efflux

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But it will also rise if the hole at the bottom shrinks—if efflux slows.

From Science Magazine • May 24, 2024

The N-ethylene linkage structure of the eAmSPCs plays a critical role in how the compounds avoid efflux, suggesting that longer linkages modify how the compound is pumped out of the cell.

From Science Daily • Jan. 5, 2024

To infiltrate E. coli, the phage uses an efflux pump, a protein E. coli normally uses to pump antibiotics out of the cell.

From Scientific American • Oct. 13, 2023

These efflux pumps can confer multi-drug resistance, a situation that is threatening human health.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

But these latter personages are partly paid for watching the efflux of time, and no doubt they will do their duty.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various