(n.) The act or process of flowing out, or issuing forth; effusion; outflow; as, the efflux of matter from an ulcer; the efflux of men's piety.
(n.) That which flows out; emanation; effluence.
(v. i.) To run out; to flow forth; to pass away.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Cao-dependent Na+ efflux was half-maximally activated by [Ca2+]o = 2.0 mM in LiSW and 7.2 mM in Tris-SW; at saturating [Ca2+]o, [Ca2+]i, and [Na+]i the maximal (calculated) Cao-dependent Na+ efflux was approximately 75 pmol#cm2.s.
(2) In contrast sham-hemodialysis in group CA and group PS, respectively, did not result in significant increases in amino acid efflux from the leg implying that the protein catabolic effect of blood membrane contact depends on the chemical properties of dialysis membranes.
(3) During both influx and efflux experiments the lenses of both groups released a small of proteins, but no difference found between the two groups.
(4) 3) The magnitude of K+ release is the ratio of two opposing mechanisms, a passive efflux and an active reuptake.
(5) The Kact for phenylephrine-stimulated elevation in [Ca2+]i on the monolayer is 0.51 microM, which is similar to the Kact of 0.90 microM observed for phenylephrine-activated 45Ca2+ efflux.
(6) These results suggest that (i) CE reduction is selective to HDL, (ii) FC transfer from plasma membrane to lipoprotein (cholesterol efflux) expressed by reduction in radioactive FC is not selective to HDL but occurs to other lipoproteins, (iii) the CE-reducing capacity of HDL became weaker when cellular binding of HDL was reduced by chemical modification with tetranitromethane or a chemical cross-linker, dithiobis-succinimidylpropionate, suggesting an importance of the specific binding in the HDL-mediated CE reduction.
(7) Thus biliary GSSG efflux, a frequently used index of oxidant stress, is not increased in vitamin E-deficient perfused livers compared with control.
(8) In darkness, raising the concentration of K in the fluid of perfusion gives an increase of the efflux of (86)Rb and increasing the extracellular concentration of Ca yields a retention.
(9) Glutamine efflux decreased equally, by about 50%, with the 3 concentrations of K+.
(10) The same experimental conditions that favored a large component of Cao-activated Na efflux also caused a large increase in Ca influx.
(11) The omission of glucose induced a marked increase in the efflux of [3H]GABA, which was antagonized by TTX (1 microM), but not by MK 801 (1 microM) or DNQX (100 microM).
(12) The adenylate cyclase activator forskolin as well as 8-bromo-cyclic AMP enhanced the electrically evoked release of 3H-noradrenaline and 3H-5-hydroxytryptamine from superfused rat neocortical slices and that of 3H-dopamine from neostriatal slices with comparable EC50's of about 0.5 and 50 microM, respectively, without affecting spontaneous tritium efflux.
(13) The efflux rate for EB of strains with duplicated ebr genes was twice the rate of strains with a single ebr gene.
(14) After 140 min the rate of efflux of NA radioactivity was significantly slower than that of the labelled marker.4.
(15) In addition to the colicin Ia-induced rapid efflux of preloaded rubidium, sodium, phosphate, or choline from liposomes, a slower efflux of preloaded sucrose or glucose 6-phosphate occurs.
(16) Veratridine also evoked a large efflux of [3H] from this preparation, but this release was only partially Ca2+ dependent.
(17) At 19 degrees C, sodium efflux values were more scattered after storage, but the mean value was not significantly different even after 4 hours.
(18) The calcium channel blockers 'DMDP' [N-3,4-dimethoxyphenethyl)-N-methyl-2-(2-naphthyl-m-dithane-2-prop ylamine)] and verapamil inhibited the active efflux of adriamycin from adriamycin-resistant P388 leukemia cells but had no effect on the drug-sensitive cell line.
(19) The model shows quantitative agreement with the fraction of MTX polyglutamates found still to be bound to reductase in MCF-7 cells following 24 h of efflux, and qualitative agreement with the time dependence of bound MTX-polyglutamate concentration profiles obtained on the ZR-75 breast cancer line.
(20) More recently, attention has also been focussed on bicarbonate transport in attempts to identify a possible role for this ion in enhancing the rate of net fluid efflux by proximal tubules.
Outflow
Definition:
(n.) A flowing out; efflux.
(v. i.) To flow out.
Example Sentences:
(1) Within the outflow tract wall, the labelled cells were enmeshed by strands of alcian blue-stained extracellular matrix.
(2) Graft life is even more prolonged with patch angioplasty at venous outflow stenoses or by adding a new segment of PTFE to bypass areas of venous stenosis.
(3) Using 3H-labeled dextran, uveoscleral outflow was quantitated in normotensive and glaucomatous Beagles under general anesthesia.
(4) Long-distanced urethrocystopexy which permits to avoid an unwanted increase of outflow resistance with following retention of urine should be preferred.
(5) Accordingly, RV systolic SL shortening did not rise despite the substantial augmentation in RV outflow.
(6) An integrated approach to the surgical management of diffuse subaortic stenosis has been designed to provide adequate relief of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction whatever the anatomical features encountered at operation.
(7) A pressure sensor in the patient line prevents excessive inflow and outflow pressures by stopping the inflow or outflow pump respectively.
(8) Catheterization shows a gradient across one or both of the outflow tracts due to hypertrophic subaortic or subpulmonic stenosis.
(9) We suggest that the OH improved mainly because of the increase in MSA due to L-threo-DOPS, and that the drug may activate sympathetic outflow at a site proximal to the sympathetic ganglion.
(10) Multiple determination of size, shape, and diameter of the left atrium were made during the control state and under conditions of varied ventricular outflow resistance in intact anesthetized dogs with markers chronically attached to the mitral annulus and the valve cusps.
(11) Type II had the anastomosis too high on the gastric pouch, type III was due to an obstructing marginal ulcer, and type IV had a pouchlike deformity develop in the upper jejunum at the anastomosis that gradually compressed the outflow tract.
(12) The procedure was less effective in reducing outflow gradients in patients with dysplastic valves with or without Noonan's syndrome.
(13) In a total of 92 eyes in 46 individuals the outflow facilities obtained by weight tonography, Cton correlated curvilinearly with those estimated by an acetazolamide test, Cacet.
(14) The decrease of left ventricle outflow gradient as well as of subjective complaints inclusively cerebral syncopes were remarkable.
(15) Kinetic analysis of residue and outflow curves of gamma-emitting indicators such as chromium-51-EDTA and iodide-131-thalamate from skeletal muscle gives the possibility to determine the extraction fraction and the plasma flow, and from these two values the capillary diffusion capacity can be calculated (Sejrsen 1970, preliminary report).
(16) It is concluded that most elderly patients with increased left ventricular outflow tract velocities are etiologically distinct from young patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
(17) In only three cases passed all of the visible aqueous outflow through normal aqueous veins.
(18) Thus, the data suggest that copper initially activates peripheral organs such as the heart and subsequently produces a distinct inhibitory action on sympathetic outflow, which is related to the toxic action of this metal.
(19) The aim of this study was to record sympathetic outflow in man during PTRA as reflected by muscle nerve sympathetic activity and arterial plasma noradrenaline.
(20) The ratio of the intrapleural pressure shift to magnitude of phasic changes of the blood flow in the posterior v. cava (the pumping coefficient) is suggested for estimation of effect of the chest sucking function upon the venous outflow and for relative estimation of rigidity of the vascular bed's venous portion.