Sentence examples for regulate the passage from inspiring English sources

Its job is to regulate the passage of chloride ions (electrically charged chlorine atoms) across that membrane.

The two progeny cells may be connected by thousands of plasmodesmata, which contain rings of membrane at each end that are thought to regulate the passage of molecules.

Although the precise mechanisms are not fully understood, the plasmodesma is thought to regulate the passage of small molecules such as salts, sugars, and amino acids by constricting or dilating the openings at each end of the channel.

The soweis are unhappy with attempts to force them to abandon the practice, seeing it as an attack on their culture, which is rooted in ancient rituals designed to protect the community against evil spirits and regulate the passage of adolescents to womanhood.

He is a serial entrepreneur: he helped found Aveo Pharmaceuticals, which is developing a drug to block the growth of blood vessels in tumours, Metamark Genetics, which works on diagnosing cancers, and Karyopharm Therapeutics, which is trying to regulate the passage of molecules into and out of the cell nucleus, and thus control the nucleus's activities.

For what Dr Koppens and Dr Konstantatos have actually done is to create the guts of a transistor that is regulated by light.Ordinary transistors are switches in which one electric current (usually a weak one) is used to regulate the passage of another (usually much stronger).

The gut microbes are looking after their own interests, chief among them getting enough to eat and regulating the passage of food through their environment.

Osteogenic cells migrate to defective alveolar bone regions as part of the regenerative process, where a semi-permeable barrier membrane may assist in regulating the passage of specific biomolecules, such as growth factors that support angiogenesis, cytokines, and other nutrients [19, 24].

The BBB regulates the passage of nutrients, ions, and other substances from the blood into the brain To cross the BBB effectively, the molecule should be less than 400 Da, lipid soluble with less than 8 10 hydrogen bonds with water as a solvent, and not be a substrate for an active efflux transporter at the BBB such as p-glycoprotein[7].

Galen went to great lengths to refute a view that was apparently circulating in his time (but whose originators or protagonists he did not mention) according to which the pineal gland regulates the flow of psychic pneuma in the canal between the middle and posterior ventricles of the brain, just as the pylorus regulates the passage of food from the esophagus to the stomach.

The retinoblastoma protein (RB) negatively regulates the passage of cells from G1 to S phase primarily by sequestering E2F transcription factors and chromatin modifiers critical for the G1/S transition.