(a.) Capable of being permeated, or passed through; yielding passage; passable; penetrable; -- used especially of substances which allow the passage of fluids; as, wood is permeable to oil; glass is permeable to light.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that chloramphenicol resistance encoded by Tn1696 is due to a permeability barrier and hypothesize that the gene from P. aeruginosa may share a common ancestral origin with these genes from other gram-negative organisms.
(2) These effects are similar to those reported for AVP and phorbol esters, activators of protein kinase C. Forskolin and isoproterenol, which induce cAMP accumulation, activated extractable topoisomerase II (maximum 5-15 min after treatment), but not topoisomerase I. Permeable cyclic nucleotide analogs dBcAMP and 8BrcGMP selectively activated extractable topoisomerase II and topoisomerase I activities, respectively.
(3) Inhibition of thymidine uptake is attributed to an observed decrease in thymidine kinase activity caused by growth in 1 mM dibutyryl cyclic AMP, and possibly to a simultaneous alteration in membrane permeability.
(4) In the course of the syndrome development blood vessel permeability was increased in the anterior chamber of the eye.
(5) This promotion of repetitive activity by the introduction of additional potassium channels occurred up to an "optimal" value beyond which a further increase in paranodal potassium permeability narrowed the range of currents with a repetitive response.
(6) [125I]AaIT was shown to cross the midgut of Sarcophaga through a morphologically distinct segment of the midgut previously shown to be permeable to a cytotoxic, positively charged polypeptide of similar molecular weight.
(7) Catheters containing 0% and 10% heparin were compared in each individual using ultrasound microflow velocimetry, permeability test, sequential determinations of activated partial thromboplastin time, heparin levels and generation of Fibrinopeptide A, beta thromboglobulin and Platelet factor 4.
(8) Comparison of the 50% binding concentrations of the compounds for the various PBPs of the five strains with their antibacterial activity indicates that the different antibiotics are excluded to a greater or lesser degree by the outer membrane permeability barrier and that the exclusion is most pronounced in P. aeruginosa.
(9) Immunoactive levels of DSIP in the plasma correlated with brain immunoactive levels and with BBB permeability to 125I-DSIP.
(10) Cellular aging is accompanied by increased cellular permeability to zinc(II).
(11) These results indicate that FMLP increased a pulmonary microvascular permeability in isolated buffer-perfused rabbit lungs that is PMN dependent and mediated by LT produced possibly by a result of ROS production.
(12) Dacryography is the only means of exploring the permeability of the lacrymal ducts and to conclude as the whether watering of the eyes is organic or functional.
(13) Rhesus monkey BAT mitochondria (BATM) possess an uncoupling protein that is characteristic of BAT as evidenced by the binding of [3H]GDP, the inhibition by GDP of the high Cl- permeability or rapid alpha-glycerol-3-phosphate oxidation.
(14) Whereas the tight junctions of endoneurial capillaries are known to prevent certain blood-borne substances from entering the endoneurium, it was not clear whether the permeability of the pulpal capillaries, which are distant from the nerve fibres, could affect the nerve fibre environment.
(15) In the companion paper, we quantitatively account for the observation that the ability of a solute to promote fusion depends on its permeability properties and the method of swelling.
(16) [14C]Sucrose biliary clearance increased in treated animals, suggesting an increased permeability of the biliary system to sucrose.
(17) The stimulation was not due to increased permeability of the inner mitochondrial membrane.
(18) The roles of Mg, K, Na, and Cl ions in the biphasic K-permeability response (86Rb release) to receptor activation in the parotid gland were investigated.
(19) Investigation of the mechanism of action of the synergistic effect between kanamycin and HA led to the tentative conclusion that potentiation was mediated through an initial alteration of cell permeability by the aminoglycoside antibiotic which permitted accumulation of each of the six HA into the cell, at which point each interacted with pyridoxal phosphate.
(20) Values obtained for the permeability of the epithelium of each of these regions, after separation from the connective tissue with EDTA, did not differ significantly from those obtained for the intact tissue; however, the connective tissue alone had a permeability 2-8 times greater than that of the whole tissue.
Permeation
Definition:
(n.) The act of permeating, passing through, or spreading throughout, the pores or interstices of any substance.
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.