What's the difference between effector and efficacity?

Effector


Definition:

  • (n.) An effecter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This suggests that there was a deterioration of the vasoconstrictor response and indicated a possible effect of heat at the receptor or effector level.
  • (2) Three effector: target ratios (6.2:1, 25:1, and 50:1) were studied in quadruplicate using 3, 4 and 5-h incubations.
  • (3) The results support the notion that mediator lymphocytes circulate in tumor immunized rats in a noncytotoxic state, specifically recognize tumor cells at a challenge site, and mediate induction of effector cells locally.
  • (4) The presence of a previously unreported dipeptide transport mechanism within blood leukocytes and the selective enrichment of the granule enzyme, DPPI, within cytotoxic effector cells of lymphoid or myeloid lineage appear to afford a unique mechanism for the targeting of immunotherapeutic reagents composed of simple dipeptide esters or amides.
  • (5) The isolated LGL were highly cytotoxic against YAC-1 lymphoma cells and this cytolytic activity was blocked by treatment of the effector cells with an antibody against natural killer cells (anti-asialo GM1).
  • (6) Interestingly, different mechanisms of nucleated and non-nucleated TC directed lysis by CD4+ effectors were implied by distinct patterns of sensitivity to cholera toxin (CT) and cyclosporin A (CsA).
  • (7) These killer cells could lyse a wide range of syngeneic and allogeneic lymphoid tumour cell lines in vitro, and it was found that cell suspensions from nude mice were always significantly more active than those from normal mice, and that the most active effector population was a polymorph-enriched peritoneal-exudate cell suspension.
  • (8) We speculate that intestinal injury may also induce or perpetuate arthritis by systemic distribution of inflammatory mediators produced by intestinal immune effector cells.
  • (9) Effector cells capable of mediating cytotoxicity in each assay were defined by testing the cytotoxic function of lymphocyte subpopulations isolated from two representative patients with each disease using techniques of immunoabsorbent affinity chromatography and Fc receptor binding to antigen-antibody complexes.
  • (10) 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.
  • (11) Furthermore, effector TH cells within the two compartments exert differential effector activities: splenic effector TH cells induce B cells to both proliferation and maturation, while thymic effector TH cells are defective in activating B-cell maturation.
  • (12) Our results suggest that NCAM, in the presence of other AM, may have a supportive role in adhesion of leukaemic targets to LAK effectors.
  • (13) The cytolytic activity of peritoneal SEA reactive effector cells was confined to the TCR alpha beta+ CD4- CD8+ CD45RC- cell population.
  • (14) FBP was bound with greater frequency and intensity to 3-day oil-elicited peritoneal macrophages which are responsive to migration inhibition by FBP and migration inhibitory factor (MIF) than to resident or 7-day inflammatory macrophages which are unresponsive to activation by the same effectors.
  • (15) Pyocyanine did not interfere with interleukin 2 synthesis, nor did it affect the lytic stage of cytotoxic effector T cells.
  • (16) Such data show that effector cells which kill antibody-coated target cells may be of T cell nature.
  • (17) The immune system has evolved to protect an organism from the pathogens that invade it but the effector mechanisms involved in mediating this protection are potentially lethal to the host itself.
  • (18) Chimeric oligodeoxynucleotides, comprised of internal phosphodiester and terminal methylphosphonodiester sections, possess many beneficial characteristics as antisense effectors.
  • (19) The development of T cells from stem (progenitor) cells to effector cells results from a two-wave process of proliferation and differentiation.
  • (20) Because previous work has shown that radioisotope release from parasites may be nonspecific, separate experiments were performed to determine the cytotoxicity of LAK cells against antibody-coated trophozoites by using ethidium bromide-acridine orange staining to assess effector cell damage.

Efficacity


Definition:

  • (n.) Efficacy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There were no differences in the efficacity of the drugs.
  • (2) The report compares the compatibility, efficacity and serology response of two bivalent anti-foot-and-mouth disease vaccines (OC).
  • (3) The Asylum or Institution model showed the poorest levels of efficacity in all items, and the higher costs.
  • (4) Two major factors affecting therapeutic efficacity appear to be the patient's age and the length of time between onset of the symptoms and start of therapy.
  • (5) In order to evaluate the efficacity of plasma exchanges (PE) in dermatomyositis and polymyositis, the case histories of 38 patients, who had undergone plasma exchanges between 1980 and 1986 in 10 French plasmapheresis centers, were studied.
  • (6) For the purpose of analysing efficacity of the medial third tendon transfer to the distal and deep part of the medial collateral ligament before the bony maturity, 24 children have been reviewed with a post operative follow up of 14 months to 6 and half years.
  • (7) In this study we have evaluated its efficacity per os in treatment of auricular rhythm disorders refractory to the usual therapies, and its effects on the accessory routes of atrioventricular conduction.
  • (8) Inclusions criteria and results are examined, making obvious that patients responded well according to the Hamilton rating scale for depression (17 item version--16.4 points dropped at day 7th in 43%) and that it is an efficaceous antidepressant.
  • (9) Even simple inactivators were found to be efficace: 0.1% cysteine and 0.5% sodium thiosulfate for mercuric chloride and the iodophor; 0.1% sodium sulfite for these two substances and for the QAC in the lower concentration; 1.0% polysorbate 80 for hexylresorcinol, o-phenylphenol and the QAC in the lower concentration; 0.5% sodium thioglycolate for mercuric chloride, the iodophor and chloramine-T.
  • (10) The Comprehensive Program, whose main characteristic is the integration of the community in the effort to solve its mental health problems, proved to have the greatest efficacity, according to the items selected for evaluation.
  • (11) The results confirm earlier demonstrations that (1) "All superoxide dismutases are equal but some are more equal than others", (2) at the dose levels used (compatible with possible clinical use) homologous enzyme is inefficient and hence human Cu-SOD may not be effective in humans, (3) liposomal encapsulation of bovine Cu-SOD greatly enhances biological efficacity, provides a slow release mechanism of the enzyme and provides a powerful drug for the treatment of ischemic injury.
  • (12) Its genuine efficacity must be confirmed by a controlled study against placebo and other confirmed treatments like antiestrogens.
  • (13) Nevertheless, the knowledge of the primordial role of stasis and the phenomena of coagulation, and not least the platelets, in the matter of venous thrombogenesis, and knowledge of the results of studies on experimental thrombosis and of the first clinical trials lead to the conclusion that it is dangerous, at least at the moment, to abandon therapy for the prevention of venous thrombosis the efficacity of which is certain (heparin), in favour of substances the efficacity of which only hypothetical(anti-aggregants).
  • (14) The efficacity of the liver denervation procedure was confirmed by a significant decrease in norepinephrine content in various lobes of the liver.
  • (15) The present experiment shows the efficacity of the sesame-oil adjuvant influenza vaccine.
  • (16) A short summary of clinical results is given as a confirmation of the expected efficacity of the U.D.V.
  • (17) A Table allows a rapid and accurate determination of the quantity of vaccine to be injected into the mink to provide the same efficacity as a dose of standard vaccine.
  • (18) These findings would suggest that TP might restore the efficacity of sialyl transferase at the B lymphocyte level.
  • (19) We now feel that with the utilisation of these dosimetric criteria we will be able to: minimize the risk of complication without augmenting the indicence of local-regional failures; facilitate the objective comparison of the efficacity of the different intracavitary techniques presently employed at the major treatment centers.
  • (20) Their efficacity was evaluated by measurement of particle retention and by quantitative determination of the reduction of aerobiocontamination in rooms occupied by patients.