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FURA-2

Specialty Definition: FURA-2

DomainDefinition

Health

A fluorescent calcium chelating agent which is used to study intracellular calcium in many tissues. The fluorescent and chelating properties of Fura-2 aid in the quantitation of endothelial cell injury, in monitoring ATP-dependent calcium uptake by membrane vesicles, and in the determination of the relationship between cytoplasmic free calcium and oxidase activation in rat neutrophils. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: FURA-2

"FURA-2" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FURA-2" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Anagrams: FURA-2

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "2-a-f-r-u"

-2 letters: arf, far, fur.

-3 letters: ar, fa.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FURA-2


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 55 52 41 2D 32

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01010101 01010010 01000001 00101101 00110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#85 &#82 &#65 &#45 &#50

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0055 0052 0041 002D 0032

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

405552351520

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1. Usage Frequency
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
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