D1 = day of birth), 3-day-old (D3), and 6-day-old (D6) newborns.
(18) Since only a few of these medium sized terminals in any one cluster degenerate after tectal lesions, and none degenerate after cortical lesions, it is suggested that the morphological arrangement of these clusters may permit the convergence of axons from several sources, some of which are unidentified, onto the same dendritic segment.
(19) A transurethral prostatic resection for prostatism in a 73 year old man showed a cluster of richly capillarised clear cells originally thought to be indicative of invasive carcinoma.
(20) Moderately differentiated tumor revealed a wider range of nucleus size, less clustering (coefficient--3.59) and more hyperchromatic (70.1%) and "bare" (49.4%) nuclei and large nucleoli (22.2%).
Locusta
Definition:
(n.) The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two factors influencing cellular morphology in vitro were identified in Locusta: 1) the presence of a primary neurite stump, and 2) membrane contacts between cells.
(2) Metathoracic limb buds were removed unilaterally from Locusta migratoria embryos at 30% of embryonic development, thereby depriving limb-innervating neurons of the opportunity of innervating their normal target muscles.
(3) Unlike the response previously reported in a similar experiment carried out with Schistocerca gregaria, an intermediate response was found here in Locusta, with recognisable Effects 1 and 2 components being superimposed upon a reduced Effect 4 increase.
(4) Methionine(met)-enkephalin immunoreactivity as visualized by the peroxidase-antiperoxidase procedure, is present in spermatogonia, spermatocytes, spermatids, and young ovarian follicles of Locusta (panoistic type) and Sarcophaga (polytrophic type).
(5) We have isolated three novel peptides from the aqueous extract of the pars intercerebralis of male and female adults of the insect Locusta migratoria.
(6) Peptides belonging to the tachykinin family have been isolated from molluscan (Octopus) salivary glands and from insect nervous tissue (Locusta migratoria).
(7) Receptor cell axons from the antennal flagellum terminate in the glomeruli of the ipsilateral deutocerebrum in Periplaneta americana and Locusta migratoria.
(8) A neuropeptide related to the mammalian neuropeptide Y (NPY) is present in various neurosecretory cells (NSC) of the cephalic and thoracic nervous systems of the insect Locusta migratoria.
(9) Protein methylase II (protein O-methyltransferase, EC 2.1.1.24) was found in Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae, Astacus leptodactylus axonal, Locusta migratoroides neuronal, Torpedo marmorata electroplaque and Bos bovis stratial tissue and compared in both the soluble and particulate fractions.
(10) The relative position of the genes is conserved between Locusta and Drosophila, thus indicating conservation of mitochondrial gene order in insects.
(11) Electrophysiological studies have shown that both the 5-kDa and 4-kDa peptides depolarise the membrane and increase the membrane conductance of neurones freshly isolated from the thoracic ganglia of Locusta.
(12) Two distinct diuretic peptides affect the rate of fluid secretion of the Malpighian tubules in Locusta.
(13) High-performance liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection was used to measure N-acetyldopamine and N-acetyl 5-hydroxytryptamine in the cerebral ganglia of the African migratory locust, Locusta migratoria (fifth instar) exposed to lindane, a chlorinated insecticide.
(14) The peptide stimulates the contractions of the oviduct of Leptinotarsa as well as that of Locusta migratoria.
(15) Five of the six categories of haemocytes of Locusta migratoria, that is, the plasmatocytes, spherule cells, granulocytes, coagulocytes and oenocytoids, contain conspicuous granules of mucosubstance in their cytoplasm.
(16) They stimulate visceral muscle contractions of the oviduct and the foregut of Locusta migratoria and of the hindgut of Leucophaea maderae.
(17) A neuropeptide with adipokinetic activity in Locusta migratoria and hypertrehalosaemic activity in Periplaneta americana was purified by reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography from the corpus cardiacum of the dragonfly, Libellula auripennis.
(18) Electron microscopic studies on developing follicles of Locusta migratoria show the vitelline membrane to be composed of two ultrastructurally distinguishable components: The vitelline membrane bodies (VMBs) and, in addition, fine granular material, cementing the VMBs together.
(19) An alpha-toxin-binding membrane protein, isolated from the head and thoracic ganglia of the locus (Locusta migratoria), was reconstituted into planar lipid bilayers.
(20) It has been previously shown that fucosterol-24,28 epoxide 3 is transformed into 5 in Locusta migratoria, desmosterol 4 being an intermediate.