Example sentences for: discriminate

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  • As far back as 1868, Franciscus Donders [2] subtracted the time taken to make a single response to an unvarying stimulus—what he called an instructed reflex—from the time it took to make the same response to one of two events, obtaining the time required to discriminate between the two stimuli.

  • Flow cytometry revealed very low expression of CCR3 and CCR4 (1%–3%) in control ( n = 10) and emphysema ( n = 18) groups, and did not discriminate between these populations (Figure 1A and 1B; data not shown).

  • If we outnumber this alien being, our instinct tells us to kill it and ask questions later (or, at the very least, discriminate against it and keep it in a manageable place).

  • [ 9 ] examined the ability of ISH to discriminate HPV types using full-length plasmid probes.

  • The predicted topological organization consists of six transmembrane domains with a hydrophobic loop between the fifth and sixth domain which lines the ion conducting pore [ 17 ] . VR1 has been expressed heterologously in several cell lines and has intrinsic sensitivity to thermal stimuli and to capsaicin (a pungent extract of the Capsicum pepper family) [ 18 ] . VR1 does not discriminate among monovalent cations [ 19 ] ; however, it exhibits a notable preference for divalent cations with a permeability sequence of Ca 2+> Mg 2+> Na +≈ K +≈ Cs + [ 9 ] . Ca 2+is especially important to VR1 function, as extracellular Ca 2+mediates desensitization [ 20 21 ] , a process which enables a neuron to adapt to specific stimuli by diminishing its overall response to a particular chemical or physical signal.


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