(1) The building block of cytokeratin IFs is a heterotypic tetramer, consisting of two type I and two type II polypeptides arranged in pairs of laterally aligned coiled coils.
(2) Right hepatic artery embolization with three coils was performed.
(3) The potential use of ancrod, a purified isolate from the venom of the Malaysian pit viper, Agkistrodon rhodostoma, in decreasing the frequency of cyclic flow variations in severely stenosed canine coronary arteries and causing thrombolysis of an acute coronary thrombus induced by a copper coil was evaluated.
(4) Chloride caused a significant concentration-dependent shortening of myosin rods due to destabilization of the alpha-helical double coiled rod structure.
(5) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
(6) The "random coil" conformational problem is examined by comparison of vibrational CD (VCD) spectra of various polypeptide model systems with that of proline oligomers [(Pro)n] and poly(L-proline).
(7) Carcinogen-modified oligodeoxynucleotides were single-stranded, but there were often considerable stacking interactions between the pyrenyl residues and the oligonucleotide bases, indicating that electrophoresed oligomers were single-stranded but in a native, versus random coil, conformation.
(8) We measured the magnetic fields produced by several different coils and compared the results with theoretical calculations.
(9) The predicted protein shares significant homology with lamins A and C and other members of the intermediate filament family of proteins, and shares features important for the coiled-coil structure proposed for these proteins.
(10) These design methods are suited for constructing the most efficient gradient coil that meets a specified homogeneity requirement.
(11) Echocardiograms showed good left ventricular function and a large coil of apparent thrombus in the right atrium prolapsing into the right ventricle.
(12) In some cases, an intracytoplasmic coiling of the tail or tails could be observed.
(13) We studied effects of this anomaly on ocular motility using electro-oculography and the magnetic search-coil technique.
(14) The force of the inflow is considerable and can alter the shape of coils and displace both coils and balloons positioned within the aneurysm.
(15) The results are not consistent with a straight chain of nucleosomes and require the presence of a higher order coiling in monovalent salt solutions.
(16) Closely coupled receiver coils can provide a useful improvement in MR image quality.
(17) We report our clinical experience with nearly 100 patients in the first year in the special surface-coil approach of orbit and knee joint.
(18) van't Hoff plots of the thermal denaturation data gave enthalpies for the helix-coil transition of 21,600 cal (ca.
(19) Technical considerations for the magnetic resonance imaging of the foot and ankle are discussed, including the selection of the appropriate surface coil, the importance of stabilizing the anatomic region, and the principles guiding the choice of pulse sequences.
(20) Complete atrophy of variable lengths of the terminal basal coil cells was also found in all elderly cochleas.
Tendril
Definition:
(a.) A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally.
(a.) Clasping; climbing as a tendril.
Example Sentences:
(1) The buds are transformed into tendrils with swollen extremities.
(2) Tendrils were found only in regions which had characteristics of poor fixation.
(3) The tendrils could then be seen in all portions of the proximal convoluted tubule and not exclusively in the initial portion as previously reported.
(4) Examples of this approach include Alstom who have invested in Brightsource (utility scale solar thermal) and Tidal Generation (tidal power); ABB is working with Aquamarine (wave power) and Trilliant (smart grid); Siemens with Tendril and a number of other smart grid companies; Monsanto with biofuels company Sapphire Energy .
(5) Microtubular changes in degenerating CF tendrils were observed.
(6) When samples of pea tendril tissue were incubated in the Wachstein-Meisel medium for the demonstration of adenosine triphosphatases, deposits of lead reaction product were localized between the membranes of the chloroplast envelope.
(7) In AD, however, increased vascular tendrils in form of endothelial abluminal processes and intraparenchymal abnormalities were evident in cortical and hippocampal regions, predominant in cases with severe pathology.
(8) In the granular layer, tendril and glomerular collaterals of climbing fibers were observed.
(9) Approaching Istanbul, 435 days after slinking into the sea in Gibraltar, the pair found the city’s tendrils reaching down the Thracian coast.
(10) One of the characteristics of Dadd's fairy paintings is the way grasses and tendrils are apparently randomly interposed between the onlooker and the world in the painting.
(11) The villi intertwine in different positions; both the villi and their tendrils are covered with dense layers of microvilli.
(12) Tendrils have been reported to radiate from luminal surfaces of proximal tubules in rat kidneys by Andrews and Porter ('74) using scanning microscopy, but they were not seen by Bulger et al.
(13) The tendril-like processes continued to increase in length until about the end of the second postnatal month.
(14) I can imagine him enthroned in his techno-lair in Manhattan, sampling news feeds from the old country, allowing tendrils of moist patriotism to penetrate his otherwise steely alien mind.
(15) The climbing fibers formed tendril collaterals and glomeruli.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest I would sit next to my mother on these afternoons and inevitably a tendril of tension would start emanating from the screen, and from her.
(17) The symptomatic form of livedo racemosa causes circumscribed, asymmetric lesions restricted to one half of the body, while the idiopathic form is characterised by arborization figures and livid tendril-like discolorations.
(18) A decade ago, the white tendrils of an iPod's headphones might have marked the wearer out as trendy; nowadays it makes them just one of the crowd, and Apple's in-ear headphones are too common to bother with.
(19) At least three types of urinary fibrillar material were observed: 10-12-nm-diameter fibrils similar to amyloid; 7-10-nm-diameter fibrils with characteristics of intracellular tonofibrils; and 15-30-nm-diameter fibrils suggestive of fibrin tendrils.
(20) These mixed-use habitats would extend upwards, outwards and deep underground in organic rings and tendrils.