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DIFFERENTIALLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

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Meaning:

In a differential manner

Example:

Hubel and Wiesel have found cells that respond differentially according to the direction in which a stimulus is moved across the retina

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

differential (relating to or showing a difference)

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 Context examples: 

This isotype is further broken down into several smaller subclasses (IgG1, IgG2a, IgG2b, IgG3 in the mouse; IgG1-4 in the human), and each subclass is differentially synthesized and secreted into the serum upon differential immune stimuli.

(IgG, NCI Thesaurus)

That changes in the availability of a preferred food item such as krill can differentially impact otherwise similar species emphasizes our need to better understand the role of behavioral flexibility in Antarctic and other ecosystems.

(Whaling and climate change lead to 100 years of feast or famine for Antarctic penguins, National Science Foundation)

LY6E protein shares some homology with CD59 and some growth factor receptors; highest homology is with the murine LY6 multigene family of small cysteine-rich proteins differentially expressed in several hematopoietic cell lines and with apparent signal transduction function.

(Lymphocyte Antigen 6 Complex, Locus E, NCI Thesaurus)

The study found 48 unique genes following aerobic exercise, and 348 unique genes following weight lifting, that were differentially expressed, meaning the exercises made the genes more powerful or less powerful, like a dimmer switch on a chandelier.

(Molecular Response of Muscle to Different Types of Exercise Identified, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Any bands unique to single samples are considered to be differentially expressed; they can be purified from the gel, and sequenced and used to clone the full-length cDNA.

(Differential Display, NCI Thesaurus)