What's the difference between plateaus and plateaux?
Plateaus
Definition:
(pl. ) of Plateau
Example Sentences:
(1) Open reduction and internal fixation with anterior compartment fasciotomy for fractures of both tibial plateaus in a 36-year-old woman was complicated by deep-vein thrombosis three days after surgery.
(2) With 50mM p-nitrophenyl phosphate as a substrate, enzymes II and III exhibit plateaus of activity over the pH range 3 - 5 and 3.5 - 6, respectively.
(3) Despite the freezing curve assayed, both the mini-straws and the bags depicted much shorter freezing point plateaus as compared to the maxi-straws.
(4) Sodium inactivation curves, normalized to I(pmax) values obtained at either the first or second plateaus, were significantly different in different [K(o)].
(5) Lp(a) levels are low at birth and rise significantly between 0 and 7 days post partum; in this newborn population, a continuous rise of the mean Lp(a) levels was observed until 180 days, in contrast with the apo B concentration that plateaus after 7 days.
(6) Nine had bilateral total hip arthroplasty and one had bilateral total knee arthroplasty for osteonecrosis of the tibial plateaus.
(7) For the relaxation reaction, maximum enzyme activity plateaus after 2.5 mM Mg2+.
(8) Histologically, corticosteroids significantly reduced the severity of OA structural changes of the cartilage on both medial and lateral femoral condyles and tibial plateaus in operated animals, with the exception of the lateral plateaus of those treated orally.
(9) Two binding plateaus were observed when increasing amounts of adriamycin were added to mitochondria.
(10) As the number of preventable trauma-related deaths plateaus as a result of trauma system development, new directions for quality improvement in trauma care must come from analyzing morbidity with standardized methods to establish thresholds for provider-related and disease-specific complications.
(11) Cartilage specimens from medial and lateral tibial plateaus were analyzed for DNA, proteoglycan content, and neutral proteoglycan degrading activity.
(12) The observations that the calculated permeation rate of the micelle should be extremely low, the rate of mucosal cell uptake plateaus at a constant value when the critical micelle concentration is reached at the aqueous-lipid interface, and the different components of a mixed micelle are taken up at different rates indicate that uptake of the intact micelle does not occur; rather, bile acid absorption must be explained in terms of monomers in equilibrium with the micelle.
(13) Repeated exponentially decreasing infusions have been used to administer theophylline and enprofylline to show whether it would be feasible to create consecutive plasma concentration plateaus within a few hours.
(14) Analysis of respiratory gases during maximal treadmill exercise testing has been used in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) to detect the lactate threshold, presumed to reflect the onset of skeletal muscle underperfusion, and maximal oxygen consumption (VO2), the point at which VO2 plateaus with increasing work due to exhaustion of peripheral oxygen delivery capacity.
(15) Intravenous infusion of rh-renin produced dose-dependent progressive increases in MBP during the first 40 min, reaching plateaus and thereafter MBP was maintained up to 120 min.
(16) A plot of the maximum percentage increase in the EPSP against the stimulus frequency described three "steps," with plateaus occurring at 0.3-10 Hz, 10-50 Hz, and over 80 Hz.
(17) Assuming a correlation between the two plateaus observed upon binding of adriamycin to the mitochondria and the penetration of the drug into the two leaflets of the inner membrane [Cheneval et al.
(18) In addition, humeral heads were affected in seven patients and the tibial plateaus, in three.
(19) The K+-nitrophenylphosphatase activity associated with mammalian brain (Na+ + K+)-ATPase displays K+ activation curves that have intermediary plateaus and maxima in the presence of less than saturating concentrations of Na+.
(20) In dispersed acini from guinea pig pancreas, natural and synthetic exendin-4 stimulate a monophasic increase in cAMP beginning at 100 pM that plateaus at 10 nM.
Plateaux
Definition:
(pl. ) of Plateau
Example Sentences:
(1) The origin of this current, and its possible role during the plateaux of action potentials are discussed.
(2) If the identities of the enzymes that are rate limiting at the different plateaux are known, the method may allow the determination, in one experiment, of the activities of up to six different enzymes in the intact bacteria.
(3) The BCF values by oral intake of goldfish reached plateaux after 28 days for Bu3SnCl but did not for Ph3SnCl.
(4) In 1988, the Malaria Research Unit of the Madagascar Pasteur Institute settled an out-patients clinic in Manarintsoa, a village of the Highland Plateaux where epidemic malaria appeared recently.
(5) The tegument forms a rectangular pattern of plateaux and valleys around each spine on the posterior body of mature flukes but this pattern is not present on the anterior body.
(6) Sites of superficial fraying and splitting of the hyaline articular cartilage are a normal finding on adult human tibial plateaux.
(7) When the iontophoretic currents needed to produce comparable plateaux of firing were compared, neurones in the pyramidal cell layer of the CA3 region were approximately 5 times more sensitive than cells in the CA1 region.
(8) In Ba2+, spike durations increased as the holding membrane potential was made more positive, resulting in plateaux lasting up to 100 s. These plateaux were characterized by a sustained but slowly decaying absolute potential near 0 mV from which there appeared frequent spontaneous hyperpolarizing transients.
(9) However, Ca2+ spikes during plateaux were an order of magnitude faster when promoted by Cs+ or 4-AP rather than TEA, and apamin did not promote Ca2+ spikes at all.
(10) The plateaux of force preceding these quick maneuvers were also similar.
(11) On the analysis of the interaction between FABP and [3H]palmitic acid over a wide range of concentrations of the fatty acid, at least three saturation plateaux were observed.
(12) The king of them all is Mount Mulanje, a 3,000m-high granite outcrop of forested slopes and tawny plateaux across 230 square miles of southern Malawi.
(13) The recent reappearance of Plasmodium falciparum in the central highland plateaux of Madagascar has led to an important increase in both morbidity and mortality in the population.
(14) Since a few years, malaria has reappeared in the Central Highland Plateaux of Madagascar.
(15) The plateaux were characterized by a sustained depolarization at a potential near -20 mV and they were concomitant with an increase of the membrane conductance.
(16) These neutralization plateaux occurred at different pHs, which were a function (r2 = 0.98) of the ureolytic rate as measured by the log of the initial pH-change rate in the urea-only reaction.
(17) Medial tibial plateaux excised during 46 unicompartmental arthroplasties for osteoarthritis were collected and photographed.
(18) Continuous intra-ventricular pressure monitoring has shown what promises to be characteristic elevated pressure plateaux imposed on normal baseline cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressures in so-called NPH but is a more difficult clinical procedure, necessarily associated with potential complications.
(19) Ca2+ plateaux but not Ca2+ spikes were blocked by nifedipine.
(20) The alpha-2-antiplasmins were lower (NS) in Group II as were the fibrinogen levels (p less than 0.01 at the 12th and 24th hour) whilst the plasminogen levels and surface of fibrin plateaux were higher (p less than 0.01 at the 6th hour and p less than 0.05 at the 12th hour, respectively).