Sentence examples for accumulating substances from inspiring English sources
Another concept associates indicator species with organisms accumulating substances from the surrounding environment so as to reflect natural levels and exposure to these substances Such species are 'bio-accumulators' which are especially useful when concentrating very low levels of a substance.
If such flows exceed the amount a compartment can integrate, the accumulating substances will alter the compartment.
Many accumulating substances in liver failure are transported bound to albumin.
Thus, pectin or other actively accumulating substances may be targets for SAM-mediated methylation in developing fibres.
The use of new screening criteria for non-lipid accumulating substances may help to identify such compounds which pose a risk for bioaccumulation.
All accumulated substances are quantified by gas chromatography, summarised and normalised to the reference compound 2,3-dimethylnaphthalene (log KOW = 4.4).
When they live in polluted waters, bivalve molluscs have a tendency to accumulate substances such as heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants in their tissues.
The accumulated substances in our bodies may have an effect on male or female reproductive cells; they are present in the womb, directly affecting the environment of the fragile developing foetus; they are also present in breastmilk.
In epidemiological studies, PCBs have been associated with immunotoxicity [ 8] and neurobehavioral deficits have been reported in children prenatally exposed to PCBs and through mother's milk [ 9] or ascribed to the consumption of PCB contaminated food including fish accumulating these substances directly from the surrounding environment [ 10- 12].
The low consumption of rice and rice flour products by the CKDu patients compared to non-CKDu subjects may be attributable to loss of appetite in these patients as a result of accumulating uremic substances in blood in the latter stages of CKDu.
The filtering can have a down side - they bio-accumulate substances such as PCB's that can enter the food chain in dangerous levels.
