(n.) The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth.
(n.) That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) on growth of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cell lines was studied.
(2) Anesthesiology residency programs experienced unprecedented growth from 1980 to 1986.
(3) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(4) Manometric studies with resting cells obtained by growth on each of these sulfur sources yielded net oxygen uptake for all substrates except sulfite and dithionate.
(5) The data suggest that major differences may exist between ruminants and non-ruminants in the response of liver metabolism both to lactation per se and to the effects of growth hormone and insulin.
(6) dl-Methionine stimulated the synthesis of cephalosporins when added after the growth phase.
(7) In addition to their involvement in thrombosis, activated platelets release growth factors, most notably a platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) which may be the principal mediator of smooth muscle cell migration from the media into the intima and of smooth muscle cell proliferation in the intima as well as of vasoconstriction.
(8) The specific activities of extracts from cells grown under phototrophic and aerobic conditions were similar and not affected by the concentration of iron in the growth media.
(9) Microelectrodes were used to measure the oxygen tension (PO2) profile within individual spheroids at different stages of growth.
(10) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
(11) Bradykinin also stimulated arachidonic acid release in decidual fibroblasts, an effect which was potentiated in the presence of epidermal growth factor (EGF), but which was not accompanied by an increase in PGF2 alpha production.
(12) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
(13) Maximal yields of lipid and aflatoxin were obtained with 30% glucose, whereas mold growth, expressed as dry weight, was maximal when the medium contained 10% glucose.
(14) The 40 degrees C heating induced an increase in systolic, diastolic, average and pulse pressure at rectal temperature raised to 40 degrees C. Further growth of the body temperature was accompanied by a decrease in the above parameters.
(15) Recent studies have shown that an aberration in platelet-derived growth factor gene expression is unlikely to be a factor in proliferation of smooth-muscle cells.
(16) The cotransfected cells do not grow in soft agar, but show enhanced soft agar growth relative to controls in the presence of added aFGF and heparin.
(17) Epidermal growth factor reduced plating efficiency by about 50% for A431 cells in different cell cycle phases whereas a slight increase in plating efficiency was seen for SiHa cells.
(18) Thus, B cells that grow spontaneously from the peripheral blood of SS patients spontaneously produce a B-cell growth factor.
(19) During capillary growth when endothelial cells (EC) undergo extensive proliferation and migration and pericytes are scarce, hyaluronic acid (HA) levels are elevated.
(20) This paper has considered the effects and potential application of PFCs, their emulsions and emulsion components for regulating growth and metabolic functions of microbial, animal and plant cells in culture.
Nutriment
Definition:
(n.) That which nourishes; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment.
(n.) That which promotes development or growth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Post-prandial intestinal motility depends on both chemical nature and caloric load of nutriments: DICM depends on those two factors but PSP only depends on nature of nutriments.
(2) Oxidation of the ingested nutriment over this period was 80% for glucose, 45% for MCTs, and 9% for LCTs.
(3) The results show that intra-oral stimuli control sucking for a nutriment in much the same way as they have already been shown to control nonnutritive sucking.
(4) The clinical course shows that the actual success of the treatment of resistance depends less on weight reduction than on a short interruption of the insulin therapy and withdrawal of nutriment at the same time.
(5) The pleasure is decreased (negative alliesthesia) after each of the ingestions.The negative alliesthesia for sweet stimuli is therefore not only a consequence of carbohydrate ingestion but it appears also when other nutriments, mainly proteins or their degradation products, are present in the intestinal tract.
(6) The effects of the reaction of disengagement and inactivity in relation to the external world which includes external nutriment may be constructive or destructive depending on when it is experienced and the length of time the reaction continues.
(7) Alternatively, vagal noncholinergic inhibition is a major mechanism modulating the motilin response after oral food but motilin release exclusively from intestinal nutriments is mediated by nonvagal, noncholinergic mechanisms.
(8) In order to improve the functional disorder of the bowel, it is necessary for those patients (1) to be careful not to take often refined cereals or manufactured foods, (2) to eat green and yellow vegetables and seaweeds positively, as well as, protein and fat in proper quantity, and (3) to take care of the well-balanced intake of various kinds of vitamins, minerals and other nutriments.
(9) It is important that those patients for whom such nutriment may be of particular interest should be identified.
(10) The main idea of the investigation was to find out the organic reserves of this nutriment in infants complaining of severe malnutrition.
(11) Therefore, from microecological-physiological aspects it is suggested to expand the term ballast matter by so-called "optional" or "potential" ballast matter (in the small intestine usually digestible but incompletely degraded nutriments) in addition to "obligatory" ballast matter (nutriments not digestible by indigene enzymes).
(12) Through assimilation, the inert nutriment taken from outside the body will wind up as elements making up part of our living being.
(13) After interruption of nutriment infusion, septic patients had normal FFA levels and only mild hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia.
(14) Results indicated that difficulty in stopping smoking was positively related to three non-nutriment oral preoccupations.
(15) It is generally considered that the teratogenic antibodies decrease internalization and degradation of maternal proteins by yolk sac epithelial cells leading to an inadequate supply of nutriments to the embryo.
(16) nutriments, and hypothyroidism on the peripheral conversion of thyroxine (T4) to 3,3', 5-triiodothyronine (T3) in the rat and mouse, an in vitro system for assessing T4 conversion to T3 by fresh liver homogenates was used.
(17) Therefore, the proposed frontier between nutriment and drug is not based on always controversial definitions but on their real nature allowing further adaptation to habits and knowledge.
(18) We presume that the changes in the articular cartilage are not related to an insufficient supply of the cartilage with nutriments, but probably to the high mechanical strain applied to its surface.
(19) These results are discussed in terms of the utilization of threonine in relation to the metabolic demands for various nutriments by the pregnant female.
(20) The mean serum glucose concentration was similar in all nutriment-infused groups, but serum insulin was significantly greater in the CHO- and P-infused as compared to the L-infused rats.