What's the difference between multifold and tenfold?
Multifold
Definition:
(a.) Many times doubled; manifold; numerous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multifold stimulations of lymphocytes with NDV with parallel alterations of the temperature of incubation revealed that as early as after the first stimulation, they achieved the state of tolerance and stopped producing interferon even after repeated inductions or temperature alterations.
(2) The detrimental effect of the excess chains is multifold.
(3) Soluble IL-2R levels in the serum of untreated recipients were not elevated compared with normal serum levels, but recipients injected with AMT-13 had multifold increased soluble IL-2R levels.
(4) Our investigations bring into light the multifold interrelationships between the functionally efficient liver and lymphatic organs in rat.
(5) Histamine increases the oxidase activity of the enzyme in human and rat blood sera and exerts multifold effects on the enzyme activity in patients with hepatolenticular degeneration.
(6) On this account as well as on account of their general morphology, endothelial pockets appear to be multifold versions of the simple transendothelial channel.
(7) A therapeutic penetrating keratoplasty was performed when the infection and its accompanying inflammation became clinically unresponsive to multifold therapy, and a corneal perforation was imminent.
(8) Because of the multifold characteristics as drug carriers, liposomes have been investigated extensively as carriers of anticancer agents for the past several years.
(9) The polymorphism of the changed structure in the nerve cells is due to complicated and multifold pathophysiological and biochemical mechanisms being involved in an intracranial volumetrical process.
(10) Previous investigations have reported that the presence of heparin has a multifold accelerating effect on the inhibition of factor XIIa and XIIf, the active species derived from factor XII.
(11) In a second in vivo assay, which measures only the steps of the metastatic migration process during which tumor cells extravasate from the blood and then grow into pulmonary tumors (lung colonization assay), a significant multifold increase in the ability to form lung tumors was shown by the high human urokinase-secreting B16-F1 cells.
(12) The findings were described and compared, multifold in manual techniques happened breaks caused by occluded tubules were accompanied with decrease of antithrombin III and positive FM-tests.
(13) We report here that low concentrations (3-30 microM) of each long-chain unsaturated (oleic, linoleic, linolenic, and arachidonic) and saturated (palmitic, stearic, and arachidic) fatty acid tested induced multifold increases in voltage-dependent calcium currents (ICa) in cardiac myocytes.
(14) On the other hand, a multifold increase in the disposition of thioether compounds was found in urine.
(15) Both the manifestations and the causes of reperfusion injury are multifold.
(16) The residual dimension is not uniform, not homogenous and is not nosologically neutral, but is complex, multifold and nosospecific to a significant extent.
(17) This correspondence system has proven to be very time efficient, and has improved the level of correspondence in this referral practice multifold.
(18) In both conditions ACE inhibition opposes sympathetic influences and enhances vagal influences and, in hypertension, this intervention is followed by a regression of left ventricular hypertrophy providing a multifold background for a cardioprotective action.
(19) The high insulin content, the multifold stimulation of insulin release by a variety of secretagogues, their convenient propagation in culture, and the renewable source of these cell lines make the beta TC cells a convenient model for studies of beta-cell function.
(20) We have analyzed the characteristics of SC RBC heterogeneity and find that: (1) SC cells exhibit unusual morphologic features, particularly the tendency for membrane "folding" (multifolded, unifolded, and triangular shapes are all common); (2) SC RBCs containing crystals and some containing round hemoglobin (Hb) aggregates (billiard-ball cells) are detectable in circulating SC blood; (3) in contrast to normal reticulocytes, which are found mainly in a low-density RBC fraction, SC reticulocytes are found in the densest SC RBC fraction; and (4) both deoxygenation and replacement of extracellular Cl- by NO3- (both inhibitors of K:Cl cotransport) led to moderate depopulation of the dense fraction and a dramatic shift of the reticulocytes to lower density fractions.
Tenfold
Definition:
(a. & adv.) In tens; consisting of ten in one; ten times repeated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Measurements of the lactose repressor over a tenfold range of cell growth rates were made on protein extracts from Escherichia coli cultures grown in media with various carbon energy sources.
(2) The growth of vaccine strains was depressed at 39 degrees C to a level about 3 log10 lower than that at 37 degrees C. The difference in virus titer attained by wild strains at 37 degrees and 39 degrees C was less than tenfold.
(3) The concentration of G-CSF in supernatants from cells stimulated with both IL-1 and IL-4 was at least tenfold higher than that measured in supernatants harvested from cells stimulated with either IL-1 or IL-4 alone.
(4) Inductive influence of the fascial transplant has been measured in two patients; a tenfold increase in net collagen synthesis and deposition occurs for at least one year following transplantation of fascia to an imbricated scar recipient area.
(5) S1 nuclease protection assays revealed that transfection of full-length raf complementary DNA in the antisense orientation (AS) leads to a specific reduction (greater than tenfold) of steady-state levels of the endogenous c-raf-1 sense (S) transcript in SQ-20B cells.
(6) Heat resistance increased about tenfold in the range of 30-44 degrees C. Sporulation at 52 degrees C did not show any further increase in heat resistance.
(7) In the wild strain (Em 5297a) thiourea is tenfold more toxic on an allantoin medium than on an inorganic nitrogen medium; allantoin as well as urea counteract thiourea toxicity in the allantoin nitrogen medium.
(8) There appears to be a direct connection between this observation and the two main messages of the campaign as the employment of condoms increased tenfold during the period 1986-1988 end contact investigations revealed a decrease in the number of unknown sexual partners.
(9) In this regard, cured lung cancer patients, including those with SCLC, have a tenfold increased risk of developing a second lung cancer (Fontana 1977; Cortese et al.
(10) When [Na+] was varied, with [K+] and [Cl-] constant, there was a linear relation between PD and log [Na+], with a change of 18 mV per tenfold change in concentration.
(11) All the streptovals and streptovaricin degradation products except varicinal A showed a marked improvement (twofold to tenfold) in activity against the viral enzyme over the parent streptovaricins.
(12) About a tenfold increase in enzyme activity could be measured in the presence of 5 microM beta-estradiol or esteriol.
(13) The affinity of modified HMWKa for kaolin was tenfold less than the affinity of unmodified HMWKa.
(14) A tenfold elevation of AFP was found in the first patient.
(15) Throughout the observation period (6 months), TcR2+ cells in peripheral lymphoid organs and blood were absent in treated animals with the exception of few (less than 10%) cells with a tenfold reduced TcR2 density; peripheral TcR2-CD3+ cells, i.e.
(16) Compared with unstimulated platelets, platelets triggered by the combined action of collagen plus thrombin showed a tenfold activity increase in prothrombin activation, and a 20-fold rate enhancement in factor X activation.
(17) By 4 weeks after a single 6.3, 12.5 or 25 ng injection, seven, nine and ten out of ten vaccinees, respectively, had antibody detectable by a HAV AB assay modified to increase its sensitivity tenfold.
(18) The main finding of the study was a tenfold increase in the subsequent visit rate for asthma in the acute bronchitis group.
(19) Increasing the potassium concentration of the medium resulted in a reduction in the resting membrane potential of 60 mV per tenfold change in potassium concentration, and a diminished TSH response.
(20) Quantitative analysis of mannose and leucine incorporation showed that the mutant enzyme incorporated two- to tenfold less mannose than the normal enzyme on a molar basis.