(n.) A solution of continuity; division; separation of parts.
(n.) The separation of different substances in solution, as crystalloids and colloids, by means of their unequal diffusion, especially through natural or artificial membranes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dialysis of dog plasma against an artificial c.s.f.
(2) In contrast sham-hemodialysis in group CA and group PS, respectively, did not result in significant increases in amino acid efflux from the leg implying that the protein catabolic effect of blood membrane contact depends on the chemical properties of dialysis membranes.
(3) A retrospective study was done in 86 patients on dialysis in order to evaluate the doses of aluminum hydroxide (OH3 Al) received to achieve a better serum phosphate control.
(4) In all patients a Tenckoff's catheter for peritoneal dialysis was introduced and peritoneal effusion extracted and measured.
(5) It demonstrates for the first time that dialysis patients have detectable plasma levels of IL-1 compared to normal individuals.
(6) Increased velocity of motor conduction in at least one nerve related directly proportionally to the Cs concentration of the serum was demonstrated in 56-70% of the patients after one dialysis.
(7) Interfering macromolecular serum components were left outside the capsule during the centrifugation or forced dialysis.
(8) A crude extract of Brucella melitensis was obtained by sonication, centrifugation and dialysis, and analyzed by quantitative immunoelectrophoresis.
(9) Ceftriaxone, a cephalosporin, is bound reversibly to defatted human serum albumin from adults, with a first stoichiometric binding constant of 60,000 M-1, as found by equilibrium dialysis at pH 7.4, 37 degrees.
(10) Por the treatment of L.A., adjunction of dialysis and furosemide improved the efficacy of early and massive sodium bicarbonate infusion.
(11) Removal of KSCN by dialysis resulted in the recovery of biological activity and of certain characteristic structural properties.
(12) Seven patients had been receiving hemodialysis for a median of 3.3 years; the other two were receiving continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.
(13) In different dialysis strategies (hemodialysis with Gambro 1.5 m2, RP6 1 m2, Vita 2 1.2 m2), sequential ultrafiltration with RP 6 (1 hour ultrafiltration followed by 3 hours of hemodialysis and hemoperfusion with Absorba 300 C) serum chromatographic pattern and medium size molecules were studied with Sephadex G 15 chromatography.
(14) Nineteen Dacron velour fistula bypasses between the brachial artery and median basilic vein were performed in fifteen selected patients for a total dialysis period of ninety-six months.
(15) In nondiabetic patients, glycosylated hemoglobin levels were within the normal range (4.0% to 6.8% of total blood hemoglobin levels) for both continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis.
(16) The immunogenicity of the polyvalent pneumococcal vaccine was studied in renal allograft recipients and dialysis patients.
(17) Flow dialysis was used to study the binding of MgATP and MgADP to the nitrogenase proteins of Azotobacter vinelandii.
(18) Thirteen patients with end-stage renal disease aged 70 years have been successfully treated by chronic dialysis treatment.
(19) The in vitro dissolution study carried out using dynamic dialysis revealed that the release of adriamycin from these particles follows a bi-phasic pattern.
(20) Forty-five children with stable chronic renal failure, not on dialysis, were treated conservatively with a regimen of mild dietary phosphate restriction and high-dose phosphate binders for up to 5 years.
Membrane
Definition:
(n.) A thin layer or fold of tissue, usually supported by a fibrous network, serving to cover or line some part or organ, and often secreting or absorbing certain fluids.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tryptic digestion of the membranes caused complete disappearance of the binding activity, but heat-treatment for 5 min at 70 degrees C caused only 40% loss of activity.
(2) The extents of phospholipid hydrolysis were relatively low in brain homogenates, synaptic plasma membranes and heart ventricular muscle.
(3) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
(4) Activity of Na,K-ATPase activity was measured as a functional marker for synaptosomal membranes.
(5) The influence of the various concepts for the induction of lateral structure formation in lipid membranes on integral functional units like ionophores is demonstrated by analysing the single channel current fluctuations of gramicidin in bimolecular lipid membranes.
(6) Phospholipid methylation in human EGMs is distinctly different from that in rat EGMs (Hirata and Axelrod 1980) in that the human activity is not Mg++-dependent, and apparent methyltransferase I activity is located in the external membrane surface.
(7) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(8) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
(9) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(10) The fraction of the viral dose which became cell associated was independent of the incubation temperature and increased with increasing target membrane concentration.
(11) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
(12) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
(13) We have examined the insertion of bovine 17 alpha-hydroxylase (P45017 alpha) into the endoplasmic reticulum of COS 1 cells to evaluate the functional role of its hydrophobic amino-terminal sequence and membrane insertion.
(14) The transport of potassium ions through membranes of red blood cells was examined in in bitro experiments using a CMF of 4500 oersted.
(15) These membrane perturbation effects not observed with bleomycin-iron in the presence of a hydroxyl radical scavenger, dimethyl thiourea, or a chelating agent, desferrioxamine, were correlated with the ability of the complex to generate highly reactive oxygen species.
(16) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
(17) Membranes of this material were filled with islets of Langerhans and implanted in the peritoneal cavity of rats.
(18) The penicillin-resistant Enterococcus hirae R40 has a typical profile of membrane-bound penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) except that the 71 kDa PBP5 of low penicillin affinity represents about 50% of all the PBPs present.
(19) To investigate the mechanism of enhanced responsiveness of cholesterol-enriched human platelets, we compared stimulation by surface-membrane-receptor (thrombin) and post-receptor (AlF4-) G-protein-directed pathways.
(20) Moreover, in DCVC-treated cells the mitochondria could not be stained with rhodamine-123, indicating severe mitochondrial damage and loss of membrane potential.