(n.) A hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals. When gently heated with water, it becomes viscid and tenaceous, and is used as a cement for uniting substances. The name is also given to other adhesive or viscous substances.
(n.) To join with glue or a viscous substance; to cause to stick or hold fast, as if with glue; to fix or fasten.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of 180 interventions, they describe in detail the use of fibrin glue in myringo- and tympanoplasty for correct fixing of grafts.
(2) The 68C intermolt puff of Drosophila melanogaster contains a cluster of three glue protein genes, Sgs-3, Sgs-7, and Sgs-8.
(3) The most common inhalant stupefacients were "Butapren" glue, trichlorethylene and "Roxy" fluid; wine and vodka were the alcohols used.
(4) Treatment animals had the anastomoses and graft sealed with a suspension of N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate and 1.2 g tobramycin powder (antibiotic glue, ANGL) after contamination.
(5) In second group after thoracotomy the lungs were stabilized with gelatin-resorcin-formaldehyde glue.
(6) The proteins are synthesized for approximately 14 hr until puparium formation, when the glue is released from the salivary glands.
(7) The polyphenolic protein is the "glue" in the adhesive plaques of the byssus.
(8) Second, in patients with acute aortic dissection, the false lumen of the aortic root and arch is filled with resorcinformol glue and the layers are readapted by this means after anatomical reconstruction.
(9) Exclusion from external ventilation was performed in animal experiments by instillation of Ethibloc, an amino acid glue, in one main bronchus to create an atelectasis.
(10) Economic openness is the glue that binds the EU together and it is the solution to the crisis of European competitiveness that long predates the current strife.
(11) The fibrinogen in the glue was prepared by ethanol precipitation of plasma separated from 88 ml of the patient's blood.
(12) In addition, they had on the average abused more than twice as many different substances as addicts without a glue use history.
(13) An average of 3.3 ml of glue was applied to the anterior wall of the anastomosis in the treated group.
(14) Sundew use beads of treacly glue to trap flies on their finger-like leaves.
(15) But the existence of elections in England, Scotland and Wales in May will act as party political glue.
(16) This technique is very convenient for adult cholesteatomas developed in a sclerotic mastoid with an extension limited to mesotympanum and attic, to the children cholesteatomas developed in the mesotympanum with a sclerotic mastoid, for the correction of retraction pockets after a closed technique, rehabilitation of radical mastoidectomies, fibroadhesive otitis and some idiopathic glue tympanic membrane with a large cholesterol granuloma.
(17) Children in case families were more likely to be diagnosed as suffering from glue ear rather than recurrent acute otitis media, particularly if an older sibling of the same sex had previously been so diagnosed (for boys RR 6.68; for girls RR 4.55).
(18) Simple formulae expressing average and maximum concentrations of solvent vapour in indoor air during the application of paints, glues, and the like, have been derived using a six parameter mathematical exposure model MEM 1.
(19) Human jejunal brush-border pteroylpolyglutamate hydrolase is an exopeptidase which liberated [14C]Glu as the sole labeled product of PteGlu2[14C]Glue (where PteGlun represents pteroylpolyglutamate), failed to liberate a radioactive product from PteGlu2[14C]GluLeu2, and released all possible labeled PteGlun products during incubation with Pte[14C]GluGlu6 with the accumulation of Pte[14C]Glu.
(20) Histoacryl glue was used in 108 blepharoplasty incisions, 30 facelift incisions, 21 submental incisions for liposuction, and 19 local flaps for facial reconstructive procedures.
Glued
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Glue
Example Sentences:
(1) Further analysis with two other synthetic peptides (212Cys to 222Glu and Cys X 221Ile to 236Glu) indicated that the dodecapeptide Ile-Glu-Phe-Gln-Lys-Asn-Asn-Arg-Leu-Leu-Glu mimicked either the whole or a major part of the neutralization epitope.
(2) This indicated that proteolysis at Lys1313-Glu also proceeded in native alpha 2M.
(3) In contrast, strains carrying the substitutions Ile-30----Phe, Gly-33----Leu, Gly-58----Leu, and Lys-34----Val and the Lys-34----Val, Glu-37----Gln double substitution were found to possess a coupled phenotype similar to that of the wild type.
