(a.) Turning, or causing to turn, toward the right hand; esp., turning the plane of polarization of luminous rays toward the right hand; as, dextrorotatory crystals, sugars, etc. Cf. Levorotatory.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dextrorotatory enantiomer of fluoxetine was slightly more potent than the levorotatory enantiomer in antagonizing the depletion of brain serotonin by p-chloroamphetamine in rats.
(2) The dextrorotatory morphinan opioid, dextrorphan, which has recently been reported to block the excitation of cortical neurons by N-methyl-D-aspartate, was found at 10-100 microM concentrations to attenuate both morphological and chemical evidence of glutamate neurotoxicity in murine neocortical cell cultures; a similar effect was found with its methyl ester derivative, dextromethorphan.
(3) The differences in antihypertensive activity of racemic and dextrorotatory propranolol cannot be explained by different plasma levels; the data indicate that the hypotensive effect of propranolol is due to beta receptor blockade.
(4) Subsequently, beta-End and levorphanol (10(-8) M), but not the dextrorotatory isomer, stimulated an elongation of the cells.
(5) It is dextrorotatory, [alpha](D) = +138 degrees , and has a pK(a) of 5.1.
(6) A compound, C14H24O2, which induces strong juvenilizing effects in the yellow mealworm, Tenebrio molitor L., following topical application to the pupal stage, was isolated in pure form from the roots of Echinacea angustifolia DC and tentatively identified as dextrorotatory (E)-10-hydroxy-4,10-dimethyl-4,11-dodecadien-2-one.
(7) In hypertensive patients, whose blood pressure was decreased by racemic propranololthe dextrorotatory isomer had no antihypertensive effect.
(8) The dextrorotatory enantiomer prevented the depletion of brain serotonin at any time after p-chloroamphetamine.
(9) The dextrorotatory enantiomer of aminoglutethimide is 38 times more potent than the levoenantiomer in inhibiting aromatization of testosterone by human placental microsomes.
(10) In a separate experiment, 100 micrograms of dextrorotatory and levorotatory gossypol was administered to male mice.
(11) The [3H]Tol2Gdn binding site displays stereoselectivity for dextrorotatory optical isomers of benzomorphan opiates known to have sigma-type behavioral effects.
(12) Fatty acids esterifying these fatty alcohols in M. marinum and M. ulcerans were found to belong to the phthioceranic series (dextrorotatory fatty acids), in contrast to those of the other species (laevorotatory fatty acids called mycocerosic acids), both groups having the same chain length and methyl-branched positions.
(13) The dextrorotatory gossypol, both in rat and mice, had less pronounced effect on the histoarchitecture of the testis in comparison to racemic and levorotatory gossypol.
(14) The non-narcotic dextrorotatory morphinan, dextrorphan, as well as its levorotatory opioid enantiomer, levorphanol, and its O-methyl derivative, dextromethorphan, have recently been shown to antagonize N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor-mediated neurotoxicity.
(15) Contrary to what is generally accepted, the dysphoric and psychotomimetic side effects of sigma opiates are mediated by the levo-and not by the dextrorotatory isomers.
(16) Increases in ventricular myocardial refractoriness and in QTc and paced QT intervals suggest that class III electrophysiologic actions contribute to the antiarrhythmic properties of dextrorotatory sotalol in this animal model.
(17) When dog urine was heated with acid rather than treated with beta-glucuronidase, the isolated p-HPPH contained a small preponderance of the dextrorotatory isomer, probably owing to production of d-p-HPPH from the dihydrodiol metabolite.
(18) The dextrorotatory and levorotatory isomers of chloroquine did not differ in their ability to stimulate the hydrolysis of tRNA by pancreatic ribonuclease A.
(19) The others were the dextrorotatory 2,6-bis-(3',4'-dihydroxyphenyl)-3,7-dioxabicyclo-[3,3,0]-octane 4,8-dione (dehydrodicaffeic acid dilactone) andits antipode.
(20) Another mu-agonist, levorphanol (20, 40, 80, or 160 micrograms) and dextrorphan (160 micrograms), its dextrorotatory isomer, were used next to evaluate opioid specificity.
Rotate
Definition:
(a.) Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one.
(v. i.) To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve.
(v. i.) To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.
(v. i.) To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle.
(v. i.) To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office.
Example Sentences:
(1) To determine the accuracy of double-contrast arthrography in complete rotator cuff tears, we studied 805 patients thought to have a complete rotator cuff tear who had undergone double-contrast shoulder arthrography (DCSA) between 1978 and 1983.
(2) When the posterior capsule was sectioned, no significant changes were noted in the severity of the sag or the rotation.
(3) The Ta loop was a smooth, elongated ellipse in configuration and showed clockwise rotation in all planes, as did the P loop.
(4) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
(5) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
(6) This series of tests included tests for pathologic nystagmus, saccades, smooth pursuit, and optokinetic nystagmus, as well as bithermal caloric testing and rotational testing.
(7) The adherence of 51Cr-labeled platelets to rabbit aortae everted on probes rotated in platelet-red cell suspensions has been measured.
(8) We have used a modification of the rotating-frame imaging technique to measure PCr-to-ATP ratio non-invasively in human heart.
(9) Experimental evidence suggested that nucleosome rotational positioning is determined by the DNA sequence itself.
(10) The X-ray tube rotates outside the detector array at the rate of one revolution per second.
(11) The data collection scheme for the scanner uses multiple rotations of a linearly shifted, asymmetric fan beam permitting user-defined variable resolution.
(12) The purity and configuration of each isomer of the free acid and N-chloroacetylated derivative were ascertained by: (a) paper chromatography in five solvent systems, (b) elemental analysis, (c) Van Slyke nitrous acid determination of alpha-carbonyl carbon, and (d) Van Slyke ninhydrin determination of alpha-carbonyl carbon, and (e) optical rotation.
(13) Based on our experience with the mark I prosthesis we have designed and developed a mark II model which has freedom of axial rotation of the saddle.
(14) The reported study demonstrates that performance asymmetries between normal or reflected letters presented in the right and left visual field favors the right visual field when stimulus patterns are blocked and rotated 90 degrees clockwise and favors the left visual field when they are blocked and rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.
(15) Moreover, the majority of the 'out of phase' units showed an increased discharge during side-up animal tilt and side-down neck rotation.
(16) 3-D curves were computed with an apparent rotation around the vertical axis Z.
(17) Subsequently, due to the rotation of the original polar axis in one hemisphere, the third cleavage plane through one half of the egg is transverse to the third cleavage plane through the other half.
(18) This suggests that S1 is a flexible protein with at least two domains that can rotate independently.
(19) Per-rotational nystagmus was recorded in rabbits with unilaterally narrowed vertebral arteries or following unilateral cervical sympathectomies.
(20) We found that the Gallie system generally allowed significantly more rotation in flexion, extension, axial rotation, and lateral bending than the other three fixation techniques.