Sentence examples for primary active form from inspiring English sources

Retinol (vitamin A alcohol) is considered the primary active form of the vitamin, although retinal, or vitamin A aldehyde, is the form involved in the visual process in the retina of the eye.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether tanshinone has a significant effect on hyperandrogenism in women with PCOS and to explore new uses for cryptotanshinone, the primary biologically active form of tanshinone.

Immunohistochemistry of p38 MAPK was performed using a rabbit monoclonal primary antibody against the active form of p38 (phospho-p38) MAPK (dilution 1 100; Cell Signaling, Beverly, CA).

After washing, the cells were blocked for 1 h in TBS-Tween 20 0.1% containing 5% bovine serum albumin (BSA) and then incubated overnight at 4 °C with the primary antibody against the active form of caspase-3 (diluted 1 : 100 in blocking buffer).

In a comparative study by Voplon in which he used arthrodistraction as a primary treatment for active forms of LCP disease and prospectively compared the results with those obtained using Salter innominate osteotomy, although the methods gave similar final radiological results, morbidity was higher with arthrodistraction than with innominate osteotomy.

The discovery that the majority of body tissues and cells harbor vitamin D receptors and that several possess the enzymatic equipment to convert the primary form in circulation into the active form, has provided new insights into the function of this steroid hormone.

Neutrophil elastase (NE), a cationic glycoprotein, is stored in readily active form in PMN primary granules [ 85], is a key antimicrobial enzyme that mediates defence against Gram-negative bacteria by degradation of structural proteins localized on the cell wall [ 86] or by targeting their virulence factors [ 87].

Second, it is not uncommon for annotation to be attributed to a salt form as opposed to the primary active component (see Fig. 1 for an example).

Caspase-3, a primary executioner of apoptosis, was not activated in TAP-Lxn cells but its active form was detected in control cells from 24 h post irradiation.

There they are activated chemically into its enzymatically active form.

Ginkgotoxin is structurally related to pyridoxine, pyridoxamine and pyridoxal, the three primary and inactive precursors of pyridoxal-5′-phosphate (PLP; the active form of vitamin B6).