(1) The complete amino acid sequence of five light chain variable (V) regions of human monoclonal IgM kappa rheumatoid factors (RF) was determined, and their cross-reactive idiotypes (CRI) were characterized with antibodies induced by immunization with synthetic peptides PSL2 and PSL3, corresponding to the second and third complementarity-determining regions (CDR) of the SIE light chain.
(2) We have expanded upon previous studies showing that HCII can be degraded by stimulated PMN (Sie, P., Dupouy, D., Dol, F., and Boneu, B., Thromb.
(3) In 4 patients with validated SIE, the immunoscan was abnormal, and the echocardiogram was normal.
(4) Amiloride caused a prompt, but reversible, decrease in Isc, PD, and conductance when added to the mucosal sie,dbut only a relatively small reduction of the mucosa to serosa fluxes of Na occurred.
(5) However, Keturah Beyan-sie, a masters student at Cuttington University and a member of the women's forum steering committee, believes more needs to be done.
(6) The sie A gene of the prophage interferes with the changes in the cellular transport process induced by the superinfecting phage.
(7) There is a remarkable difference in the isozyme pattern between cardiac and hepatic glutathione S-transferases in rat (Ishikawa, T., and Sies, H. (1984) FEBS Lett.
(8) Of the 25 randomly chosen patients, SIE levels were inappropriately low in four patients.
(9) The paper presents the incidence rate (3-19.6%) of stress-induced enuresis (SIE) in females.
(10) Serum immunoreactive erythropoietin (SIE) and hemoglobin levels were measured in 152 patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.
(11) Pseudaletia separata entomopoxvirus replicated in two lepidopteran cell lines, SIE-MSH-805-F and BM-N.
(12) The data indicate that SIE level is inappropriately low in anemic AIDS patients.
(13) The SIE levels were determined by standard radioimmunoassay, and the results were interpreted relative to erythropoietin levels and hematocrits of 17 aplastic or nutritionally anemic patients who were believed to have a normal erythropoietin response.
(14) The results of the cytological diagnosis in cancer of the right sied of the colon, previously not always favorable, improved markedly after the introduction of the cytological method under direct vision through fibercolonscope.
(15) In every case the 17.109 CRI-positive isolates reacted with antibodies against synthetic peptides corresponding to both the conserved second and third complementarity-determining regions (CDR) of the monoclonal kappa IgM-RF paraprotein Sie.
(16) In SIE, a mixture of D- and L-glucose was injected as a bolus into either the fetal or maternal side of the placenta, uptake curves were obtained and the maximal extraction values Umax were derived.
(17) The survival of patients with PIE (with hospital mortality taken into account) was somewhat higher than that of patients with SIE.
(18) However, even very high levels of SIE fail to stimulate erythropoiesis adequately.
(19) First, 2-pyridyl disulphide structures are introduced into the protein by the reaction of some of its amino groups with the N-hydroxysuccinimide ester sie of the reagent.
(20) As far as the predictivity of SIE is concerned, the "t" test for independent samples showed a statistically significant difference between the group of patients with no signs of ischemia and the group with positive scintiscan (p less than 0.05) and with the three equivalents of ischemia all together (p less than 0.05).
Sire
Definition:
(n.) A lord, master, or other person in authority. See Sir.
(n.) A tittle of respect formerly used in speaking to elders and superiors, but now only in addressing a sovereign.
(n.) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
(n.) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
(n.) The male parent of a beast; -- applied especially to horses; as, the horse had a good sire.
(v. t.) To beget; to procreate; -- used of beasts, and especially of stallions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sires of the cows had been divergently selected on yearling weight (YW) and total maternal (MAT) EPD to form four groups: high YW, high MAT EPD; high YW, low MAT EPD; low YW, high MAT EPD; and low YW, low MAT EPD.
(2) Beyond 20 mo, weights were adjusted to a constant condition score within breed of sire.
(3) Genetic parameters were estimated from sire components of variance and covariance obtained from a multiple-trait restricted maximum likelihood procedure.
(4) Simmental sires had significantly heavier calves at birth and S and H dams tended to have more calving difficulty and lower survival rates.
(5) Micromanipulation of sperm and ova has been suggested as a means to produce progeny of two sires instead of a sire and dam.
(6) Each sire family consisted of a sire, his foals, and the dams of those foals.
(7) Records of birth weight (BW), weaning weight (WW) and condition score (CS) from 1,467 Brahman and Brahman X Angus crossbred calves from Brahman and crossbred Brahman sires and Brahman, crossbred Brahman and Angus dams were collected at the Subtropical Agricultural Research Station, Brooksville, Florida, from 1971 to 1982.
(8) Live BW, carcass data, and organ data taken at 34 days of age on approximately 1,000 quail of both sexes from 110 sires and 290 dams were utilized to estimate genetic parameters from the initial generation of a selection study.
(9) Weaning weight records of 44,357 Australian Angus calves produced by 1,020 sires in 90 herds were used to evaluate the importance of sire x herd interactions.
(10) Additive relationships among sires and maternal grandsires were included.
(11) The purebred animals represented progeny of 107 sires.
(12) Repeatabilities and heritabilities of days to first service, days open, and number of services per conception were estimated from 235,589 records on 80,333 Holstein cows, daughters of 306 sires obtained from the Quebec Dairy Herd Analysis Service, by REML.
(13) Calves of mature dams were all sired by Limousin bulls and slaughtered at 12 mo.
(14) In single purpose dairy populations, sire models gave biased estimates of genetic parameters even when all data were included in the analysis.
(15) By including an artificial sire and an artificial dam and choosing appropriate merit values for the artificial matings, this problem can be solved by efficient "transportation" algorithms.
(16) A study of 24 offspring from one sire, heterozygous for W10 and Eu28R, showed that offspring inheriting Eu28R from the sire were significantly more likely to have antibodies to BLV than offspring inheriting the opposing W10 haplotype.
(17) Forty-three Hampshire or Suffolk-sired ram lambs were weaned at 60 d of age (average 23.6 kg of BW) and assigned to a 2 x 2 factorial arrangement of treatments consisting of 1) basal diet (control = BAS), 2) BAS with 6% whole canola seed (CS), 3) BAS with 4.9% deoiled soy lecithin (SL), and 4) BAS with 6% CS and 4.8% SL (CSSL).
(18) The correlation between sire of fetus effect and sire of cow effect on three production traits - milk yield, fat yield, and protein yield - in first lactation cows was investigated.
(19) Corresponding numbers of sires were 298, 289, 305, and 313.
(20) A sire-maternal grandsire mixed model with relationships was used to analyze the data to yield BLUP for the sire and maternal grandsire effects.