What's the difference between eight and octamerous?
Eight
Definition:
(n.) An island in a river; an ait.
(a.) Seven and one; as, eight years.
(n.) The number greater by a unit than seven; eight units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing eight units, as 8 or viii.
Example Sentences:
(1) These eight large plasmids had indistinguishable EcoRI restriction patterns.
(2) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
(3) A series of eight patients with multiple meningiomas is presented.
(4) Eight-week-old virgin untreated female mice were induced to ovulate using equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and were then caged with males overnight.
(5) Development at two to 15 months of age in the 19 surviving infants was normal in nine, suspect in eight, and severely delayed in two patients.
(6) Eight other children (20%) had normal or borderline elevation of CPK-MB fraction and EKG abnormalities combined with abnormal echocardiograms or radionuclide angiograms, and were considered to have sustained cardiac concussion.
(7) By the time Van Kirk returned to the US in June 1943, he had flown 58 combat and eight transport missions.
(8) We studied the effect of low-dose intrathecal morphine (0.00-0.20 mg) on pain relief and the incidence of side effects after cholecystectomy in 139 patients divided into eight groups according to intrathecal morphine dose: groups 1 (0.00 mg), 2 (0.04 mg), 3 (0.06 mg), 4 (0.08 mg), 5 (0.10 mg), 6 (0.12 mg), 7 (0.15 mg), and 8 (0.20 mg).
(9) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
(10) Eighty-eight patients (97%) had a stable fixation and 77 (85%) had resumed preoperative activity or were working but with a residual deficit.
(11) Age-specific MRs for the over-75-year age group were also not related to the winter air temperatures in the eight cities.
(12) Due to continued disease relapse in this group (four of eight patients), long-term survivors should not be identified for a minimum of 3.5 years from the time of initial therapy.
(13) 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.
(14) Affected dogs were from ten breeds and their average age was eight years.
(15) This competence persists over the eight measurement points.
(16) Eight cases of calcification following anterior dislocation of the head of the radius are described.
(17) Six of eight AD and seven of eight vitamin A-adequate dams carried pregnancy to term (greater than or equal to Day 64).
(18) In the subgroup of children under age 5 years at the time of diagnosis, 10 of 11 showed neuropsychologic deficits, and eight of 11 had white matter changes.
(19) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
(20) Eight patients aged 7-15 were using inhaled sympathomimetic aerosols only at the time of buying a nebuliser as compared with most of the older patients, who were using regular oral steroids.
Octamerous
Definition:
(a.) Having the parts in eights; as, an octamerous flower; octamerous mesenteries in polyps.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since heterogeneity was observed at no more than two positions in the amino acid sequence, the native octameric protein appears to be composed of identical subunits.
(2) These observations are discussed in terms of the proposed octameric structure of beta-glucosidase A based on the result of electron microscopy [Umezurike (1975) Biochem.
(3) Partial denaturation of the circular octameric bifunctional enzyme formiminotransferase-cyclodeaminase in increasing urea concentrations leads to sequential dissociation via dimers to inactive monomers.
(4) This would be an inevitable consequence of mixing of new and old histones in the octameric unit of nucleosomes.
(5) By comparison of the scattering curves with triaxial geometric bodies which are equivalent in scattering, the tetrameric enzyme is described as a rectangular prism, with overall dimensions of A = 131.0 A, B = 131.0 A, and C = 65.0 A, and the octameric form as that of a cube with A = B = C = 120.0 A.
(6) Nuclei were isolated and treated with formaldehyde to stabilize the histone-histone interactions with a covalent cross-link that produces an octameric complex of two each of H3, H2B, H2A, and H4.
(7) An octameric ("octopus") construction of the 115-131 peptide has been synthesized and its antigenicity and immunogenicity have been examined.
(8) (1991) Biochemistry 30, 583-589) described a procedure for reconstitution of a functional di-iron site in the octameric, non-heme iron O2-carrying protein, hemerythrin by addition of ferrous salts to apoprotein, followed by slow dilution of the denaturant.
(9) The structure of the octameric histone core of the nucleosome has been determined by x-ray crystallography to a resolution of 3.1 A.
(10) The majority of these antibodies reacted with the peptide in its monomeric form as well as its octameric form.
(11) Saturating concentrations of a double-stranded octameric oligonucleotide were applied to provide a direct and maximal stimulation of PARP.
(12) We propose that the octameric repeat sequence, or a subset of it, is responsible for attenuation of preproSRIF II mRNA translation.
(13) Interprotomeric cross-linking experiments, using diimidoesters, suggest the presence of two noncovalently linked tetramers comprising the native octameric structure.
(14) The NH2-terminal residues of the octameric MAP appeared to be most immunogenic.
(15) This showed that carbohydrate chains play a significant role in the octamer formation in vivo, and in stabilization of the enzyme octameric form.
(16) Phosphate extraction of mitochondrial creatine kinase (Mi-CK, EC 2.7.3.2) from freshly isolated intact mitochondria of chicken cardiac muscle, after short swelling in hypotonic medium, yielded more than 90% of octameric and only small amounts of dimeric Mi-CK as judged by fast protein liquid chromatography-gel permeation analysis of the supernatants immediately after extraction of the enzyme.
(17) The dissociation and association of an immobilized preparation of the octameric enzyme porphobilinogen synthase [5-aminolevulinate hydro-lyase (adding 5-aminolevulinate and cyclizing), EC 4.2.1.24] is described.
(18) The octameric protein alcohol oxidase from the yeast Hansenula polymorpha was studied by electron microscopy and image analysis.
(19) The activated octameric Anacystis enzyme, however, was significantly more sensitive to inhibition by the phosphorylated effector 6-phosphogluconate than were the hexadecameric Alcaligenes and Anacystis enzymes and the heterologous Anacystis-Alcaligenes hybrid.
(20) The octameric subunits model of each enzyme was confirmed by electron micrographs, which showed an octad aggregate, composed of two tetragons face to face.