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Free sign upThe phrase "a short fragment of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small piece or excerpt of something, such as text, music, or a conversation.
Example: "In her essay, she included a short fragment of a poem that perfectly illustrated her point."
Alternatives: "a brief excerpt from" or "a small portion of".
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Only a short fragment of Anaximander's work survives, so reconstructions of his philosophy and astronomy must be based on summaries by later Greek writers, such as the 1st- or 2nd-century ce compiler of philosophical opinions Aëtius, the 3rd-century theologian and antipope Hippolytus, and the 6th-century Neoplatonist philosopher Simplicius.
A short fragment of lacZ was cloned into the pBAD expression vector, in reverse orientation, using the EcoRI and PstI restriction sites.
Rabbits were immunised with chimaeric peptides which encode a short fragment of the N-terminal sequence of CCR5, as well as an unrelated T cell epitope from Tetanus toxoid.
We previously reported that the neurotoxicity of pathophysiological concentrations of amyloid β proteins (Aβs, 0.1 10 nM) as assessed by the inhibition of type II phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase (PI4KII) activity and the enhancement of glutamate toxicity was blocked by a short fragment of Aβ, Aβ31 35.
The assays were designed to amplify a short fragment of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA, respectively.
We identified a short fragment of MIR3 in Xist exon 1.
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Detection of a shorter fragment of ASIC1a (461 bp) with primers HASIC3 and HASIC4, also yielded negative results even after 50 cycles (Figure 1, Lane C).
For Indian goats a shorter fragment of 453 bp has been sequenced [15] and the 28 missing nucleotides were treated as missing data.
Davison et al. reported that a truncated receptor containing a transmembrane domain and a shorter fragment of LRP6 (residues 1460 1505; referred to as miniC), including the Ser/Thr rich cluster and the first PPPSPxS motif, can activate the Wnt/β-catenin pathway [12].
This sequence is not present in recombinant EphA4 which represents a shorter fragment of EphA4.
Two different PCRs were then run on an aliquot of the first reaction to amplify a shorter fragment of DNA within the first amplicon.
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