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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
hyperpolarize .
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Examples
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This possibility notwithstanding, even if in studies investigating tDCS-induced changes in primary cortices anodal stimulation delivered close to neurons depolarizes the neuronal membrane and cathodal stimulation hyperpolarizes it, cognitive studies leave the relation between polarity and the effects on the neuronal membrane unclear
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Manuela Fumagalli et al. 2010
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The technique takes the inert xenon gas and hyperpolarizes the gas by hitting it with a laser light to produce a group of xenon atoms where five out of every ten nuclei produce an MRI signal.
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"Previous work found that MCF-7, a standard breast cancer cell line, hyperpolarizes - meaning simply that it increases its membrane voltage in negative polarity - during two critical stages prior to cell division.
innovations-report 2010
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