molecular component

collocation in English

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molecular
adjective
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/məˈlek.jə.lər/us
/məˈlek.jə.lɚ/
relating to molecules (= the simplest units of a ...
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component
noun[C]
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/kəmˈpəʊ.nənt/us
/kəmˈpoʊ.nənt/
a part that combines with other parts to form ...
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Anothermolecularcomponentof cold transduction is the temperature dependence of so-called leak channels which pass an outward current carried by potassium ions.
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Amphibian oocytes contain and/or synthesise the molecular components necessary for the complex series of morphogenetic events that take place during early embryonic development.
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Furthermore, motility might enable astrocytes to rapidly mobilize molecular components to the synapse.
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Themolecularcomponentcan be described as a molecular switch, and may perform this function by any of several mechanisms, including charge storage, photochromism, or changes in capacitance.
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Although primary cardiac development is complete by about eight weeks of gestation, many cellular and molecular components of the heart remain immature until after birth.
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Cells can assemble particular complexes of these types at their surfaces only when they manufacture the key molecular components themselves.
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In the following sections, we discuss the cellular and molecular components that participate in the afferent and efferent arms of corneal allograft immunity.
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So far, very few data suggest dimorphism and phenotypic switching use common molecular components.
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The entire organism is modeled in terms of its molecular components, integrating all cellular processes into a single model.
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Lifson then developed a method for calculating the interactions among the forces that various molecular components exert upon one another.
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He asserted that individual cells were analogous to cybernetic systems made up of three distinct molecular components: discriminators, transducers, and amplifiers (otherwise known as effectors).
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In general, this is caused by dysfunction or destruction of cardiac myocytes or their molecular components.
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In the bottom-up approach, materials and devices are built from molecular components which assemble themselves chemically by principles of molecular recognition.
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Over the past decade, these structures have been shown to comprise a variety of some 10 or more molecular components.
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Now the relationship of these molecular components to the clustering of sodium channels at the nodes is still not known.
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The sugars and other molecular components produced by the autotrophs are then broken down, releasing stored solar energy, and giving the heterotroph the energy required for survival.
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The main discoveries to come from his lab include the insulin receptor kinase, its two primary subtract and the molecular components of the insulin signaling network.
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With the identification of leptin and its receptors by our laboratory, two of the molecular components of a system that maintains constant weight have been identified.
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More specifically, nanorobotics refers to the nanotechnology engineering discipline of designing and building nanorobots, with devices ranging in size from 0.110 micrometers and constructed of nanoscale or molecular components.
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In high content screening, cells are first incubated with the substance and after a period of time, structures and molecular components of the cells are analyzed.
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