transduce
Americanverb (used with object)
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to convert (energy) from one form into another.
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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
When a sound causes the stereocilia to move, mechanosensitive ion channels transduce the signal to the cochlear nerve.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
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
Golgi tendon organs similarly transduce the stretch levels of tendons.
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
Experiment was performed in duplicate. f, Light-microscopy images of MCF7-RAS cells transduced with five DOX-inducible factors in the absence or presence of DOX.
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
Stretching of the skin is transduced by stretch receptors known as bulbous corpuscles.
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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