autolytic in English

adjective

of or pertaining to the breakdown of tissue as a result of digestive enzymes present in the tissue (symptom of malnutrition)

Use "autolytic" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "autolytic" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "autolytic", or refer to the context using the word "autolytic" in the English Dictionary.

1. In the involuting thymus lysosomes are involved in autolytic or phagocytic processes.

2. Bacteriolysis is an event that may occur when normal microbial multiplication is altered due to an uncontrolled activation of a series of autolytic cell‐wall breaking enzymes (muramidases)

3. Bacteriolysis is an event that may occur when normal microbial multiplication is altered due to an uncontrolled activation of a series of autolytic cell-wall breaking enzymes (muramidases).

4. Other experiments will be required to determine whether steatogenic poisons leave intrahepatic enzymes other than the uricase equally unaffected, but as it has already been shown by Jacoby that the autolytic enzymes and Aldehydase in the liver cells are not destroyed by phosphorus poisoning, and Abderhalden and Schittenhelm* found that peptids

5. Description: Ampicillin inhibits bacterial cell wall synthesis by binding to 1 or more of the penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) which in turn inhibit the final transpeptidation step of peptidoglycan synthesis in bacterial cell walls.Bacteria eventually lyse due to ongoing activity of cell wall autolytic enzymes (autolysins and murein hydrolases) while cell wall assembly is arrested.

6. Other experiments will be required to determine whether steatogenic poisons leave intrahepatic enzymes other than the uricase equally unaffected, but as it has already been shown by Jacoby that the autolytic enzymes and Aldehydase in the liver cells are not destroyed by phosphorus poisoning, and Abderhalden and Schittenhelm* found that peptids