Word: sequesterment
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Unlike alpha interferon, AZT can pass through the blood-brain barrier and counteract HTLV-III viruses that have invaded the brain. This may be vital to any successful anti-viral substance that is developed, Hirsch says, because otherwise the virus will simply sequester itself in the brain, the spinal cord...
Through the final clubs, the University has found a harmless way to sequester and render harmless the antiegalitarian tendencies of a sizeable portion of its student body. Here at Harvard, we have a group of men with socially elitist attitudes forced to compete on a strictly meritocratic basis for grades...
Because checkerspots--a species which Bowers specializes in--feed on plants which contain secondary compounds called iridoid glycosoids, they are highly unpalatable to birds as well. These chemicals, Bower explains, may be toxic to some insects, but checkerspots have evolved mechanisms to excrete them quickly, sequester them in their exoskeleton...
"I'm interested in whether or not the buckeyes differ from the checkerspots in their ability to sequester iridoid glycosoids from the plants that they feed on," Bowers animatedly explains. Her experiments this summer will focus on this problem First she will test the butterflies for the iridoid glycosoids, then...
Because of the extensive media coverage of the trial. Meyer decided to sequester the jury in the Woburn Ramada Inn until the end of the trial, which Reilly predicted would last three or four weeks.