What's the difference between inbred and inured?

Inbred


Definition:

  • (a.) Bred within; innate; as, inbred worth.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Inbreed

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
  • (2) Groups of inbred female mice of strains CBA or C3H were infected genitally with a pathogenic human strain of Chlamydia trachomatis (N.I.1, serovar F) known to produce salpingitis and infertility in mice.
  • (3) An N-acetylation polymorphism is described that is expressed toward arylamine carcinogens in tumor target organs of an inbred rat model.
  • (4) Lymphocytes of inbred mice immunized with allogenic tumour cells were labelled in vitro or in vivo by 3H-thymidine, washed out and incubated with target cells in the presence of "cold" thymidine.
  • (5) In the present study we screened mice from 22 different inbred strains for potential differences in their immunological reaction to HgCl2.
  • (6) Using molecular probes to examine somatic cell lines and recombinant inbred and congenic strains of mice, we have re-evaluated these linkage relationships.
  • (7) We have investigated enhancement of pigmentation in inbred C3H- mice using tail skin as a model for testing the effects of phosphorylated DOPA (DP) and ultraviolet radiation.
  • (8) These results are discussed in relation to previous reports suggesting a common addiction liability for both morphine and alcohol in inbred strains of animals.
  • (9) Mta is determined by a maternally transmitted, extrachromosomal genetic element, so backcross mice reject skin from their inbred, homozygous paternal strain.
  • (10) However, rmm-1, a cis-acting laboratory-induced mutation obtained previously by mutagenesis of inbred strain C3, causes the mutant rmm-1 rDNA to be completely out-replicated by B rDNA.
  • (11) Inbred strain 2 and random-bred guinea pigs injected oxazolone in incomplete or complete Freund's adjuvant showed contact reactions within an hour after topical application when tested 3 weeks post-sensititization.
  • (12) 2 inbred brothers with brachydactyly of the index fingers and 1 case of 'achondroplasia' were also found.
  • (13) An analysis of these recombinant inbred strains may reveal additional mouse genes affecting atherosclerosis susceptibility.
  • (14) The distribution of derepression among castrated recombinant inbred strains (9 X A) indicated a close link of a locus repressing I-P-450(16 alpha) in male mice to the Rip locus on chromosome 7.
  • (15) The number of serotonin type 2 receptors (S2) was measured in the frontal cortex of mice belonging to 7 inbred strains using specific 3H-spiperone binding.
  • (16) This study provides evidence that complement activation by graft-bound alloantibody is a critical effector mechanism of hyperacute rejection in this inbred rat model.
  • (17) Resistance to MCA-induced lymphoma was dominant over susceptibility in all crosses tested, and in inbred strain mice MCA resistance was found to correlate with resistance to lymphoma induced by a fractionated dose of gamma irradiation.
  • (18) Earlier studies demonstrated that these inbred birds have normal peripheral blood T and B cell numbers; they also respond normally to allogeneic stimulation.
  • (19) Estimated genetic progress per generation due to within-line selection was negative in most of the traits in the inbreds but was considerably positive for the linecrosses for most of the traits.
  • (20) Two types of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) can be distinquished in an inbred strain of rats of the Wistar type.

Inured


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Inure

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Growing up in and around war zones and in high-crime environments will inure a person to risk and violence.
  • (2) Perhaps we are beginning to become inured – thickening our skin and hardening our hearts, proofing ourselves against the pain to come.
  • (3) It and subsequent genocides could only have taken place because people had become “inured”.
  • (4) Many of us have become inured to shock at the revolving door between politicians, the civil service, high-ranking military personnel and the arms trade.
  • (5) Hours after the attack ended, US troops with sniffer dogs checked the building for undetonated explosives, as security officials inured to violence snapped pictures of the bodies and discussed the support the fighters must have received.
  • (6) The simultaneous changes of thermoregulation can be looked upon as part of the reaction of the whole body (also called inurement).
  • (7) Inurement by exposure lies at the heart of most of our leisure activities.
  • (8) All of us can help by advocating on behalf of the doctors and their patients, refusing to accept their suffering is normal, even if the world can sometimes seems inured to Syria’s pain.
  • (9) A federation whose other alumni include former president Jack Warner, the long time rogue whose scheme to cream off funds meant for Haitian earthquake victims shocked even those who ha become inured to his antics, and Chuck Blazer, who siphoned millions in consultancy fees to fund a lavish Trump Towers lifestyle for himself, his cats and his parrots.
  • (10) But when you’ve been the subject of a $250bn lawsuit at the tender age of 23, then no doubt you become inured to opposition.
  • (11) Air traffic controllers stopped work from 1000 to 1300 GMT and journalists stopped work for five hours.But the bleak weather and despondency among Greeks inured to protests against the erosion of jobs and benefits meant the marches largely fizzled, with two unions cancelling plans for a coordinated march to parliament because of the rain.
  • (12) Her public, now inured to Gaga dressed in beef, was bewildered to hear that Artpop has been heavily influenced by the performance artist Marina Abramovic and sculptor Jeff Koons.
  • (13) Churchill's "lion-hearted nation" could not have endured the last war, or the Blitz, without inurement training.
  • (14) He became inured to seeing dead people all around him: "We did not care if we died today or only tomorrow."
  • (15) If they are not inured to criticism, I don't think anybody is."
  • (16) Becoming inured to welfare, they cease to hunt for opportunities and investment projects, and lose the skills needed to do so.
  • (17) In fact, such incidents do not make news in China , for people have long been inured to them.
  • (18) I also added my name for a more practical reason,” he said, “the government of Bangladesh might be more subject to influence because of this letter than a government in the west, where letters and petitions and appeals and the like are always flying about, and politicians grown inured to them.
  • (19) I have become inured to the messages on the outside of cigarette packages.
  • (20) Studios have learned that popular franchises can effectively be inured against weakly-received instalments provided that new movies continue to roll off the production line.

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