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Unfasten


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The clip was found to have come unfastened; simple repeat closure was performed.
  • (2) Sunderland frustrate Liverpool but Klopp unfastens Allardyce’s straitjacket | Alan Smith Read more Showing off some long-craved organisation and defensive resilience, Sunderland also offered sporadic threats on the break.
  • (3) LTD4 levels in the muscle also increased at the fastened site just before and 3 and 6 hours after unfastening.
  • (4) After unfastening, the rabbits showed a gradual decline of blood pressure, and one died 7 hours after unfastening.
  • (5) When I mentioned this , he told me he was planning on having its voice box unfastened so it would not be so annoying, and gave me a wicked smile.
  • (6) On the contrary, LTD4 levels in the blood increased just before and 6 and 12 hours after unfastening.
  • (7) I had no arguments with the Sunderland bench, there is nothing else to say, except that it might be the first time I have ever been called soft.” Sunderland frustrate Liverpool but Klopp unfastens Allardyce’s straitjacket | Alan Smith Read more Liverpool are at West Ham United on Saturday, where Klopp could have been in the opposing dugout had the London club’s owners had their way in the summer.
  • (8) The amounts of LTB4, LTD4 and LTE4 in the blood and muscle were measured just before unfastening and 3, 6 and 12 hours after unfastening.
  • (9) Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling fails to turn up for training, citing illness Read more 2) Indulge in a little bit of misconduct What better way to unfasten yourself from your contract (and sell yourself to new employers) than to stoop to arguably the lowest rank of (un)professionalism: gross misconduct.
  • (10) Leaning down to unfasten the latch brought one into close proximity to the holes on either side of the gate.
  • (11) LTE4 levels in the blood increased 3 hours, and those in the muscle 3 and 6 hours after unfastening.
  • (12) To open the gate one had to bend down to unfasten a latch 45 cm above ground level.

Unfix


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To loosen from a fastening; to detach from anything that holds; to unsettle; as, to unfix a bayonet; to unfix the mind or affections.
  • (v. t.) To make fluid; to dissolve.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The binding properties of formalin-fixed amelanotic melanoma cells were not identical to those of endothelial or unfixed target cells.
  • (2) In the second group, a tibial cortical bone graft was detached and refixed with Silar in 12 rats and left unfixed in eight.
  • (3) Unfixed cells treated with the antiserum had localized areas (capping) of intense membrane fluorescence, whereas fixed cells had bright uniform membranous fluorescence.
  • (4) The mean activity of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in hepatocytes near the central vein region of unfixed sections of mouse liver was determined and compared with 3 different histochemical methods: conventional method, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) method, and gel film method.
  • (5) Enzyme activities in sections of fixed corneas were minimal in comparison with those in cold microtome sections of unfixed material revealed particularly with the technic of semipermeable membranes which is to be preferred.
  • (6) The requirement for unfixed tissue is a major drawback in the use of immunohistochemistry for the diagnosis of inflammatory and neoplastic disease.
  • (7) The redistribution and internalisation of two different lectin-binding sites on the same cell was investigated electron microscopically on unfixed rat liver cell cultures.
  • (8) A new staining technique was employed using acridine orange to differentially stain DNA and RNA in unfixed cells made permeable to the dye and other reagents by treatment with detergent at low ph.
  • (9) Unfixed kidney pieces or kidney pieces fixed in 4% formaldehyde were embedded in the hydrophilic polyhydroxy aromatic resins LR-Gold and LR-White, following dehydration in up to 70% ethanol, 90% ethanol or 100% ethanol.
  • (10) The use of unfixed and undecalcified cryostat sections of mouse knee joints is described for the study of enzyme histochemical reactions.
  • (11) Cell fixation after PMA treatment did not abolish this stimulatory activity, which could be transferred by supernatants from unfixed cells; exogenous interleukin-1 did not mimic the activity.
  • (12) 2) TH-IR nerve fibers could be detected in unfixed tissue if the sections were post-fixed with aldehydes by the use of a two-step fixation process related to a sudden change of pH.
  • (13) Contraction damage occurring when longitudinal frozen sections of fresh unfixed muscles are thawed on microscope slides has limited histological examination of this tissue mainly to cross sections.
  • (14) A panel of 14 monoclonal antibodies (McAb) against hematopoietic cell surface antigens was applied on mononuclear blood or bone marrow cells from 40 cases of acute leukemia in order to compare immunoenzymatic staining (IE) (alkaline phosphatase) of fixed cells with immunofluorescence staining (IF) of unfixed suspended cells.
  • (15) Unfixed metaphase chromosome preparations from human lymphocyte cultures were immunofluorescently labelled using antibodies to defined histone epitopes.
  • (16) An antisperm antibody enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) that uses whole unfixed sperm and detects immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgA antibodies in serum was developed.
  • (17) A nonisotopic, in situ hybridization procedure is described for detecting Epstein-Barr viral (EBV) DNA in cytopreparations of pepsin-digested, unfixed cells in less than 3 hours.
  • (18) The localization and activity of the lysosomal enzyme, N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase, has been studied in unfixed frozen sections of tissues from normal and hemorrhaged rats with the use of a modified postcoupling technique.
  • (19) The pulmonary artery of unfixated human heart-lung specimens was banded by placing a Dacron tape around the artery and securing the tape with a 5.0 Prolene suture at selected circumferences.
  • (20) An immunofluorescence study using unfixed cryostat sections of rat pituitary glands was carried out on sera from 34 patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis, 28 patients with Graves' disease, 10 patients with thyroid adenoma and 50 healthy subjects.

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