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efflux

[ef-luhks] / ˈɛf lʌks /
NOUN
outflow
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Nedergaard proposed that this efflux relied on the pumping of fluid through tiny glymphatic vessels between neurons, which her team had identified in an earlier study.

From Science Magazine • May 24, 2024

The N-ethylene linkage structure of the eAmSPCs plays a critical role in how the compounds avoid efflux, suggesting that longer linkages modify how the compound is pumped out of the cell.

From Science Daily • Jan. 5, 2024

To infiltrate E. coli, the phage uses an efflux pump, a protein E. coli normally uses to pump antibiotics out of the cell.

From Scientific American • Oct. 13, 2023

In addition, transport proteins called efflux pumps span this double membrane and actively eliminate chemicals such as antibiotics that pass through porins on the outer membrane.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

He regards all that he witnesses in the present as the efflux and sequence of something that has gone before, and as the source of a system of events which is to follow.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John