(v. t.) To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.
(v. i.) To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone.
Example Sentences:
(1) As soon as the component with the lower mechanical stability is percolating the powder system, tablet hardness is controlled entirely by this component.
(2) This group consisted of 101 cases of whom 38 underwent semen treatment with Centrifugation on a Discontinuous Percoll Gradient (CDPG) and 63 with Pellet Swim-up (PS); the control group was made up of 31 normospermic patients where the semen was treated by PS.
(3) The attempt to fractionate the testicular cells by centrifugation in the continuous and discontinuous Percoll gradient was undertaken.
(4) The platelet subpopulations were separated with discontinuous gradients of Percoll.
(5) By using Percoll discontinuous density gradient centrifugation, peripheral blood nonphagocytic and nonadherent mononuclear cells were divided into the low and high density fractions for which natural killer (NK) cells and T cells were enriched, respectively.
(6) We conclude that both localized memory and percolation are possible in stimulatory idiotypic networks.
(7) The effect of activated PMN was tested on the motility of Percoll-washed spermatozoa in the presence and absence of reactive oxygen species scavengers or seminal plasma (whole or fractionated).
(8) To cope with this problem, in 27 IVF cycles, sperm selection was performed by centrifugation on discontinuous Percoll density gradient.
(9) Thirdly, the discontinuous percoll density gradient centrifugation was used to separate P. carinii cysts.
(10) Fractionation by Percoll density centrifugation of peripheral blood leucocyte cells, from atopic subjects with seasonal hay fever, unmasked IgE-B cell populations whose individual capacities to synthesize IgE in vitro were obscured in cultures of unfractionated B cells.
(11) Inspection of the cavity margins revealed absence of percolation at the dentin margins.
(12) In general, IEL of satisfactory yield and of good viability were obtained with EDTA treatment of the gut tissues, followed by rapid passages of the resultant cells through nylon-wool columns and centrifugation on two-step Percoll density gradients (45% and 80%).
(13) Basolateral membranes obtained by self-orienting Percoll-gradient centrifugation were treated with 5 mM CaCl2 to minimize the cross-contamination by brush border membranes.
(14) Percoll-purified high density small lymphocytes had little or no migratory capacity under these conditions, requiring a longer incubation time (4 hr) for consistent migration.
(15) Guinea pig marrow cell suspensions were first enriched for megakaryocytes by density equilibrium centrifugation in continuous Percoll density gradients.
(16) Using Percoll density gradient centrifugation, 1,25(OH)2D3 receptors could be localized in the basal cell fraction.
(17) After introduction of erythrocyte targets, there was a 20- to 30-min delay before initiation of phagocytosis that was not observed with monocytes prepared by the standard Percoll-gradient technique.
(18) To accomplish this, blood was obtained from patients with ragweed AR, granulocytes were isolated and fractionated by continuous density Percoll gradients, and the density distribution of these cells was determined after centrifugation.
(19) A cellular compartment from brown adipose tissue (BAT) of newborn rats was isolated by Percoll-density-gradient centrifugation and was shown to proliferate and to undergo adipose conversion in vitro in primary culture.
(20) Collagenase-dispersed cells from human chorion laeve were examined on Percoll gradients.
Permeate
Definition:
(v. t.) To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand.
(v. t.) To enter and spread through; to pervade.
Example Sentences:
(1) In both instances the permeation rates of proteins can be better correlated to hydrodynamic radii than to molecular weights.
(2) In anaerobiosis, at 25 mM sulphanilic acid, or with addition of p-toluene sulphonic acid only one regression line is obtained for the permeation in both directions.
(3) The calpains were allowed to autolyze to completion, and the autolysis products were separated and were characterized by using gel permeation chromatography, calpastatin affinity chromatography, and sequence analysis.
(4) At 5 micrometer and 2.5 mM sulphanilic acid under aerobic conditions, the regression lines for the permeation from lumen to blood pass almost through the origin, while the regression lines for the permeation from blood to lumen intersect the ordinate at a positive Y-value.
(5) The breakthrough time and permeation rate at steady-state were calculated as described in the ASTM standard test method.
(6) Insulin-like growth factor-binding proteins (IGFBPs) in rat serum, lymph, amniotic fluid and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and in rat cell-conditioned media were characterized using a combination of gel-permeation chromatography, Western immunoblots and Western-ligand analysis.
(7) Glycerol permeation and thus its osmotic action may be less in the soleus than in other muscles.
(8) Previous histological evidence of the uptake of these particles and their absorption across the gastrointestinal tract and passage via the mesentery lymph supply and lymph nodes to the liver and spleen was confirmed by analysis of tissues for the presence of polystyrene by gel permeation chromatography.
(9) 10% NNDEMT doubled the amount of PFA in the skin, increased fourfold the amount permeated across the skin, and increased the flux fivefold.
(10) Various methodological weaknesses permeate the relevant literature.
(11) Time courses for in vivo total mucosal uptake exhibited linearity over a wide variety of absorption rates after correction for the permeation by intact metal-chelate complex.
(12) Gel permeation chromatography of the CIT-agarose eluates revealed one protein peak that coincided with PDE activity at an elution position of 135,000 daltons.
(13) Phospholipase A2 has been purified from the venom of Horned viper (Cerastes cerastes) by gel permeation chromatography followed by reverse-phase HPLC.
(14) The buccal absorption characteristics and physicochemical properties of the beta-adrenoceptor blocking agents propranolol and atenolol have been investigated to evaluate their permeation properties across biological lipid membranes.
(15) The permeation enhancer STDHF increases mucosal permeability and reduces the average molecular weight of the insulin species.
(16) I argue that the energy profile in the permeation pathway of most biological channels should vary relatively smoothly with only a few localized energy barriers or wells.
(17) Channels containing a variety of viable cells permeated the rice bodies.
(18) Estrogen receptor from human breast cancer tissue and from normal human uterus was isolated and characterized by a combination of physical separation methods including ammonium sulfate precipitation, gel permeation chromatography, isoelectric focusing and gel electrophoresis.
(19) However, we did not examine the mechanisms by which the apparent high permeation of sodium chloride occurs.
(20) For the skins without stratum corneum, the permeation rates and permeation amounts of l-NG and dl-NG were higher than those for the intact skin (P less than 0.01), but no significant difference was seen between l-NG and dl-NG.