(n.) Any substance or medium that transmits the electric force by a process different from conduction, as in the phenomena of induction; a nonconductor. separating a body electrified by induction, from the electrifying body.
Example Sentences:
(1) The RNA solutions showed a dielectric increment proportional to the strength of the applied field and to the RNA concentration.
(2) To investigate the physical state of water in hydrating biological macro-molecules, the dielectric properties of water in hen egg lysozyme pellets with various moisture contents were studied using the thermally stimulated depolarisation currents technique.
(3) In this way a complete description is given of both the electrostatic and the dielectric properties of the enzyme.
(4) We find good agreement between the model calculations and the experimental results indicating that edge birefringence can be attributed to the change in polarization of light that is refracted and reflected by dielectric interfaces.
(5) The present study, along with that of the Ser82 variant protein (Louie et al., 1988b), clearly establishes the link between dielectric constant within the heme crevice and reduction potential.
(6) It has been established that the structure of the hormone includes a set of regular helical forms which varies considerably with the humidity and dielectric constant of the medium.
(7) In the mixed solvent system, a dramatic change in the magnitude of solubility occurred after a dielectric constant value of about 60, indicating ionic association or ion-pairs below this value.
(8) The water inside the channel was considered through a continuum medium using the dielectric constant of the bulk, and the membrane contribution was included using the virtual images of the pore in a dielectric slab of epsilon = 3.
(9) Probe lifetimes for continuous immersion in physiological saline solution, as measured by impedance, have exceeded 750 h. The failure mechanism is believed to be due to moisture and ion absorption in the top dielectric layer.
(10) No simple expression for the effective dielectric constant, Deff, can generally be valid, since Deff is a sensitive function of position.
(11) A comparison of the dielectric properties between three different stages of tumor development as well as that between various locations within the tumor is reported.
(12) The intercalation complex was investigated as a function of the molecular dielectric constant, epsilon, and the length of the (G-C) duplex segment.
(13) The simulations are performed in a dielectric continuum model, the so-called primitive model of electrolyte theory, with a fixed protein structure and a uniform dielectric permittivity.
(14) The calculations were performed for the protonated form with a dielectric constant of 80 and the unprotonated form with dielectric constants of 1.5 and 80.
(15) The effects of buffer, pH, dielectric constant and phosphate have been investigated.
(16) Absolute rate constants, and equilibrium constants, of electron transfer reactions may vary greatly according to the dielectric properties of the reaction environment.
(17) An appropriately constructed transmission probe can sense the dielectric behaviour of tissue into deeper organ regions than a reflection probe of corresponding size.
(18) We summarize Wiener's theory of the dielectric constant of heterogeneous systems and extend its application to suspensions of particles with corrugated surfaces and interstitial solvent.
(19) A detailed evaluation of the electrostatic potential barrier shows, indeed, that the ions have practically no chance to penetrate into the phospholipid bilayer, but that they can cross the membrane through local protein inclusions, of high dielectric constant.
(20) Dielectrophoresis and electrorotation are commonly used to measure dielectric properties and membrane electrical parameters of biological cells.
Susceptibility
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being susceptible; the capability of receiving impressions, or of being affected.
(n.) Specifically, capacity for deep feeling or emotional excitement; sensibility, in its broadest acceptation; impressibility; sensitiveness.
Example Sentences:
(1) We sought additional evidence for an inverse relationship between functional CTL-target cell affinity on the one hand, and susceptibility of the CTL-mediated killing to inhibition by alpha LFA-1 and alpha Lyt-2,3 monoclonal antibodies on the other hand.
(2) An experimental Anaplasma marginale infection was induced in a splenectomized mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) which persisted subclinically at least 376 days as detected by subinoculation into susceptible cattle.
(3) One rat strain (TAS) is susceptible to the anticoagulant and lethal effects of warfarin and the other two strains are homozygous for warfarin resistance genes from either wild Welsh (HW) or Scottish (HS) rats.
(4) When irradiated circular DNA, previously nicked by T4 endonuclease V, is briefly exposed to elevated temperature, the DAN becomes susceptible to the action of exonuclease V, and pyrimidine dimers are selectively released.
(5) Cytolytic T lymphocytes lysing virus-infected and uninfected myocytes and heart-reactive autoantibodies occur in both myocarditis-susceptible strains.
(6) Although each of palate and limb is concurrently susceptible to epigenetic regulation, their differential intrinsic genomic capabilities appear to have been uncoupled.
(7) Peptidoglycan of MRSA grown in the presence of cefazolin was susceptible to lysis by respiratory mucus.
(8) Characerization of further parameters such as relative susceptibility to tolerance induction and relative degree of specificity was not possible with the use of KLH as the antigen.
(9) Most of the infection was attributed to T. parva parva by application of field ticks to susceptible cattle.
(10) An in vitro bioassay was used to examine [14C]glucose incorporation into polysaccharides in albumen glands (AGs) of susceptible M-line Biomphalaria glabrata infected with the NMRI strain of Schistosoma mansoni.
(11) In the DAUDI cell system, the acquired capability of tumor cell variants to grow in the presence of a relatively high concentration of vinblastine (VBL) is associated with a marked increase to NK and LAK susceptibility.
(12) From 1983 to 1986 more than 2000 non-penicillinase producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae from Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam were auxotyped and screened for susceptibility to 10 antibiotics by MIC determination.
(13) The effect of modifying the periodate-susceptible methionine residues in chicken ovotransferrin was small but significant.
(14) This procedure generated a number of VI-like effects, supporting the notion that VI behavior can be construed as a special case of an interaction between the organism's function relating reinforcement susceptibilities to chain length and the experimenter's function relating probabilities of reinforcement to chain length.
(15) A large number of recently isolated bacterial pathogens were tested for susceptibility to cephalexin and cephaloglycin by the replica inoculating method.
(16) In general, enzyme activity was less susceptible to HA during the first week after birth than at later ages, some brain areas such as the hypothalamus showing significant alterations in some enzymes throughout development, and in all enzymes at adulthood.
(17) These results might help to explain why only a minority of individuals with a susceptible HLA type develop uveitis, as well as the variable incidence of disease in HLA-identical populations of different ethnic backgrounds.
(18) In this sense, there is evidence that in genetically susceptible individuals, environmental stresses can influence the long-term level of arterial pressure via the central and peripheral neural autonomic pathways.
(19) However, the average age at onset of lymphoma varied considerably among the different AKXD strains, suggesting that they have segregated several loci that affect lymphoma susceptibility.
(20) This model of protective immunity in a Brugia-susceptible small rodent may provide a useful system for identification of molecularly defined filarial-protective immunogens.