(1) CDI and reverse osmosis (RO) equipment can form the key elements of water treatment trains that produce ultrapure water, without the need for the chemical regenerants associated with batch ion-exchange processes.
(2) At 10(-6)M amphotericin B, the DC membrane resistance fell from approximately 10(8) to approximately 10(2) ohm-cm(2), and the membranes became Cl(-)-, rather than Na(+)-selective; the permeability coefficients for hydrophilic nonelectrolytes increased in inverse relationship to solute size, and the rate of water flow during osmosis increased 30-fold.
(3) Read more The first plant using manipulated osmosis began operating in Gibraltar in March 2009.
(4) These results cast doubt on the suggestions that gas-induced osmosis is an important factor in dysbarism or in clinical anesthesia.
(5) The swelling of the red blood cells was probably due to osmosis caused by Cl- exchanged for the HCO3- which was produced rapidly by carbonic anhydrase present in the red blood cells.
(6) The reverse osmosis water is the main contamination source for the bicarbonate dialysate, the application of which within 6 hours seems worth being used on account of the low germ count.
(7) They induce volume flows across different pathways, e.g., osmosis predominantly across the cellular route and pressure filtration predominantly across paracellular routes.
(8) Hence non-linear osmosis in rabbit gall-bladder is due to a decrease in water permeability with increasing osmolarity.6.
(9) A brilliant sequence to this simple idea followed through Poynting, Arrhenius, Noyes and culminated with Hulett, who in 1901 formulated the "solvent tension theory" of osmosis, stating in essence that the thermal motion of the solute molecules by impact with the free solvent surface put the solvent under tension.
(10) Then with self-powered force (osmosis) substance is released with constant rate over period of 1-4 weeks (model pending).
(11) Experiments on the purification of wash water by means of reverse osmosis membranes MGA-100 were performed.
(12) Water flows by osmosis across the membrane into a sealed chamber where it creates pressure.
(13) After installation of reverse osmosis units there was a decrease in the aluminium concentrations in plasma.
(14) Proposed nonischemic changes, such as hyperoxic injury gas-induced osmosis, or autoimmunity, lack sufficient supporting evidence.
(15) Efficiency of energy conversion for electro-osmosis and streaming potential and the degree of coupling of acids across urinary bladder membranes of goat have been computed using non-equilibrium thermodynamic theory.
(16) We can't leave change to osmosis since it's self-awareness that accelerates the positive and works faster to eliminate the negative.
(17) Osmosis is apparently the mechanism responsible for the coupling of water to solute transport in biological membranes.
(18) We insist that to prevent the occurrence and worsening of bone disease during chronic hemopurification, reverse osmosis water should be used to prepare dialysates and substitution fluids.
(19) We measured endotoxin and bacterial levels in tap water, in water purified by reverse osmosis, and in dialysate samples over a 4-month period in a new 10-bed renal dialysis unit.
(20) The hydraulic resistance was measured on internodal cells of Nitellopsis obtusa using the method of transcellular osmosis.
Osmotic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or having the property of, osmose; as, osmotic force.
Example Sentences:
(1) If tracer is introduced into the carotid artery after osmotic treatment, brain uptake is increased by a net factor of 50 (a factor of 70 due to elevation of PA, multiplied by 7 due to infusion by the carotid route) as compared to uptake by normal, untreated brain with infusion into a peripheral vein.
(2) Finally, it could be observed that elevated osmotic pressures reduced the lysis of isolated secretory granules when bicarbonate ions were present in the incubation medium.
(3) Glucose, osmotic pressure, packed cell volume, PFC by combustion and volatilization were also measured in blood samples.
(4) The structure of L-carnitine resembles the chemical structure of other substances that have been described as being able to protect living cells against osmotic stress.
(5) Finally, the uptake was completely abolished by prior mechanical or osmotic destruction of the intima.
(6) The method is based upon osmotic swelling, sonication and centrifugation in sucrose.
(7) Acetylcholine (Ach) (10(-5) M) to pituitary plus simultaneous, hypothalamic stimulation (osmotic or 10(-5) M Ach) did not increase VP release above the hypothalamic stimulus alone.
(8) The presence in lamprey kidney of a loop which is similar to Henle's loop in mammals and birds indicates that the development of the system of osmotic concentration conditioned by the formation in the kidney of the medulla and from a sharp increase in renal arterial blood supply.
(9) The objective of this study is to find correlation between erythrocyte-membrane osmotic resistance and periodontal changes.
(10) Concentrations of vasopressin and oxytocin decreased in response to both osmotic stimuli and treatment with T2 toxin, but the decrease was greater with osmotic stimulations.
(11) Glycerol permeation and thus its osmotic action may be less in the soleus than in other muscles.
(12) Osmotically treated red cells, red cells partially hardened with increasing glutaraldehyde concentrations, and mixtures of normal and hardened red cells were used to test the method.
(13) Inhibition of lysis by sucrose indicates that hemolysis is of the colloid-osmotic type.
(14) Furthermore, this study demonstrates that the AV3V region is necessary for vasopressin-dependent pressor responses caused by an osmotic stimulus.
(15) In both groups osmotic differences across the membrane were established by the addition of a test molecule to the external medium which was seawater.
(16) EGF receptor-hyperproducing cells of squamous carcinoma origin were inoculated s.c. into the bilatero-abdominal regions of athymic mice and a mini-osmotic pump containing EGF was implanted on teh back.
(17) The difference in binding capacity was of the same order of magnitude as the difference in sodium content, indicating that the excess sodium in the thoracic aortas from the hypertensive rats was osmotically inactive and thus unable to cause water logging.
(18) In some bladders the voltage step produced current oscillations similar to those obtained after the epithelium had been challenged with a serosal osmotic step (Gordon, 1988).
(19) The viscosity and the colloid osmotic pressure of both solutions were also the same.
(20) Intact mammalian neurofilaments were separated by centrifugation of osmotically shocked, desheathed segments of rat peripheral nerve.