Sentences with phrase «side by membranes»

A toad's or frog's stomach, like ours, lies somewhat left of center, held in place on either side by membranes.

Not exact matches

Inside the reactor, the cell - and - chemical mixture is surrounded on three sides by polycarbonate; on the fourth side is a flexible and gas - permeable silicone rubber membrane.

It is a fold of tissue covered by a specialized mucous membrane (the conjunctiva) that faces the inner surface of the eyelids (palpebral surface) on one side and the cornea on the other side (bulbar surface).

The mechanism is produced by layers of electrically charged particles (ions of sodium and potassium) on either side of the nerve membrane that change places when stimulated.

The team decided to try out the concept in a simpler form before making their ultimate goal, a version where both sides (the positive and negative electrodes) are liquid and flow side by side through an opening while separated by a membrane.

Each front leg exhibits a single ear below the knee with two eardrums (also known as tympanic membranes), which are backed by a narrow cylindrical tube (the acoustic trachea) running along the leg internally and opening out on the side of the insect's body.

The epithelium's maturation into a villus intestinal epithelium with long finger - like extensions was helped along by co-culturing human intestinal microvascular endothelial cells on the opposite side of the shared matrix - coated porous membrane in the «vascular» channel where they assembled a surrogate blood vessel with a hollow lumen through which feeding medium was flowed.

They collapsed one of these dimensions mathematically into a minuscule line, yielding an 11 - dimensional spacetime, flanked on either side by two 10 - dimensional membranes, or branes, colorfully dubbed «end of the world» branes.

Organ - on - a-chip technology may in part overcome this limitation, as exemplified by the «breathing» lung - on - a-chip that recapitulates the alveolar - capillary interface by co-culturing human alveolar epithelial cells and capillary endothelial cells on opposite sides of a flexible, porous, ECM - coated membrane.

For the simultaneous visualization of hemolymph flow through the heart and ventral abdominal contractions, as well as the quantification of hemolymph flow speeds in the lateral abdomen, mosquitoes were restrained laterally by placing pins: (1) on either side of the cervical membrane such that they crossed dorsally and restrained the mosquito between the pins and the Sylgard; (2) through non-vascular portions of each wing after they had been teased away from the abdominal tergum; (3) between the wings and the anterior portion of the abdomen; (4) over the legs, entering the Sylgard posterior to the third leg pair; and (5) immediately dorsal of the longitudinal midline of the scutum (Figure 1B).

Phosphatidylserine (PS) is an amino acid that is soluble in fat and it can be found at the inner side of brain cell membranes, where it is in charge of cognitive operation by promoting communication between the cells, which is in turn essential for the proper functioning of the brain.

This float is filled with gasses They can, by crudely contracting the body, turn the gas sack over to keep both sides wet, otherwise the gas will escape through a dried membrane.

A newer option, membrane distillation, reduces the energy inputs by using saltwater heated to lower temperatures flowing on one side of a membrane while cold freshwater flows on the other.