(v. t.) To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.
(v. t.) To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances.
(v. t.) To adjust, or maintain, with respect to a desired rate, degree, or condition; as, to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Isotope competition studies indicated that the pathway was regulated by isoleucine.
(2) These channels may, at least in some cases, be responsible for the generation of pacemaker depolarizations, thereby regulating firing behaviour.
(3) Cellulase regulation appears to depend upon a complex relationship involving catabolite repression, inhibition, and induction.
(4) Each process has been linked to the regulation of cholesterol accretion in the arterial cell.
(5) Down and up regulation by peptides may be useful for treatment of cough and prevention of aspiration pneumonia.
(6) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
(7) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
(8) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
(9) The observed relationship between prorenin and renin substrate concentrations might be a consequence of their regulation by common factors.
(10) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
(11) This study was designed to investigate the localization and cyclic regulation of the mRNA for these two IGFBPs in the porcine ovary, RNA was extracted from whole ovaries morphologically classified as immature, preovulatory, and luteal.
(12) At the same time the duodenum can be isolated from the stomach and maintained under constant stimulus by a continual infusion at regulated pressure, volume and temperature into the distal cannula.
(13) The effects of glucagon-induced insulin secretion upon this lipid regulation are discussed that may resolve conflicting reports in the literature are resolved.
(14) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
(15) Thus, human bronchial epithelial cells can express the IL-8 gene, with expression in response to the inflammatory mediator TNF regulated mainly at the transcriptional level, and with elements within the 5'-flanking region of the gene that are directly or indirectly modulated by the TNF signal.
(16) The results suggest differential regulation of IL-6 expression between fibroblasts and macrophages.
(17) This paper has considered the effects and potential application of PFCs, their emulsions and emulsion components for regulating growth and metabolic functions of microbial, animal and plant cells in culture.
(18) These data indicate that CSF levels are not inversely related to the blood neutrophil count in chronic idiopathic neutropenia and suggest that CSF is not a hormone regulating the blood neutrophil count in a manner analogous to the erythropoietin regulation of circulating erythrocyte levels.
(19) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
(20) This novel mechanism of receptor regulation, named transmodulation, should be distinguished from the reduction in total receptor number caused by the homologous ligand (downregulation) and from the change in affinity produced by the binding of agonists or antagonists to the same receptor site.
Slavic
Definition:
(a.) Slavonic.
(n.) The group of allied languages spoken by the Slavs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The frequencies of the three common Caucasoid haplotypes, Gm3,5,13,14, Gm1,17,21, and Gm1,2,17,21 in these two populations were found to be similar to those in neighboring Slavic states and Hungary.
(2) The group have also courted political controversy with their pro-Slavic message and Donatan's support for the Red Army.
(3) Putin uses the Orthodox church to boost patriotism, and strengthen Russian influence in the Slavic world.
(4) Slon.ru, an online business edition, tweeted the news in overtly archaic Russian, avoiding possibly criminal words such as shtraf ( vira is the Old Slavic term, in case you wondered – although it is also a Scandinavian loan word dating back to the 11th century), but wasn't able to follow through when trying to ask its readers to "retweet".
(5) Following expansion of the original data on 21 families in Croatia to a total of 49 Croatian and Serbian families, we establish that this enzymatic disorder is increased in this Slavic population and provide an updated estimate for the gene frequency of 0.092 (0.035-0.149).
(6) In 1904, the first private surgical sanatorium in the Slavic South was founded in Split by Jaksa Racić, M.D., surgeon, urologist and radiologist.
(7) A breakdown of the voting competition organisers revealed that Poland's song, We Are Slavic, featuring a group of scantily clad young women dressed as milk maids , was the runaway favourite of the British public.
(8) "Maybe he also realised that the Serbs saw him as their main enemy," Habsburg-Lothringen said, "because he wanted to balance out, but essentially minimise, the dominating influence of the Serbs among the Slavic people."
(9) This paper is the first of a series of publications on Slavic ethnomedicine in the Soviet Far East.
(10) But many analysts have suggested Russia will stop short of invading east Ukraine and will instead seek to compromise presidential polls on May 25 in a bid to retain influence in the neighbouring Slavic country.
(11) A study was undertaken to find the frequency of the delta F508 deletion and those of the G551D, R553X and G524X mutations among the mainly Slavic population of Serbia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Montenegro and compare the frequencies determined with those in other European populations.
(12) The three scientist authors – Alexey V Yablokov, Vassily B. Nesterenko, and Alexey V Nesterenko – provide in its pages a translated synthesis and compilation of hundreds of scientific articles on the effects of the Chernobyl disaster that have appeared in Slavic language publications over the past 20 years.
(13) Born in Moscow out of an anti-Soviet rock culture in the 1980s, the Night Wolf biking gang, whose logo is a flaming wolf's head, today have branches across the Slavic world including Bulgaria, Bosnia, Serbia and Ukraine.
(14) "Saturday's Slavic Gay pride is about more than gay human rights.
(15) Charles I "clearly saw that a basic problem was the situation of the Slavic people within the Habsburg empire".
(16) The Soviet army played a major role in saving this part of Europe from the realisation of Hitler’s master plan in the east, which proposed the colonisation, enslavement and eventual extermination of the Slavic population.
(17) Eagle-eyed etymologists, however, noted that none of the words in the Liberalnaya Demokraticheskaya Partiya are of Slavic origin, so publishing the name of the party proposing the law could be enough to receive a fine.
(18) The men were about 5ft 9in tall, and one spoke German with a Slavic accent, police said.
(19) Tatchell says he is coming back to Moscow for Saturday's gay rights rally, called "Slavic Pride".
(20) Instead, he offered a quick history lesson, stretching back a thousand years, to when Slavic tribes banded together to form Kievan Rus – the dynasty that eventually flourished into modern-day Ukraine and its big neighbour Russia.