What's the difference between dye and puffer?

Dye


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to, as by the application of dyestuffs.
  • (n.) Color produced by dyeing.
  • (n.) Material used for dyeing; a dyestuff.
  • (n.) Same as Die, a lot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The most successful dyes were phenocyanin TC, gallein, fluorone black, alizarin cyanin BB and alizarin blue S. Celestin blue B with an iron mordant is quite successful if properly handled to prevent gelling of solutions.
  • (2) The actions of the polyvalent cationic dye Ruthenium Red and the enzyme neuraminidase were studied at the frog neuromuscular junction.
  • (3) Significant increases in the extravasation of dye were observed in both animal groups sensitized with IgG1 and IgG2 antibodies.
  • (4) While the reduced form of the "derived" polyphenolic compounds, generated during tissue homogenization, appeared to enhance dye binding with bovine serum albumin, their influence on the protein assay directly in crude homogenates was extremely diverse.
  • (5) To selectively stain polyanionic macromolecules of growth plate cartilage and to prevent artifacts induced by aqueous fixation, proximal tibial growth plates were excised from rats, slam-frozen, and freeze-substituted in 100% methanol containing the cationic dye Alcian blue.
  • (6) This dye is concentrated and secreted by the parietal cells.
  • (7) The rhodamine 123-induced growth inhibition was partially reversed by treating the dye-pre-exposed infected erythrocytes with the proton ionophore carbonyl-cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone, which dissipates transmembrane proton gradients.
  • (8) The duration of electrophoresis was based on the migration of a marker dye for a predetermined distance.
  • (9) Effects of fixation with glutaraldehyde (GA), glutaraldehyde-osmium tetroxide (GA-OsO(4)), and osmium tetroxide (OsO(4)) on ion and ATP content, cell volume, vital dye staining, and stability to mechanical and thermal stress were studied in Ehrlich ascites tumor cells (EATC).
  • (10) By using pH- or Ca(2+)-sensitive dyes and recording at the ion-sensitive and -insensitive (isosbestic) wavelengths, the method can measure both cell volume changes and intracellular ionic activities.
  • (11) An argon dye laser system with lambda em=630 nm (400 mW cm-2) was used for PDT with a total light dose of 400 J cm-2.
  • (12) In a complete system, consisting of a dye-donor couple, ferredoxin, thioredoxin and ferredoxin-thioredoxin reductase, light activation of purified spinach fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase was observed in vitro.
  • (13) When given 30 min after acetic acid instillation SC-41930 prevented the rise in myeloperoxidase and dye extravasation observed in the acetic acid inflammed tissue.
  • (14) A comparison was made between the Q's estimated by the CO2 rebreathing method during tethered swimming and previously published data on Q determined by the dye-dilution method during free swimming in a flune.
  • (15) A novel staining procedure for enumerating osteoclasts on neonatal mouse calvaria with the vital fluorescent dye acridine orange is described.
  • (16) Thus, angiographic dye appears to decrease heart rate by a direct effect on pacemaker tissue and by reflex vagal suppression of the sinus pacemaker.
  • (17) The purpose of this study was to compare the level of apical dye penetration when different sealers were used.
  • (18) This protein which we call CBP-58 bears similarities to the endoplasmic reticulum protein, calreticulin, in that it has a pI of 4.7 containing approximately 30% glutamate and aspartate, has a high capacity for calcium, and stains blue with the carbocyanine dye, 'Stains-all'.
  • (19) Minced and triturated fragments from the spinal cord of normal rat fetuses (15-18 days gestation) labeled with the fluorescent dye fast blue (FB) were successfully transplanted into juvenile myelin-deficient rat spinal cord under direct observation.
  • (20) In vitro, the soluble core PEI and membrane both bound reactive substances of limited aqueous stability, such as from [14C]N-methyl-N-nitrosourea ([14C]NMU), and aqueous stable dyes of molecular weight up to 1000.

