What's the difference between thread and unifilar?
Thread
Definition:
(n.) A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted.
(n.) A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.
(n.) The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1.
(n.) Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse.
(n.) Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness.
(v. t.) To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.
(v. t.) To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid.
(v. t.) To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.
Example Sentences:
(1) Use 3-ml Luer-Lok syringes and 30-gauge needles and thread the needle carefully into the vessel while using slow and steady injection with light pressure.
(2) No infection threads were found to penetrate either root hairs or the nodule cells.
(3) When using a nylon thread for the attachment of a pseudophakos to the iris, it may happen that the suture is slung tightly around the implant-lens.
(4) This thread ran through his later writings, which focused particularly on questions of the transformation of work and working time, envisaging the possibility that the productivity gains made possible by capitalism could be used to enhance individual and social life, rather than intensifying ruthless economic competition and social division.
(5) Santi Cazorla, Sánchez and Mesut Özil were all involved, and when the ball came back to Cazorla he made a fine threaded pass to Walcott.
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(7) The astrocytes had generally two types of processes: (1) thread-like processes of relatively constant width with few ramifications and few lamellar appendages and (2) the sinuous processes with clusters of lamellar appendages.
(8) Electron microscopy showed the presence of bacterial ghosts and protein threads.
(9) George RR Martin , whose series of novels inspired the HBO drama , has woven a tapestry of extraordinary size and richness; and most of the threads he has used derive from the history of our own world.
(10) The left anterior descending coronary artery of dogs and the right common carotid artery of rabbits were subjected to partial constriction with suture thread (40-60% reduction in transluminal diameter).
(11) Neuronal thread protein is a recently characterized, approximately 20-kd protein that accumulates in brains with Alzheimer's disease (AD) lesions.
(12) Small threaded pins do not cause femoral head rotation.
(13) Nematocyst capsules and everted threads from both species contained levels of glycine and proline-hydroxyproline characteristic of vertebrate collagens.
(14) Load transfer from ring to bone is concentrated at the first and last threads where the subchondral bone layer is penetrated.
(15) Furthermore, large numbers of neuropil threads are scattered throughout the nuclear gray.
(16) The histological findings of actinomyces spores, thread-like foreign material and detritus drew out attention to the rare manifestation of abdominal actinomycosis.
(17) Monofilament nylon threads are used as drains in free skin grafting; 2-0 or 3-0 nylon threads are usually applied.
(18) Monoclonal antibodies, raised independently in two laboratories against either pancreatic stone protein (PSP) or pancreatic thread protein (PTP), reacted with the Mr 14,000 protein(s).
(19) With the initial technique, the gastrostomy tube was pulled in by a thread introduced percutaneously into the stomach.
(20) P19 gave by proteolysis a protein of 14 KD (P14), at first named protein X and also called pancreatic thread protein or pancreatic stone protein.
Unifilar
Definition:
(a.) Having only one thread; involving the use of only one thread, wire, fiber, or the like; as, unifilar suspension.
Example Sentences:
(1) Escherichia coli C cells, unifilarly substituted with 5-bromouracil (BrUra) were 2-25 times as sensitive as unsubstituted cells to killing by gamma-irradiation under aerobic conditions.
(2) Cells that contain only unifilar BrdUrd-DNA are resistant to black light, whereas cells that contain bifilar BrdUrd-DNA are extremely photosensitive.
(3) Chinese hamster chromosomes were differentially substituted with 50 microM 5-bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) to obtain chromosomes with bifilarly and unifilarly substituted (BB-TB) and unifilarly and non-substituted (TB-TT) chromatid constitutions.
(4) We propose that during the HB pretreatment, more DNA-protein cross-linkings are induced in BrdU bifilarly substituted than the unifilarly substituted chromatids.
(5) Cesium chloride equilibrium gradient centrifugation provides estimates both of the percent thymidine replacement by BrdUrd and of the symmetry (unifilar versus bifilar) of BrdUrd incorporation into the chromosomal DNA duplexes.
(6) and SSC treatment together resulted in differentiation, with dark-staining unifilarly (TB) chromatids in the LM corresponding to raised loosely packed loops in the SEM and pale bifilarly (BB) chromatids corresponding to the smooth compact flattened SEM appearance.
(7) These data suggest that in vitro radiosensitization following unifilar substitution with IdUrd results, in part, from damage to unsubstituted complementary strand and adjacent doubly unsubstituted DNA.
(8) Two procedures are described for the fractionation of chromatin containing unsubstituted (LL) DNA and DNA unifilarly substituted with bromodeoxyuridine (HL).
(9) Using filter elution techniques, the enhancement ratios (ER) for double strand breaks (SB) were 1.5 and 2.0 for unifilar and bifilar substitution, respectively, whereas the enhancement ratio for single strand breaks were both greater than or equal to 2.1.
(10) After staining with Giemsa, unifilarly BrdU-substituted chromatids stained faintly and bifilarly substituted chromatids stained darkly.
(11) The bifilarly substituted chromatid is dramatically longer than the unifilar one.
(12) For closed circular DNA the topological invariant, linking number of two strains, yields strict connection between conformation of double helix, considered as a unifilar homopolymer, and elastic energy of torsional twisting.
(13) Lastly, the different behaviour of unifilarly substituted TB as opposed to BT chromatids in UV-treated chromosomes, allowed us to hypothesize that such chromatids may differ depending on whether or not newly synthesized DNA is formed on a BrdUrd-containing strand.
(14) This protocol produces equal amounts of unifilarly (heavy-light) and bifilarly (heavy-heavy) substituted DNA.
(15) These methods can also be used to differentiate between unlabeled (T2T0) and unifilarly labeled (B1T2) sister chromatids and are potentially useful in the detection of sub-chromatid exchanges (none were detected).
(16) These results indicate that the only known cause for an increase in alkaline elution rate is DNA SSB; severe changes in DNA higher order structure including hydrolysis of one strand by unifilar substitution with an alkaline-labile base analog have no effect on the elution rate of the unsubstituted strand.
(17) The late DNA replicating sites became unifilarly BrdU-substituted as compared to the earlier replicating sites having a normal DNA constitution.
(18) The light absorption of Giemsa stained chromosome sections which were unifilarly substituted with BUdR (labelled), was found to be 59.2% of that of unlabelled chromosomes.
(19) In contrast, the relationship between radiosensitization and DNA double-strand breakage was critically dependent in the case of IdUrd, but not for BrdUrd, on whether substitution was unifilar or bifilar.
(20) After unifilar substitution of thymine with bromouracil in either human HeLa or bovine cells, exposure to 313 nm light inhibits initiation of clusters of replicons.