Example sentences of "the uptake of [noun] by the " in BNC.

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1 It controls the uptake of water by the plant cell .
2 The uptake of 5-ASA by the intact cells has to be assumed to be equal to the amount of Ac-ASA produced and detected both extracellularly and intracellularly .
3 He was not primarily a bacteriologist , and instead of using the standard criterion of survival of the organism , growth in culture , he measured the uptake of oxygen by the cultivated organisms over short periods and so obtained results more quickly .
4 In coronary patients the effect is all on the peripheral utilisation of oxygen by improving the uptake of oxygen by the working muscles and increasing the efficiency of distribution of blood in the periphery .
5 The slight increase of residual activity associated with Barrett 's oesophagus may have been partly a result of the uptake of isotype by the Barrett mucosa , and this residual activity did not interfere with calculation of the transit indices .
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