(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.
Ers
Definition:
(n.) The bitter vetch (Ervum Ervilia).
Example Sentences:
(1) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
(2) The overall recoveries of activated ER following chromatography on DEAE-cellulose were significantly lower than the recoveries of the nonactivated ER, 71 and 85%, respectively.
(3) Expression of AR was compared with that of ER and PR as well as with tumour grade and age.
(4) Furthermore, we did not observe correlation between the concentrations of ER and of antiestrogen binding sites (AEBS) in the tumors.
(5) In Stage II patients, chemotherapy has an impact on disease mortality for ER-positive and ER-negative premenopausal women and possibly ER-negative postmenopausal patients.
(6) Plasmids containing the inverted repeat alone bound ER, though less efficiently than did plasmids containing the entire sequence.
(7) It was found that the number of ER in the patients was significantly decreased.
(8) In human breast cancer the proliferating cells appear to differ from those containing estrogen receptors (ER) as shown by studies on isolated cellular subpopulations.
(9) Evidence for Golgi apparatus-associated processing of oligosaccharides in the ER was obtained by lectin-gold cytochemistry revealing the presence of the galactose (beta 1----4)N-acetylglucosamine sequence and sialic acid residues.
(10) Tissues were processed for indirect immunocytochemical localization with specific monoclonal antibodies against estrogen receptor (ER; H222) and progestin receptor (PR; JZB39).
(11) AR and ER mRNA-containing neurons were widely distributed in the rat brain, with the greatest densities of cells in the hypothalamus, and in regions of the telencephalon that provide strong inputs in the medial preoptic and ventromedial nuclei, each of which is thought to play a key role in mediating the hormonal control of copulatory behavior, as well as in the lateral septal nucleus, the medial and cortical nuclei of the amygdala, the amygdalohippocampal area, and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.
(12) At saturating concentrations of ER, plasmids bearing one, two, and four EREs in tandem bound approximately one, two, and four dimeric ER molecules, respectively.
(13) Such data provide strong evidence that in this concentration range the growth inhibitory effects of nonsteroidal antioestrogens are mediated by the intracellular ER.
(14) The expression of the ER cDNA in HeLa cells produces a protein that has the same relative molecular mass and binds oestradiol with the same affinity as the MCF-7 ER.
(15) Both methods, which are applicable to paraffin sections, were developed and validated in breast carcinomas with known ER content.
(16) Our results suggest that the synthesis of ER in cervical epithelium can be influenced by underlying stroma.
(17) Despite fulfilling a boyhood wish to play for Milan when he returned to Italy, the striker admitted he erred in taking his career back to Serie A, having had a controversial spell at Internazionale before City recruited him for £17.5m in August 2010.
(18) We have performed a quantitative analysis of steady-state levels of ER-mRNA for 88 untreated, primary breast carcinomas.
(19) Under these conditions, it was shown that resident enzymes of the cis-, medial, and trans-Golgi return to the ER.
(20) In freeze-fracture replicas the ER was seen to consist of both short and long tubules, some of the latter forming anastomoses with each other.