(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.
Unification
Definition:
(n.) The act of unifying, or the state of being unified.
Example Sentences:
(1) The stages of clinical trials are given in detail, their unification is aimed at raising their quality and improved clinical assessment of a RP.
(2) The results suggest that rats exposed to MAM in varying doses would be useful for evaluating the developmental process of neurons and its unification.
(3) These surveys intend both an improvement of the quality and a unification of laboratory methods regarding diagnostic examinations of cerebrospinal fluid.
(4) The unification of orange-pigmented microorganisms and the strains of P. fluorescens biotype B under the specific name P. aurantiaca is proposed, regarding the strains of biotype B as the pigmentless variants of this species.
(5) In discussing the role of the United States in world politics, President Jimmy Carter described the changes in Europe as it prepares for unification into one economic bloc; the deteriorating conditions in the third world; the impact of the recent changes in communist countries; and the persistence of regional wars and civil disputes.
(6) Jang is believed to be in his 50s, while his predecessor is in his early 70s, according to Seoul's unification ministry, which is responsible for dealings with the North.
(7) These SCS permit it more readily to withstand optimal conditions of cooling, can secure better reliability in performing operations, offer greater possibilities for unification of parts in packing up the set and for covering a wider range of operations.
(8) Wladimir Klitschko was the man who could at least smile in the rain after taking a unanimous decision over David Haye in their disappointing world heavyweight unification title clash, with the Bermondsey fighter revealing afterwards that he had broken the little toe on his right foot in training.
(9) The implications of these results for reductionism, holism, emergence, and their conceptual unification are discussed.
(10) The extinctions of the total cell (Eges) and of the cell nucleus (EK) are measured in 67 basal cells (BAS), 78 dysplatic cells (DYS), 122 undifferentiated cancer cells (UNIF) and 89 differentiated cancer cells (POLY).
(11) The steps to be taken include reinvigorating the ideological conviction for the unification process, not only among the political leadership of the continent but also within the wider public, through a rigorous articulation of African unity as a path for development and transformation.
(12) Although he declined to offer specifics on the issues discussed, Priebus described the meeting as a “positive step towards unification” in an interview with MSNBC shortly after its conclusion.
(13) It is widely seen, along with the euro single currency, as Europe's signature unification project of recent decades.
(14) The increasing use of orthopaedic implants makes international efforts of standardization with their objectives unification and benefit of the patient necessary and sufficient.
(15) It is suggested that a unification of the two labels could have a beneficial effect on research and on understanding and treating the disorder and related conditions.
(16) The author performs an examination of the concept of pathocenosis, diseases of groups, and the consequences of the continually increasing unification of microbial populations on a world level.
(17) The South Korean unification minister, Hong Yong-pyo, said North Korea had earned 616 billion won (£355m) in cash from Kaesong, which relies on South Korean investment and technology, and tens of thousands of skilled North Korean workers.
(18) Unification of the complications associated with pulmonary and cardiac surgery implies use of the fundamentals of the "secondary" diseases theory and International Classification of Diseases (the 9th revision).
(19) The standardization and unification of these medicine chests, which all major maritime countries except Yugoslavia have already accepted, is essential.
(20) The results thus obtained can be used in the further work aimed at the improvement and unification of the forms providing the data on toxicity and danger of the chemicals.