Meaning of psychrosensitive | Babel Free

Definitions

Sensitive to the cold.

Examples

“[A]ttenuated strains of myxoma virus, like⟳ attenuated strains of poliovirus type⟳ I, are less thermoresistant and less psychrosensitive (in their replication) than virulent strains.”

“The experimental results described above, considered with those reported elsewhere, are compatible with the hypothesis that T-antigen, upon reaching a critical concentration, triggers a psychrosensitive (cold-sensitive) event(s) which leads to the activation of the cellular DNA-synthesizing apparatus and, as a consequence, to the replication of the host⟳ cell chromosomes.”

“The sequence of events of the lytic infection is essentially the same at 27°C as during infection at 37°C. However, due to a cold-sensitive metabolic process⟳ ("psychrosensitive event") that is intercalated between the appearance of T antigen and virus-induced chromatin replication, the time course of infection is considerably slower at 27°C[…].”

“[B]acterial taxa which we identified as psychrosensitive were inhibited, whereas taxa identified as psychrophilic flourished.”

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