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transduce

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[trans-doos, -dyoos, tranz-] / trænsˈdus, -ˈdjus, trænz- /

verb (used with object)

transduced, transducing
  1. to convert (energy) from one form into another.

  2. Genetics. to cause transduction in (a cell).


Etymology

Origin of transduce

1945–50; back formation from transducer or transduction


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This includes a conducting polymer to transduce the electrical stimulation required for the implant to work, to electrical responses in the neurons.

From Science Daily ● May 7, 2024

The authors’ investigation revealed that cavefish are insulin resistant and have a mutant version of the insulin receptor, encoded by the insra gene, that does not bind and transduce the insulin signal.

From Nature ● Mar. 20, 2018

Light must travel through all this semitransparent machinery before photoreceptors can transduce it into neural signals.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 25, 2014

The cells that transduce sensory stimuli into the electrochemical signals of the nervous system are classified on the basis of structural or functional aspects of the cells.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Receptor cells can be further categorized on the basis of the type of stimuli they transduce.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

After two months, the cell lines were discarded and new ones were freshly transduced with FUW-LPT2 containing the cloned factor vector and selected with the appropriate selection marker.

From Nature ● Mar. 21, 2017

Therefore, as a precaution, we never kept cell lines transduced with FUW-LPT2 containing the cloned factor in tissue culture for longer than two months.

From Nature ● Mar. 21, 2017

Two types of somatosensory signals that are transduced by free nerve endings are pain and temperature.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Sound is transduced into neural signals within the cochlear region of the inner ear, which contains the sensory neurons of the spiral ganglia.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

The stapes is then attached to the inner ear, where the sound waves will be transduced into a neural signal.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

"Our research lies precisely in this specific niche, transducing communication between distinct quantum modules."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024

The cochlea is responsible for transducing sound waves into a neural signal.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Rac and Rho small GTPases cycle between an inactive GDP-bound and active GTP-bound conformation, transducing signals from a wide variety of membrane receptors.

From Nature ● Mar. 28, 2012

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