efflux
Example Sentences
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But it will also rise if the hole at the bottom shrinks—if efflux slows.
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
Most prominently, this activated the bacteria’s efflux pump systems, a general expulsion system that many bacteria use to eliminate various molecules, including antibiotics.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 26, 2023
These efflux pumps can confer multi-drug resistance, a situation that is threatening human health.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
It sometimes happens, that during a violent storm a large bar of sand is suddenly made to shift its position, so as to prevent the free influx of the tides, or efflux of river water.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
