(n.) A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.
(n.) Hence: A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
Example Sentences:
(1) The serum ACE activity showed no significant difference between male and female in the control or sarcoidosis groups.
(2) At present, ACE inhibitors are preferred because they are usually better tolerated than conventional vasodilators and are clinically more effective.
(3) We have studied the effect of chronic ACE inhibition with enalapril on renal structure and function in rats with the two-kidney one-clip model of renovascular hypertension.
(4) In 33 patients with heart failure (NYHA II-III), the 24-h blood pressure rhythm was examined before and after the titration period of two ACE inhibitors.
(5) In contrast to the intact endothelial monolayers, in homogenates additional kininase activity was found which was not affected by either ACE and NEP inhibitors nor by amastatin and MGTA.
(6) We investigated the effects of local angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibition by captopril on the autoregulatory efficiency of glomerular blood flow (GBF).
(7) Thus ACE-inhibitors are to be considered for all patients requiring medical therapy for congestive heart failure.
(8) These data indicate that ACE inhibitors are able to unmask a release of bradykinin from cultured human endothelial cells.
(9) However, neither before nor during lisinopril therapy did any changes in urinary protein loss occur during the infusions of Ang II, despite the fact that Ang II reversed the long-term systemic and renal hemodynamic changes induced by the ACE inhibitor.
(10) The mechanisms underlying the positive effects of ACE inhibition and beta-adrenergic blockade are largely unknown, but hemodynamic factors (vasodilation) may contribute by improving the access of glucose and insulin to skeletal muscle.
(11) The choice of antihypertensive drugs in patients with single therapy or combined therapy in the young was beta blockers in 49.7%, Ca blockers in 39.4%, diuretics in 30.7% and ACE inhibitors in 17.8%, and those in the elderly were Ca blockers in 46.1%, diuretics in 44.2%, beta blockers in 33.8%, and ACE inhibitors in 16.4%.
(12) The effects of the neutral metalloendopeptidase (NEP) inhibitor, thiorphan, and the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor, captopril, on airway responses to SP5-11 were examined in order to test the hypothesis that differences in degradation of SP and SP5-11 contribute to the difference in airway responsiveness to the two peptides.
(13) In the case of somatic ACE, the second equivalent of inhibitor binds to a second zinc-containing site as evidenced by the ability of a moderate excess of inhibitor to protect both zinc ions against dissociation.
(14) ACE inhibition reduces hyperfiltration and is capable of blocking the AA-induced rise in GFR in these patients.
(15) Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) is a circulating dipeptidase which has a broad specificity and is known to metabolise a range of circulating peptides.
(16) To assess the degree of the differential ability of serum angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) activity as compared with 13 conventional biochemical tests, we studied 76 healthy subjects and 107 patients with chronic liver diseases.
(17) A review of the literature indicated that out of 1087 patients reported, 72 patients were on the combination of an AN69 dialyzer and ACE inhibitor therapy and 41 (57%) demonstrated AR.
(18) It was found that the mean values of serum ACE activity were significantly different between the healthy group and groups with liver disease.
(19) Decreased plasma angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) activity and increased levels of von Willebrand Factor Antigen (vWF:Ag) were found in all patients with SSc.
(20) In respect of reversal of interstitial fibrosis, ACE inhibitors seem to be effective because the growth of fibroblasts was found to be stimulated by angiotensin II.
Ate
Definition:
() the preterit of Eat.
(n.) The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.
(imp.) of Eat
Example Sentences:
(1) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
(2) In a second set of test sessions, volunteers chewed sugarless gum for 10 minutes, starting 15 minutes after they ate the snack food.
(3) The test subjects ate up their food appraising the gustatory qualities of the diet constituents.
(4) Complete esophageal impaction developed when the colt ate solid material.
(5) Donors ate a typical Israeli breakfast of salad, cheese, yoghurt and pastries.
(6) In 2011, a study of people with irritable bowel syndrome found that subjects felt better when they ate a gluten-free diet .
(7) No relationship was observed between abdominal fat weight and yellow follicle number, though birds which ate more had more yellow follicles.
(8) The patient ate normally after the operation, and radiological, manometric, and esophageal pH monitoring studies indicated satisfactory esophageal function.
(9) Subjects reported in a diary everything they either ate or drank for seven consecutive days.
(10) The CBV seemed to vary in function with time according to the equation: CBV in ML%: ate-bt + Vo (t = time in minutes: a = integration constant, a = 1.94; b = time constant, b = 0.089; Vo = real CBV).
(11) We found that diabetic animals on a 20% or 50% protein diet ate approximately 50% more protein and excreted about 50% more urinary urea nitrogen than did their respective similarly-fed nondiabetic controls.
(12) A case is here reported of a 35 year old woman with a history of urticaria following anti-tetanus serum and penicillin injections, who frequently ate exotic fruit, and who was intolerant to alcohol.
(13) Seven obese and seven nonobese male undergraduates were videotaped as they ate four dinner meals, two low and two high in preference, under low and high hunger conditions.
(14) Our results indicate that all forms of ICP4 observed in one-dimensional gel electrophoresis are poly(ADP-ribosyl)ated.
(15) Before eating diet L, subjects ate 50 g lactitol daily for 10 d. 3.
(16) Pigeons ate food ad lib, then fasted for several days, and finally ate a controlled amount of food once a day for several months to maintain body weight at 80% of the ad lib value.
(17) Diets were variable among groups; group A primarily ate fruit (81.2% of feeding time) and spent little time eating insects (16.9%), while group C was more heavily reliant on insects (44.3%) and ate less fruit (53.0%).
(18) It was found that (1) F-fed mice ate more and gained more BWt than C- and D-fed mice, and (2) the average GTG lesion volume of F-fed mice was twice as large as those of C- and D-fed mice.
(19) Obese subjects frequently eat irregularly, and ate between meals, especially sweets.
(20) Both species ate the same amount per unit body weight but buffaloes spent 53% more time ruminating than cattle.