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MIMETIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Exhibiting mimicry
Example:
the mimetic tendency of infancy
Classified under:
Similar:
imitative (marked by or given to imitation)
Derivation:
mimesis (the representation of another person's words in a speech)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Characterized by or of the nature of or using mimesis
Example:
the mimetic presentation of images
Classified under:
Similar:
representational ((used especially of art) depicting objects, figures,or scenes as seen)
Derivation:
mimesis (the imitative representation of nature and human behavior in art and literature)
Context examples:
A derivative of pyridoxyl ethyldiamine (PLED) and mimetic of the human mitochondrial manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD), with antioxidant, metal chelating and potential chemoprotective activities.
(PLED-based MnSOD Mimetic, NCI Thesaurus)
It is a type of apoptosis inducer, a BCL2 protein antagonist, and a BH3 mimetic.
(Obatoclax, NCI Dictionary)
Muscles of facial expression or mimetic muscles that include the numerous muscles supplied by the facial nerve that are attached to and move the skin of the face.
(Facial Muscle, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
This interdisciplinary study integrated biology, physics and engineering to understand a complex natural behavior, and resulted in surprising insights that may lead to important bio-mimetic applications.
(Researchers study birds to improve how robots land, National Science Foundation)
The affibody is an optimized antibody mimetic based on a 6.5-kDa 3-helical bundle Z domain derived from the staphylococcal protein A (Z her2:342); the nonbinding surface of the Z domain is reengineered (Z her2:2891) to increase binding affinity for HER2 and to improve tumor imaging.
(Gallium Ga 68-labeled Affibody ABY-025, NCI Thesaurus)
A bacterial cell wall mimetic.
(CyA 246, NCI Thesaurus)
As a SMAC mimetic and IAP antagonist, birinapant selectively binds to and inhibits the activity of IAPs, such as X chromosome-linked IAP (XIAP) and cellular IAPs 1 (cIAP1) and 2 (cIAP2), with a greater effect on cIAP1 than cIAP2.
(Birinapant, NCI Thesaurus)
Upon administration, PLED-based MnSOD mimetic mimics MnSOD and scavenges oxygen free radicals such as superoxide anion, hydrogen peroxide, and hydroxyl radical, thereby preventing oxygen free radical damage to macromolecules such as DNA and minimizing oxygen free radical-related chemotoxicity in normal tissues.
(PLED-based MnSOD Mimetic, NCI Thesaurus)
