oligomer
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- noun
- /ˌɑlɪˈɡoʊmɚ/
- Specialized
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olígómero
- Genomic regions flanking numts are often rich in retrotransposons, and the insertion often occurs immediately adjacent to AT oligomers in mammals 68.
Examples
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NIST researchers investigated the impact of ultrasonication on a solution of DNA fragments known as oligomers in the presence and absence of carbon nanotubes.
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Therefore, it is difficult to design antibodies or drugs to hit the right targets and be able to eliminate or block these toxic oligomers before they cause Alzheimer's disease.
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You can also figure out what is the concentration of of oligomers with N units in them.
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However, the molecular structure of these tiny oligomers of Amyloid-beta peptide is yet unknown today.
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So how I've initially presented it to you when we introduced these oligomers is just as a six Mer, right, six subunits.
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What we managed to do now is an important step towards the full structural characterization of oligomers, says Oleg N. Antzutkin.
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Using our method, it will soon be possible to study hydrogen bonds in key fragments of toxic oligomers that will assist in solving their supramolecular structures.
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Twenty-seven years of failures in research based on a flawed hypothesis of oligomers, A?, and tau accumulation.
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When amyloid-beta forms small aggregates, oligomers, i.e., before the peptide clumps together into plaques, it is most toxic to brain neurons.
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Researchers discovered that the oligomers formed by the protein are responsible for neurodegeneration.
Synonyms
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A very small amount of something that shows there is almost none
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Morphology
oligomer = oligo + mer
Built from Greek combining forms 'oligo-' (few) + '-mer' (unit) that are not standalone English words, so the composition is not transparent to an average B1 learner.
Etymology
The word oligomer comes from Greek parts oligo- meaning 'few' and -mer meaning 'part', as in polymer and monomer. So an oligomer is a molecule made of a small number of repeating parts, bigger than a monomer but smaller than a polymer.