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How To Use contractile In A Sentence

• Therefore, we used Western analysis to determine the relative contents of these contractile proteins in whole lung homogenates.
• It is increased in failing human hearts and contributes to the loss of the heart's contractile strength during the development of heart failure.
• At this point, the efficiency of contraction decreases and contractile failure ensues.
• Inside the fibre are the myofibrils, which constitute the contractile apparatus, and a system for controlling the myofibrils through changes in calcium concentration.
• In our studies, fibroblast contractile machinery was observed to function entirely within pseudopods, while GFP-alpha-actinin concentrated in pseudopod tips and cortex.
• To counter this, water is secreted into a contractile vacuole as fast as it enters the amoeba.
• The protoplasm is more or less extensively excavated by fluid spaces, vacuoles; one clearer circular space or vacuole, which is invariably present, appears at intervals, enlarges gradually, and then vanishes abruptly, to reappear after a brief interval; this is called the contractile vacuole (c.v.). Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
• In the case of taxol-stabilized extracts, we measure little difference in network rheology as compared to the untreated gels, yet observe striking differences in their contractile behavior.
• The fact that similar step sizes are found in independent experimental approaches using different methodologies implies that the quantal stepping mechanism is a central feature of the contractile process.
• Actin and other contractile proteins within the pseudopods of platelets produce platelet retraction that prevents further blood loss and facilitates healing.