What's the difference between constituent and disaggregation?

Constituent


Definition:

  • (a.) Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.
  • (a.) Having the power of electing or appointing.
  • (n.) The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
  • (n.) That which constitutes or composes, as a part, or an essential part; a component; an element.
  • (n.) One for whom another acts; especially, one who is represented by another in a legislative assembly; -- correlative to representative.
  • (n.) A person who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
  • (2) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.
  • (3) To determine the influence of cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) adsorption on the wettability and elemental surface composition of human enamel, with and without adsorbed salivary constituents, surface-free energies and elemental compositions were determined.
  • (4) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
  • (5) Both Types I and II collagen are important constituents of the affected tissues, and thus defective collagens are reasonable candidates for the primary abnormality in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS).
  • (6) Although no anatomical 'barrier' has been described, it has been suggested that the gel mucus and epithelial phospholipids are constituents.
  • (7) Voters would have to collect the signatures of 10% of constituents to force a byelection.
  • (8) Concentrations of each constituent were correlated with the growth inhibitions of Bacillus subtilis (IP-5832).
  • (9) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
  • (10) The different hydrolytic, fermentative and methanogenic activities of these populations ensure the efficient degradation of cell wall constituent in forages (cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin) ingested by ruminants.
  • (11) The aim was to clarify the nature of their constituent cells, specifically the giant ganglion-like cells and spindle cells, and to discuss the implications for histogenesis.
  • (12) For application to mammalian cells, however, two serious problems require resolution: (1), correction of TPP+ binding to intracellular constituents and (2), estimation of the considerable TPP+ accumulation in mitochondria.
  • (13) The review will now be delayed for five years, leaving the next election to be fought on the existing constituency boundaries, and seriously damaging David Cameron's chances of winning an overall majority in 2015.
  • (14) Laminin is a constituent of the basement membrane in both chicken and quail blastoderms.
  • (15) Later Downing Street elaborated on its position, pointing out that Brooks was a constituent of Cameron's and, in any case, "the prime minister regularly meets newspaper executives from lots of different companies".
  • (16) But Berlusconi and Sarkozy, seeking to curry favour with the strong far-right constituencies in both countries, sought to bury their differences by urging the rest of Europe to buy into their anti-immigration agenda.
  • (17) The cultivation of embryos in shell-less culture did not affect the normal macroscopic or histological appearance of the membrane, or the rate of proliferation of its constituent cells, as assessed by tritiated thymidine incorporation.
  • (18) It was because MPs have to face their constituents."
  • (19) We have already had the failure of House of Lords reform, the failure to change constituencies and the imbalance of MPs between England and the devolved assemblies.
  • (20) The test subjects ate up their food appraising the gustatory qualities of the diet constituents.

Disaggregation


Definition:

  • (n.) The separation of an aggregate body into its component parts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A comparison is made between these results and those of other authors who observed microtubule disaggregation by cold with the electron microscope.
  • (2) Human melanocyte cultures were established using disaggregated epidermal cell suspensions derived from foreskins and plated onto culture dishes in medium containing 2% fetal bovine serum, growth factors, hormones, and melanocyte growth factor (MGF) extracted from bovine hypothalamus (Wilkins et al., J.Cell.
  • (3) Insulin-induced hypoglycemia provokes polyribosome disaggregation and accumulation of monomeric ribosomes in the brain of rats with hypoglycemic paresis and coma.
  • (4) MB added after ADP-induced aggregation caused an increase in the amount of cytoskeletal core despite marked disaggregation and a substantial decrease in core-associated GP IIIa.
  • (5) Host cells were isolated by enzymatic disaggregation of the tumor and fractionated by sedimentation velocity at unit gravity on a Ficoll gradient.
  • (6) A study of 425 patients demonstrated that a pyodestructive process, located anywhere, affects platelet functional properties, resulting in the first place, in disorders of spontaneous cell disaggregation.
  • (7) These results are compared with those from studies of cells disaggregated from similar embryos.
  • (8) Our discrepancy with findings from the National Survey of Family Growth is evidence of the cultural diversity in the US Hispanic population and indicates the importance of disaggregating by ethnicity or national origin when studying this population.
  • (9) Lipase positivity was assessed using the Gomori technic with the conditions for fixation slightly modified to be suitable for disaggregated cells.
  • (10) The disaggregation of polysomes is an indication that the initiation step in protein synthesis is disrupted and is further evidence that the mechanism involved in protein synthesis arrest in dormant Artemia involves translational control.
  • (11) Disaggregated cell suspensions made from transplanted solid tumors, either chemically-induced fibrosarcomas, or spontaneous mammary carcinomas, can contain very high numbers of Fc receptor-bearing cells which are of host origin.
  • (12) Maximum aggregation takes place 1-3 min after fibrin-monomer addition, and then the disaggregation phase follows.
  • (13) Assays of progenitors from separately disaggregated yolk sacs and embryos from day-8 conceptuses yielded colonies only from yolk sac suspensions, and again these contained either HbE- and HbA-positive erythroblasts or only HbA-positive erythroblasts.
  • (14) In subsequent experiments, viability observed at 3 hr could be greatly increased if the tumors were cooled to 4 degrees C immediately after excision, and were then rapidly disaggregated.
  • (15) The hypothesis of calcium-related cell damage is based on the fact that dense ischemia leads to an influx of calcium into cells, and that raised intracellular calcium concentrations activate lipases and proteases, and cause disaggregation of neurotubuli and enhanced protein phosphorylation.
  • (16) This increases the thickness of the shield, thus inactivating or disaggregating the platelets.
  • (17) Treatment of isolated stratum corneum with certain detergents results in complete disaggregation of the corneocytes within hours at 45 degrees C without agitation.
  • (18) Osteoclasts disaggregated from neonatal rat long bones were settled onto devitalized cortical bone substrate, and resorption was quantified by morphometry.
  • (19) The results revealed that aflatoxin B1 rapidly led to disaggregation of free and membrane-bound polyribosomes, to inhibition of in vitro protein synthesis by both populations of polyribosomes, to little or no effect on the activities of initiation factors, and to defective ribosomes, particularly the 60S ribosomal subnits, of both types of polyribosomes.
  • (20) When developing cultures of Dictyostelium discoideum are disaggregated at any time prior to cell wall formation and challenged to reinitiate development, amoebae will progress through the original sequence of morphogenetic stages, but the second time through they will do so in roughly one-tenth the original time, a process known as 'rapid recapitulation'.

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