(v. t.) To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or blend into one mass or compound, as by stirring together; to mingle; to blend; as, to mix flour and salt; to mix wines.
(v. t.) To unite with in company; to join; to associate.
(v. t.) To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to compound of different parts.
(v. i.) To become united into a compound; to be blended promiscuously together.
(v. i.) To associate; to mingle.
Example Sentences:
(1) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
(2) Because cystine in medium was converted rapidly to cysteine and cysteinyl-NAC in the presence of NAC and given that cysteine has a higher affinity for uptake by EC than cystine, we conclude that the enhanced uptake of radioactivity was in the form of cysteine and at least part of the stimulatory effect of NAC on EC glutathione was due to a formation of cysteine by a mixed disulfide reaction of NAC with cystine similar to that previously reported for Chinese hamster ovarian cells (R. D. Issels et al.
(3) Anaerobes, in particular Bacteroides spp., are the predominant bacteria present in mixed intra-abdominal infections, yet their critical importance in the pathogenicity of these infections is not clearly defined.
(4) The metabolism of [1,3-14C]benzo[f]quinoline (BfQ) by liver microsomes from control, 3-methylcholanthrene (3-MC)-pretreated and phenobarbital (PB)-pretreated rats has been investigated in order to gain insights into the effect of mixed function oxidase inducers on the types and levels of specific metabolites as formed in vitro.
(5) Peptides from this region bind to actin, act as mixed inhibitors of the actin-stimulated S1 Mg2(+)-ATPase, and influence the contractile force developed in skinned fibres, whereas peptides flanking this sequence are without effect in our test systems.
(6) mycoides cluster' at a similarity level (S) of 66% and which remained undivided at up to 78% S. At higher similarity levels, these strains fell heterogeneously into mixed sub-phenons containing strains of both subspecies.
(7) For routine use, 50 mul of 12% BTV SRBC, 0.1 ml of a spleen cell suspension, and 0.5 ml of 0.5% agarose in a balanced salt solution were mixed and plated on a microscope slide precoated with 0.1% aqueous agarose.
(8) Most specimens arrived in the laboratory mixed with 50% ethanol.
(9) Mixing experiments were performed to test the putative inhibitory effects of allotype-suppressed spleen cells from the first adoptive transfer (stage I) on the antibody response of normal spleen cells in a second adoptive transfer (stage II).
(10) The mixed leukocyte reaction proliferative response against the B7 transfectant is inhibited by either anti-CD28 or B7 mAb.
(11) And adding to this toxic mix, was the fear that the hung parliament would lead to a weak government.
(12) Variation in patient mix was a major determinant of the large variations in resource use.
(13) The flow of a specified concentration of test gas exits from the mixing board, enters a distributing tube, and is then distributed equally to 12 chamber tubes housing one mouse each.
(14) Mixed micelles of bile salt and phospholipids inhibit the lipase-colipase-catalysed hydrolysis of triacylglycerols.
(15) Several aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are herein shown to catalyze the AMP----ADP and ADP----ATP exchange reactions (in the absence of tRNAs) by utilizing a transfer of the gamma-phosphate of ATP to reactive AMP and ADP intermediates that are probably the mixed anhydrides of the nucleotide and the corresponding amino acid.
(16) The reduction is believed due to the currently used pre-prepared disposable or reusable capsules containing the amalgam versus formerly mixing the ingredients manually.
(17) On the basis of a follow-up concerning 41 patients and of data from the literature, the authors report their present surgical approach for mixed tumors, underlining their preference for T.C.P., and limiting S.P.
(18) The technique is based on the action of 0.1 M 2-mercaptoethanol mixed directly with the material.
(19) Probably a mixed strategy will be to reduce the risk of HIV or IVDUs.
(20) Inner Ear Decompression Sickness (IEDCS)--manifested by tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and hearing loss--is usually associated with deep air or mixed gas dives, and accompanied by other CNS symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS).
Mutt
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The name gastrin releasing peptide (GRP) was given to the porcine and avian heptacosapeptides by McDonald and Mutt.
(2) Such mutants were isolated by using mutT mutagenesis and an enrichment procedure devised to favor the growth of individuals that could form a pellicle in static broth containing alpha-methylmannoside, an inhibitor of erythrocyte binding and pellicle formation.
(3) Previous studies have shown that the mutT, mutH, mutL and mutS mutators of Escherichia coli confer a marked selective advantage on their respective hosts in competition with otherwise isogenic wild-type strains.
(4) 206, 9-16) and indicate that the first of the potential initiation codons (position 164) of the open reading frame in the PvuII fragment carrying the mutT gene is the site of initiation of translation of the 15,000-Da polypeptide.
(5) As Brodie waited to collect a back-pass, the mutt flew at him, knocking the Scotsman to the ground; he was stretchered off, having shattered his kneecap.
(6) Most of the mutants obtained had high spontaneous mutation rates and mapped close to the previously known mutators mutT, mutS, mutR, uvrE and mutL.
(7) The MutT protein, which prevents AT----CG transversions during DNA replication, hydrolyzes nucleoside triphosphates to yield nucleoside monophosphates and pyrophosphate.
(8) Specific labelling of plasmid-encoded proteins by the maxicell method revealed that mutT codes for a polypeptide of about 15,000 daltons.
(9) Obama, at his first press conference after the election, said the family preference was for a dog from a shelter - "a lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me".
(10) Mutt and Jorpes (49) originally isolated cholecystokinin (CCK) from porcine intestine.
(11) This error-avoiding process is catalysed by a protein encoded by the mutT gene of Escherichia coli, mutations of which increase the occurrence of A.T----C.G transversions 100 to 10,000 times the level of the wild type.
(12) These properties of the human 8-oxodGTPase are similar to those observed with the E. coli MutT protein, suggesting that the function of protecting the genetic information from the threat of endogenous oxygen radicals is widely distributed in organisms.
(13) However, the A.G mispairs normally prevented by the mutT function are refractory to mismatch repair, indicating that they may represent a structurally distinct class.
(14) Escherichia coli mutT strains are strong mutators yielding only A.T----C.G transversion mutations.
(15) Except for mutants of mutT type, these mutators also showed high mutability by bromouracil.
(16) A total of 103 ewes from the breeds Black mutt., Texel, Finn.
(17) The mutT nucleoside triphosphatase, which prevents AT----CG transversions during DNA replication, has been crystallized from ammonium sulfate utilizing a novel technique involving vapor diffusion in capillaries.
(18) We present biochemical evidence demonstrating that MutY glycosylase is an important part of a repair system that includes the MutM and MutT proteins.
(19) On the basis of the template specificity of the mutT effect in vitro, we conclude that the mutT effect involves the aberrant processing of A.G rather than T.C mispairs.
(20) We have analyzed the interaction between mutD5 and mutT-induced A:T-->C:G transversions by measuring reversion frequencies in mutD5 and mutT single mutator strains and mutD5mutT double mutator strains using the well-characterized trpA58 and trpA88 alleles.