(a. & adv.) In fives; consisting of five in one; five repeated; quintuple.
Example Sentences:
(1) These changes led to a flooding of the alveoli with up to 40 times normal protein levels and a greater than fivefold increase in airway antiproteinase.
(2) 10% NNDEMT doubled the amount of PFA in the skin, increased fourfold the amount permeated across the skin, and increased the flux fivefold.
(3) ET-3 produced a rapid approximately fivefold increase in cGMP levels with the maximum effect occurring at 1 min.
(4) As measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, sera from immunized rabbits had antiendoflagellar antibody titers that were fivefold greater than titers of sera from infected immune rabbits and patients with secondary disease.
(5) When rat 6 cells were cotransfected with pT24 and neo genes and grown in the absence or presence of TPA, the presence of TPA did not increase the yield of Neo+ colonies but caused a fivefold increase in the number of Neo+ colonies that displayed a transformed morphology.
(6) The levels of 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase and glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase are subject to metabolic regulation; they increased three- to fivefold with increasing growth rate.
(7) Release of the superior mesenteric artery occlusion caused a dramatic decrease in mean arterial blood pressure; an increase in mean portal venous pressure, and more than fivefold increases in plasma PGF2 alpha levels in superior mesenteric vein, right ventricle, and aorta.
(8) Salicylamide solubility increases are approximately 10-fold at high concentrations (0.6-0.8 M) of antihistamine, while acetaminophen solubility increases are about fivefold at similar antihistamine concentrations.
(9) The most marked change in the properties of the spin-labelled enzyme is a fivefold decrease in the rate of reduction of the coenzyme by L-glutamate and no change in the rate of oxidation by 2-oxoglutarate.
(10) The c-fos, Egr-1, and junB genes were highly induced, being fivefold to sevenfold higher in experimental than in control tissue.
(11) Addition of succinate (5 mM) resulted in a fivefold increase in the rate of oxygen consumption.
(12) Intravenous infusion of pure natural (GIH) secretin caused a fivefold increase in flow rate; HCO-3 concentrations, again, doubled (67.5 mM).
(13) Modified lipoprotein aggregates isolated by gel filtration induced a threefold to fivefold elevation in cellular cholesteryl ester content.
(14) The filtered Na load increased fivefold but urine Na excretion decreased from 3.4 to 0.1% of the filtered Na load.
(15) However, the catalyzed hydrolyses of N-acetyl dipeptide amide substrates by (methionine sulfoxide)-192-delta-chymotrypsin (MS-delta-Cht) shows a four- to fivefold decrease in kcat and unchanged Km(app) with respect to delta-chymotrypsin.
(16) In addition, somatostatin resulted in a fivefold increase in beta-hydroxybutyrate and a 40 to 45 per cent rise in branched-chain amino acids (P less than 0.005).
(17) HUVEC responded to exposure to 42 degrees C with a time-dependent increase in plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1) activity and antigen accompanied by a four- to fivefold increase in PAI-1 specific m-RNA and a decrease in tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) antigen.
(18) In a shift to the nonpermissive temperature, ts352 (cca1-1) cells rapidly cease protein synthesis, reduce the rates of degradation of the CDC4, TCM1, and PAB1 mRNAs three- to fivefold, and increase the relative number of ribosomes associated with mRNAs and the overall size of polysomes.
(19) Crosslinking the FcRII of platelets resulted in a fivefold increase in the production of [3H]inositol phosphates, (IP) which, in the absence of extracellular Ca2+ was insensitive to aspirin.
(20) Golgi VLDL contained fivefold less unesterified cholesterol than plasma VLDL, but twofold more phospholipids.
Quintuple
Definition:
(a.) Multiplied by five; increased to five times the amount; fivefold.
(v. t.) To make fivefold, or five times as much or many.
Example Sentences:
(1) The largest increases in brain weights in both sexes occurred during the first 3 years of life, when the value quadruples over that at birth, while during the subsequent 15 years the brain weight barely quintuples over that at birth.
(2) Japan 's 'quintuple dip' recession delivers a fresh blow to Abenomics Read more Economics minister Akira Amari said a lack of workers available for public works projects worth billions of pounds restricted the government’s ability to bolster the economy.
(3) In Types II, III, V and most Type IV capillaries, the interendothelial junctions contained quintuple-layered zones.
(4) 4.40pm BST 83 min: "Somewhere in China there is a factory that makes inflatable plastic sheep that is desperately waiting for the word that they can go ahead and quintuple this summer's production run," says Marie Meyer.
(5) When we infused autologous plasma, incubated with dialyzer cellophane, into rabbits and sheep, sudden leukopenia and hypoxia occurred, with doubling of pulmonary-artery pressures and quintupling of pulmonary-lymph effluent.
(6) By a double-antibody RIA method, we assayed LH and FSH in quintuplicate or triplicate in each sample and counted the tubes twice consecutively.
(7) Almost every constituency party across the country we contacted reported doubling, trebling, quadrupling or even quintupling membership, and a revival of branches that had been moribund for years and close to folding.
(8) Both prothrombin and plasminogen show internal sequence homology resulting from partial gene duplication and quintuplication respectively; each internal homology loop in prothrombin shows significant homology with each of the five putative loops in plasminogen.
(9) One case of grade 1 papillary carcinoma and some of grade 2 showed a small proportion of aneuploid cells; the proportion quintupled in grade 3.
(10) Hyaluronic acid content was determined in quintuplicate colorimetrically after treatment of streptococci with hyaluronidase.
(11) Using standard TAT and CGG homopolymers, single, triple, and quintuple molecular replacements are made.
(12) Single SETi or FETi impulses can initiate an IR contraction, and cause altered phasing, with up to a quintupling of frequency.
(13) When choline replaces Na+ in perfusate and bathing medium, cell volume doubles, and intercellular space volume nearly quintuples.
(14) Profits quintupled compared with the same period in 2012 – in part due to its new UK operation.
(15) After three postwar decades when cheap oil was taken for granted, the oil-importing nations were hit for six by the 1973-74 oil shock, and Healey’s chancellorship was beleaguered by a quintupling of the price of oil.
(16) Polling on the subject is shot through with inconsistencies, but one thing screams out from the data : according to the UK Energy Research Centre, between 2005 and 2013, the share of people who rejected the very idea of climate change almost quintupled, from 4% to 19%.
(17) A quintuple mutant, with all cysteines converted to alanines (Quint), was also constructed.
(18) The authors report a case of Werner's syndrome complicated by quintuplicate malignancy, and review the literature data.
(19) About three thousand resin vascular casts of human renal glomeruli were examined with a scanning electron microscope, and two extremely rare glomeruli with quadruple or quintuple efferent arterioles were found.
(20) The result is a large platelike, quintuple-layered structure, 240-260 A thick, whose long axis parallels that of the mitochondrion.