the destruction or dissolution of cells by the action of a particular lysin
2. medicine
the gradual reduction in severity of the symptoms of a disease
Word origin
C19: New Latin, from Greek, from luein to release
Examples of 'lyses' in a sentence
lyses
In addition, the peptide lyses human erythrocytes.
Werner E. G. Müller, Renato Batel, Heinz C. Schröder, Xiao-Hong Wang, Michael Korzhev,Matthias Wiens 2011, 'Inducible ASABF-Type Antimicrobial Peptide from the Sponge Suberites domuncula: Microbicidaland Hemolytic Activity in Vitro and Toxic Effect on Molluscs in Vivo', Marine Drugshttp://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/9/10/1969/. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
It lyses the plasma membrane of the pathogens.
S. eANIL KUMAR, P. eHIMA KUMARI, G. eSHRAVAN KUMAR, C. eMOHANALATHA, P. B. KAVI KISHOR 2015, 'Osmotin: a plant sentinel and a possible agonist of mammalian adiponectin', Frontiers in Plant Sciencehttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2015.00163/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A subset of one of the cell types, lipophils, simultaneously secretes granules whose content rapidly lyses algae.
Carolyn L Smith, Natalia Pivovarova, Thomas S Reese 2015, 'Coordinated Feeding Behavior in Trichoplax, an Animal without Synapses.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4558020?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)