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Terminalia


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) A festival celebrated annually by the Romans on February 23 in honor of Terminus, the god of boundaries.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Adult segment primordia are established in the embryo as the histoblast nests of the abdomen and the imaginal discs of the head, thorax and terminalia.
  • (2) produced hepatic lesions which included central vein abnormalities while Terminalia chebula and Withania somnifera (L.) dunal produced marked renal lesions.
  • (3) The sensory neurons of the terminalia are also transformed leading them to arborize appropriately for male neurons.
  • (4) In order to understand how the peripheral nervous system in male and female flies differ, I have determined the projection pattern of sensory neurons that innervate the sex-specific adult terminalia, the genitalia and analia, of Drosophila melanogaster.
  • (5) Ruminants consuming either tannic acid or hydrolysable tannins from the Australian yellow-wood tree (Terminalia oblongata) and the Indonesian shrub Clidemia hirta are intoxicated by simple phenolics liberated in the gut.
  • (6) Other cuticular structures, viz., scales, microtrichia, acanthae, and aedeagal spines, which occur on the terminalia are not innervated.
  • (7) Antimutagenicity of water and chloroform extracts of dried myroblan Terminalia chebula was determined against two direct acting mutagens, sodium azide and 4-nitro-o-phenylenediamine (NPD) in strains TA100 and TA1535, and TA97a and TA98 of Salmonella typhimurium respectively and S9-dependent mutagen 2-aminofluorene (2-AF) in TA97a, TA98 and TA100 strains.
  • (8) ), abura (Mitragyna ciliata), alstonia (Alstonia boonei) and black afara (Terminalia ivorensis).
  • (9) This pattern of wg transcription is discussed with particular regard to the segmentation of the terminalia.
  • (10) On the insula of the female terminalia are a few campaniform sensilla, the domes of which are raised into small pegs.
  • (11) Elbary and Nour investigated the spermicidal effects of saponins isolated from the following plants: Gypsophila paniculata L., Saponaria officinalis L., Enterolobium cyclocarpum, Griseb., Terminalia horrida Steud., Melilotus sicula Vitm., and Ruscus hypoglossum L. All of the saponins tested possessed spermicidal activity.
  • (12) Terminalia arjuna is an important cardiotonic plant described in the Ayurveda, the ancient Indian medical science.
  • (13) The adult terminalia of Drosophila melanogaster males and females are sexually dimorphic.
  • (14) The sensilla on the terminalia function in copulation and oviposition and probably in warning.
  • (15) Four groups of 25 rabbits each, were studied to determine the effect of Haritaki (Terminalia chebula), Amla (Emblica officinalis) and Bahira (Terminalia belerica) on cholesterol-induced hypercholesteolaemia and atherosclerosis.
  • (16) In the adult male and female fly, mechanosensory bristles arranged on the external terminalia are innervated by sensory neurons that arborize in the abdominal ganglion.
  • (17) Rats treated with a mixture of Ayurvedic medicines (Glycyrrhiza glabra, Terminalia chebula, Piper longum and Shanka Bhasma) recovered faster with concomitant increase in beta-glucuronidase activity in the Brunner's glands.
  • (18) In addition to its embryonic role, this same hid function is also required during pupal development for the 360 degrees rotation of the male terminalia about the anterior-posterior body axis, and for a late step of wing blade morphogenesis.
  • (19) Drawings of the ventral aspect of the terminalia are given to show features useful for instar determination and for distinguishing between male and female nymphs and adults of B. orientalis.
  • (20) The terminalia of male and female Aedes aegypti (L.) bear numerous hairs of various shapes and lengths, all of which are mechanoreceptors.

