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  • verb Present participle of lyse.

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Examples

  • In the hospital she was given a clot-lysing treatment.

    Say 'Good-bye' to the Nice Health Care Reform, Kids 2009

  • Perhaps one of their most important roles is in system biogeochemistry, as through the process of infecting and lysing their hosts, viruses convert both macronutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) as well as micronutrients (e.g., iron) from particulate forms to dissolved forms that are then available for actively growing phytoplankton and bacteria to consume.

    Marine viruses 2007

  • The drug produced spectacular results…because it had been dissolved in deionized water rather than physiological saline, the results were due to water lysing the cells.

    Paul Nelson makes a bizarre argument - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • The idea of using viruses began all the way back in 1980s, where scientists (including my boss) have started tinkering with lytic viruses - or viruses that replicates by lysing the host cell - to make them replicate and lyse only in cancer cells.

    Scientific Blogging jenwong 2010

  • The idea of using viruses began all the way back in 1980s, where scientists (including my boss) have started tinkering with lytic viruses - or viruses that replicates by lysing the host cell - to make them replicate and lyse only in cancer cells.

    Scientific Blogging jenwong 2010

  • The idea of using viruses began all the way back in 1980s, where scientists (including my boss) have started tinkering with lytic viruses - or viruses that replicates by lysing the host cell - to make them replicate and lyse only in cancer cells.

    Scientific Blogging jenwong 2010

  • The idea of using viruses began all the way back in 1980s, where scientists (including my boss) have started tinkering with lytic viruses - or viruses that replicates by lysing the host cell - to make them replicate and lyse only in cancer cells.

    Scientific Blogging jenwong 2010

  • Profiles can capture supposed with or without a components of a lysing solution and are a illustrious network to fan a male updo.

    Wii-volution 2010

  • FACS lysing solution (Becton Dickinson) was used to lyse erythrocytes for whole blood staining.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Vivien Béziat et al. 2010

  • Briefly, RPE cells in a 96 well format were treated with a cell lysing solution which raises the pH of the cell culture media and inactivates endogenous ATPases.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

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