The concept of endothelium as an inert barrier lining the inner side of blood vessels has been overcome by the finding that the endothelium is a dynamic, heterogeneous, and disseminated organ which orchestrates blood vessel and circulatory functions, thus exerting a critical role for tissue homeostasis.
Once thought to serve as an inert vascular lining, ECs are highly heterogeneous and constitute an active disseminated organ throughout the circulatory system.
For TiO2 and Nb2O5 depositions a flow of 500 mL min 1 was used in the metal carrier line, 100 mL min 1 through the oxidizing line, and 1000 mL min 1 through the inert purging line.
An in-line check valve (CI-5C, Bio Chem Fluidics, Boonton, NJ, USA) is installed on the inert gas line close to the delivery point to eliminate backflow of vapor.
(If a vial is used, it is pressurized by an inert gas line controlled by the system).
Gerritsen Avenue was lined with inert automobiles, some deposited at awkward angles by the receding flood, the inside of their windows heavy with condensation.
To comply with current Scotch Whisky Association rules, the casks now need to be lined with an inert material.
The glands are lined with chemically inert chitin, the substance that makes up the insect exoskeleton, and the deterrent chemicals are released whenever the insect is threatened.
He used an siRNA (small interfering RNA) to render the MDMX gene inert in a line of breast cancer cells (MCF-7) and a line of immortalized noncancerous retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells.
Only she with her heroic sculptural movements has dropped by the wayside where she lies inert like one of those beautiful battered pagan tombs that still line the Sacred Road between Eleusis and the city of the Parthenon.
