(n.) The act of depopulating, or condition of being depopulated; destruction or explusion of inhabitants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Consequently, one is unable to totally depopulate a tumor without irreversibly damaging the normal tissues.
(2) And although in a few cases Pathfinder entailed the demolition of housing in genuinely blighted areas, and though there's no doubt that northern cities were depopulated from their mid-20th century heights, market correction was always the rationale.
(3) But I ended up unemployed.” He and his family arrived in the Teruel countryside thanks to the Cepaim Foundation’s New Paths programme , which helps bring immigrants to depopulated rural areas.
(4) A second wave of depopulation, possibly due to perivascular fibrosis, was evident at 13 weeks.
(5) The exodus is being led by young people, who are abandoning ageing towns and villages that were afflicted by economic decline and depopulation long before the disaster.
(6) The marrow depopulation was atrributed to decreased cell production, as the majority of the remaining cells showed little evidence of degeneration and the number of mitotic figures in the marrow of amprolium-treated lambs was considerably reduced as compared with the controls.
(7) The effectiveness of the lesion was attested by a massive neuronal depopulation in the lesioned areas.
(8) Visiedo is located in one of the emptiest reaches of Spain, the province of Teruel, part of the autonomous community of Aragon, which has the highest rate of rural depopulation in the country.
(9) The time variation of the pump current when the light is turned on suggests the rapid depopulation of some initially occupied state.
(10) He predicted that the employed would become so depopulated that national economies would be disrupted.
(11) The cerebellar changes, especially in the vermis and intermediate part, were characterized by selective degeneration and depopulation of Purkinje cells, and a spongy state of the cerebellar white matter, which was formed in splits in the intraperiod lines within the myelin sheath.
(12) For the purpose of our investigation, the farm was depopulated of swine and restocked with parasite-free, sentinel pigs confined in 3 groups exposed to increasing degrees of contact with rats.
(13) Japan’s polarised political scene, coupled with rising regional tensions and challenging domestic issues such as depopulation and the role of women, should generate ample material to cement manga’s place in the public discourse.
(14) The possible mechanisms of synkinesis include: imperfect regeneration due to axonal misdirection, demyelination, microglial scarring in the facial nucleus, neuron depopulation, multiple axon sprouting, and misdirection of regenerating axons via vertical anastomotic filaments.
(15) The kinetics of depopulation and repopulation of the solid transplantable rhabdomyosarcoma R1H in the rat was studied following irradiation with 5 Gy of 14 MeV neutrons.
(16) As early as the mid-1980s, Prince Charles advocated turning the depopulated streets of central Liverpool into farmland, something which seemed connected to his war against modern architecture around the same time; but not all urban farms or ex-industrial parks would please the prince architecturally.
(17) They are probably also the cells which are capable of regenerating the crypt after X-ray depopulation.
(18) However, although amyotrophy presumes a transsynaptic change in trophic function to have taken place in the peripheral neurone, neuronal depopulation--if one accepts it--cannot be other than functional.
(19) The analysis concludes that despite the fact several Native groups exploited, and in some cases co-resided in a similar ecological area, they suffered differential mortality and depopulation rates.
(20) His analysis illustrates and reviews the demographic movements in a district of which certain parts are on the way of depopulation, the medical practitioners who followed one another during the last century, their daily activities under circumstances totally different from ours, the means at their disposal in particular the therapeutical possibilities an overview of the popular medicines of that time and a short historical report about the health resort of San Bernardino.
Repopulation
Definition:
(n.) The act of repeopling; act of furnishing with a population anew.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pattern of innervation following transplantation indicates that, in repopulating dopamine-deficient cortical areas of recipient weaver mutants, graft-derived dopamine fibres show a preference for those layers which are normally invested by dopamine afferents.
(2) This net effect is a result of the initial reduction in skin clonogens due to X rays, and their repopulation before the top-up dose was given.
(3) As the marrow recovered, many regenerating cells contained BrdU, implying that normal stem cells must have been in S-phase at the time of BrdU infusion, and repopulation of marrow may be accounted for by the activity of only a few clones in remission.
(4) By assuming that repopulation of late-responding tissues is insignificant during normal treatment regimes it is possible to use the method to assess the broader implications for treatment strategies in terms of the behaviour of the Extrapolated Response Dose (ERD).
(5) Healing cultured autografts were found to become repopulated with Langerhans cells within 3 to 6 weeks.
(6) Administration of [3H]thymidine on days 10-20 postoperatively labels some clusters of supporting cells and virtually all of the receptor cells, indicating that the repopulation of the epithelium is due to new formation of receptor cells.
(7) The lethal shock triggered by the superantigen SEB is mediated by T cells, a conclusion based on the observation that T cell repopulation of SCID mice conferred sensitivity to SEB.
(8) Long-term observation of chimeric mice repopulated with bone marrow from congenic or mutant donors expressing very low or very high NK activity may help to answer these questions.
(9) The genotype-restricted dominance of different stages of repopulation suggests important differences in the organization and regulation of stem and progenitor cell populations.
(10) Langerhans cells were reduced in these biopsies, however, when taken more than 22 d post-transplant, suggesting that the epidermal changes are associated with Langerhans cell damage or repopulation.
(11) The exiled municipal authorities agreed – perhaps sealing the fate of the city even should it be cleared one day for repopulation.
(12) The treatment of acute nonlymphocytic leukemia results in predictable bone marrow hypoplasia and eventual cellular repopulation.
(13) In the past Tularemia has largely affected animals, nowadays' in our country it could become actual one more because of wild animals repopulation actuated in many areas.
(14) Thymectomized, irradiated and syngeneic bone marrow-repopulated (TIR) mice, after hemopoietic recovery, were more effective in producing erythropoietin than normal controls in response to hypobaric hypoxia.
(15) After selective destruction of Leydig cells in mature rats with ethylene dimethane sulfonate (EDS), repopulation of Leydig cells occurs.
(16) The surviving cells repopulate the crypt, the estimated cell-number doubling-time being about 24 hours, and on the fourth day after irradiation their numbers are still slightly below normal.
(17) The assay involves transplanting limiting numbers of male "test" cells into lethally irradiated syngeneic female recipients together with 1-2 x 10(5) syngeneic female marrow cells whose long-term repopulating ability has been compromised by two previous cycles of marrow transplantation.
(18) If the last is not possible, extensive extirpation of normal surrounding tissues will not prevent repopulation by the ubiquitous fungus.
(19) With these findings it is now possible to design assays that will specifically measure long-term repopulating stem cells, as well as to develop culture systems that can be used to analyze the effects of known and putative novel cytokines on their growth and differentiation.
(20) Thymus grafts showed partial repopulation by host cells 11 days after grafting, and some grafts were completely repopulated by host cells 13 days after grafting.