(n.) The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results presented here substantiate the hypothesis that in S. cerevisiae trehalose supplies energy during dormancy of the spores and not during the germination process.
(2) Therefore, even though serum total T3 and T4 are elevated during dormancy, free T3 and T4 levels are reduced to half of the levels in active squirrels as a consequence of increased serum binding capacity and affinity.
(3) We may find new clues to biological methods of prolonging arrest of cancer, by looking for cytogenetic abnormalities, alterations in oncogene expression and immunocytological composition, in patients showing prolonged dormancy of cancer.
(4) During dormancy there is very little incorporation of [3H]uridine in cells of hair germ and dermal papilla.
(5) The data also suggest that certain lipids and carbohydrates may provide the endogenous energy sources needed for dormancy preparation and cell maintenance under nutrient starvation.
(6) Normal circadian rhythmicity and normal responses to hypoglycemia were observed during an interval of dormance of the ectopic secretion.
(7) Additional studies showed that microbes with GDA were recoverable within (i) 5 days of an acid shock and (ii) 3 days after a 21-day dormancy (low-flow, low-maintenance) mode.
(8) The embryos incubated in the more drastically deficient media appeared to be damaged after 18-24 h. Nevertheless, the observation that the rate of DNA synthesis did not remain depressed suggests that such deficiencies are not the means by which embryonic dormancy is maintained in utero.
(9) Therefore, temperature played an important role differentially affecting completion of dormancy and postdormancy development.
(10) The low level in dormancy may anticipate the critical role of the enzyme during hatching.
(11) Attempts to induce differentiation and to change the biologic behavior of xenotransplanted human malignant tumors have failed so far, except for induced dormancy of breast carcinoma under unfavorable hormonal conditions.
(12) By count methods, different stages of progressive dormancy of E. coli cells were determined to exist in illuminated systems.
(13) Third, a latent infection marked by transcriptional dormancy is often established thereby obviating the use of proteins or RNA to detect the viruses.
(14) In between, varying proportions of sporozoites are depicted as producing hypnozoites, which exhibit varying periods of dormancy, ranging from less than 1 month (within the wide complement of the "tropical" strains) to approximately 21 months or more for the "northern" strains, before activation to schizogony and resultant relapse at the observed intervals.
(15) Male red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) court only on emergence from winter dormancy.
(16) In experiment I, females were obtained in the fall, subjected to an artificial dormancy period, and placed on warm, summer-like conditions in the laboratory.
(17) Spreading out the potential for hypopus completion over time is adaptive, since a pool of hypopodes with prolonged and staggered dormancies serves to spread the risk of emergence of tritonymphs over extended periods of time; it buffers the population against sudden drought to which all other stages of the life-cycle succumb.
(18) By reducing metabolic rate by a factor ranging from 5 to 100 fold or more, animals gain a comparable extension of survival time that can support months or even years of dormancy.
(19) The results obtained do not support a scheme of sequential expression of genes during the emergence from dormancy as a counterpart of the sequence of the corresponding genes along the chromosome.
(20) This is suggestive of hormonal interplay in dormancy release by cold-treatment in pear embryos.
Inactivity
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the inactivity of matter.
(n.) Idleness; habitual indisposition to action or exertion; want of energy; sluggishness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
(2) This suggested that some of the cell population became metabolically inactive at a very early stage, possibly owing to suboptimal conditions of growth.Glycine, lysozyme and lithium chloride initiated lysis of BCG growth in the aforementioned media 24-48 hours after inoculation.
(3) No evidence was found of reactivation of the inactive (paternal) allele or inactivation of both maternal and paternal alleles.
(4) The IgM antibody was found at high titers in each of 70 patients with inflammatory liver disease and at a low titer in one of six patients with inactive cirrhosis; it was not found in eight carriers with normal liver histology.
(5) To this purpose, the formation of DHT has been measured in rat glial cell cultures after different time of exposure to TPA, 4 alpha-Ph, an active and an inactive phorbol ester respectively, and 8-Br-cAMP.
(6) Insulin incubation of plasma membranes pretreated with protease inhibitors (leupeptin, phenylmethylsulfonylfluoride) or with exogenous trypsin, but not chymotrypsin substrates (esters of arginine and tyrosine) yields an inactive supernatant on PDH.
(7) Using the asynchronously replicating (hence genetically inactive) X chromosome as a marker, we obtained evidence showing that most or all of these tumors were monoclonal in origin.
(8) Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), the primary physiological inhibitor of tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) in plasma, is a serine proteinase inhibitor (serpin) that forms a 1:1 stoichiometric complex with its target proteinase leading to the formation of a stable inactive complex.
(9) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
(10) Thus, progesterone appears to be a relatively inactive ligand with high affinity for the 20 beta-S receptor.
(11) The subscales Depression, Inactivity and Physical Impairment could not be identified as a factor.
(12) LM-fragment-8 competes for this binding to the same extent as unlabelled LM (75%), while fragment PI is inactive and fibronectin (FN) competes by about 30% only.
(13) Cell culture experiments showed that CA III induced a 2- to 11-fold increase in [14C]HA synthesis by human synovial fibroblasts (SF) in a dose-dependent manner (P less than 0.001); erythrocyte CA I and CA II were inactive.
(14) Polypeptides of egg-borne Sendai virus (egg Sendai), which is biologically active on the basis of criteria of the infectivity for L cells and of hemolytic and cell fusion activities, were compared by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with those of L cell-borne (L Sendai) and HeLa cell-borne Sendai (HeLa Sendai) viruses, which are judged biologically inactive by the above criteria.
(15) Total and Cu,Zn-SOD activities significantly decreased and Mn-SOD activities significantly increased in both the active (with increased ALT levels) and the inactive phases (with normal ALT levels) for 36 children with chronic persistent hepatitis (CPH).
(16) Various forms of inactive data storage and archiving in machine-readable form are available to address this dilemma, yet these solutions can create even more difficult problems.
(17) Incubation of the enzyme-inhibitor complex with the sulfhydryl reagent caused dissociation into active ribonuclease and inactive inhibitor.
(18) Pipemidic acid and nalidixic acid showed only low activity or proved to be inactive.
(19) It is suggested that an enzyme-inhibitor complex of an acyl-enzyme type is formed that is slowly hydrolysed, with water as the final acceptor, leaving an intact enzyme and an inactive form of the inhibitor.
(20) Plasma angiotensin II correlated with active renin but not with inactive renin, suggesting that the inactive renin does not produce angiotensin II in vivo.