(v.) One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.
(v.) A minute opening or passageway; an interstice between the constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the pores of stones.
(v. i.) To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying; to fix the attention; to be absorbed; -- often with on or upon, and now usually with over.
Example Sentences:
(1) The flow properties of white cells were tested after myocardial infarction, by measuring the filtration rates of cell suspensions through 8 microns pore filters.
(2) The functions of O-GlcNAc remain largely unknown, but it may be important in blocking phosphorylation sites, it may be required for the assembly of specific multiprotein complexes, it might serve as a nuclear transport signal, or it may be directly involved in the active transport of macromolecules across nuclear pores.
(3) The property of melittin pores is shown to be provided by the amino group of the N-terminal glycine residue.
(4) This force will be numerically similar to the net driving Starling force in small pores, but distinctly different in large pores.
(5) The penetration coefficient, determined by the surface tension, contact angle and viscosity, is a measure of the ability of a liquid to penetrate into a capillary space, such as interproximal regions, gingival pockets and pores.
(6) Morphometric analysis of pores and pore complexes shows their size, structure, and density to be similar to that of other mammalian cells.
(7) Nuclear pores were frequently tagged after estradiol treatment.
(8) The toxins all create pores in the cell membrane of target cells leading to eventual cell lysis and they appear to require Ca2+ for cytotoxic activity.
(9) Thus, alkaloid and insecticide modifications share many features but differ in how much the conducting properties of the pore are changed and whether the channel can close reversibly while the toxin remains bound.
(10) A minor portion of the lymph is produced also in the lymph-fold from where it is transported in the interstitial tissue either by transfer vesicles of the circulatory blood capillaries or by pores and fenestrae of the transudatory blood capillaries.
(11) In the cis-trans axis of the Golgi apparatus the following compartments were observed: (a) On the cis face there was a continuous osmiophilic tubular network referred to as the cis element; (b) a cis compartment composed of 3 or 4 NADPase-positive saccules perforated with pores in register forming wells that contained small vesicles; (c) a trans compartment composed of 1 or 2 TPPAse-positive elements underlying the NADPase ones, followed by 1 or 2 CMPase-positive elements that showed a flattened saccular part continuous with a network of anastomotic tubules.
(12) The channels studied here were more selective for monovalent cations than anions, but also showed some permeability to anions and larger electrolytes, suggesting a large functional pore diameter.
(13) Block by Ba2+, Ca2+, Mg2+, and Pt(NH3)4(2+) from the vacuolar and cytoplasmic sides is used to probe the structure of, and ion interactions within, the pore.
(14) The increased hindrance to diffusion of the probing molecules caused by the added solutes is considered as good evidence that the probing molecules diffuse by way of pores filled with water.6.
(15) We are reporting the effect of a cellulose acetate 0.20 micron filter (Flow Pore D26) on preparation of platelet poor plasma (PPP) for subsequent assay of platelet specific proteins.
(16) A further increase in silicon dioxide concentration produced tablets with relatively larger pore sizes.
(17) 1 hour after 1200 R X-ray irradiation the pore density in regenerating liver decreases 5.8-fold, consisting only of 1.7 PCs per 1 micron2 of the NE.
(18) The effect of increasing acetylcholine concentration can best be explained by postulating an increase in the effective channel radius of the water secretion pathway from 0.40 nm to 0.45 nm together with a small increase in the fraction of the total water flow passing through larger non-selective pores.
(19) A small helix is identified at the carboxy terminus of A2 which emerges through the central pore of the B subunits and probably comes into contact with the membrane upon binding, whereas the A1 subunit is flexible with respect to the B pentamer.
(20) Under conditions of chemotaxis with activated serum beneath the filter, the neutrophil population oriented at the filter surface with nuclei located away from the stimulus, centrioles and associated radial array of microtubules beneath the nuclei, and microfilament-rich pseudopods penetrating the filter pores.
Pory
Definition:
(a.) Porous; as, pory stone. [R.] Dryden.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cumulative mortality and birth rates showed a significant accumulation of MS cases to the western county of Vaasa and the southwestern county of Turku and Pori.
(2) the combined clerical districts, revealed a firm accumulation to the western districts in the county of Vaasa and to the southwestern districts in the county of Turku and Pori.
(3) The E. coli oriC Pori-L promoter described in in vitro transcription studies by Lother and Messer (1981) was not detected in this study in either wildtype cells or isogenic dnaA mutants at the nonpermissive temperature.
(4) A new promoter activity, Pori-R1, was identified within the E. coli origin in the clockwise direction.
(5) The distribution of optic neuritis by counties showed the highest mean annual incidence in the southwestern county of Turku and Pori (1.69) and in the western county of Vaasa (1.68).
(6) Elderly persons among the population aged 65 years or over in the town of Pori, Finland, falls leading to medical treatment experiencing during one year, are described by age, sex, month, time of day, place, mechanism, estimated cause, previous falls, symptoms before falling, and activity when falling.
(7) The highest prevalence by present domicile was recorded in the southwestern county of Turku and Pori (52.3 cases per 100,000 inhabitants).
(8) Another high-risk focus was revealed in an area of the neighbouring districts of Turku and Pori.
(9) To determine the factors associated with deaths from asthma we surveyed retrospectively all the death certificates issued in two regions of Finland (the province of Oulu and the province of Turku and Pori) over a ten-year period in which asthma had been given as the main cause of death.
(10) The TCu 380Ag (Outokumpu Oy, Pori, Finland) and the Multiload Cu375 (Multilan, Organon, Oss, The Netherlands) were evaluated in 1477 women in a multicenter clinical trial.
(11) Five clones of pori were examined in transfected V79 hamster cells.
(12) We have cloned a number of plasmids pori, containing DNA fragments derived from rat liver alpha-polymerase complex.
(13) Outward transcription from within oriC (promoters Pori-r and Pori-l) was found to start in vivo at position 178 for Pori-l and at positions 294 and 304 for Pori-r, respectively.
(14) Two separate clusters were found at the level of combined and single clerical districts: one in the western county of Vaasa, and another in the southwestern county of Turku and Pori.