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- noun DMSO.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
dimethylsulphoxide .
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Examples
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He fashioned the springs from rusted shock absorbers, spending hours removing the filth and corrosion with a towel soaked in dimethylsulfoxide, a powerful industrial solvent that the father and the boy's mother also valued for its medicinal qualities.
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Their first criticism was over the use of dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) as a solvent for the herbicide in these tests.
Operation Ranch Hand Buckingham, William A. 1982
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For perforated patch-clamp recordings, gramicidin-D (50 mg/ml in dimethylsulfoxide) was dissolved at 50 µg/ml in the internal medium.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Guillaume Osterstock et al. 2010
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For all in vitro assays, the ligands and the control ligand DOP were dissolved in a concentration of 0. 1% dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Diane Latawiec et al. 2010
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For perforated patch-clamp recordings, gramicidin-D (50 mg/ml in dimethylsulfoxide) was dissolved at 50 µg/ml in the internal medium.
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In two subjects (the two senior authors), the dorsum of the hand was painted with dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) to permeate the stratum corneum, and about 1 min later with a solution of 1% capsaicin in 80% ethanol.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Léon Plaghki et al. 2010
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For perforated patch-clamp recordings, gramicidin-D (50 mg/ml in dimethylsulfoxide) was dissolved at 50 µg/ml in the internal medium.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Guillaume Osterstock et al. 2010
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For perforated patch-clamp recordings, gramicidin-D (50 mg/ml in dimethylsulfoxide) was dissolved at 50 µg/ml in the internal medium.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Guillaume Osterstock et al. 2010
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(T8552, Sigma, St. Louis, MO) in dimethylsulfoxide was diluted into the medium to the indicated concentration and cells were treated for another 24 hours.
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A stock solution of the ALK4 / 5 / 7 inhibitor SB-431542 (Tocris Biosciences) in dimethylsulfoxide was added to cultures to a final concentration of 5 μM.
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