What's the difference between depletion and depuration?
Depletion
Definition:
(n.) The act of depleting or emptying.
(n.) the act or process of diminishing the quantity of fluid in the vessels by bloodletting or otherwise; also excessive evacuation, as in severe diarrhea.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, saponin and ammonium chloride can be used to isolate whole infected erythrocytes, depleted of hemoglobin, by selective disruption of uninfected cells.
(2) Even with hepatic lipase, phospholipid hydrolysis could not deplete VLDL and IDL of sufficient phospholipid molecules to account for the loss of surface phospholipid that accompanies triacylglycerol hydrolysis and decreasing core volume as LDL is formed (or for conversion of HDL2 to HDL3).
(3) The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that the decreased Epi response following ET was due to 1) depletion of adrenal Epi content such that adrenomedullary stimulation would not release Epi, 2) decreased Epi release with direct stimulation, i.e., desensitization of release, or 3) decreased afferent signals generated by ET itself.
(4) Male weanling Sprague Dawley rats were depleted on a low AIN-76A formulated basal diet for 21 days.
(5) The reduction rates of peripheral leukocytes, lung Schiff bases and lung water content were not identical in rats depleted from leukocyte after inhalation injury.
(6) E-RFC enriched for T lymphocytes and depleted of macrophages synthesized considerable DNA in response to stimulation with PHA, but were unable to produce significant bone resorbing activity in tissue culture unless macrophages were re-added to the E-RFC.
(7) The response selectivity, such as orientation and direction selectivities, of cortical cells was not affected by the depletion of ACh.
(8) Upon depletion of ATP in contraction, the P2 intensity reverted to the original rigor level, accompanied by development of rigor tension.
(9) Photolysis of the photosystem I particles induces a progressive depletion of phylloquinone, however, photochemistry as assayed at room temperature by the photooxidation of P-700 is unaffected.
(10) It is suggested that the cause of this inhibition resides in depletion of the NADPH pool due to the high rate at which NADPH is oxidized by 2-ketogluconate reductase.
(11) They disappear after Leydig cell depletion induced by ethanedimethane sulphonate (EDS) and return after testosterone treatment.
(12) Accordingly, we repleted vitamin D-depleted rats with subcutaneous injections of 2600, 520, and 130 pmoles of cholecalciferol (D3), 25-hydroxycholecalciferol (25(OH)D3), and 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol (1,25(OH)2D3), respectively, for up to 3 weeks.
(13) The results suggest that in sodium-depleted rats denervation natriuresis can be ascribed neither to strain differences nor to the high sucrose content of the low-sodium diet.
(14) ACTH and dcAMP affect depletion of endogenously labeled ascorbic acid in IAC by a process that is both concentration- and time-dependent, but is independent of steroidogenic processes.
(16) Extracellular Na+ depletion promptly decreased [Na+]i from 15.8 to 5.4 mM (P less than 0.01), which was closely related to the decrease in pHi (7.19 to 6.97; P less than 0.01).
(17) The latter phase of depletion was associated with a decrease in synaptosomal [3H]serotonin uptake due to a loss in the number of uptake sites with no change in the affinity of the carrier for serotonin.
(18) Depletion of extracellular Ca2+ by EGTA [ethylene glycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N'N'-tetraacetic acid] attenuated both [Ca2+]i increase and superoxide production induced by particles.
(19) The resistance of N50-4 cells to CLB was almost completely abolished by combination pretreatment yielding both GSH depletion and GST inhibition.
(20) Cysteamine pretreatment of rats (depletion of somatostatin containing D-cells and decrease in somatostatin secretion) did not change the Met-enkephalin effect on insulin secretion.
Depuration
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of depurating or freeing from foreign or impure matter, as a liquid or wound.
Example Sentences:
(1) The greatest reduction of health risks would come from the routine depuration of clams harvested from growing waters of good sanitary quality.
(2) Uptake from ambient water and the depuration of five chlorinated phenolics, two chloroguaiacols (3,4,5-tri- and tetrachloroguaiacol), and three chlorophenols (2,4,6-tri-, 2,3,4,6-tetra-, and pentachlorophenol) were studied in the duck mussel (Anodonta anatina).
(3) Depuration experiments were efficient when the fish did not contain high concentrations of bacteria in their muscles.
(4) Whole-body elimination was rapid with 45% and 25% of the initial radioactivity from ziram and zineb, respectively, being retained by the end of the 16-day depuration period.
(5) In general, there is an improvement in chlorination, sewers and sewage-depuration equipment.
(6) Deposition in tissues, accumulation, degradation, or depuration depends on tissue type, metabolic processes, detoxification mechanisms, and the adaptive status of a particular animal.
(7) A study was carried out to further evaluate the practicability of viral depuration by assaying individual shellfish.
(8) In spite of the diffuse character of the deposited amyloid in the renal tissue, there were still no signs of glomerular sclerosis and clinicalf--normal depuration renal function was observed, with normal creatinine clearance and normal nitrogenous bodies in serum.
(9) This wide variation would explain the variability of viral contents obtained in pooled samples during depuration as reported previously.
(10) The etched with acid both in the adamantine surface and in that of well depurated porcelain, is an important factor to obtain a good retention.
(11) All organs, except the gill and kidney, returned to control values after 12 days depuration.
(12) Accumulation, tissue distribution, and depuration of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD)-derived 3H were examined in fingerling yellow perch fed a diet containing 494 ppt of [3H]TCDD for 13 weeks followed by the same diet without TCDD for 13 weeks.
(13) Renal failure in itself generates a state of malnutrition, due to three main causes: inadequate ingestion (anorexia, vomiting or diet insufficiencies), the existence of catabolic factors (proteins, acidosis, PTH) and extrarenal depuration (which provokes a lack of amino acids and vitamins).
(14) The efficiency of viral depuration was roughly a function of the water temperature within the range tested (5 to 20 C).
(15) Depuration half-lives (whole body) of TCDF following 30-day exposure ranged from 40 to 77 days and were significantly more rapid in fish exposed to 42.8 ng g-1.
(16) At first they have studied in 8 patients the advantages offered by this technique in terms of depuration of small molecules and of tolerance in comparison with HD and HDF.
(17) During a 13-h recovery period the abalones depurated 72.2% of retained residues; however, residue concentration in gonad increased over 100%.
(18) Viruses usually were eliminated within a 24- to 48-h depuration period.
(19) The objective of the present study was to test the hypothesis that V. vulnificus is a persistent microbial flora of oysters and unamenable to traditional methods of controlled purification, such as UV light depuration.
(20) Throughout the process, depuration water contained high concentrations of V. vulnificus, indicating that the disinfection properties of UV radiation and 0.2-microns-pore-size filtration were less than the rate at which V. vulnificus was released into seawater.