What's the difference between gelatinous and zoogloea?

Gelatinous


Definition:

  • (a.) Of the nature and consistence of gelatin or the jelly; resembling jelly; viscous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All of the strains examined were motile and hemolytic and produced lipase and liquid gelatin.
  • (2) Glucose release from these samples was highly correlated with starch gelatinization (r2 = .99).
  • (3) The combination vaccine consisted of 12 Lf tetanus toxoid and 10 TCID50 vaccinia virus "MVA" preserved with gelatine and glucosamine.
  • (4) We found that when neutrophils were allowed to settle into protein-coated surfaces the amount of O2- they generated varied with the nature of the protein: IgG greater than bovine serum albumin greater than plastic greater than gelatin greater than serum greater than collagen.
  • (5) The binding of 125I-labeled core protein to immobilized fibronectin was inhibited by soluble fibronectin and by soluble cold core protein but not by albumin or gelatin.
  • (6) At low concentrations of gelactin, the gelatin of actin exhibits a bell-shaped dependency on free calcium ion concentration, being stimulated between pCa 8 and 6 and inhibited at pCa below 5.5, while at high gelactin concentrations the calcium sensitivity of actin gelation is apparently abolished.
  • (7) One hour after induction of shock, the circulating volume was expanded using a colloidal gelatin solution.
  • (8) A sustained-release property of gelatin microcapsules of piretanide was evaluated by pharmacodynamic parameters.
  • (9) Soft gelatin capsules were filled with 50 mg of the final mixture to give 0.050 mg of ethinylestradiol.
  • (10) The arterial network of the fresh animal cadaver was injected with a mixture of lead oxide and gelatin.
  • (11) An initial insulin loss of 26% (with albumin) to 37% (with gelatine) was followed by only a small loss (less than 9%) during the next 24 hours.
  • (12) A 35-year-old man developed gelatinous drop-like corneal dystrophy at age 20.
  • (13) The use of polymeric silicone film and homograft nasal cartilage was associated with a significant number of complications and has been abandoned, substituting instead absorbable gelatin film and ossicular bone transplants.
  • (14) The heart and lungs were removed, the pulmonary artery was injected with barium-gelatin, and the lung was fixed in formalin in the inflated state.
  • (15) 3 The reduction by gelatine was reversed when the protease inhibitor aprotinin was added to the injection vehicle, and hypercalcaemia then persisted for more than 8 h. 4 Of other protease inhibitors studied, epsilon-aminocaproic acid was also found to enhance the hypercalcaemic response to subcutaneous PTH and its fragments but, unlike aprotinin, it was ineffective in the presence of gelatine.
  • (16) These were activated to inhibit the in-vitro growth of tumour cells much more effectively, when immunoglobulin (IgG), fibronectin (FN), and gelatin conjugates were used than when MDP was used alone.
  • (17) In second group after thoracotomy the lungs were stabilized with gelatin-resorcin-formaldehyde glue.
  • (18) A simplified method for the detection of acrosin proteolytic activity (APA) of the individual sperm was developed by using a gelatin substrate slide.
  • (19) Incorporating polyvinylpyrrolidone, gelatin and methylcellulose binding agents in a metronidazole formulation alters the tensile strength, disintegration and dissolution times of the tablets by reducing their wettability as measured by the adhesion tension of water.
  • (20) Fish skin gelatin showed much better blocking activity than hydrolyzed porcine gelatin, and it still had the practical advantage of remaining fluid even under refrigeration.

Zoogloea


Definition:

  • (n.) A colony or mass of bacteria imbedded in a viscous gelatinous substance. The zoogloea is characteristic of a transitory stage through which rapidly multiplying bacteria pass in the course of their evolution. Also used adjectively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The NADPH-linked acetoacetyl-CoA reductase, (R)-3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.36), from the bacterium Zoogloea ramigera, involved in the formation of D-3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA for poly(D-3-hydroxybutyrate) biosynthesis, has been purified from an over-producing Escherichia coli strain.
  • (2) Our isolates were compared to four similar floc-forming organisms previously isolated in another laboratory and classified as two species of Zoogloea, one of Pseudomonas, and as one unidentified gram-negative rod.
  • (3) The primary structure of this enzyme was compared with those of four other thiolases (rat mitochondrial and peroxisomal 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolases, acetoacetyl-CoA thiolase of Zoogloea ramigera, and cytosolic acetoacetyl-CoA thiolase of Saccharomyces uvarum).
  • (4) When supplied with acetate, pyruvate, or succinate as a carbon and energy source, the gram-negative strains Pseudomonas cepacia 17616 and Zoogloea sp.
  • (5) Nine Zoogloea strains, were examined for their ability to utilize 35 aromatic compounds.
  • (6) The properties of the autodigestion of native PHB granules from Zoogloea ramigera I-16-M were examined.
  • (7) Seven of the tested strains, having phenotypic properties typical of Zoogloea, were characterized by their production of both ubiquinone-8 and rhodoquinone-8 as major quinones, whereas the remaining two strains, Z. ramigera IAM 12669 (= K. Crabtree I-16-M) and IAM 12670 (= P.R.
  • (8) A medium containing sodium m-toluate was used to isolate 37 zoogloea-forming bacteria from various polluted environments.
  • (9) The thiolase involved in biosynthesis of poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate in Zoogloea ramigera generates an acetyl-enzyme species during catalysis.
  • (10) Zoogloea ramigera I-16 M was found to contain two stereospecific acetoacetyl CoA reductases; one was NADP+-linked and D(-)-beta-hydroxybutyryl CoA specific and the other was NAD+-linked and L(+)-isomer specific.
  • (11) The isolates were identified as strains of Zoogloea.
  • (12) This mitochondrial thiolase is homologous with the mature portion of peroxisomal 3-oxoacyl-CoA thiolase and acetoacetyl-CoA thiolase [EC 2.3.1.9] of Zoogloea ramigera along the entire sequence.
  • (13) Flocculation by Zoogloea MP6 was accompanied by the production of a mucopolysaccharide exopolymer.
  • (14) The ester ethyl butyrate is produced by Zoogloea ramigera 115, a bacterium isolated from an aerobic waste treatment plant, when ethanol is present in culture media.
  • (15) A possible relationship of Zoogloea to other gelatinous matrix-producing bacteria is also discussed.
  • (16) The unstable position was found in the genera Thermus, Zoogloea, Xanthomonas, Sulfolobus, Methylococcus, Alcaligenes, Brucella, and Acetobacter.
  • (17) Aggregative growth of non-slime-forming strains of Zoogloea ramigera was induced by growing the organisms at a depressed pH.
  • (18) Biosynthetic thiolase from Zoogloea ramigera was inactivated with a mechanism-based inactivator, 3-pentynoyl-S-pantetheine-11-pivalate (3-pentynoyl-SPP) where K1 = 1.25 mM and kinact = 0.26 min-1, 2,3-pentadienoyl-SPP obtained from nonenzymatic rearrangement of 3-pentynoyl-SPP where K1 = 1.54 mM and kinact = 1.9 min-1 and an affinity labeling reagent, acryl-SPP.
  • (19) Finger-like zoogloeae containing reactive cells were readily observed in the microbial film layer over stored activated sludge.
  • (20) An NADP-linked acetoacetyl-CoA reductase was purified to electrophoretic homogeneity from Zoogloea ramigera I-16-M, a poly(3-hydroxybutyrate)-accumulating bacterium.

Words possibly related to "zoogloea"