(v. t.) To wash or strain out so as to purify; as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing.
Example Sentences:
(1) We analyzed the amounts and types of glycosphingolipids (GSLs) from peripheral blood lymphocytes, monocytes, and granulocytes isolated by counter-current elutriation.
(2) A new closed system for counterflow centrifugation (elutriation) is described.
(3) When exponentially growing cells separated into cell cycle-specific fractions via centrifugal elutriation were heat shocked, the fractions enriched in small unbudded cells showed greater resistance to heat killing than did other cell cycle fractions.
(4) Following isolation, the cells were separated into seven different fractions according to size by centrifugal elutriation.
(5) Liver cells [parenchymal (PC) and nonparenchymal (NPC)] were separated by elutriation centrifugation at various times after the last administration of DMN.
(6) Exponentially growing CCRF-CEM cells were fractionated into populations enriched for G1 phase cells and S phase cells by centrifugal elutriation.
(7) Human monocytes obtained by counter-current centrifugal elutriation released arachidonic acid when challenged in vitro with Con A, as well as with other soluble (PMA or ionomycin) or particulate stimuli (serum-treated zymosan).
(8) For this purpose, several procedures have been employed, including the unit gravity sedimentation, the centrifugal elutriation, the isopyknic sedimentation and the positive selection on columns of CD34+ cells.
(9) ER forms were also compared in cellular extracts from gonadotrope-enriched populations (GP), prepared using the fast method of centrifugal elutriation, and from lactotrope-somatotrope fractions (LSP), obtained by sequential use of both elutriation and Percoll gradient sedimentation.
(10) We have developed centrifugal elutriation and Percoll density gradient centrifugation to obtain large numbers of highly-purified megakaryocytes which subsequently were stained for DNA content with Hoechst 33342 and sorted by FACS into 8C, 16C and 32C ploidy classes for correlated analysis of cell surface structures by scanning electron microscopy.
(11) After pulse-labelling in vivo, cell fractions from various parts of the cell cycle were obtained by means of elutriator centrifuging.
(12) Counterflow centrifugal elutriation in combination with removal of adherent cells and fluorescence-activated cell sorting on differences in wheat germ agglutinin (WGA)-fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) affinity and light scatter properties were used consecutively to enrich large numbers of hemopoietic stem cells from mouse bone marrow.
(13) Counterflow elutriation enriched to 60-80% purity for G1-, S-, and G2-phase which was shown by DNA flow cytometry.
(14) Separation of basophilic granulocytes from peripheral blood was carried out by counterflow centrifugation elutriation using a JE-6B roter.
(15) Somatostatin cells from the canine gastric fundus were isolated by EDTA-collagenase dispersion and counterflow elutriation, and somatostatin-like immunoreactivity (SLI) release in response to SOS was measured by radioimmunoassay.
(16) An initial preparation of rat hepatocytes containing approximately 30% couplets was enriched by centrifugal elutriation.
(17) In primary cultures of Kupffer cells obtained from surgical biopsies of human liver by collagenase perfusion followed by centrifugal elutriation and infected with HIV, the virus multiplied abundantly, as attested by the appearance of a reverse transcriptase activity in the medium.
(18) The following data were obtained for each session: average concentrations of airborne dust (range, 0.12 to 0.55 mg per cubic meter) and endotoxin (range, 6 to 779 ng per cubic meter) as determined in air samples collected by vertical elutriators, and group mean percentage change in forced expiratory volume in one second (range, +0.5 to -9.1 percent), as determined by preexposure and postexposure spirometry.
(19) Small resting B lymphocytes were highly enriched and completely depleted of all preactivated large B lymphocytes using countercurrent centrifugal elutriation and free flow electrophoresis.
(20) Direct radioreceptor binding experiments and Scatchard analysis reveal CCK receptors on elutriator purified human peripheral blood monocytes, but not on purified human T cells.
Straining
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strain
() a. & n. from Strain.
Example Sentences:
(1) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
(2) None of the strains was found to be positive for cytotoxic enterotoxin in the GM1-ELISA.
(3) They are going to all destinations.” Supplies are running thin and aftershocks have strained nerves in the city.
(4) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
(5) We were able to detect genetic recombination between vaccine strains of PRV following in vitro or in vivo coinoculation of 2 strains of PRV.
(6) All of the strains examined were motile and hemolytic and produced lipase and liquid gelatin.
(7) The taxonomic relationship of strains H4-14 and 25a with previously described Xanthobacter strains was studied by numerical classification.
(8) Whereas strain Ga-1 was practically avirulent for mice, strain KL-1 produced death by 21 days in 50% of the mice inoculated.
(9) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
(10) We also show that the gene of the main capsid protein is expressed from its own promoter in an Escherichia coli strain.
(11) Sequence variation in the gp116 component of cytomegalovirus envelope glycoprotein B was examined in 11 clinical strains and compared with variation in gp55.
(12) By hybridization studies, three plasmids in two forms (open circular and supercoiled) were detected in the strain A24.
(13) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
(14) Strains isolated from the environment and staff were not implicated.
(15) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
(16) Escherichia enterotoxigenic strains, Yersinia enterocolitica and Salmonella typhimurium virulent strains, Campylobacter jejuni clinical isolates possess more pronounced capacity for adhesion to enteric cells of Peyer's plaques than to other types of epithelial cells, which may be of importance in the pathogenesis of these infections.
(17) These sequences are also conserved in the same arrangement in minor sequence classes of minicircles from this strain.
(18) The isoelectric points (pI) of E1 and E2 for all VEE strains studied were approx.
(19) One rat strain (TAS) is susceptible to the anticoagulant and lethal effects of warfarin and the other two strains are homozygous for warfarin resistance genes from either wild Welsh (HW) or Scottish (HS) rats.
(20) In these bitches, a strain of E coli identical to the strain in the infected uterus was isolated.