(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.
Tace
Definition:
(n.) The cross, or church, of St. Antony. See Illust. (6), under Cross, n.
(n.) See Tasse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sixty-six consecutive patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) were treated with transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) using aclarubicin microspheres (ACRms) in combination with cisplatin suspended in iodized oil (Lipiodol, Laboratoire Guerbert, Paris, France) (CSL).
(2) A reduction of the tumor size after L-TACE did not necessarily mean a good prognosis for the patients.
(3) We investigated the incidence and endoscopic features of gastroduodenal lesions which appeared after transcatheter arterial chemo-embolization (TACE), performed 29 times in 25 patients with inoperative hepatocellular carcinoma.
(4) The single oral dose of quinestrol showed efficacy equal to the 2-day regimen of Tace.
(5) Therefore, we would like to recommend, TACE of HCC in well-selected patients presenting with good clinical status, patency of the portal vein and without broken capsule, in order to achieve better clinical results.
(6) 3) When ADM was dissolved in Gd-DTPA and intraarterially infused without being mixed with lipiodol, the intensity of the signal on MRI was the same as that in LP-TACE immediately after the administration, and gradually decreased thereafter.
(7) The results demonstrated that TACE can be effective for humoral hypercalcemia of HCC.
(8) These results suggest that TACE is more effective than oral chemotherapy for treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma that recurs after partial hepatectomy.
(9) Further follow-up studies will be needed to discover the effects of oral chemotherapy after L-TACE.
(10) The new development or exacerbation of the gastroduodenal lesions after TACE was evident in 13 of the 29 (45%).
(11) In 22% of the HCC patients and in 42% of the metastatic liver cancer patients, the tumor size was reduced by more than 50% after L-TACE.
(12) Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) is one of the established therapeutic modalities for treatment of metastatic liver cancer originating in the gastrointestinal tract.
(13) The factors relating to the duration of survival were analyzed for 329 cases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) treated by transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) between January 1, 1983, and December 31, 1990.
(14) The marked antiestrogen character of TACE was surprising since TACE has been classified and clinically used as an estrogen.
(15) In light of these events, upper gastrointestinal endoscopy should be added to the usual examinations done for patients undergoing TACE.
(16) Cis-Diamminedichloroplatinum (CDDP)-lipiodol suspension (CLS) was developed as a transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) material.
(17) The materials were then clinically prescribed as an embolic agent in preoperative TACE for patients with locally advanced breast cancer.
(18) Under adequate medical care, TACE can safely be applied, although there are some reports about fatal complications.
(19) The survival rates of the HCC patients after L-TACE did not change as a result of oral 5-fluorouracil administration.
(20) TAM and TACE acted as partial agonists on PRL and uterine weight induction.