(a.) Proceeding by threes; consisting of three; as, the ternary number was anciently esteemed a symbol of perfection, and held in great veneration.
(a.) Containing, or consisting of, three different parts, as elements, atoms, groups, or radicals, which are regarded as having different functions or relations in the molecule; thus, sodic hydroxide, NaOH, is a ternary compound.
(n.) A ternion; the number three; three things taken together; a triad.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ternary complex consisting of a 65-kDa peptide originating from the proteoglycan core protein and a 43-kDa link protein bound to hyaluronic acid was purified from a clostripain digest of the rat chondrosarcoma aggregating proteoglycan and 14C-carbamylated with potassium [14C]cyanate.
(2) The binding kinetics suggest that during steady-state turnover product dissociation follows a specific, preferred pathway in which tetrahydrofolate (H4F) dissociation occurs after NADPH replaces NADP+ in the ternary complex.
(3) The results are most consistent with a general non-compulsory model for the formation of a ternary complex between carrier, phenylalanine molecule and a sodium ion, which can be formed from either binary complex, i.e., either species can combine first to the carrier.
(4) The ternary complexes between enzyme, NAD+ and either Cl- or trifluoroethanol and the binary complex between enzyme and orthophenanthroline have almost identical spectral parameters which are not consistent with a four coordinated geometry, but are consistent with a five coordinated geometry.
(5) Further, from the plateau values of the ratios, it follows that the substrates dissociate very infrequently from the ternary complex and that at a low substrate concentration 72% of the reaction follows the pathway in which ATP adds first to the enzyme.
(6) However, inefficient initiation by the mutant enzyme leads to processive and stable ternary elongating complex.
(7) We have investigated the effect of HRI in the partial reactions of protein chain initiation in which the IF-promoted binding of Met-tRNA(f) (Met) to 40S ribosomal subunits is enhanced by another initiation factor [ternary complex dissociation factor (TDF)] and AUG.
(8) Binary and ternary complexes of bovine adrenocortical mitochondrial cytochrome P-450scc with adrenodoxin and adrenodoxin reductase.adrenodoxin complex are formed in the presence of cholesterol and Emulgen 913.
(9) Neither antibody significantly inhibits EF-G-dependent GTPase activity, nor the binding of EF-G when the antibodies are incubated with 50 S subunits; however, Ab 187-272 causes a decrease in the binding of EF-Tu X aminoacyl-tRNA X GTP ternary complex and of EF-Tu-dependent GTPase when it is incubated with 70 S ribosomes.
(10) This double-ternary complex affinity chromatography has been applied successfully to human, horse, rat, and rabbit liver extracts to isolate the respective homogeneous alcohol dehydrogenases.
(11) We have described methods to prepare ternary complexes halted at defined positions along the DNA template, using specific dinucleotides to prime chain initiation along with limited subsets of the NTP substrates.
(12) For the estimation and correction of errors in the measurement of the respiratory flow with viscosity-affected respiratory flow receptors the viscosity of natural respiratory gases (N2, O2, CO2, H2O) and of the ternary system helium-oxygen-nitrogen, which is of importance in pulmonary function diagnosis, was determined.
(13) The capture probe-target-labeled probe "ternary complex" is then captured on magnetic beads containing oligo(dT).
(14) This observation indicated the formation of a ternary S protein-thrombin-antithrombin III (STAT) complex in serum.
(15) The ability of heparin to couple solution-phase thrombin to solid-phase heparin cofactor indicates that a ternary complex is formed.
(16) These results demonstrate the nonequivalence of actin monomers within the ternary complex.
(17) This study investigates the regulation, by salt and glycosaminoglycans, of ternary (alpha-beta-gamma) complex formation, measured by incubating radioiodinated alpha-subunit with a mixture of IGF-I and IGFBP-3 and precipitating bound radioactivity with an anti-IGFBP-3 antiserum.
(18) Based on the characteristics of the ternary complexes and of the tetracycline degradation products, it is concluded that only the active form of tetracycline can be complexed and extracted for fluorescence analysis.
(19) We describe a method for analyzing ternary transcription complexes, of RNA polymerase, DNA and nascent RNA32 chains, by agarose gel electrophoresis.
