DIFFERENTIALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does differentially mean? 

• DIFFERENTIALLY (adverb)
  The adverb DIFFERENTIALLY has 1 sense:

1. in a differential manner

  Familiarity information: DIFFERENTIALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIFFERENTIALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a differential manner

Context example:

Hubel and Wiesel have found cells that respond differentially according to the direction in which a stimulus is moved across the retina

Pertainym:

differential (relating to or showing a difference)

 Context examples 

Complementary DNA (cDNA) clone inserts robotically printed onto a glass slide and subsequently hybridized to two differentially fluorescently labeled probes.

(cDNA Microarray Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)

These regions also stain differentially in CHROMOSOME BANDING preparations.

(Euchromatin, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Growing pluripotent cells derived from EG cells requires the generation of embryoid bodies, which consist of an unpredictable mix of partially differentially cell types.

(EG Cell Line, NCI Thesaurus)

The mechanisms and consequences of autophosphorylation are central to the CaMKII enzyme's complex regulatory behavior enabling it to become differentially activated at different frequencies and levels of calcium spikes.

(Calmodulin Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This staining method is used to differentially stain glycoproteins.

(Alcian Blue and Periodic Acid Schiff Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers next examined the biological pathways affected and identified several in FLS that were differentially methylated between rheumatoid arthritis knees and hips.

(Rheumatoid arthritis mechanisms may vary by joint, NIH)

Unlike DNA damage, hypoxia does not induce p53-dependent cell cycle arrest, suggesting that p53 activity is differentially regulated by these two stresses.

(Hypoxia Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Analysis of differentially expressed RNA transcripts from different tissues, cells, strains, or conditions.

(Differential Display, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Variation of the polymerase chain reaction used to identify differentially expressed genes. mRNA from two different tissue samples is reverse transcribed, then amplified using short, intentionally nonspecific primers.

(Differential Display, NCI Thesaurus)

Comparative genomic hybridization utilizes the hybridization of differentially labeled tumor and reference DNA to generate a map of DNA copy number changes in tumor genomes.

(Comparative Genomic Hybridization, NCI Thesaurus)