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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of lyse.

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Examples

  • This is tissue damage caused by toxins in the venom: muscle cells broken apart "lysed"; blood vessels disrupted and blood cells burst; connective tissue dissolved.

    Not Something You See Every Day 1 Dinosaur 2007

  • Or they can pick up, from their environments, free DNA released by other bacteria that have died and lysed or broken open, a process called transformation.24

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • Or they can pick up, from their environments, free DNA released by other bacteria that have died and lysed or broken open, a process called transformation.24

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • Wherever the bacteria lysed—burst apart and died—was a signal that the strain in the dish was vulnerable to those phages.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • Or they can pick up, from their environments, free DNA released by other bacteria that have died and lysed or broken open, a process called transformation.24

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • Wherever the bacteria lysed—burst apart and died—was a signal that the strain in the dish was vulnerable to those phages.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • Wherever the bacteria lysed—burst apart and died—was a signal that the strain in the dish was vulnerable to those phages.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • However, microbes are likely to also release a pulse of nutrients during periods of population decline when the cells are lysed and nutrients are leached [14].

    Effects of changes in climate and UV radiation levels on function of arctic ecosystems in the short and long term 2009

  • And each of the bacteria which were lysed liberated bacteriophages.

    André Lwoff - Nobel Lecture 1972

  • Prostaspheres were sedimented by centrifugation and lysed with RLT buffer (Qiagen).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ville Härmä et al. 2010

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