(n.) The unit of work or energy in the C. G. S. system, being the amount of work done by a dyne working through a distance of one centimeter; the amount of energy expended in moving a body one centimeter against a force of one dyne. One foot pound is equal to 13,560,000 ergs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similar to intact crayfish, animals with an isolated protocerebrum-eyestalk complex, exhibit competent circadian rhythms in the electroretinogram (ERG).
(2) We have now started a prospective follow-up study in order to pursue the development of (a) p-ERG amplitudes and (b) funduscopic changes and visual acuity in these patients.
(3) Electroretinographic (ERG), morphometric and biochemical studies on retinas from monkeys or rats reveal that moderate level developmental lead (Pb) exposure produces long-term selective rod deficits and degeneration.
(4) The b-wave in the ERG was lacking and the EOG was flat.
(5) ERGs of high amplitude and of normal wave form were recordable with prominent oscillatory potentials.
(6) In chronical experiments the ERG of 5 rabbits were recorded before and after stimulation of the hippocampus.
(7) The wave forms of the equiluminance stimulus onset responses were similar to ERGs evoked with luminance decrease and the stimulus offset PERGs were like ERGs elicited by luminance increase.
(8) The ERG tested in a cell-free extract from one of these transformants proved to be resistant to the Al derivative, terbinafine.
(9) The highest yield of amino acids with the quench reaction was 9 x 10-7 molecules per erg of input energy.
(10) Normal retinal function can be maintained for several hours with the measurement of the gross electroretinogram (ERG) serving as a useful monitor of the electrophysiological condition of the preparation.
(11) We suggest that the initial supernormal ERG reflects an underlying biochemical change mediated by the action of anti retinal S-antigen antibodies.
(12) The postirradiation changes in the ERG wave amplitudes were most pronounced during the attenuating photokeratitis.
(13) The results strongly support the concept that the b-wave of the photopic ERG may actually represent a composite of potentials whose individual contributions are best visualized when the ERG is recorded with the 100- to 1000-Hz bandwidth.
(14) The ERG a-wave and b-amplitudes also decreased as a consequence of the taurine-free diet.
(15) The electroretinogram (ERG) was recorded in the dark from photo-entrained albino rabbits, using a constant-intensity, 500-nm, 50- or 100-msec stimulus at 1-min intervals.
(16) We hypothesize that the b-wave of the electroreginogram (ERG) can provide a precise, noninvasive measure of the morning rod disc shedding event.
(17) Pelmatohydra oligactis was amputated in the central part of the gastral region and exposed to radiation of ultraviolet rays (2535 angstroms, 12 erg mm(-2)s(-2) for 7, 15 and 20 minutes.
(18) ERG bp-waves were recorded in congenital color blindness by scanning monochromatic light stimuli, and spectral responses obtained could be evaluated as a spectral pattern.
(19) The data suggests that the b-wave of the ERG should be considered as a composite of potentials rather than as a single potential.
(20) The laser applications reduced considerably the amplitudes of the a and b waves of the ERG.
Ern
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Erne
(v. i.) To stir with strong emotion; to grieve; to mourn. [Corrupted into yearn in modern editions of Shakespeare.]
Example Sentences:
(1) The synthetic ester cyclopentylpropionate, like E2, produced a rapid ERn response and a significantly shorter uterotropic response than the stearate ester.
(2) The leaders of the world's eight wealthiest countries, including Russian president Vladimir Putin and German chancellor Angela Merkel, are due to meet at the luxury Lough Erne resort in Co Fermanagh for the conference on 17-18 June.
(3) Gerald Grosvenor came into the line of succession only because the 3rd Duke was childless and the title passed to a cousin, who became 4th Duke in 1963 and then, when he died four years later, to his younger brother, Gerald’s father, Robert Grosvenor, who farmed in Northern Ireland and lived on an island in Lough Erne.
(4) The oligomeric ERc eluted as a single, sharp peak near the exclusion volume of the gel column; ERn eluted as a broad peak.
(5) Reductions in total ER (ERn + ERc) were sufficient to account for all reductions and altered dynamics of ERn, except for the delayed attainment of peak ERn in UT.
(6) The correlation coefficients for ERc, ERn and ERc+n were 0.960, 0.980 and 0.950, respectively.
(7) We must work together to keep this hope alive, as we agreed to at the Group of 8 meeting in Lough Erne in Northern Ireland in June, and steer the discussion back toward negotiations.
(8) This unoccupied nuclear ER (ERn) whose hormone binding ability was extremely thermostable could be extracted with 0.4 M KCl.
(9) "One of highlights, says Starks, was launching the institute's open data certificate at June's G8 meeting in Lough Erne, where the themes were tax, transparency and trade.
(10) We measured the uterotropic response and the formation of uterine nuclear estrogen receptors (ERn) produced by iv administration of a representative ester, E2-17-stearate, in comparison to E2, other natural C-17 conjugates of E2, E2-17-glucuronide, and E2-17-sulfate, and the pharmacological ester E2-17-cyclopentylpropionate.
(11) [Erne, D., Sargent, D. F., & Schwyzer, R. (1985) Biochemistry 24, 4261-4263].
(12) In the tumours of postmenopausal women an inverse significant correlation was demonstrated between the concentrations of EGFR vs. ERc, ERn, and PRc while no such correlation was noted in the tumours of premenopausal women.
(13) 2,3,7,8-TCDD causes a dose-dependent decrease in uterine ERc, ERn, PRc, and PRn levels which persist up to 7 days.
(14) Using a hydroxylapatite exchange method for ER, little or no nuclear ER (ERN) could be detected, but with the EIA both cytosolic (ERC) and ERN were detected in almost all specimens, although in meager concentrations.
(15) Nuclear estrogen receptors (ERn) can now be reliably analyzed using the monoclonal estrogen receptor enzyme immunoassay.
(16) In these studies we also examined the changes which occur in estrogen nuclear (ERn) and progestin cytosol (PRc) receptor concentrations in the preoptic area (POA), medial basal hypothalamus (MBH), corticomedial amygdala (CMA) and pituitary gland (PIT) associated with these physiological responses.
(17) In the control pituitary nuclei, 70% of ERn were in the salt-soluble fraction, of which the great majority were occupied by endogenous steroid.
(18) Both the heat-transformed cytosolic estrogen receptor, ERC*, and a major fraction of the estrogen receptor extracted from nuclei, ERN, contained two sites for H165, but only one for H222.
(19) The oestradiol nuclear receptors (ERn) followed the same pattern in the 3 sampling areas.
(20) In the untreated BPH group, ER were higher in the n than in the c fraction: ERn were positive in 14 cases and ERc in 12 of 17 cases.