(n.) A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.
(n.) Something intended to serve, or that may serve, as a pattern of something to be made; a material representation or embodiment of an ideal; sometimes, a drawing; a plan; as, the clay model of a sculpture; the inventor's model of a machine.
(n.) Anything which serves, or may serve, as an example for imitation; as, a government formed on the model of the American constitution; a model of eloquence, virtue, or behavior.
(n.) That by which a thing is to be measured; standard.
(n.) Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
(n.) A person who poses as a pattern to an artist.
(a.) Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern; as, a model house; a model husband.
(v. t.) To plan or form after a pattern; to form in model; to form a model or pattern for; to shape; to mold; to fashion; as, to model a house or a government; to model an edifice according to the plan delineated.
(v. i.) To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms; as, to model in wax.
Example Sentences:
(1) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
(2) Therefore, these findings may extend the use of platelets as neuronal models.
(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) The testing of other models and their failure to describe the kinetic observations are discussed.
(5) The extreme quenching of the dioxetane chemiluminescence by both microsomes and phosphatidylcholine, as a model phospholipid, implies that despite the low quantum yield (approx.
(6) The results of our microscopic model confirm that the continuum hypothesis used in our previous macroscopic model is reasonable.
(7) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
(8) The anticonvulsant properties of the endogenous excitatory amino acid antagonist, kynurenic acid (KYA), were studied in prepubescent and adult rats using the amygdaloid kindling model of epilepsy.
(9) Decreased MU stops additions of bone by modeling and increases removal of bone next to marrow by remodeling.
(10) Because of the dearth of epidemiological clues as to causation, studies with experimental animal models assume greater importance.
(11) The models are applied to estimate the demand for tobacco products in Finland.
(12) The effects of in vivo administration of native prostaglandin E2 (PGE) on the cycling status of the granulocyte-monocyte progenitor cell (CFU-GM) were examined in a mouse model.
(13) Mutational mosaicism was used as a developmental model to analyze 1,500 sporadic and 179 familial cases of retinoblastoma from the world literature.
(14) Time-series analysis and multiple-regression modeling procedures were used to characterize changes in the overall incidence rate over the study period and to describe the contribution of additional measures to the dynamics of the incidence rates.
(15) The disassembly of the synthetase complex is consistent with the structural model of a heterotypic multienzyme complex and suggests that the complex formation is due to the specific intermolecular interactions among the synthetases.
(16) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(17) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
(18) An experimental autoimmune model of nerve growth factor (NGF) deprivation has been used to assess the role of NGF in the development of various cell types in the nervous system.
(19) The data for the eubacterial ribosomes are in full agreement with the model of the 50S protein topography derived from immunological data.
(20) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
Remodel
Definition:
(v. t.) To model or fashion anew; to change the form of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Decreased MU stops additions of bone by modeling and increases removal of bone next to marrow by remodeling.
(2) In 5 of the 7 patients with an initially abnormal pituitary fossa, serial radiological studies revealed remodelling in 3.
(3) Statistical analysis of the findings indicates that there is no significant difference in bone-remodeling activity between similar sites on alternate ribs.
(4) The chemical composition of the grafted veins was different from that of the nongrafted, controlateral saphenous veins suggesting a molecular remodeling of the grafted veinous wall.
(5) The results are indicative for the existence of synaptic remodeling and turnover in rats subjected to one-way active avoidance training.
(6) Fractures of the neck of phalanx showed no remodelling at all and if deformity is not corrected it is probably permanent.
(7) The sites of growth and remodeling, and the associated changes in cortical bone structure, have been studied in the chimpanzee mandible and compared with those previously reported in the human and macaque mandibles.
(8) In B-cell malignancies, abnormal bone remodeling is an early event linked to specific bone involvement.
(9) Human macrophages have been implicated in connective tissue remodeling; however, little is known about their direct effects upon collagen degradation.
(10) Also, there was some new collagen deposition associated with remodeling of the ZI, while no demonstrable synthetic activity occurred in relationship to ZCI.
(11) Both resident and inflammatory mesangial phagocytes secrete factors that remodel the mesangial matrix, stimulate mesangial cell proliferation, alter glomerular basement membrane permeability, and regulate blood flow.
(12) Thus, our data indicate that enzymatically formed dansyl-PAF is completely remodeled into dansylalkyl-2-acyl-GPC by the sequential action of PAF acetylhydrolase and CoA-independent transacylase.
(13) Although studies directed at attenuating left ventricular remodeling after infarction are in the early stages, it does seem that this will be an important area in which future research might improve long-term outcome after infarction.
(14) Recent experiments indicate the initial reaction that produces lyso-PAF in the remodeling pathway of PAF biosynthesis is under the control of a CoA-independent transacylase that is capable of catalyzing both the hydrolysis of the acyl moiety of the alkylacylglycerophosphocholine precursor and its transfer to another lyso-phospholipid.
(15) The ability of MCP to hydrolyze three classes of peptides decreased in parallel indicating that the 20 S protease is not significantly remodeled during red blood cell maturation.
(16) These findings are noteworthy in that they help to explain the characteristics of life-spans of cohort labeled red cell populations in small animals, and provide a possible example of a cell's remodeling process within the spleen.
(17) The venue was originally home to Marlesford Lodge school, which was remodelled as a boarding school in 1884.
(18) Light-microscopic findings revealed that osteogenesis gradually became dominant after transient osteoporosis, leading to a disproportional state of the bone remodelling.
(19) The fact that short term use of other drugs might modify infarct remodelling should be considered in studies attempting to assess efficacy of one particular drug.
(20) In the area where the collagen was disorganized, and also near the periosteum, woven bone was first formed, which was then remodeled into lamellar bone.