(1) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
(2) EDRF is even more labile than prostacyclin, with a half-life of about 6 seconds, and it has recently been identified as nitric oxide.
(3) Benzyloxycarbonylarginine p-nitrophenyl ester and other activated esters of N-a-sustituted arginine salts may be useful reagents for introduction of trypsin-labile protecting groups into peptide fragments for purpose of polypeptide semi-synthesis.
(4) Bile flow was stimulated significantly by VPA and MCCA, but not by CCA; changes in bile flow correlated with the biliary excretion rate of base-labile conjugates rather than with excretion of the parent compounds themselves.
(5) Binding activity was labile to heat, and to treatment with pepsin or trypsin.
(6) The following factors were studied: relative ability to adsorb virus, sedimentation of the adsorbing components, heat lability of the components, virus elution, and recovery of cell-associated virus.
(7) Enzymatic lability does not, however, play as important a role as lipophilicity in the corneal and conjunctival penetration of cycloalkyl and aryl ester prodrugs.
(8) Brief digestion at neutral pH without reduction produced a molecule in which the Fab and Fc fragments were still linked by a pair of labile disulphide bridges, and the Fc fragment released by cleaving these bonds, called 1Fc fragment, contained a portion of the ;hinge' region including an interchain disulphide bridge.
(9) Detailed studies of the effects of acid pH on the formation of Fraction C after borohydride reduction demonstrated the apparent lability of the non-reduced form, thus confirming our previous findings (Bailey & Lister, 1968).
(10) A lysosomal membrane labilizer, vitamin A, exacerbated the cartilage pathology, whereas a stabilizer, cortisone, retarded it.
(11) In 13 (26%) inpatients and 11 (49%) outpatients Shigella was found, and heat-labile and heat-stable forms of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli were found in 9 (18%) inpatients and 1 (4%) outpatient.
(12) The factor appears to rearrange the distribution of myotube AcCho receptors either by aggregating mobile AcCho receptors or by stabilizing labile receptor aggregates.
(13) The transformation-related protein p53 is normally very labile.
(14) The results are consistent with an action of banana tree juice on the molecule responsible for excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle, resulting in a labilization of intracellular Ca2+.
(15) It was determined by mouse protection tests that the specificity of protective antibodies was directed toward a trypsin labile antigen.
(16) Twelve days following discontinuation of the drug, the patient continued to experience diarrhea, restlessness, emotional lability, and anxiety.
(17) Cytokine secretion by activated lymphocytes or mast cells is preceded by dramatic stabilization of the normally labile GM-CSF mRNA.
(18) (i) The secretions of most of the deep cells and the majority of superficial cells contained sialidase-labile and sialidase-resistant sialomucins.
(19) The studies reported here demonstrate the presence of heat-labile serum factors in normal human sera which killed B. fragilis directly and which promote its phagocytosis and killing by PMNs.
(20) High blood pressure is itself an independent risk factor for vascular disease, in proportion to its height, for all ages and sexes, whether systolic or diastolic, labile or fixed, and the threat is further aggravated by surges in blood pressure throughout the person's daily activities.
Malleable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.
Example Sentences:
(1) The wire consists of a flexible, 49-strand, stainless steel cable connected on one end to a short, malleable, blunt leader with the opposite end connected to a small islet.
(2) Larson said misconceptions about Tubman had flourished in part because she was a “malleable icon”.
(3) The use of a malleable curved disposable suction cautery for the control of any persistent bleeding at the conclusion of adenoidectomy in over 1000 cases has prevented any primary postoperative hemorrhages from the nasopharynx, and obviated the need for post-nasal packing.
(4) These results indicate that the Nh genome is extremely malleable and large portions may be non-essential for growth in culture.
(5) Collectively, these findings indicate that the malleability of learned behavior is not simply a function of initial associative strength but is dependent on path during initial acquisition.
(6) In an attempt to minimize operating time and donor-site morbidity--as well as obtain a more malleable graft--we used liposuction to obtain our fat grafts for sinus obliteration.
(7) British law on photographing people in public places is still quite malleable.
(8) These changes in laminar distribution resemble the laminar specific decay of neuronal malleability and parallel the developmental redistribution of 1,4-Dihydropyridine-sensitive Ca channels.
(9) The plates show considerable advantages over existing small plate systems in their size, malleability and consequent ease of handling.
(10) These modifications include decreased width and thickness of the metal skeleton for easier application and increased malleability, respectively.
(11) These deformities can usually be corrected by appropriate splinting in the neonatal period, a time when estrogen activity is increased and the ear is very malleable.
(12) I look forward to what the least biblical of biblical films will do with this most malleable of texts.
(13) The goal of this study was to determine whether the use-dependent malleability of visual cortex functions which is particularly pronounced in 4-week-old kittens correlates with enhanced susceptibility to kindling.
(14) In order to verify these effects, the authors devised a multi-electrode, malleable plaque (63 electrode sites) that could be secured at the AV junction during venous occlusion in the open-chest, anesthetized dog.
(15) The pelvic-reconstruction plate is malleable and is more easily contoured in the operating room than a dynamic-compression plate.
(16) The facts do not support this assertion, and I will show, using examples from among the arthropods, that appropriate experiments often reveal competition, feedback, and prolonged periods of malleability much as they do for the vertebrates.
(17) Furthermore, they suggest as a possible reason for the decline of malleability towards the end of the critical period the reduction of NMDA receptors.
(18) The government’s desire for a more malleable Senate – one of its key reasons for calling a double dissolution – has backfired badly, with a similarly-sized, and likely equally recalcitrant, crossbench set to take seats on the red benches.
(19) It would seem important to further examine malleable and critical periods of development in a broader array of developmental contexts and species to determine whether malleable periods for atypical or abnormal development and critical periods for species-typical or normal development always coincide.
(20) The low incidence of sepsis is attributed to the use of the curved malleable Hodgkinson tibial nail which requires no reaming, renders the operation less difficult and traumatic, and interferes minimally with bone vascularity.