(20) Hg(II) can mediate the formation of the albumin dimer as well as a ternary complex of the type albumin-Hg(II)-L-cysteine.
Triadic
Definition:
(a.) Having the characteristics of a triad; as, boron is triadic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Electron microscope examinations of the developing triadic junction in fibers from leg muscles of fetal and postnatal rats reveal a range of complexity from no structural connections across the space between apposed membranes of T and SR to all of the junctional structures visible in adult rat muscle fibers.
(2) These findings indicate the existence in the cerebral cortex of a triadic circuit involving afferent input both to projection and to local inhibitory neurons, and reciprocal synaptic interactions among these neuronal populations.
(3) Those who insist on working only within dyadic, triadic, or family contexts may fail to achieve desirable goals.
(4) Triadic systems with C and D postsynaptic to V2 were nearly as numerous as those involving V1 in type I glomeruli.
(5) Reconstructions of the dendritic segments postsynaptic to the labeled terminals show that the dendritic appendages receive retinal and parabrachial input in triadic relationships with F2 terminals: a retinal or parabrachial axon contacts the F2 terminal, and the F2 terminal plus the retinal or parabrachial axon contact the dendritic appendage.
(6) Cortical terminals and occasional triadic contacts are evident around 21 weeks.
(7) Certain sequential models of the so-called synaptic triadic arrangements (TSA) occurring in sensory nuclei are analyzed.
(8) his model is consistent with the structural architecture of the triadic junction in which four dihydropyridine receptors (the voltage sensors for E-C coupling) in the t-tubule membrane are closely associated with each ryanodine receptor(the calcium release channel) in the SR membrane [Block, B.
(9) The results (2) confirm the color opponent coding (COC) model which was developed to describe the physiological components of the color vision system in the bee, (3) the general psychophysical assumptions about the structure of the color space, (4) the color difference formula, and (5) the general psychophysical assumptions about the (triadic) structure of judgements as tested in color similarity experiments.
(10) The correlation of these findings with electrophysiologic and behavioral references suggests that some but not all axonal functions may be taken over by the dendrites, that the possible inhibitory phasing of P-cell discharge would appear only after the second postnatal week, and that the triadic arrangement may not be indispensable for brightness or total luminous flux discrimination but could be required for more complex forms of visually guided behavior.
(11) Movements in this triadic organizational relationship are described and analyzed in terms of four conceptual stages--exploration, negotiation, interaction and performance, and termination.
(12) While the pathways for investigating divergent views of the family are clearer for those who chose more quantitative methods (as current literature reflects this tradition), qualitative methods may serve to clarify the process through which divergent views occur and are maintained within the family, both on an individual and on a dyadic or triadic level.
(13) Caffeine-induced Ca2+ release is exhibited by triadic and terminal cisterna SR subfractions but not by light SR. Caffeine specifically increases the rate of unidirectional 45Ca2+ efflux.
(14) Imagination as a mental capacity is part of a line of development that begins in the earliest symbiotic interactions between mother and infant, takes further shape as the child moves from dyadic to triadic relations, and culminates in a fully mature capacity to reflect upon in thought one's wishes and feelings vis-à-vis multiple others.
(15) Finally triadic thought models in psychoanalytic theory will be presented and discussed.
(16) The developing triadic junction shows a progressive increase in complexity of structures within the junction.
(17) Adequate experiences, leading to increasing trust and tolerance of frustration and tension, promote ego structuralization, self-object differentiation, and oedipal, triadic object relations.
(18) This protein has the following characteristics: it exists in 0.1 M KCl as a polymeric substance with an estimated Mr = 123,000 on molecular sieve chromatography and a Mr = 155,000 on sedimentation equilibrium; it promotes the formation of triadic vesicles from isolated organelles in a low ionic strength medium; Both this protein and cacodylate share the property of specifically catalyzing the association and aggregation of junctional proteins which had previously been dissolved by neutral detergent and salt; it appears to be identical to an extrinsic constituent of terminal cisternae, which has been described as a protein of Mr = 34K.
(19) Six alcoholic Korsakoff patients were presented with triadic comparisons composed of names of birds, predators, and birds of prey.
(20) Dyadic and a few triadic couplings are found mainly at the A-I level.