(n.) Change; alteration, either in form or qualities.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neutrons induced a dose-dependent cytotoxicity and mutation frequency in the AL cells.
(2) The hprt T-cell cloning assay allows the detection of mutations occurring in vivo in the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (hprt) gene of T-lymphocytes.
(3) The pathology resulting from a missense mutation at residue 403 further suggests that a critical function of myosin is disrupted by this mutation.
(4) Mutational mosaicism was used as a developmental model to analyze 1,500 sporadic and 179 familial cases of retinoblastoma from the world literature.
(5) Substances with a leaving group at the C-3 position form unsaturated conjugated cyclic adducts and are mutagenic only in the His D3052 frameshift strains with an intact excision repair system (no urvA mutation).
(6) The results are consistent with our previous suggestion that lethality for virulent SFV infection results from a lethal threshold of damage to neurons in the CNS and that attenuating mutations may reduce neuronal damage below this threshold level.
(7) It is concluded that selection against insertional mutations is unlikely to be the major factor involved in the containment of element abundance.
(8) Combination of domain substitutions to generate the [Glu107,123]bFGF and [Arg19,Lys123,126]bFGF mutants did not show any additivity of the mutations on biological activity.
(9) The plasmid pMucAMucB, constructed from the Haemophilus influenzae vector pDM2, and a similar plasmid, constructed from pBR322, increased the survival after UV irradiation of Escherichia coli AB1157 with the umu-36 mutation and also caused UV-induced mutation in the E. coli strain.
(10) Peptidoglycan synthesis is unaffected by the mutations affecting the core glycosyltransferases.
(11) The v-erb A oncogene of avian erythroblastosis virus is a mutated and virally transduced copy of a host cell gene encoding a thyroid hormone receptor.
(12) Genetical analysis revealed that resistance to trimethoprim resulted from forward mutations at separate loci rather than back mutations of rad 6 or rad 18 alleles.
(13) Studies on asparagine synthetase indicate that resistance to albizziin may be due to altered regulation of asparagine synthetase, structural mutations of the enzyme, and gene amplification.
(14) Mice with mutations in four nonreceptor tyrosine kinase genes, fyn, src, yes, and abl, were used to study the role of these kinases in long-term potentiation (LTP) and in the relation of LTP to spatial learning and memory.
(15) The apparent sensitivity of Escherichia coli K12 to mild heat was increased by recA (def), recB and polA, but not by uvrA, uvrB or recF mutations.
(16) Tumorigenesis is a multistep process involving mutations of dominantly acting proto-oncogenes and mutations and loss-of-function mutations of tumor suppressor genes.
(17) Appropriate mutations in this pre-early gene allowed a productive infection in ColIb+ cells.
(18) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
(19) Mutant alleles of rutabaga act in the germ line cells to partially suppress the developmental defects caused by dunce mutations.
(20) The extensive conversion of anti-BPDE to B[a]PT-10-sulfonate under conditions where sulfite enhances diolepoxide mutagenicity, when coupled with this enhancement of diolepoxide mutagenicity by B[a]PT-10-sulfonate in the reverse mutation assay, supports this novel B[a]P derivative as a mediator of the sulfite-dependent enhancement of B[a]P genotoxicity.
Nutation
Definition:
(n.) The act of nodding.
(n.) A very small libratory motion of the earth's axis, by which its inclination to the plane of the ecliptic is constantly varying by a small amount.
(n.) The motion of a flower in following the apparent movement of the sun, from the east in the morning to the west in the evening.
(n.) Circumnutation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect on the signal intensities of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and iophendylate (Pantopaque) and on CSF-iophendylate contrast was studied in vitro with a small-nutation-angle (alpha) gradient refocused magnetic resonance (MR) imaging technique (GRASS) as alpha, repetition time (TR), and echo time (TE) were varied.
(2) 2D 27Al nutation MAS NMR was used to corroborate the line assignment for the as-synthesized and the rehydrated AlPO4-17.
(3) The families that do not show consistent differences are not necessarily harbouring nutations at the same locus, or the same mutation at any particular locus.
(4) The mutation which makes T7 DNA sensitive to the endonuclease is separable from the amber nutation and located between am28 and am233 (gene 6).
(5) Solid-state 27Al NMR spectra of several aluminophosphate molecular sieves have been recorded with conventional magic-angle spinning (MAS), double-rotation (DOR) and quadrupole nutation with fast MAS.
(6) Enhanced resolution was obtained in the quadrupole nutation experiment at certain radiofrequency pulse strengths.
(7) There was a high correlation between measurements obtained with the variable nutation and partial saturation techniques.
(8) The one phase is the intermediate phase where dilatation of the cervix is almost complete and where there is an instinctive reflex that delivery is going to take place and this is very strong, and this is what starts off the oscillation (contra-nutation) of the sacrum and full engagement.
(9) The apparent T2 is influenced by the magnitude of the nutation angle inhomogeneity across the slice and paradoxically is not always more accurate with larger numbers of echoes.
(10) The accuracy of measurement of the spin-lattice relaxation time (T1) in biological systems using the variable nutation angle method is discussed using computer simulations.
(11) The spin nutation properties of frequency selective (space selective in combination with a magnetic field gradient) trains of radiofrequency micropulses were studied in a numeric model.
(12) Cross-polarization magic-angle spinning 13C and 15N NMR, rotational-echo double resonance 13C NMR, and delays alternating with nutation for tailored excitation-difference 13C NMR spectra have been obtained from lyophilized cell walls of Bacillus subtilis grown on a synthetic medium containing D,L-[2-13C, 15N]aspartate and D-[1-13C]alanine.
(13) Transparent pulses are defined by the property of having no net effect on stationary spins, while selectively nutating and dephasing flowing spins.
(14) This "variable nutation" techniques was investigated using a T1 phantom.
(15) We conclude that the variable nutation method may allow measurement of T1 relaxation times with a significant reduction in acquisition time compared to partial saturation techniques.