(a.) Relating to or indicating a difference; creating a difference; discriminating; special; as, differential characteristics; differential duties; a differential rate.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a differential, or to differentials.
(a.) Relating to differences of motion or leverage; producing effects by such differences; said of mechanism.
(n.) An increment, usually an indefinitely small one, which is given to a variable quantity.
(n.) A small difference in rates which competing railroad lines, in establishing a common tariff, allow one of their number to make, in order to get a fair share of the business. The lower rate is called a differential rate. Differentials are also sometimes granted to cities.
(n.) One of two coils of conducting wire so related to one another or to a magnet or armature common to both, that one coil produces polar action contrary to that of the other.
(n.) A form of conductor used for dividing and distributing the current to a series of electric lamps so as to maintain equal action in all.
Example Sentences:
(1) AEDs may also have differential effects on nighttime sleep.
(2) We used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the breakpoint area of alpha-thalassemia-1 of Southeast Asia type and several parts of the alpha-globin gene cluster to make a differential diagnosis between alpha-thalassemia-1 and Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis.
(3) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
(4) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
(5) We have investigated the increase in the spcDNA population upon cycloheximide treatment of individual sequences, which are found to amplify differentially.
(6) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(7) The differential diagnosis is more complex in Hawaii due to the presence of granulomatous diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy.
(8) At 48 h after pretreatment, a differential effect on the absorption of sulfanilamide and L-tryptophan was observed in in situ recirculation experiments.
(9) The results suggest differential regulation of IL-6 expression between fibroblasts and macrophages.
(10) Differentiation between these two types of lesions is of utmost importance since the surgical approach will be different.
(11) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
(12) Dibutyryl cyclic AMP (dbcAMP) treatment of Neuro 2A neuroblastoma cells induces cell differentiation and neurite outgrowth.
(13) This experimental system allows separation of three B lymphocyte developmental stages: early differentiation in vitro, progression to IgM secretion in vivo, and late differentiation dependent upon mature T lymphocytes in vivo.
(14) A murine keratinocyte cell line that is resistant to the growth-inhibitory effects of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta 1) was examined for differential gene expression patterns that may be related to the mechanism of the loss of TGF beta 1 responsiveness.
(15) SD is shown to have therapeutic and differential diagnostic significance in varying pathological conditions of cerebral dopaminergic systems.
(16) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(17) Friend erythroleukemia cells were induced to differentiate by dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and hexamethylene-bis-acetamide (HBMA) in order to investigate whether their lipid characteristics, common to other systems of transformed cells, revert to a normal differentiation pattern.
(18) By growing purified human cytotrophoblasts under serum-free conditions and manipulating the culture surface, we were able to disassociate morphologic from biochemical differentiation.
(19) Therefore, the measurement of the alpha-antitrypsin content plays the crucial part in differential diagnosis of primary (hereditary determined) and secondary (obstructive) emphysema.
(20) Although each of palate and limb is concurrently susceptible to epigenetic regulation, their differential intrinsic genomic capabilities appear to have been uncoupled.
Div
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Early (i.e., at 2 to 3 DIV) changes in glial numbers may result from an inhibition of the proliferative rate of non-GFAP-containing glia or astrocyte precursors, or an enhanced rate of glial death.
(2) Transmission electron microscopic analysis of explants fixed at 18 DIV confirmed these phase-contrast results and also showed a predominance of axonal profiles within the neurite population.
(3) For the late exposure (LE) to Pb, Pb was applied from 8 DIV to 20 DIV (12 day exposure) while for the early exposure (EE), Pb was applied from 2 DIV to 20 DIV (18 day exposure).
(4) Glutamate-induced neuronal death was dramatically reduced in cultures treated daily with ubiquinone since the second DIV.
(5) The efficacy of recovery of peritonitis-causing microorganisms from peritoneal dialysate fluid by using the Septi-Chek blood culture system (Roche Diagnostics, Div.
(6) The properties of D-aspartate release were studied in cerebellar astrocytes (14-15 DIV) in primary cultures in the rat.
(7) Minicells produced by Bacillus subtilis strains carrying the div IV-B1 mutation, (CU 403 div IV-B1 and CU 403 div IV-B1, tag-1), were purified by a procedure which destroys parental cells with ultrasound, but spares minicells.
(8) In this morphometric analysis of immunoreactive serotonin (5-HT) and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) neurons in culture, 5-HT and the MAO inhibitor nialamide influenced the survival, cell body size and neurite outgrowth of embryonic day 14 (E14) 5-HT neurons after treatment from 1-3 days in vitro (DIV), but did not significantly affect E14 or E15 TH neurons of either the noradrenergic or dopaminergic phenotype.
(9) Axonal outgrowth rate in control cultures reached a maximum at 8 days in vitro (DIV) and declined to a low level at 21 DIV.
(10) Baker Chemical Co.) at final concentrations of 0.1 to 0.25% and SeaPrep ultralow gelling agarose (Marine Colloids Div., FMC Corp.) at a final concentration of 1.0%.
(11) One or two days after the formation of differentiated synapses (11 DIV), a Ca2+-dependent liberation of GABA was observed.
(12) Instead, there was increased 3H-labeling of glucocerebrosides (GlcCe) and its homologues, with tetrahexosylceramides (GL-4) being a major product, which continued through 8 div.
(13) EF Synergy Quad plates, standard microdilution panels prepared in house, Pasco MIC Gram-Positive panels (Difco Laboratories, Detroit, Mich.), MicroScan MIC Type 5 dry panels (Baxter Healthcare Corp., MicroScan Div., West Sacramento, Calif.), and Vitek GPS-TA cards (Vitek Systems Inc., Hazelwood, Mo.).
(14) In contrast, levels of NSE rose continuously up to DIV 12.
(15) Neurons in 11-DIV cultures were undamaged even 10 days after exposure to QUIN; nor were the individual, isolated neurons probably not connected synaptically with the other ones in 20-21 DIV cultures.
(16) The teeth were sealed (Concise, White Sealant, 3M Dental Products Div., St Paul, MN, USA) and an impression taken, yielding a baseline record.
(17) Dissociated cell cultures were prepared from di- or mesencephalon of gestational day 14 rat embryos and raised in the absence or presence of 17 beta-estradiol or testosterone for up to 13 days in vitro (DIV).
(18) Urinary NAG was measured to evaluate the nephrotoxicity of CDDP in 18 patients (DIV: 12 patients, Intra-Peritoneal: 6 patients) with or without Fosfomycin.
(19) The systems evaluated were the MS-2 system (Abbott Diagnostics Div., Mississauga, Ontario), the AutoMicrobic system (AMS) (Vitek Systems, Inc., Hazelwood, Mo.)
(20) As compared with American Caucasians, the backward rotation of the mandible was evidently observed in Japanese with Angle class II, div.