(4) The substructural units, 5-14 linear and 5-14 cyclic, have been used as models for MCH-- H-Asp1-Thr-Met-Arg-Cys-Met-Val-Gly-Arg HO-Val17-Glu-Trp-Cys-Pro-Arg-Tyr-Val in 1H-nmr conformational studies.
(5) However, when it has attained a length of about half the cell body diameter, it becomes SUP GLU+ and 6-11B-1+.
(6) The commercially available chromogenic p-nitroanilide substrates Pro-Phe-Arg-NH-Np (S2302 or chromozym PK), Glp-Pro-Arg-NH-Np (S2366), Ile-Glu-(piperidyl)-Gly-Arg-NH-Np (S2337), and Ile-Glu-Gly-Arg-NH-Np (S2222) were tested for their suitability as substrates in these assays.
(7) We then used synthetic peptides spanning the active fragment to identify the primary sequence of the adhesive site as Leu-Arg-Glu (LRE): neurons attach to an immobilized LRE-containing peptide, and soluble LRE blocks attachment of neurons to the s-laminin fragment.
(8) This established that the Gly----Glu substitution at amino acid 142 is sufficient to abolish enzymatic activity and to result in the chylomicronemia syndrome observed in these patients.
(9) Comparison of the human and mouse repeats revealed a highly conserved Glu-Asp core in each unit, implicating the functional significance of this motif.
(10) Hippocampal GLU content decreased during development, whereas GABA content was constant for all the ages investigated.
(11) Retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase and immunocytochemical visualization of glutamate (Glu) were combined to investigate the neurotransmitter used by cortico-cortical neurons in the first (SI) and second (SII) somatic sensory areas of macaque monkeys.
(12) beta-GLU I, beta-GLU II and beta-GLU III, the number of which varies from one to three during the growth of the organism.
(13) Three of the four bonds cleaved in actin, two of the three in troponin C, and all of the bonds hydrolyzed in AAP and pro-IL-1 beta have a P2' Glu residue.
(14) The lipid-mobilizing activity of a synthetic peptide, NH2-Phe-Glu-Glu-Ala-Tyr-Ile-Pro-Lys-Glu-Gln-Lys-Tyr-Ser-Phe-COOH, corresponding to the 31-44 amino-acid sequence of human growth hormone, was studied.
(15) The study of the drugs effective in the treatment of cognitive deficits and memory loss associated with senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type--tacrine and amiridin, acetylcholinesterase inhibitor physostigmine and nootrop piracetam on uptake of 3H-serotonin (3H-5-HT), 3H-adrenaline (3H-AD), 3H-noradrenaline (3H-HA), 2H-dopamine (3H-DA), 3H-gamma-aminobutyric acid (3H-GABA), 3H-glutamic acid (3H-GLU), 3H-aspartic acid (3H-ASP) and 3H-glycine (3H-GLI) showed that tacrine and amiridin (5 x 10(-5) M) statistically significantly (P less than 0.05) inhibited the uptake of 3H-DA and 3H-5-HT.
(16) 55% of the biliary radioactivity excreted in 24 h was unchanged irinotecan, 22% was EHCPT Glu, and 9% was EHCPT.
(17) The active-site aspartic acid residue, Asp-362, of Escherichia coli citrate synthase was changed by site-directed mutagenesis to Glu-362, Asn-362 or Gly-362.
(18) The replacements for Glu-43 (Asp, Gln, Asn, Ser, and Ala) both decreased the catalytic efficiency and changed the one- and two-dimensional NMR spectral properties of the mutant enzymes.
(19) Meanwhile, control peptide (Gly-Arg-Gly-Glu-Ser-Pro), which does not contain the crucial cell binding sequence, did not show any inhibitory effects.
(20) Similar to the action of DA, the DA D-1 receptor agonist (+)SKF-38393 generally potentiated the activation produced by glutamate (GLU) at low ejection currents (less than or equal to 5 nA); at higher ejection currents, it depressed 97% of the CPu neurons tested.