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TAGGED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bearing or marked with a label or tag
Example:
properly labeled luggage
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II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb tag
Context examples:
The simultaneous hybridization of multiple chromosome painting probes, each tagged with a specific fluorochrome or fluorochrome combination, has resulted in the differential color display of chromosomes, i.e. spectral or color karyotyping.
(Chromosome Painting, NCI Thesaurus)
The group used an advanced imaging approach to observe fluorescently tagged MTs inside beating mouse and rat heart cells in real time.
(Microtubules’ role in heart cell contraction revealed, NIH)
In the study, researchers tagged cells using a transposon, a piece of genetic code that can jump to a random point in DNA when exposed to an enzyme called transposase, to track blood progenitors and adult stem cells during the natural, unperturbed process of blood regeneration.
(Cellular barcoding helps scientists understand the behavior of stem cells, National Institutes of Health)
A highly sensitive technique for detecting and measuring antigens or antibodies in a solution; the solution is run over a surface to which immobilized antibodies specific to the substance have been attached, and if the substance is present, it will bind to the antibody layer, and its presence is verified and visualized with an application of antibodies that have been tagged in some way.
(ELISA, NCI Thesaurus)
Driver RNA is converted to double-strand cDNA, usually with the incorporation of a tagged nucleotide, while the tester RNA is converted to first-strand cDNA (with no tag).
(cDNA Subtraction, NCI Thesaurus/OSP)
Scientists found that the brains of these flies had increased levels of phosphorylated s15 and that engineering the flies so that s15 could not be tagged by LRRK2 prevented cell damage and restored normal movement.
(Too much protein may kill brain cells as Parkinson’s progresses, NINDS)
A jupon of dark blue cloth, tagged with buckles and pendants of gold, seemed but a sombre and plain attire amidst the wealth of silk and ermine and gilt tissue of fustian with which he was surrounded.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
