(a.) Consisting of three, or thrice repeated; triple; as, threefold justice.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fasted rats also exhibited a threefold increase in glucose 1,6-diphosphate (G-1,6-P2) in the white quadriceps after 30 min of exercise, whereas no significant changes were observed in the red quadriceps or in liver.
(2) Use of oestrogens without progestogens is associated with a twofold to threefold increase in risk of endometrial neoplasia.
(3) Latencies were increased two- to threefold, and tracking was more variable.
(4) Densitometry of immunoblots indicated that there was two- to threefold more PrP-res than PrP-sen in one infected clone.
(5) At 7 days after inoculation, BN rats had 65-fold higher (P less than .001) pulmonary viral titers and threefold higher (P less than .002) numbers of neutrophils in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid than did F344 rats.
(6) Plasma lactate levels were elevated by about threefold during both glucose and lactate infusion.
(7) The VO2 resp did not increase, despite approximately threefold increases in both inspiratory flow rate and contraction frequency.
(8) Our results showed an approximately two- to threefold increase in the level of the type I cAMP-dependent protein kinase and a somewhat smaller increase in the type II kinase in extracts of the "old" IMR-90 cells (population doubling greater than 48) as compared to that of the "young" cells (PDL 22-27).
(9) After exposure to 400 microM aluminum lactate and removal of unbound aluminum, human cytoskeletal proteins were degraded two- to threefold more slowly by calpain.
(10) Such an inhibition occurred slowly and irreversibly; it might be related to the threefold increase in cyclic GMP.
(11) Rifampin increased the clearance of (R)-warfarin threefold and the clearance of (S)-warfarin twofold.
(12) Cholesterol levels remained relatively constant in all tissues examined except brain, where a threefold increase was observed.
(13) The expression of shlA was measured as a function of alkaline phosphatase activity, which increased threefold under iron-restricted conditions.
(14) SCF interacted with erythropoietin (Epo) and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) to maintain large numbers of cells as well as to generate a twofold to threefold increase in CFC in the case of Epo, and a 10-fold increase in CFC in the case of G-CSF.
(15) MG-63 cells also possessed an alkaline phosphatase isoenzyme of the bone-liver-kidney type that was stimulated by 1,25-(OH)2D3 treatment (two- to threefold) and inhibited by parathyroid hormone (40 nM, -25%, p less than 0.025).
(16) Contactless payments grew threefold in 2015, with more than a billion “wave and pay” transactions over the year.
(17) It was found that: the two cell types have the same basal adenylate cyclase activity; prespore cells and prestalk cells are able to relay the extracellular cAMP signal equally well; intact prestalk cells show a threefold higher cAMP phosphodiesterase activity on the cell surface than prespore cells, whereas their cytosolic activity is the same; intact prestalk cells bind three to four times more cAMP than prespore cells; no large differences in cAMP metabolism and detection were observed between cells derived from migrating slugs and culminating aggregates.
(18) Dosage with the second lead shot did not result in further accumulation of bone lead in hens, but increased bone lead concentrations threefold in drakes, suggesting that saturation levels for bone lead had already been reached in the hens after ingestion of one shot.
(19) Four weeks after replantation, a more than threefold increase in PBF was measured in premolars with two roots, while PBF in premolars with one root and incisors was consistently reduced to an average of 40% of the controls.
(20) However, basal insulin levels and acute insulin responses to glucose were threefold greater in the recipients.
Triplicate
Definition:
(v. t.) Made thrice as much; threefold; tripled.
(n.) A third thing corresponding to two others of the same kind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Proton induced X-ray emission (PIXE) analyses were performed on single hair fibers in triplicate from 103 individuals in order to determine sulfur, zinc, calcium, and chlorine content.
(2) One hundred isolates were tested in triplicate, and geometric mean MICs were plotted against arithmetic mean zone diameters and regression statistics calculated.
(3) All mixtures were prepared in triplicate and added with water.
(4) Nine gamma gene triplications from seven ethnic groups were analyzed for G gamma and hemoglobin F (Hb F) values of heterozygotes and for the presence of polymorphic XmnI restriction sites 5' to the gamma genes.
(5) A unique triplication of 108 bp, including the evolutionary conserved sequence CSB-3, was found.
(6) The method is sensitive to as little as 10 picograms of 1,25-(OH)2D, and triplicate assays can be done on 5 milliliters of plasma.
(7) Each experiment was made in triplicate, the vaporizer being dried out between each.
(8) Over a period of sixty hours, no relevant influence on sperm motility in comparison to control media was noted on triplicate testing.
(9) Both sides of bilateral ureteral triplications in our case belonged to type B of Smith's classification.
(10) All patients with triplicated pouches and all except one with duplicated pouches were able to defaecate spontaneously, without needing to intubate the reservoir.
(11) The presence of the gamma-globin gene triplication was frequently observed in M. fuscata.
(12) One baby was heterozygous for a chromosome with two linked G gamma globin genes (-G gamma-G gamma-delta-beta), which has also been observed in Black newborns [Powers et al, Nucleic Acids Res 12:7023, 1984], while the two other babies were heterozygous for a chromosome with triplicated gamma globin genes, presumably of the -G gamma-A gamma G gamma-A gamma-delta-beta arrangement.
(13) This method allows assays of opsonic activity to be performed in triplicate on large numbers of sera with a relatively small number of phagocytes and should aid the investigation of the role of opsonisation in infectious disease.
(14) Ureteral triplication is a rare anomaly of the urinary tract.
(15) The optimal disk concentration and incubation time were determined by utilizing triplicate sets of quadrant plates prepared with supplemented brucella (Difco) blood agar and swabbed with a 24-h broth (BBL; 135 C thioglycolate) suspension of the test organism.
(16) Three bags each were stored at 4, 20, and 37 degrees C; three 20-mL samples were removed from each bag after 0, 0.5, 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, 21, 28, and 42 days and analyzed in triplicate by high-performance liquid chromatography.
(17) The structure resulting from this triplication consisted of three large loops and three long connecting segments.
(18) Run-to-run assay CV was 6% for primidone and phenobarbital and 13% for phenytoin, based on the means of triplicate determinations of a sample with a mid-range concentration.
(19) All measurements were made in triplicate and averaged.
(20) The different cytogenetic mechanism given in these cases shows us that with independence of it, it exists a triplication of the half distal short arm of chromosome 9 which gives specificity to these phenotypic features.