(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.
Basto
Definition:
(n.) The ace of clubs in quadrille and omber.
Example Sentences:
(1) It starts and ends in Vidigal and includes a hike up the mountain Tavares Bastos Jazz night at Maze pousada in Tavares Bastos Vidigal is not the only favela with nightlife credentials.
(2) We have already introduced a vacuum drainage system, which is a special drainage system through a machine that removes water, but we cannot do anything about the climate of the Amazon.” Bastos went on to outline the problems with maintaining a pitch in such an inaccessible part of Brazil.
(3) And there's end-product too, as he knocks the ball to Bastos, who booms one at goal from 25 yards.
(4) Teams: Brazil: Julio Cesar, Maicon, Lucio, Juan, Michel Bastos, Felipe Melo, Silva, Elano, Kaka, Robinho, Luis Fabiano.
(5) However, Miguel Bastos, a spokesman for RED who are the company responsible for maintaining the pitch, told Maisfutebol that there everything will be in place by kick-off on Saturday.
(6) 52 min: Bastos scythes Robben down on the right wing.
(7) Chol Jin barges into him to concedde a freekick in the last place you want to concede a freekick against Brazil ... 51 min: Bastos smashes the freekick around the wall and just wide.
(8) But the below line-up doesn't suggest he's feeling contrary, and their left-hand side, with Bastos and Robinho, looks especially enterprising.
(9) Robben broke so quickly that he finally found himself one on one with Michel Bastos, who had been booked in the first half for persistently fouling the Bayern Munich winger.
(10) To reach the Maze, a hotel run by British expat Bob Nadkarni, visitors need to walk down a narrow winding alleyway, past tiny bare brick and breezeblock houses of the Tavares Bastos favela in central Rio.
(11) Solidarity is our weapon.” In Brazil, where actions are planned in more than 70 cities, organiser Mariana Bastos said the focus would be on femicide.
(12) By 22 June, for the game between Portugal and the United States, the pitch will be under optimal conditions,” Bastos told Maisfutebol .
(13) Felipe Melo is back for Brazil, with Elano missing his third game in a row with an ankle injury: Julio Cesar, Maicon, Lucio, Juan, Michel Bastos, Dani Alves, Felipe Melo, Silva, Kaka, Robinho, Luis Fabiano.
(14) With Gilberto Silva and Felipe Melo failing to break beyond the strikers, and Kaká struggling to find his best form, you sensed that the full-backs Maicon and Michel Bastos, along with Robinho, had to carry the attack.
(15) Monthly jazz nights at the Maze Pousada have put the Tavares Bastos favela in Catete, central Rio, on the city's nightlife circuit.
(16) 25 min: Hong lauches a counter attack, Jong skips past Bastos with marvellous style but then over-hits his cross.
(17) Ri unconfidently pushed at a Bastos shot from distance, Luís Fabiano blazed over after chesting down Robinho's pass, until, on 72 minutes, Robinho's pass bisected four defenders and Elano finished off his clever back-post run by slotting it across Ri.
(18) 37 min: Bastos is booked for a niggly foul on Robben.
(19) We are a huge country and it is a very complex picture, but each city and each woman will decide how they take part,” said Bastos.
(20) 9 min: Bastos is endowed with a ferocious left foot ... but be didn't show it a moment ago, when he shanked the ball miles wide from 25 yards.