rate-limiting

基本解释

Aliskiren represents a new principle of blocking the RAAS, inhibiting renin directly and acting at the rate-limiting step.
阿利吉仑代表一种阻滞RAAS的新原理，直接抑制肾素并作用于限速阶段。
But this study finds that most of these children already had an outpatient provider, so accessing care isn't the rate-limiting factor.
她说，“但是这次的研究发现，大部分儿童都有一位专属的门诊医生，所以上门问诊的医生数量并不是限制因素。”
In a case where dissolution of the solid drug is much faster than absorption of the dissolved drug into the body, permeability, not dissolution, is the rate-limiting step for absorption.
如果在体内固体药物的溶出比在溶解药物的吸收快的多，那么渗透性而不是溶出才是吸收的限速步骤。
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This is one of the merits in such an all-inorganic system while some conventional systems cannot follow the light power in general because of their internal or external rate-limiting processes in the complex structures.
ENGADGET: Panasonic Photosynthesis System converts carbon dioxide to organic material with plant-like efficiency
The system is self-limiting because at some point, a very aggressive lender will overshoot, and lend at a rate at which they are not profitable.
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