Example sentences for: derivative

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  • The administration of a different quinoline derivative at the same time as mefloquine may increase the risk of adverse effects.

  • Spice Girls songs are derivative, but they are also catchy as hell, great big pink bubbles of chewing-gum pop.

  • Resembling, yet not flatly derivative of, an Asian rice dish, a Capri bowl confidently walks that fine line between elegance and edge--and was on sale last weekend for $4.

  • There is a high degree of amino acid similarity among folate transporters and the thiamine transporter of the plasma membrane [ 7 8 9 10 ] . Recently, it was found that in murine cells there can be a substantial efflux of ThDP mediated by the reduced folate carrier protein [ 22 ] . GlyB cells are a Chinese hamster ovary cell line derivative that are deficient in the transport of folates into mitochondria, and the responsible mitochondrial transporter has recently been identified and its gene cloned [ 23 ] . We wondered if the mitochondrial folate transporter was responsible for uptake of ThDP into mitochondria, making analogies to the ability of the plasma membrane folate transporter being able to transport ThDP.

  • Strain 144M, a serum-sensitive mucoid isolate from a CF patient, contains short O-side chain LPS, while its serum-resistant derivative, 144M(SR), which is also mucoid, has long O-side chain LPS [ 33 ] . Strain FRD-1 is a mucoid CF isolate [ 34 ] and FRD-2 is its spontaneous nonmucoid derivative [ 35 ] . P. aeruginosa ATCC strains 10145 and 9027 are nonmucoid strains with long O-side chain LPSs [N L Schiller, unpublished results].


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