(n.) One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.
(n.) Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.
(n.) Sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber.
(n.) A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
(2) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
(3) The variation of the activity of the peptidase with pH in the presence of various inhibitors was investigated in both control and insulted muscle fibres.
(4) Peptides from this region bind to actin, act as mixed inhibitors of the actin-stimulated S1 Mg2(+)-ATPase, and influence the contractile force developed in skinned fibres, whereas peptides flanking this sequence are without effect in our test systems.
(5) The myofibrils composed 60%, 70% and 83% in the same fibres.
(6) Immunogold electron microscopy demonstrated that outer dense fibres were the predominant immunoreactive site.
(7) Subthreshold concentrations of the drug to induce complete blockade (5 x 10(-8)M) allowed to observe a greater depression of bioelectric cell characteristics in primary than in transitional fibres.
(8) Somatostatin-like immunoreactivity has been found to occur in nerve terminals and fibres of the normal human skin using immunohistochemistry.
(9) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
(10) Acetylcholine (ACh) induces a K+ current in rabbit cardiac Purkinje fibres.
(11) At the light-microscopic level, adrenergic fibres were identified due to their formaldehyde-induced fluorescence.
(12) From these results, it can be suspected that the motor fibres are more vulnerable during aging.
(13) Most often, constrictor fibres follow the course of the pterygo-palatine nerve, when dilator fibres follow the infraorbital nerve.
(14) Striated muscle fibres were found in each of twenty consecutive pineal glands cultured from individual neonatal rats.2.
(15) Whereas the tight junctions of endoneurial capillaries are known to prevent certain blood-borne substances from entering the endoneurium, it was not clear whether the permeability of the pulpal capillaries, which are distant from the nerve fibres, could affect the nerve fibre environment.
(16) The percentage of energy from fat and added sugars and the amount of sodium and fibre in the diet tended to increase with energy intake.
(17) Actin is present in chromosomal spindle fibres, with consistent polarity.
(18) Ranges of V0 in the three fast fibre types mostly overlapped.
(19) Accumulations of filaments in the axons and in the perineural cells were accompanied by Rosenthal fibres.
(20) A new method of staining the keratin filament matrix allowing a visualization of the filaments in cross section of hair fibres has been developed.
Libre
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Synthesis of phosphatidylcholine (PC) by S-adenosyl-L-methionine (AdoMet)-dependent methylation of phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) has been recently characterized in rat heart sarcolemma obtained by hypotonic shock-LiBr treatment method.
(2) The results obtained will allow to test experimentally the theoretical predictions made by A. Goldbeter (1973) PhD thesis, Université Libre de Bruxelles, on the distribution of carbamoyl phosphate and the oscillation of its intracellular concentration.
(3) The elastic modulus is determined as a function of water content for untreated stratum corneum, and stratum corneum treated with urea and LiBr.
(4) Transmission electron microscopy of an alpha gamma delta complex isolated after incubation of the holoenzyme with LiBr shows only small particles approximately one-fourth the size of the holoenzyme.
(5) He is very good at plunging into the most technical issues, but he always understands the political dynamic,” one former colleague said, adding that he doubted Seeuws would play hardball with the UK: “He understands the task will be very difficult, but he will certainly try to get a good compromise.” La Libre Belgique newspaper described Seeuws as a “fine intellectual machine”, citing a Belgian source as saying he was “tactically very strong.
(6) Libre emerged from a post-coup political resistance movement, bringing together an eclectic mix of trade union and LGBT activists, human rights defenders, campesino and indigenous organisations, youth and feminist groups, teachers and intellectuals, former Liberals who opposed the coup and many others mobilised in an unprecedented grassroots base.
(7) This component has been identified as glycogenin, following dissociation of the subunits in 2 M LiBr and their separation on Superose 12.
(8) The indictment alleges that Mr Bikindi consulted with President Juvenal Habyarimana over song lyrics before passing the compositions on to Radio Television Libre des Milles Collines (RTLM), a privately owned station set up specifically to broadcast anti-Tutsi propaganda.
(9) We took inspiration from Nacho Libre , made all our own costumes and got booked to be here.
(10) In the letter, published on La Libre Belgique , he asked for his unborn child’s forgiveness.
(11) There is undoubtedly a radical socialist element within its ranks, but despite rightwing scaremongering that Castro de Zelaya is a new Hugo Chávez , Libre is also explicitly pro-business and US friendly.
(12) Red and white are the colours of the Freedom and Refoundation party, known by its Spanish acronym Libre, and the young people are part of an army of activists who have changed the political landscape in Honduras since 2009.
(13) The high-molecular-mass form is converted into the low-molecular-mass form by incubation with 1.4 M LiBr.
(14) Just hours after its online launch, the Libres e Iguales manifesto had gathered more than five hundred signatures.
(15) "Mr Arnault came to see me at the end of last year, wanting to be domiciled here, to live here," Mayor Armand de Decker told the newspaper La Libre Belgique.
(16) After batch washing, the enzyme, devoid of lipids (apoBDH), is specifically eluted at pH 8.05-8.15 with a 0.1 M Tris-1 M LiBr buffer under reducing conditions (5 mM dithiothreitol).
(17) Instead in the cardiac sarcolemmal fraction, isolated by hypotonic shock LiBr-treatment method, the activity was over two times higher in 10-day old neonates than in adult rats.
(18) With names such as Americans for Prosperity, Generation Opportunity and the Libre Initiative, the brothers have the ability to help frame the terms of the political debate.
(19) ATP-independent Ca2+ binding, sialic acid and phospholipid content, Ca2+ ATPase, Mg2+ ATPase and adenylate-cyclase were not altered in membranes isolated by the hypotonic shock-LiBr treatment method from hypothyroid hearts.
(20) Using our preparative methods, the LiBr fraction may contain predominantly sarcolemma while low-salt sucrose light membranes may be enriched in T-tubular elements.