(v. t.) To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.
(v. t.) To unite or blend, as if melted together.
(v. i.) To be reduced from a solid to a Quid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.
(v. i.) To be blended, as if melted together.
(n.) A tube or casing filled with combustible matter, by means of which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; -- called also fuzee. See Fuze.
Example Sentences:
(1) Synthetic DNA corresponding to the hydrophobic domain of cytochrome b5 was enzymatically fused in-frame to cloned DNA corresponding to the C-terminus of the Escherichia coli enzyme, beta-galactosidase.
(2) The latter findings reinforce the concept that in pathologic states associated with cerebral oedema, pinocytotic vesicles fuse to form transendothelial channels which transport plasma proteins into brain.
(3) DNA fragments coding for signal peptides with different lengths (28, 31, 33 and 41 amino acids from the translation initiator Met) were prepared and fused with the E. coli beta-lactamase structural gene.
(4) When these sequences were fused to the N terminus of yeast cytochrome oxidase subunit IV lacking its own presequence, they directed the attached subunit IV to its correct intramitochondrial location in vivo.
(5) In addition, 15 double mutant xylS genes were constructed in vitro by fusing parts of various mutant genes to produce mutant regulators exhibiting C-terminal and N-terminal amino acid substitutions.
(6) Descending neurons have opposite structural polarity, arising in the brain and terminating in segmental regions of the fused ventral ganglia.
(7) Some of them situated in a particular environment fused with the tail sequence to produce monomeric ubiquitin genes that were maintained across species.
(8) Fusing equimolecular amounts of 3-oxaspiro[5.5]undecane-2.4-dione with certain amino compounds afforded the corresponding N-substituted azaspirodiones.
(9) Theoretical analyses of parameters for submicron fluorescence recovery after photobleaching measurements in intact mitoplasts support the finding of highly mobile redox components diffusing at the same rates as determined in conventional fluorescence recovery after photobleaching measurements in fused, ultralarge inner membranes.
(10) A simple method has been developed for fusing synaptic vesicles into spherical structures 20-50 micron in diameter.
(11) The results obtained allow to conclude that heterophasic condition of the fused cells is one of the causes of pathological mitosis of polykaryons and of their death.
(12) At high protein concentrations, three footprints fuse to a 106-bp protected region, suggesting that this segment specifically binds several proteins of lower affinity or abundance.
(13) Traction spurs with segmental hypermobility were found more commonly at the L4-5 level in patients whose spines were not fused, particularly women.
(14) As for possible causes of reduced Leydig cell activity it was investigated whether the testis was (1) hypoplastic; (2) abnormally fused with the epididymis; (3) located in the abdomen; (4) or UT was associated with hypospadias.
(15) We report a case of seminoma associated with crossed fused renal ectopia and a duplicated vena cava.
(16) Large intracellular vacuoles, which arose from dilated cisternae of the rough-surfaced endoplasmic reticulum, were fused together, and marked swelling of the mitochondria was also noted.
(17) Apparently the myoblasts have become postmitotic and competent to fuse into muscle fibers during their initial exposure to fusion inducing medium, even though cytodifferentiation has been blocked.
(18) Our results clearly demonstrate that capillary GC analysis of amino acids using fused silica bonded-phase columns provides data with good precision and in general excellent agreement with ion-exchange analyses.
(19) We have perturbed the dynamics of the nuclear lamins by means of cell fusion between mitotic and interphase cells and have studied redistribution of lamins in fused cells as a function of extracellular pH levels.
(20) To identify regulatory elements of these promoters, we fused CSF-1R genomic sequences to bacterial reporter genes and introduced the resulting constructs into human cell lines and mouse fibroblasts.
Merge
Definition:
(v. t.) To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.
(v. i.) To be sunk, swallowed up, or lost.
Example Sentences:
(1) Still higher intensities caused the 2 phases of inhibition to merge, giving the appearance of a single, prolonged, inhibitory response.
(2) White lines 2 and 5 tended to merge with lines 1 and 4, respectively, in collagen fibrils formed from a solution containing a significant amount of type I collagen or pure type I collagen.
(3) As alcohol concentration is increased the lower L beta I to P beta' and main P beta' to L alpha transitions of DHPC merge at the threshold concentration of the biphasic effect, so that above this concentration there is one phase transition from L beta I directly to L alpha.
(4) In addition, if a preceding procedural step is a subset of the next one, merging between the two steps occurs.
(5) The subicular area, best expressed in the temporal sector, extends anteriorly over the corpus callosum to the subcallosal gyrus and, throughout its extent from the uncal to the septal junction, is clearly demarcated from limbic neocortex by a transition zone characterized by archicortical cells merging with cells in the deep layer of the bordering neocortex.
(6) Reorganisation can deliver better outcomes, as the merging of care for stroke victims in London has shown.
(7) Merged scanning sequences did not influence volume determination.
(8) In more mature granulocytic cells of chronic myelogenous leukemia the three enzymes merged within a single group of denser particles; such particles were absent in myeloblasts.
(9) More could certainly be done to help charities who would like to investigate merging; there needs to be better guidance available, as well as more open and positive dialogue on the subject within the sector.
(10) Small cell carcinoma was merging with the adenocarcinoma in 11 cases and represented 30% to 90% of total tumor volume.
(11) When merged with repeated-measures data, this technique permits the estimation of parameters representing both individual and group dynamics.
(12) Talking to clinicians at each of the three sites, it was evident that the vast majority felt no particular allegiance to the larger, merged organisation (SLHT) and, the majority wished to continue working on the individual site they had always worked, in the same manner as prior to the merger.
(13) Fibres are branching off from one bundle and merge again either with a branch of the same bundle or with a branch of another bundle, in a higher or a lower layer of this 3 dimensional texture.
(14) They merge individual stripes spaced less than one field diameter apart and show a pause in firing at wider spacing.
(15) There are no explanations for the unusual affinity of possible pathogenic immune reactions to the spine and other organs, the induction of ossification, the merging of cartilage, or the development of sacroilitis.
(16) Such cells do not complete cytokinesis but merge together several hours after telophase.
(17) Merging of these junctions forms the main dense line of myelin.
(18) Areas of ependymoma merged with others that displayed the appearance of a paraganglioma, including lobules and nests of chief cells immunoreactive for neuron-specific enolase, synaptophysin, chromogranin, and serotonin.
(19) The Health Situation and Trend Assessment Program, initiated in 1982, merged the program on health statistics and the program on epidemiological surveillance of communicable diseases.
(20) We should also plan a fast cross-Pennine line, to join the northern city centres, and high-speed lines from Cardiff and Bristol merging, and then splitting again towards Birmingham and west London.