(1) Both types of molecules are compact and globular in shape and apparently contain beta-pleated sheet conformation.
(2) A central eight-stranded beta-pleated sheet is the main feature of the polypeptide backbone folding in dihydrofolate reductase.
(3) The resulting tertiary structures are extremely Ig-like consisting of two superposed beta-pleated sheets.
(4) Important secondary structure elements that can be derived from the observed nuclear Overhauser effects are a large antiparallel beta-pleated sheet consisting of four strands, A, B, C, D, a segment SAB consisting of an extended region around the active-center histidine (His-15) and an alpha-helix, a half-turn between strands B and C, a segment SCD which shows no typical secondary structure, and the alpha-helical, C-terminal segment S(term).
(5) High-waisted flared pleated silk trousers was the key shape, in colours Saint Laurent would have approved, such as like pumpkin orange, sea green and glowing fuchia.
(6) Then, the skin strips were glued on alternate folds of a pleated sheet of paper, each fold of which was 0.3 cm or 0.5 cm in width.
(7) Both pleated septate and gap junctions were found in the immature state; their intramembranous particle (IMP) distribution was characteristic of junctions in the process of assembly, since the IMPs were irregularly and loosely arrayed in contrast with the parallel septate junctional IMP rows and gap junctional plaques found in the fully regenerated or control tissues.
(8) In Rhinolasius, one receptor possesses a short bulbous cilium without a rootlet, with a septate desmosome of the pleated sheet (comb) type and a weakly developed electron-dense band beneath it.
(9) Its secondary structure is mostly beta-structure, part of which can be visualized by electron microscopy to form a single beta-pleated sheet near the protein-lipid interface of the trimer.
(10) It possesses an alternating motif of hydrophilic sequences that can potentially be folded into alpha-helices and hydrophobic sequences that can potentially be folded into beta-pleated sheets.
(11) In addition, most of the autoreactive hybridomas also demonstrated inhibition of reactivity to mutations in the amino half of the first domain of the I-A alpha- and beta-chains, which encodes the beta-pleated sheet of the floor of the Ag-binding groove.
(12) 25.4 cm) fiberglass depth cartridge and a 10-inch pleated epoxy-fiberglass filter in a series at flow rates of up to 37.8 liters (10 gallons) per min.
(13) In the absence of Ca2+ and in the presence of [ethylenebis(oxoethylenenitrilo)]tetraacetic acid (EGTA), the protein contains 30-35% alpha helix, 50% random coil, and 15-20% beta-pleated sheat.
(14) analyses of the single domains and the scTCR indicate that they are folded into beta-pleated sheet structures similar to those of immunoglobulin variable domains.
(15) The rules predict the absence of alpha helix and beta pleated sheets in the structure of this peptide.
(16) Early myotube retraction was accompanied by accentuation of the longitudinally oriented surface pleats and appearance of "blebs" followed by cell-rounding.
(17) In the case of the apolipoproteins, the knowledge of their primary structure has facilitated the study of their physicochemical properties in solution and at the air-water interface and has also permitted realistic predictions of the two dimensional organization, not only of their alpha-helical segments but also of the beta-pleated sheets, random coil and beta-turns, all of which have amphipathic properties.
(18) Its first 120 amino acids form a central five-stranded, beta-pleated sheet surrounded by five alpha helices.
(19) The antiparallel peptide strands are distorted from a regularly pleated sheet, caused mainly by the L-Ala residue in which phi = -155 degrees and psi = 162 degrees.
(20) The ledges of some pleats partly grow toward each other as ring like diaphragms, leaving openings whose boundary is composed of alveolar epithelium separated by a basal lamina from a connective tissue sheath with capillaries.
Plicate
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Plicated
Example Sentences:
(1) We reached the following conclusions: The incidence of operative phrenic nerve injury in infants undergoing lateral thoracotomy, particularly for Blalock-Taussig shunt, is higher than generally appreciated; plication is a safe procedure as performed by either an abdominal or thoracic approach; failure to achieve extubation within a week of plication is an ominous prognostic sign; mortality in patients with eventration in the presence of major associated conditions may be high despite plication.
(2) Sixteen patients with sternocleidomastoid flaps and 16 patients with superficial musculoaponeurotic system plication were compared to a control group of 104 patients.
(3) None of the patients treated by operation (plication or resection and suture of the bleb) had a later recurrence.
(4) Urinary leakage in 3 patients with a right colonic reservoir (2 with an intussuscepted ileal nipple valve and 1 with a plicated ileal segment as a continence mechanism) was managed with tapered narrowing of the nipple valve and the ileocecal valve, respectively, using stapling techniques.
(5) We conclude that plicatic acid-specific IgE and nonspecific bronchial hyperresponsiveness are associated in western red-cedar workers and that this association may reflect a causal connection.
(6) Favorable early results have been reported utilizing transthoracic diaphragmatic plication in symptomatic children with phrenic nerve injury.
(7) To avoid injury conduction system stitches were placed from upper margin of the VSD, and to keep away tricuspid regurgitation we plicated a depression of septal leaflet which caused by anomalous chordae in VSD patch closure.
(8) water, respectively, in the plicated ileal segment (p equals 0.043 and less than 0.001, respectively).
(9) In one case rupture of the repaired diaphragm developed 2 years after plication.
(10) Plicatic and abietic acids both caused dose- and time-dependent lysis of alveolar epithelial cells.
(11) In prevention of the recurrent intestinal obstruction we performed at the Department of Pediatric Surgery of the University of Mannheim a sutureless plication of the small bowel with fibrin glue only over the last 7-year period.
(12) Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome is classically defined as facial palsy, oedema facial and plication of the tongue, constituting one rare cause of facial palsy.
(13) The closure of large wounds created by the Mohs method of skin cancer removal may often be facilitated by the plication of the underlying fascia.
(14) To be effective plication of the SFJ has to reduce the calibre of the vein to 60-70% of the initial calibre for a length of 1-1.5 cm allowing the valve cusps to close when flow in the femoral vein is reversed (ie., by Valsalva manoeuvre).
(15) At celiotomy, 75 per cent underwent ulcer plication only; the remainder had a definitive acid reduction procedure.
(16) Plication significantly reduced end-systolic wall stresses and systolic stress integrals in the posterior border zone and remote myocardium, but it did not significantly change anterior wall systolic stresses or stress integrals.
(17) In this series of ten patients, evaluated 6 months after plication of the SFJ, venous reflux was significantly reduced (at Doppler and duplex examination and ambulatory venous pressure measurements) and the improvement of haemodynamic data was associated with improvement of symptoms.
(18) The Childs-Phillips plication operation was performed in forty-two patients, as treatment for recurrent small bowel obstruction in nineteen and as prophylaxis against future intestinal obstruction in twenty-three.
(19) Surgical technique was as follows: annuloplasty 9, plication of leaflet 4, closure of cleft 10, commissurotomy 2, displacement of papillary muscle 1.
(20) Seven adult patients with dyspnea resulting from nonmalignant unilateral diaphragmatic paralysis underwent plication of the affected hemidiaphragm.