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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

Cells maintain the influx and efflux of organic substances using energy.

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




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