What's the difference between plastic and plastin?
Plastic
Definition:
(a.) Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator.
(a.) Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; -- used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child.
(a.) Pertaining or appropriate to, or characteristic of, molding or modeling; produced by, or appearing as if produced by, molding or modeling; -- said of sculpture and the kindred arts, in distinction from painting and the graphic arts.
Example Sentences:
(1) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(2) With the exception of PMMA and PTFE, all plastics leave a very heavy tar- and soot deposit after burning.
(3) The consequences of proved hypersensitivity in patients with metal-to-plastic prostheses, either present prior to insertion of the prosthesis or evoked by the implant material, are not known.
(4) We found that when neutrophils were allowed to settle into protein-coated surfaces the amount of O2- they generated varied with the nature of the protein: IgG greater than bovine serum albumin greater than plastic greater than gelatin greater than serum greater than collagen.
(5) FGF did not influence P production, while EGF clearly increased basal P production of the cells cultured on plastic.
(6) Alveolar macrophages (greater than 97% esterase positive) were isolated form bronchoalveolar lavage fluids by adherence onto plastic.
(7) During collection, the rat was restrained in a plastic holder where it was free to eat.
(8) The agency, which works to reduce food waste and plastic bag use, has already been gutted , with its budget reduced to £17.9m in 2014, down from £37.7m in 2011.
(9) Radiological examination provides more accurate indications for plastic surgery of the pelvic floor, influences the operative procedures and permits better evaluation of operative results.
(10) Unlike cells grown on plastic, RME cells grown on type I collagen were readily subculturable and serial subculture resulted in the cells undergoing 15-20 population doublings (5-6 passages) before exhibiting any loss of growth potential.
(11) In 36 patients plastic reconstruction of the urinary bladder, sphincter and urethra was performed with local tissues after the Young technic in the G. A. Bairov modification.
(12) This result contraindicates a general permissive-requisite role for forebrain NE for the mammalian brain's plasticity during its critical periods.
(13) Markram's papers on synaptic plasticity and the microcircuitry of the neural cortex were enough to earn him a full professorship at the age of 40, but his discoveries left him restless and dissatisfied.
(14) Thus functional plasticity in response to early experience appears to be a fundamental aspect of cortical development.
(15) A metal-plastic prosthesis was tested in positions and with forces considered applicable to arthritics.
(16) The surgeon must have an exact idea of this canal before undertaking operation for plastics of the hernial defect.
(17) HVc and RA grow during the subsong and plastic song periods of song development.
(18) Asymmetries occur less often whilst using the low-cervical-pull according to Sander, due to the reduced friction between the two plastic parts of this headgear system.
(19) This paper reports the findings of a national survey of Medical Schools and Plastic Surgery Units.
(20) Plastic surgery seems to be successful in mitral valve lesions, whereas lesions of the aortic valve are such that valve replacement is required.
Plastin
Definition:
(n.) A substance associated with nuclein in cell nuclei, and by some considered as the fundamental substance of the nucleus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two methods to preserve gastrointestinal tract (GIT) organs and tissues, plastic coating (PC) and plastination (PN), were investigated and compared.
(2) Twelve cadaver achilles tendons were investigated by means of the plastination method.
(3) These candidate genes can be divided into 5 groups: signal transduction proteins (RB1, inhibin alpha, FLT1, and HOX4B), muscle-specific products [myosin light chain, desmin, and nicotinic cholinergic receptor subunits gamma and delta (CHRNG and CHRND)], extracellular matrix proteins (collagen type VI alpha 3 chain, elastin, and fibronectin), transformation-associated products (intestinal alkaline phosphatase and L-plastin), and other genes (esterase D).
(4) Both schedules used plasma activated partial thrombo-plastin time (P-APTT) for adjustment of heparin infusion and aimed at the same therapeutic interval for P-APTT (1.5-2 times the value in normal pooled plasma).
(5) With the present trend in decreased requests for autopsies to be performed, the method of plastination and videotaping coupled with more traditional teaching methods provides a way to expand the information and knowledge that may be obtained from each autopsy in an academic medical center.
(6) In this model natural recombinant hirudins, rHV2 and rHV2-Lys47 injected 5 min before thrombo-plastin totally inhibited thrombosis in the same micrograms range as heparin or natural hirudin extracted from leeches.
(7) Fimbrin is also homologous in sequence with human L-plastin and T-plastin.
(8) A technique of plastination and its application to the preservation of oral pathology teaching specimens is presented.
(9) A microangiography of all femora occurred and after plastination transparent slices were produced.
(10) By means of macroscopic preparations and plastinated crossections of human bodies in the regions of the mons pubis a flat flat-pad (corpus adiposum), covered by connective tissue, was found, which can be demarcated from the subcutaneous adipose tissue.
(11) The finished plastinated specimen is dry to the touch, odorless, and nontoxic, yet it maintains its original shape and, in many cases, is reasonably close in color and consistency.
(12) Fibroblasts transformed in vitro by chemical carcinogens or SV40 virus and tumor-derived cancer cells of fibroblastoid or epithelioid origin usually express plastin and p220, a minor phosphorylated form of plastin.
(13) A morphological study concerning the development and arrangement of the connective tissue in the retrorectal region was performed by investigating 300-700 micron thick sections through fetal pelves, plastinated with the epoxy resin E 12 and cut with a diamond wire-saw.
(14) The modified Spalteholz technique with decalcification of sections and second plastination procedure for the preparation of transparent decalcified bone sections is described.
(15) The endotoxin-stimulated monocytes with their elevated tissue thrombo-plastin activity thus may play an important part in development of the DIC which so often follows septicemia.
(16) We report here that plastin is expressed as one of the most abundant proteins of normal, untransformed lymphocytes.
(17) A new histological method basing on the plastination technique (v. Hagens, Tiedemann, Kriz 1987) has recently been developed and applied to research in human fetal development.
(18) The relative values of different microangiographic techniques have been determined for the first time by means of further developments of the Spalteholz and plastination techniques, because they have provided the possibility of standardizing sections.
(19) Altmejd makes Damien Hirst look like a restrained aesthete, and Gunther von Hagen's plastinated corpses look like a major contribution to science.
(20) Plastinated whole jaws are still readily identifiable from antemortem records.