Sentence examples for block of calcium from inspiring English sources
Drummond's light, which consisted of a block of calcium oxide heated to incandescence in jets of burning oxygen and hydrogen, provided a soft, very brilliant light that could be directed and focused.
Limelights, used in the 19th century in stage lighting, emit a very brilliant white light upon heating a block of calcium oxide to incandescence in an oxyhydrogen flame, hence the expression "to be in the limelight".
The greatest disadvantage of limelight was that each light required the almost constant attention of an individual operator, who had to keep adjusting the block of calcium oxide as it burned and to tend to the two cylinders of gas that fueled it.
Our investigation into possible separate sources of calcium in zebrafish motor neurons was prompted by our observation that a block of calcium entry through the presynaptic P/Q calcium channels fully inhibited synchronous release, leaving asynchronous release intact.
In line with this hypothesis, the block of calcium permeable channels with nimodipine and oATP did not influence the effect of cytokine treatment (data not shown); interestingly, also the inhibition of TRPC channels, did not significantly reduce the fura-2 quenching in activated glial cells (Fig. 2D).
Through the phosphorylation of specific proteins and ion channels, treatment with tadalafil results in the opening of potassium channels and hyperpolarization of the muscle cell membrane, sequestration of intracellular calcium by the endoplasmic reticulum, and block of calcium influx by the inhibition of calcium channels.
In addition, the block of calcium-activated potassium channels (in particular SK channels) increased somatic firing [16] during both PF and CF stimulation (Figure 4B).
We concluded that in conditions of enhanced excitation by the block of calcium-activated potassium channels, calcium influx is constant for consecutive calcium spikes and their individual contributions to BF2-ΔF/F0 summate linearly.
Their internal skeletons are made of porous blocks of calcium carbonate, and they have muscles to work their skeleton.
The absorption (permeation) of alcohols into porous blocks of calcium carbonate has been studied experimentally and with a computer model.
It has a layer of tiny hexagonal plates called "tesserae", which are crystal blocks of calcium salts arranged as a mosaic.
