(a.) Incapable of being moved; immovable; fixed; stable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maximal covalent binding of [4,5-14C]ronidazole to DNA also required four-electron reduction, consistent with previous studies of the covalent binding of this agent to immobilized sulfhydryl groups [Kedderis et al.
(2) Prolonged immobilization was accompanied by a decrease in Ca-concentration dependence of Ca2+ uptake.
(3) A 2-fold increase in the dissolution rate was observed when the same number of particles was immobilized without macrophages.
(4) The immobilizing activity of human normal sera occurred in low titres only, rarely in dilutions of greater than 1:32.
(5) 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.
(6) The immobilized enzyme preparations were stable when stored at 4 degrees C and pH 7.5 for periods up to eight months.
(7) 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.
(8) This was confirmed by the MAIPA ("Monoclonal Antibody Immobilization of Platelet Antigens") test, performed to detect antibodies to GP Ib-IX and GP IIb-IIIa.
(9) By using different immobilized and labeled antibodies, this method could easily be adapted for use with other analytes.
(10) The enzyme is immobilized to provide better control over its catalytic activity and to increase the lifetime of the biosensor.
(11) The biomechanical strength of femur of adult rats was tested after immobilization for 9 weeks and remobilization for 12 weeks of 1 hind leg.
(12) Binding of fibronectin, an extracellular matrix (ECM) protein, to Candida albicans was measured, and adherence of the fungus to immobilized ECM proteins, fibronectin, laminin, types I and IV collagen, and subendothelial ECM was studied.
(13) We felt that this relatively high redislocation rate was due to failure to immobilize these shoulders for 3 weeks postoperatively.
(14) Furthermore, monoclonal antibody CG37 specifically eluted 5'-nucleotidase from immobilized laminin and thus enabled its isolation from other myoblast laminin-binding proteins.
(15) The trauma, the immobilization and the surgery influenced the musculature of the operated as well as the intact leg.
(16) These experiments may provide the basis for the expanded use of immobilized lectins for purification and characterization of hydrolases and other glycoproteins.
(17) Weighed amounts of lyophilized venom from each snake were compared chronologically for variation in isoelectric focusing patterns, using natural and immobilized gradients.
(18) The author maintains that the osteoma of the brachial muscle as well as post-traumatic periarticular calcifications, occur in the muscle mass or in the tendon that prolongs it, or in the articular capsule, as a result of surgical treament and post-operative immobilization, and only exceptionally following orthopaedic treatment of traumatic lesions.
(19) A 30% maltodextrin solution has been continuously hydrolyzed at 50 degrees C and pH 4.5 in a recycled, fluidized bed reactor (FBR) containing GA immobilized on these magnetic microparticles.
(20) The antigen purified on immobilized mAb MEM-102 is recognized by all six known CD48 mAbs under western blotting conditions.
Sessile
Definition:
(a.) Attached without any sensible projecting support.
(a.) Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.
(a.) Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.
Example Sentences:
(1) These 87 adenomas were mostly (79%) under 5 mm in diameter, sessile (89%) and histologically tubular with slight dysplasia (95%).
(2) We classify the hernias as pedunculated or sessile, with associated factors such as viability of herniated brain, infection, CSF leak, and neurologic complications.
(3) Two hundred and fifty colonoscopy procedures were reviewed, revealing 87 sessile colon polyps ranging from 0.5-6.0 cm.
(4) Traditional elastomeric impression materials, four recently developed "hydrophilic" silicones and a hydrocolloid have been tested for their accuracy of reproduction by use of indirect measurements via plaster dies and for their wettability by means of the sessile drop method.
(5) In flow-through microcosms RC-4(pSI30), undetectable as free-living cells, was found by enrichment as irreversibly bound sessile forms.
(6) Endoscopic resection of large sessile adenomas can be safe and effective.
(7) Pieces of Douglas fir and polyvinyl chloride were colonized in a recirculating system and the comparative efficacy of two biocides (Bronopol and Kathon) against the sessile and planktonic populations was examined.
(8) A 44-year-old woman was found to have a sessile lesion replacing most of her endometrium and endocervical mucosa, consisting of an intimate admixture of endometrial glands, endometrial stroma, and smooth muscle.
(9) Microscopically, they varied from complex papillary to sessile nodular growths.
(10) In the various tested situations in which the migration of cells to lymph nodes was inhibited, it seemed to be the relationship of the cell surfaces of the sessile and circulating cells which played an important role in the outcome of their interactions.
(11) This role includes many facets of immunity such as the effects of antigen specificity, immunologic memory, differential behavior of recirculating or sessile populations, and local and systemic contact between antigen and effector cells.
(12) The mineralization activity of sessile catheter-associated bacteria was unaffected by four hr.
(13) The expression of HLA-DR, HLA-DP and HLA-DQ antigens and of the associated invariant chain (Ii) was studied immunohistologically in sessile cells of normal ileum and ileum affected by Crohn's disease which was taken as a model for chronic inflammation.
(14) Large polyps are sessile or pedunculated lesions that are larger than or equal to 3 cm in size.
(15) Evidence is presented that upon stimulation with endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide, LPS), Kupffer cells, the body's largest pool of sessile macrophages, synthesize and liberate a factor whose immunological, cytotoxic and chemical properties are those described for tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha.
(16) We have devised a modification of the sessile drop method for making the required measurements.
(17) Depending on three related factors (increasing size, a sessile rather than pedunculated mode of growth, and a villous rather than tubular microscopic architecture), one may find minute (1 to 2-mm) or microcancer with increasing frequency in adenomas.
(18) and Dolichoderinae (Tapinoma sessile, Conomyrma insana, Conomyrma wheeleri).
(19) B lymphocyte development occurs in the intersinusoidal spaces of bone marrow in association with a sessile population of stromal cells.
(20) When the results for five strains were studied by analysis of variance at 6 and 24 h, the main variable was the antibiotic concentration, followed by the culture conditions, e.g., planktonic or sessile bacteria, the strain tested, and the time of contact.