(a.) Expressing, or consisting of, the number two; belonging to two; as, the dual number of nouns, etc. , in Greek.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ratio of the cell yields under dual substrate conditions compared to heterotrophic conditions indicated the relative contributions of the autotrophic and heterotrophic systems to the growth of the organism.
(2) The dual-probe system incorporates a central collimated probe for monitoring activity in the LV surrounded by an annular detector collimated in such a manner as to provide simultaneous real-time monitoring of the LV background activity.
(3) Changes of circulating blood volume during isoflurane or sevoflurane anesthesia were investigated by the dual indicator dilution method in eighteen mongrel dogs.
(4) This Doppler echocardiographic study of patients with a dual chamber pacemaker was undertaken to assess the changes in mitral and aortic flow induced by passing from the double stimulation to the atrial detection mode.
(5) The objective was to determine whether the parent axonal impulse train elicited by dual-hair stimulation was due to a temporal combining ("mixing"; Fukami, 1980) of the impulse trains elicited in the parent axons by the same stimulation to each hair alone.
(6) Mn2+ had dual effects, stimulating the ECP release in the absence of Mg2+ and Ca2+, and inhibiting the release in the presence of these cations.
(7) Thus, monocytes may play a dual role, not only as effector cells, but also as cells that collaborate with T cells after OKT3 MoAb stimulation so as to produce PCA.
(8) Dual antigen experiments indicated that the increased localization was not specific for the antigen which stimulated production of lymphoblasts used for in vitro labelling and reinfusion.
(9) The vice chancellor of the Catholic University, Greg Craven, wrote in the Australian that stripping either dual or sole nationals of citizenship via a ministerial decision “would be irredeemably unconstitutional.
(10) Cytochemical analysis of the monocytes showed positive for peroxidase and dual esterase staining.
(11) Actin also exhibited a clear dual wave pattern of transport that coincided well with that of tubulin, indicating that both actin and tubulin were the major components of both groups IV and V.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
(12) Quantitative measurements for 5-HT in lobster larvae were performed using high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) with dual electrochemical detection and for proctolin using radioimmunoassay.
(13) The damage threshold during aortic valvuloplasty was determined in 12 normal swine subjected to inflation of oversized dual balloons.
(14) The relative hypermagnesaemia had a similar dual origin.
(15) It announced that it would phase out the dual currency system.
(16) This study validates the relevance of dual-wavelength fluorometry using a pH-dependent indicator to characterize in vivo normal and tumour tissues after glucose administration.
(17) Fourteen patients (60.9%) responded to dual-agent tocolysis by delaying delivery for 48 hours or more.
(18) Glutamate-induced changes in intracellular free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) were recorded in single rat hippocampal neurons grown in primary culture by employing the Ca2+ indicator indo-1 and a dual-emission microfluorimeter.
(19) Dual-positive CD4+CD8+ T cells (which were barely detectable in normal adults), CD4-CD8+ T cells and B cells transiently reached supranormal levels during recovery.
(20) The dual-line and polynomial regression techniques fit the data better (mean residual square deviation 0.024 and 0.031, respectively) than the single-regression line approach (0.110).
Twofold
Definition:
(a.) Double; duplicate; multiplied by two; as, a twofold nature; a twofold sense; a twofold argument.
(adv.) In a double degree; doubly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Synthesis of choline esterase on the medium with acetylcholine at a concentration of 1% was increased more than twofold upon addition of glucose at a concentration of 0.1%.
(2) Use of oestrogens without progestogens is associated with a twofold to threefold increase in risk of endometrial neoplasia.
(3) At a dexamethasone concentration of 200 nM, there was a twofold increase in the number of 125I-recombinant IFN-gamma molecules bound to the cell.
(4) The steady-state concentration of imipramine after simultaneous infusion was increased twofold over that after infusion of imipramine alone, without any change in the free fraction in blood.
(5) Most notable was an average twofold increase in the relative amount of high mannose glycopeptides compared to complex glycopeptides for the leukemic cells.
(6) In large follicles, concentrations of estradiol were unchanged (P greater than .10) after 48 h of LHRH injections but after 96 h estradiol was twofold greater (P less than .05) in LHRH-treated than control cows.
(7) In AD, a significant twofold increase was observed in total APP mRNA in nucleus basalis and locus ceruleus neurons but not in hippocampal subicular neurons, neurons of the basis pontis, or occipital cortical neurons.
(8) These doses increased the production of IGM-antibody-forming cells 2.2-2.7-fold and produced a twofold elevation of the antibody titer.
(9) Rifampin increased the clearance of (R)-warfarin threefold and the clearance of (S)-warfarin twofold.
(10) caused at least a twofold increase in hepatic cyclic AMP, which reached a peak within two minutes and declined to basal values after 40 minutes.
(11) Prior treatment with probenecid in two subjects led to a twofold increase in serum concentration two hours after injection.
(12) Increases evoked by the GABA agonists (0.01-10 mM) in the amplitude of half-maximal A-fiber compound action potentials indicate the presence of depolarizing responses with apparently greater localization to the dorsal roots, and a sensitivity to GABA twofold greater than that for THIP.
(13) The effects of chronic use seem to be twofold: severe depression with suicidal thoughts and numerous violent, agitated behavioral patterns.
(14) Alkaline phosphatase activity presents a twofold increase in the controls and stimulated explants.
(15) SCF interacted with erythropoietin (Epo) and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) to maintain large numbers of cells as well as to generate a twofold to threefold increase in CFC in the case of Epo, and a 10-fold increase in CFC in the case of G-CSF.
(16) Upon nerve growth factor (NGF) induction of PC12 cell differentiation into neurons, dynamin levels increase approximately twofold.
(17) EtOH alone affected Rg only in gastrocnemius muscle (30% decrease) and adipose tissue (twofold increase).
(18) In all patients, serum magnesium levels after administration of magnesium sulfate were about twofold higher than levels after placebo.
(19) Ka values were at least twofold greater and the first increase was significantly earlier in the urokinase group.
(20) Results obtained by chemical assay were compared with bioassay values determined by two techniques: twofold broth dilution and agar diffusion.