(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.
Syngamy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Enucleation was completed in all embryos; syngamy occurred in one embryo, but cleavage was not observed.
(2) With the appropriate incubation in a mitotic inhibitor, syngamy is prevented and the sperm- and egg-derived chromosomes remain as separate clusters.
(3) and secondarily may function as an early pairing mechanism during syngamy.
(4) The maternal effect locus fs(1) Ya is required for the fusion of the apposed sperm and egg pronuclei (syngamy) following fertilization in Drosophila.
(5) Sea urchin eggs were fertilized, stripped of their fertilization envelopes, and fragmented before syngamy.
(6) The transfer of fertilized eggs to 600 microM 6-DMAP within 4 min following insemination inhibits pronuclear migration and syngamy.
(7) Heat shock of pre-syngamy eggs also failed to increase the production of genetic mosaics.
(8) Then the grandii chromosomes degenerate (1st polar body), while the rossius chromosomes divide further to produce two groups of n autodiads (2C each); one of them degenerates (2nd polar body), and the other is ready to perform syngamy (female pronucleus).
(9) One oocyte arrested at syngamy, while two additional oocytes cleaved to four cells each.
(10) These results are consistent with the progeny being an F1 in a diploid mendelian genetic system involving meiosis and syngamy.
(11) In few cases oocytes with 1 pronucleus and the swollen sperm head or with syngamy or polyspermic were found.
(12) We report a study of fertilization, syngamy and embryonic development in 14 oocytes from a woman with four previous pregnancies involving complete hydatidiform moles.
(13) Syngamy appears to take place by an engulfing action, and no evidence was found of a 'membrane-fusion' kind of conjugation.
(14) At later stages, from syngamy (40 min) up to nuclear envelope breakdown (90 min), 6-DMAP affects neither cortical microtubule organization nor the state of chromatin condensation but it precludes nuclear envelope breakdown and entry into mitosis.
(15) We demonstrate the presence of centrioles in fertilized human oocytes at syngamy.
(16) It can be inferred that trypanosomes undergo meiosis during their developmental cycle in the tsetse fly's salivary glands and syngamy shortly after cyclic transmission.
(17) This sexual event involves meiosis and syngamy, but the order of these processes and the sexual stages involved are not yet known.
(18) Limited observations were also made on meiosis in the oocyte, penetration of the oocyte by sperm, formation of the ovum, syngamy and zygote formation.
(19) Male and female derived chromosome complements from first-cleavage embryos were analysed before syngamy for cytogenetic abnormalities.
(20) Syngamy (pronuclear fusion) is not observed; rather the adjacent paternal and maternal chromosome sets first meet at metaphase.