What's the difference between topcoat and undercoat?

Topcoat


Definition:

  • (n.) An outer coat; an overcoat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The primary contaminants were aromatic hydrocarbons: xylenes (which were a major component of both the primer and topcoat paint) and ethyl benzene.
  • (2) Among the work to which future manufacturing research scientists have contributed is state-of-the-art ceramic body armour for Australian soldiers, the southern hemisphere’s first Arcam additive manufacturing facility, which enables 3D printing of metals, and a spray-on topcoat for aircraft.

Undercoat


Definition:

  • (n.) A coat worn under another; a light coat, as distinguished from an overcoat, or a greatcoat.
  • (n.) A growth of short hair or fur partially concealed by a longer growth; as, a dog's undercoat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Microfilaments thus continuously undercoat the luminal membrane during exocytosis although the exocytic process involves the dilation and subsequent reduction of the luminal membrane due to the addition and removal of secretory granule membranes.
  • (2) Within the MVs, intravesicular filaments, amorphous material, and membrane-associated undercoat structures were observed.
  • (3) It is supposed that this undercoat gives the structural support for the lateral membrane of the apical region in the taste bud cells.
  • (4) In this study, using the isolated AJ, we have obtained two mAbs specific to the 220-kD undercoat-constitutive protein.
  • (5) An 82-kD protein has been purified from the undercoat of the adherens junction isolated from the rat liver.
  • (6) Together, these results lead us to conclude that radixin is present in the undercoat of the cell-to-cell adherens junctions and that of the cleavage furrow, although their respective molecular architectures are distinct.
  • (7) Radixin is an actin barbed-end capping protein which is highly concentrated in the undercoat of the cell-to-cell adherens junction and the cleavage furrow in the interphase and mitotic phase, respectively (Tsukita, Sa., Y. Hieda, and Sh.
  • (8) It was seen in the mitochondria and in the subplasmalemmal undercoat.
  • (9) Recent research has focused on the molecular linkage between cadherins and actin filaments in the undercoat of adherens junctions in order to understand the functions of these undercoat-constitutive proteins in the regulation and signal transduction of cadherin-based cell adhesion.
  • (10) Compared with the medium-energy-diet, the high-energy diet reduced hair weight per unit of surface area, undercoat number and guard hair medullation.
  • (11) The immunoelectron microscopy of the extensor digitorum longus muscles of six mdx mice and six control mice showed the location of anti-dystrophin antibody along the muscle plasma membrane undercoat of all the muscle samples from the control mice without any antibody reaction in the mdx mice muscles.
  • (12) The markedly reduced perturbability of the red blood cell (RBC) membrane, compared to other cells, has been attributed to the constraining influence of the red cell membrane skeleton, the undercoat composed of spectrin, actin, and protein 4.1.
  • (13) The plasmalemmal undercoat, which was composed of vertical and horizontal layers, was observed on the zonula occludens.
  • (14) Plasmamembrane and its cytoskeletal undercoat were characterized by electron microscopy in gap junctions (GJs) of steroidogenic cells of the guinea pig and bullfrog adrenal glands.
  • (15) The changes of in vitro cultivated cells have in contrast been confirmed with previous experimentation showing that the varnish itself causes toxicity for living cells and therefore is not convenient to undercoat cavities in the proximity of pulps.
  • (16) Goats that have been selected for production of this fine, downy undercoat are referred to as "Cashmere" goats.
  • (17) Immunofluorescence microscopy and immune electron microscopy have revealed that this protein is distributed not only at the undercoat of adherens junctions but also along actin bundles associated with the junction in nonmuscle cells: stress fibers in cultured fibroblasts and circumferential bundles in epithelial cells.
  • (18) The Bacillus subtilis spore coat consists of three morphological layers: a diffuse undercoat, a striated inner coat and a densely staining outer coat.
  • (19) The undercoat is a special form of the cytoskeleton-membrane interaction, though it constitutes a part of the cytoskeleton.
  • (20) These results show that the filaments may be closely associated with the plasmalemmal infoldings and included as the same category of plasmalemmal undercoat.

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