Puffer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who puffs; one who praises with noisy or extravagant commendation.
  • (n.) One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at suction to bid up the price; a by-bidder.
  • (n.) Any plectognath fish which inflates its body, as the species of Tetrodon and Diodon; -- called also blower, puff-fish, swellfish, and globefish.
  • (n.) The common, or harbor, porpoise.
  • (n.) A kier.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For real.” A resident in a green puffer jacket emerged from the shelter with her 10-year-old son.
  • (2) Puffers were collected one week after the occurrence of the food poisoning and their content of toxin was determined.
  • (3) Also featured are the puffer fish, dung beetle, veiled chameleon and moon jellyfish.
  • (4) The potent neurotoxin tetrodotoxin, which has previously been found in puffer fish of the order Tetraordontiformes, a goby (Gobius criniger), and the California newt (Taricha torosa), has now been identified in the skins of frogs of the genus Atelopus from Costa Rica.
  • (5) Liver protein synthesis, assayed by a rapid pulse injection technique, showed a moderate temperature dependency (Q10 = 2-3) in the 15-30 degree C range for all species except puffers (Q10 = 10-20).
  • (6) "Whole-cell" patch recordings using nystatin permeabilization were made from single human platelets during application of agonists from a "puffer" pipette.
  • (7) The temperature dependency of protein synthesis was studied in vivo in five species of Pacific fish collected in the Galapagos and Perlas Islands: batfish (Ogcocephalus darwini), groupers (Epinephelus labriformis), catfish (Netuma platypogan), puffers (Arothron hispidus) and triggerfish (Sufflamen verres).
  • (8) "Pink puffers" with breathlessness, hyperinflation, mild hypoxemia, and a low PCO2 are contrasted with "blue bloaters" with hypoxemia, secondary polycythemia, CO2 retention, and pulmonary hypertension and cor pulmonale.
  • (9) Suppression of Iout was also observed during puffer applications of either of two protein kinase C activators, phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (10 nM-1 microM) and 1-oleoyl-2-acetylglycerol (60 microM).
  • (10) Responsiveness of 143 preoptic neurons to changes in hypothalamic temperature and to non-thermal emotional stimuli were investigated while rewarding (foods) and aversive objects (hypertonic saline, a toy snake, an air puffer) were given.
  • (11) Three conditions that may occur after consumption of seafood--puffer fish poisoning, ciguatera, and paralytic shellfish poisoning--are caused by a group of poisons that block voltage-gated sodium channels in myelinated and non-myelinated nerves.
  • (12) The Na and K concentration in single supramedullary neurons of the puffer fish (Spheroides maculatus) was measured using a dual channel integrating ultramicroflame photometer.
  • (13) If salbutamol was one breakthrough, the later introduction of steroid inhalers (which are brown, as opposed to the blue reliever puffers), which prevent symptoms rather than relieve them, was even more significant.
  • (14) He arrived without entourage or announcement, unzipped his puffer jacket, shook Skip’s hand, and – after greeting everyone in the room – took a seat on the side of the room and asked to get to work.
  • (15) Unique exocrine glands or gland-like structures were found in the skin of several species of puffer fishes of the genus Takifugu.
  • (16) Bicuculline methiodide reversibly blocked THIP- and muscimol-induced suppressions of tactile- (air puffer)-induced S1 responses but spared those produced by (-)-baclofen.
  • (17) The aim of this study was to assess the effects of diamorphine on breathlessness and exercise tolerance in patients with severe chronic airflow obstruction and normal arterial carbon dioxide tension (PCO2) levels ("pink puffer" syndrome).
  • (18) Chubby Puffer syndrome produces symptoms such as sleep apnea, cor pulmonale and upper airway obstruction due to adenotonsillar enlargement.
  • (19) As the classic "blue bloater" with attenuated respiratory drive is described as being less dyspneic than his "pink puffer" counterpart, we wondered whether the variability in dyspnea and exercise tolerance in a group of patients with COPD with relatively similar degrees of air-flow obstruction might be partly explained by the variability in resting respiratory drives (unstimulated P0.1 and hypoxic and hypercapnic P0.1 responses).
  • (20) Tetrodotoxin (puffer fish toxin) or saxitoxin (paralytic shellfish poison), both of which block the sodium channel of excitable membranes, antagonize this effect, enabling cell growth to continue.