Terminus


Definition:

  • (n.) Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.
  • (n.) The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line.
  • (n.) Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See Term, 8.
  • (n.) Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Conditions for limited digestion of the heterodimer by subtilisin, removing only the carboxyl terminus, were determined.
  • (2) The elongation of helix III with the addition of helix II at the N-terminus somewhat stabilizes the ordered structure.
  • (3) Synthetic DNA corresponding to the hydrophobic domain of cytochrome b5 was enzymatically fused in-frame to cloned DNA corresponding to the C-terminus of the Escherichia coli enzyme, beta-galactosidase.
  • (4) TCR beta chain gene expression of individual T cell clones that share the same MHC class II restriction and similar fine specificity for the encephalitogenic NH2 terminus of the autoantigen myelin basic protein (MBP) has been examined.
  • (5) When these sequences were fused to the N terminus of yeast cytochrome oxidase subunit IV lacking its own presequence, they directed the attached subunit IV to its correct intramitochondrial location in vivo.
  • (6) Both proteins appeared to be recognized by antibodies against the amino (N) terminus of the alpha 1 subunit sequence.
  • (7) These plasmin-cleaved peptides are derived from the COOH terminus of C2b, and they induce the contraction of estrous rat uterus.
  • (8) From the decreased alignment at the N-terminus and the presence of additional residues compared with bacterial phosphorylases, we conclude that the regulatory sequences that also carry the phosphorylation site in the muscle enzyme were joined to a presumed ancestral precursor gene by gene fusion after separation of the eukaryotic and prokaryotic lines of descent.
  • (9) Microsequencing of the peptides resolved by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicates that the amino terminus of the protein is disposed at or near the cytoplasmic surface of the gap junction, and that this surface also contains a protease-hypersensitive hydrophilic sequence between residues 109 and 123, presumably connecting the second and third transmembrane segments.
  • (10) The N-terminal sequence (15 amino acid residues) of the L-proline activating fragment obtained by trypsin treatment was identical with that of GS2, indicating that the L-proline activating site is located at the N-terminus of the native synthetase.
  • (11) It is suggested that a general manner of folding may be a common feature of the heterogeneous population of kappa-chains: one bridge which folds an invariable stretch of the chain, another bridge which folds a stretch that varies from protein to protein, and a bridge at the C-terminus which is the interchain link.
  • (12) Cysteine proteinase I cleaved peptides primarily from the C-terminal region of Tg, which contained two major hormonogenic sites, while cathepsin-B produced peptides mainly from the N-terminus, containing another major hormonogenic site.
  • (13) Deletions from the N terminus of LMM did not alter the solubility properties of the expressed material, but deletion of 92 residues from the C terminus caused a large increase in solubility at low ionic strength, indicating that a determinant important for interaction between LMM molecules was located in this region.
  • (14) Middle component particles of bean pod mottle virus (BPMV) containing small protein subunits with a cleaved C terminus were used to produce monoclonal antibodies (MAbs).
  • (15) We find that the NH2-terminus of PTH is rapidly degraded in situ by the liver but that both liver and especially kidney nevertheless contain low levels of NH2-terminal PTH fragments that, although not released into the blood, are large enough to be potentially active.
  • (16) 2) By contrast, the COOH terminus is an inhibitory regulator of mitogenesis, and removal of the terminal 43 amino acids converts the receptor from a moderately active growth signaler to a very active one.
  • (17) Since the HPV-16 E6-promoted degradation involves the ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis pathway, specific mutations were made in the amino terminus of p53 to examine whether the E6 targeted degradation involved the N-end rule pathway.
  • (18) Examination of the inhibitory effect of ATP using oligo(dA)12-18 as well as activated DNA as primers revealed that (a) ATP inhibition is not due to its addition onto a 3'-OH primer terminus ad judged by the lack of incorporation of labeled ATP, although under similar conditions incorporation of GTP can be demonstrated, (b) a consistent degree of inhibition was noted independent of primer or enzyme concentration; (c) addition of ATP to an ongoing reaction promptly reduces the rate of polymerization; (d) kinetic studies indicate a competitive (with respect to substrate deoxy triphosphate) pattern of inhibition; (e) addition of excess deoxyribotriphosphate promptly relieves the inhibition.
  • (19) A peptide corresponding to the COOH terminus (residues 45-65) was synthesized utilizing lysine 47 as a specific residue to conjugate to thyroglobulin as a carrier for raising antibodies in mice.
  • (20) Myristic acid-labeled virions contained a single radioactive protein, p10, supporting the mapping of this molecule to the amino terminus.

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