(v. t.) The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.
(v. t.) The state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a state of fluidity or flowing in consequence of heat; as, metals in fusion.
(v. t.) The union or blending together of things, as, melted together.
(v. t.) The union, or binding together, of adjacent parts or tissues.
Example Sentences:
(1) To identify the NHE-1 protein and to establish its cellular and subcellular localization in the rabbit kidney, we prepared antibodies to a NHE-1 fusion protein.
(2) Three criteria of fusion ventricular complexes were found to be undiagnostic for right and left ventricular complexes in SVE.
(3) Furthermore, these data support our previous suggestion that the expression of human lymphoid differentiation antigens in human-mouse lymphoid hybrids is influenced by the differentiation stage of the fusion partners.
(4) Several technical advantages of this method of fusion make this approach particularly useful in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
(5) These differences point to the fact that the mechanisms that regulate satellite cell mitotic and fusion behavior are also not the same in all muscles.
(6) Expansion of the cell sheet following attachment, and the fusion of epiblasts advancing toward each other, does not require the presence of mineralocorticoid.
(7) The ophthalmic headache's crisis is caused, in fact, by a spasm of convergence on an unknown exophory of which the amplitude of fusion is satisfying, and the presence of which can only be seen with test under screen.
(8) In the companion paper, we quantitatively account for the observation that the ability of a solute to promote fusion depends on its permeability properties and the method of swelling.
(9) Opsin becomes incorporated into the disk membrane by a process of membrane expansion and fusion to form the flattened disks of the outer segment.
(10) One mutant, BS260, was completely noninvasive on HeLa cells and mapped to a region on the 220-kb virulence plasmid in which we had previously localized several avirulent temperature-regulated operon fusions (A.E.
(11) Using a soluble ICAM-2 Ig fusion protein (receptor globulin, Rg) we demonstrate the costimulatory effect of ICAM-2 during the activation of CD4+ T cells.
(12) With thermosensitive mutants non-defective for G and M antigens, cell fusion is much more extensive at the non-permissive temperature (39-6 degrees C) than at the permissive one (31 degrees C).
(13) This suggests that the fusion protein traps the SII in nonstimulatory interactions and that antibody 2-7B inhibits SII binding to RNA polymerase II.
(14) Ca2+ has a central role in various cellular phenomena involving membrane fusion.
(15) Polypeptides of egg-borne Sendai virus (egg Sendai), which is biologically active on the basis of criteria of the infectivity for L cells and of hemolytic and cell fusion activities, were compared by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with those of L cell-borne (L Sendai) and HeLa cell-borne Sendai (HeLa Sendai) viruses, which are judged biologically inactive by the above criteria.
(16) Pulse-chase experiments showed that the ornithine transcarbamylase precursor and the thiolase traveled from the cytosol to the mitochondria with half-lives of less than 5 min, whereas the three fusion proteins traveled with half-lives of 10-15 min.
(17) The results of this study suggest that the effects of benzylated CD4(81-92) derivatives on HIV-1 binding or fusion should not be used to reach conclusions about the function of the corresponding CD4 region.
(18) Construction of a repR-lacZ fusion proved that the increase in copy number was due to a proportional increase in the amount of RepR protein.
(19) The best understood fusion mechanism is that of influenza virus, for which sequences involved in pH-dependent fusion can be correlated with the crystallographic structure of the spike protein.
(20) The fusion protein is incorporated into the virion, which retains infectivity and displays the foreign amino acids in immunologically accessible form.
Genre
Definition:
(n.) A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.
Example Sentences:
(1) After a hiatus, Smith is back with a flourish for her genre-bending new novel How to be Both , and David Mitchell has been longlisted for a third time, for The Bone Clocks .
(2) His favourite literary genres as a child were detective stories and Greek myths.
(3) Taggart's recommission is also a further sign that ITV is becoming more flexible in the way it finances drama – the most expensive genre to produce – after the advertising recession forced it to cut its programming budget.
(4) The show is so out of touch that 17-year-old contestant Nicholas McDonald complained to Dermot live on air during week five that none of the genres had happened within his lifetime.
(5) However, in genres such as westerns, sci-fi and romance, well over 50% of sales could be in ebook form.
(6) No: what people really objected to – again, see the Man Booker forum – was not the genre but the quality.
(7) Photograph: Allstar So is the genre due a resurgence?
(8) Glee and American Horror Story impresario Ryan Murphy returns with this camptastic take on the slasher genre where a sorority house is besieged by a killer.
(9) Both talents combined to push the genre to its limits: Reed could make great art out of pop.
(10) Changing Rooms and Ground Force – market- leaders in the home make-over genre that was the telly sensation in the decade before incarceration game-shows – ran from 1996 to 2004 and 1997 to 2005 respectively.
(11) Anger is also being expressed in different genres and forms these days, add Blase and O'Brien.
(12) These exceptions must be signed off by the relevant genre controller, radio controller or head of programmes in the nations, the new BBC guidelines state.
(13) His knowledge of movies is vast – all kinds of movies, and I remember that he had a special fondness for genre pictures and for the work of Walter Hill and others – and he has always been very generous about sharing it with his readers.
(14) During Mr Thompson's big speech in Banff three years ago, after which he was marked out by many as a DG in waiting, he laid out a vision of a multichannel age in which the BBC would move from mixed genre, high audience channels to a range of digital services catering for niche audiences.
(15) Whether or not Moore takes credit, his electro house and amped-up dubstep sound has found its way into the fabric of American subculture in a way no other rave genre has before.
(16) The broadcaster, which has previously used the mockumentary genre to put Tony Blair on trial and execute Gary Glitter , will use actors alongside real-life footage for its fictional portrayal of the Ukip leader in Downing Street.
(17) Sky's snaring of Lumsden, holder of the most powerful job in British television comedy, and its move into a genre which is traditionally expensive and risky, follows bids by Sky1's director of programmes, Stuart Murphy, a former controller of BBC3, for established hits and talent from its terrestrial rivals.
(18) With the students back, parliament in session and that Killers album slowly being revealed as an overwrought dud, what better time for the greatest minds of their generation to go down the pub and invent a new genre?
(19) Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel American Gods is a version of that most American genre, the road narrative.
(20) The French unit also has proposals for a new film from Dutch genre icon Paul Verhoeven and a remake of 1988 cult horror Maniac Cop on its slate for Cannes.