MEMBRANE


Meaning of MEMBRANE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

mucous membrane

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

mucous

Direct contact is most likely to lead to infection of the skin, conjunctiva or mucous membrane .

Chemical warfare directly into mucous membranes is just part of what activists face in Humboldt.

I opened my mouth and felt the scalds on the mucous membrane inside my throat.

There may be a generalized rash, widespread lymphadenopathy, and mucous membrane lesions.

It is also important to check the mucous membranes and lips for signs of cyanosis.

Rough lips; they crack and peel, crusty at the margins of the mucous membranes or on the ears.

Swollen mucous membranes , red and enlarged blood vessels; inflammation of all the tissues of the eye.

Ulcers of mucous membranes can be deep as if punched out.

nuclear

The nuclear membrane has broken down and the condensed chromosomes lie bunched together in the cytoplasm.

When the nuclear membrane re-forms around them and the licensing factors trapped inside, so what?

In this stage the nuclear membrane breaks down and disappears from view.

The nuclear membrane will not be re-formed until chromosome division is complete.

Their nuclear membranes remain intact; they just continue as before.

outer

Within the epidermal cells microtubules connect the desmosomes of the interdigitating regions with cone-like depressions of the outer epidermal plasma membrane .

The touch of the sperm on the oocyte's outer membrane stimulates the second meiosis to move to completion.

It merely registers the disruption of its outer membrane that such entry causes.

One great improvement involved the outer membrane of the cell.

The nucleus thus formed divides and two cells develop within the outer membrane .

Others acquired a harder outer membrane to later become skin-like materials.

As the cells increase in number the outer membrane disappears.

People with sickle cell anaemia and thalassaemia are known to have red cells with defects in their outer membranes .

synaptic

Arriving at the post synaptic membrane , it causes a change in its permeability so that a new action potential begins.

■ NOUN

basement

Pinocytic vesicles were present near the plasma membrane and basement membrane was present around these cells.

Angiotensin I converting enzyme inhibitors may act in reducing glomerular basement membrane pore size.

Most significantly, an interesting similarity to the human basement membrane heparan sulphate proteoglycan core protein was detected.

cell

Under resting conditions the cell membrane will not allow ions to diffuse passively across it, so the potential difference remains.

With one rare exception, all such cell membranes permit translocation in only one direction.

Thus a field can influence another field and nothing is transferred into or out through the cell membrane .

Because it also dissolves in fats, it freely passes through cell membranes , which are basically double-walled bubbles of fat.

They serve as essential components of cell membranes .

The neurotransmitter sticks to the receptor molecule, and together they are able to open a pore in the cell membrane .

Cholesterol is present in all animal cell membranes and in the blood.

Only particles that can not cross cell membranes obligate net water flow across such membranes.

nylon

Samples were electrophoresed on 0.8% agarose gels and the size fractionated products transferred to nylon membranes using standard procedures.

plasma

It ought to help you locate our protein in cellular plasma membranes .

Within the epidermal cells microtubules connect the desmosomes of the interdigitating regions with cone-like depressions of the outer epidermal plasma membrane .

The distributional asymmetries of phospholipids in the plasma membrane of erythrocytes and platelets are shown in Fig. 2.

Firstly, by studying radiolabelled ion uptake into isolated plasma membrane vesicles.

Carbachol, gastrin, and histamine all bind to specific receptors on parietal cell plasma membranes .

The plasma membrane is also thought to be far less rigid a structure than originally proposed.

potential

Thus, if the second-messenger network were to enter a domain of chaotic behavior, chaotic variation in membrane potential would result.

protein

The acyl substituents of phospholipids provide the hydrophobic environment that is necessary for the function of intrinsic membrane proteins .

The cancer problem and cell membrane proteins were only the latest triumph.

The thermodynamic constraints against their transverse diffusion across the bilayer are less that those of membrane proteins .

vesicle

Firstly, by studying radiolabelled ion uptake into isolated plasma membrane vesicles .

More recent investigations with rat jejunal brush border membrane vesicles , however, have found evidence only for passive transport.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The injury caused bleeding beneath the membrane of the brain.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Chloroplast membranes are very susceptible to attack by oxygen radicals which are generated as a by-product of photochemistry.

He had been born with the caul, the inner fetal membrane had covered his head at birth.

In this image the state in liberal democracies is separated from its society by only a thin membrane of formal legality.

The sodium is only able to pass into the membrane through sodium ion channels distributed along the axon.

These flat roofing materials fall into three major categories: built-up felt roofing, mastic asphalt and single-ply membranes.

With one rare exception, all such cell membranes permit translocation in only one direction.

Years later, I would think of their sheen as being rather like the membranes enclosing viruses I had read about.

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