What's the difference between culture and unculture?
Culture
Definition:
(n.) The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.
(n.) The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.
(n.) The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.
(v. t.) To cultivate; to educate.
Example Sentences:
(1) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
(2) If ascorbic acid was omitted from the culture medium, the extensive new connective tissue matrix was not produced.
(3) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
(4) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
(5) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
(6) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
(7) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(8) Rapid overgrowth of all cultures with the E. coli necessitated the use of selective media containing antimicrobial agents to which the E. coli was sensitive.
(9) Patient or fetal cord serum is commonly used as a protein supplement to culture media used in in-vitro fertilization (IVF).
(10) The rate of accumulation of degraded LDL products was lower in collagen gel cultures, but the final levels achieved were the same in the two substrata.
(11) We have developed a new procedure for the rapid preparation of undegraded total RNA from cultured cells for specific quantitation by dot blotting analysis.
(12) A simple method for ultrarapid freezing of cell cultures in monolayers was developed.
(13) The results indicate that OA-bearing macrophages primed T cells and generated helper T cells, whereas the culture of normal lymphocytes with soluble OA in the absence of macrophages generated suppressor T cells.
(14) The effects of phenoxyacetic acid herbicides were investigated on the induction of chromosome aberrations in human peripheral lymphocyte cultures in vitro and in lymphocytes of exposed workers in vivo.
(15) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
(16) Human gingival fibroblasts were allowed to attach and spread on bio-glasses for 1-72 h. Unreactive silica glass and cell culture polystyrene served as controls.
(17) However, further improvement of culture systems is needed for active replication of HBV in vitro.
(18) This paper has considered the effects and potential application of PFCs, their emulsions and emulsion components for regulating growth and metabolic functions of microbial, animal and plant cells in culture.
(19) Cells (1 x 10(5)) were seeded in 12- x -75-mm tissue culture tubes and incubated with various doses of IL-1 beta, IL-1 alpha, TNF-alpha, and IFN-gamma, alone or in specific combinations, for 15 min, two, 12, 24, and 72 h. PGE concentrations in the media were measured by radio-immunoassay.
(20) This activation demonstrated in humans confirms the pharmacological results of the interferon induction obtained with SL04 in vivo in mice and in vitro in human cell cultures.
Unculture
Definition:
(n.) Want of culture.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cultured and uncultured germs were analysed for dry weight (D), ash weight (A), Ca, Mg and P content.
(2) The PCR was used to detect M. tuberculosis DNA sequences in uncultured clinical specimens.
(3) This method of amplification of 16S rDNA-gene fragments was used to identify a novel, uncultured pathogen and opens new perspectives for other infectious diseases of unknown cause.
(4) The results demonstrate a consistently significant increase in ganglioside GD3 in uncultured, patient-derived T-cell ALL lymphoblasts when compared to non-T-cell ALL and normal lymphoid tissue.
(5) The 4 selected monoclonal antibodies (OKB2, IOB2, IOT5a, IOB3) detected the corresponding surface antigens in various developing renal structures present in uncultured explants.
(6) A retrospective blind analysis of coded uncultured amniotic fluid samples correctly detected four trisomy 21 cases out of 49 samples.
(7) We illustrate the use of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) for analysis of ERBB2 oncogene copy number, the level of amplification (here defined as the ratio of ERBB2 copy number to copy number of chromosome 17 centromeres), and the distribution of amplified genes in breast cancer cell lines and uncultured primary breast carcinomas.
(8) Established MST were specifically eliminated by spleen cells immune to MST after culture with MSTMit, but not by spleen cells immune to MST without further culture nor by cultured or uncultured BC5 immune spleen cells and control spleen cells.
(9) The morphological, chromosomal, immunophenotypic and molecular biologic characteristics of fresh uncultured tumor cells from the patient and tumor cells grown in culture and in athymic nude mice were very similar.
(10) Nonproducer cell lines contained single copies of defective BLV proviral genomes with the same integration profiles as the uncultured cells.
(11) Analysis of uncultured chorionic villus material from a woman at risk of fetus with sulfite oxidase deficiency revealed a deficiency of sulfite oxidase.
(12) Results indicate that A. salmonicida does not enter an unculturable dormant state.
(13) After the freedom Wheldon had given him, he was not best pleased by the relatively uncultured suits he found on visits to the west coast.
(14) The micronucleus test was also performed, for the first time in lymphocytes by the cytokinesis-block method, and in uncultured cells of the oral cavity and hair root.
(15) Hexosaminidase activity was determined in cultured and uncultured amniotic fluid cells taken from seven pregnant women who had previously given birth to infants with Tay-Sachs disease.
(16) Chronic islet rejection differs from acute rejection of uncultured allogeneic islets.
(17) Whereas to hate literature is to be deemed uncultured, it is cool to hate maths and fine to throw one's hands in the air when asked to do a simple sum.
(18) Optimal conditions for beta-galactosidase activity were established with an uncultured conjunctival biopsy from a normal cat.
(19) These bone marrow cells showed a pronounced increase in the mitotic index (5- to 50-fold) as compared to unstimulated cultures, and a greater than 100-fold increase as compared to fresh, uncultured bone marrow cells.
(20) This resulted in eight groups of explants (control, Ca, Mg, P, CaMg, CaP, PMg and CaMgP) and their eight uncultured contralateral groups.