(a.) Arranged, as stars in a constellation; as, formed stars.
(a.) Having structure; capable of growth and development; organized; as, the formed or organized ferments. See Ferment, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) All mutant proteins could associate with troponin I and troponin T to form a troponin complex.
(2) Such a signal must be due to a small ferromagnetic crystal formed when the nerve is subjected to pressure, such as that due to mechanical injury.
(3) These data suggest that the hybrid is formed by the same mechanism in the absence and presence of the urea step.
(4) The interaction of the antibody with both the bacterial and the tissue derived polysialic acids suggests that the conformational epitope critical for the interaction is formed by both classes of compounds.
(5) In Patient 2 they were at first paroxysmal and unformed, with more prolonged metamorphopsia; later there appeared to be palinoptic formed images, possibly postictal in nature.
(6) Aggregation was more frequent in low-osmolal media: mainly rouleaux were formed in ioxaglate but irregular aggregates in non-ionic media.
(7) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(8) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
(9) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
(10) We similarly evaluated the ability of other phospholipids to form stable foam at various concentrations and ethanol volume fractions and found: bovine brain sphingomyelin greater than dipalmitoyl 3-sn-phosphatidylcholine greater than egg sphingomyelin greater than egg lecithin greater than phosphatidylglycerol.
(11) Because cystine in medium was converted rapidly to cysteine and cysteinyl-NAC in the presence of NAC and given that cysteine has a higher affinity for uptake by EC than cystine, we conclude that the enhanced uptake of radioactivity was in the form of cysteine and at least part of the stimulatory effect of NAC on EC glutathione was due to a formation of cysteine by a mixed disulfide reaction of NAC with cystine similar to that previously reported for Chinese hamster ovarian cells (R. D. Issels et al.
(12) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
(13) The role of Ca2+ in cell agglutination may be either to activate the cell-surface dextran receptor or to form specific intercellular Ca2+ bridges.
(14) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(15) Most of the radioactivity in spleen cells from these rats were associated with antigen-reactive cells which formed rosettes specifically with HO erythrocytes.
(16) Even with hepatic lipase, phospholipid hydrolysis could not deplete VLDL and IDL of sufficient phospholipid molecules to account for the loss of surface phospholipid that accompanies triacylglycerol hydrolysis and decreasing core volume as LDL is formed (or for conversion of HDL2 to HDL3).
(17) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(18) The findings clearly reveal that only the Sertoli-Sertoli junctional site forms a restrictive barrier.
(19) The procedure used in our laboratory was not able to provide accurate determination of the concentrations of these binding forms.
(20) Pokeweed mitogen-stimulated rat spleen cells were identified as a reliable source of rat burst-promoting activity (PBA), which permitted development of a reproducible assay for rat bone marrow erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E).
Plasm
Definition:
(n.) A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape.
(n.) Same as Plasma.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients with abnormal glucose tolerance showed significantly lower plasms immunoreactive insulin concentrations at 30 min and 60 min after the glucose load compared with patients with normal glucose tolerance.
(2) Long-term storage and utilization of cryopreserved germ plasm could extend the population's generation length and allow higher levels of genetic variation to be maintained in smaller populations.
(3) The present research was carried out for the purpose of collecting part of the germ plasm of grain amaranth in Guatemala, as well as to evaluate it in terms of yield, chemical composition and nutritive value.
(4) A correlation analysis was undertaken of the relation of plasma peak level and the dose of lithium to a number of lithium induced changes: Increase in urine volume, weight gain, decrease in plasm phosphate, increase in plasma magnesium, decrease in plasma urea, increase in plasma alkaline phosphatase, increase in urinary pH.
(5) Human and animal blood plasm precallikrein was studied as activated by the high-dispersed preparations of silica (aerosils) which carry on their surface various chemically grafted organic radicals.
(6) Repeat examination of blood from the three fallow deer for 30 days postexposure failed to reveal observable piro-plasms.
(7) Thus the oocyte nucleus is required as late as stage 9 for dorsoventral patterning within the follicle cells and for polar plasm assembly in the oocyte.
(8) The amount of germ plasm was related positively to the number of GPCCs at the 8-cell stage and to the resulting number of PGCs; embryos which contained larger amounts of germ plasm developed larger numbers of PGCs at stage 47.
(9) Occasionally pole cells were formed outside the area of the originally irradiated pole plasm.
(10) It is shown that on polymeric substrates containing no trypsin, the growth character and dynamics of the fibroblastic elements are similar on the whole to these indices for cultures grown in the plasm clot without the substrate.
(11) Repeated plasm exchanges were performed in a 44-year-old man with Goodpasture syndrome, also treated with cyclophosphamide and prednisone.
(12) Measurements of the volume of germ plasm suggest that there is no change through cleavage.
(13) Against a background of vitamin C deficiency administration of ACTH does not cause any deviations in the level of catecholamines in tissues, of 11-oxycorticosteroids in the adrenals tissue and increase insignificantly the content of the latter in blood plasm.
(14) CRF erythroblasts incubated with normal, homologous plasma, showed significant increase in the uptake of the radioactive precursors, compared to the activity of these cells incubated in autologous plasms, the only exception being the incorporation of 3H-leucine in the proerythroblasts, in which the increase was not statistically significant.
(15) Frozen semen is a practical means of preserving valuable germ plasm.
(16) Indications for electrolytic solutions are given, including blood, platelets, plasms, albumin, dextran and manitol.
(17) The TRF induced rise in plasm cortisol and ACTH concentrations in patients with Cushing's disease and Nelson's syndrome suggests the possibility of altered hypothalamic or pituitary receptors in such patients.
(18) There was no correlation between vaginal smears and the plasms hormone levels and there was no evidence to suggest that progesterone supplements influenced clinical outcome.
(19) The relative costs and benefits of genetic stock collections and germ plasm collections are discussed.
(20) These findings show that hyperglucagonaemia is a physiological consequence of a surgical operation and that the relationship of plasms glucagon to plasma insulin is complex.