(n.) A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash.
Example Sentences:
(1) After 4 to 6 hours of recirculation, accumulation of vasoactive amine, 5-hydroxytryptamine, its major metabolite, 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid, and its precursor amino acid, tryptophan were detected.
(2) Preincubation of human neutrophils with recombinant tumor necrosis factor alpha has previously been shown by us to enhance superoxide production of neutrophils in response to the chemotactic peptide formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine, and the phorbol ester, phorbol myristate acetate.
(3) Only methoxyindole acetic acid was detectable after incubation of unstimulated and alpha-adrenergic-agonist-treated pineal glands.
(4) The 1-0-methylalduronic-acidmethylesters, obtained by the methanolysis of the polysaccharides, are reduced with boronhydrid to the corresponding methyl glycosides; there are split with acid to the aldoses, which are converted in pyridine with hydroxylamine to the aldoximes and than with acetic anhydride to the aldonitrilacetates, which can be separated by gaschromatography without difficulty.
(5) The drug is extracted from serum or urine with ethyl acetate, separated by TLC, and determined by fluorescence quenching densitometry.
(6) Basal plasma levels of oxytocin were found to be low in sodium-deficient adrenalectomized rats and in intact animals treated daily with desoxycorticosterone acetate, both of which groups drank large amounts of NaCl solution, whereas basal plasma levels of arginine vasopressin were neither stimulated nor suppressed.
(7) It was shown that the levels of ATP and ADP in the mycelium depended on the carbon source: the maximum and minimum ATP concentrations were found on the glucose and acetate media respectively, the maximum and minimum ADP concentrations showed inverse dependence.
(8) Unaltered surface enamel of extracted human teeth was subjected to tests of resistance to dissolution in 10 mM acetic acid at pH 4.0 and 10 mM EDTA at pH 7.4 in a miniature continuous flow system.
(9) 2) Neurotropin had no effect on the autolytic degradation of cartilage, but promoted the incorporation of 14C-acetate into the proteoglycan in the articular cartilage of rabbits.
(10) The treatment group received 75 mg of roxatidine acetate hydrochloride at 9 PM and 12 to 13 hours later gastric juice secretion was measured with gastric x-ray films in both groups.
(11) In these animals, propionate was the major VFA taken up by the liver and approximately 50% of absorbed acetate was also removed by the liver.
(12) A putative pineal metabolite, 5-methoxyindole-3-acetic acid, was quantified in human urine by a gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric method.
(13) AIS treatment lowered serum insulin levels, serum triglyceride levels, caloric intake, weight gain, liver weight, acetate 14C incorporation into cholesterol 14C, and the percentage of liver lipid that was cholesterol.
(14) One week after initiation is 1-2 months before the appearance of benign papillomas that harbor activated Ha-ras oncogenes when the initiated mice are promoted with the tumor promoter phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate.
(15) Cellulose acetate electrophoresis of Chironomus utahensis hemolymph demonstrated a six-band pattern for hemoglobins.
(16) Addition of MoAb 60.3 to normal neutrophils produced dose-dependent inhibition of neutrophil aggregation in response to phorbol myristate acetate, zymosan-activated plasma, and N-formyl-methionylleucylphenylalanine.
(17) One middle carpal joint of each horse was injected 3 times with 100 mg of 6-alpha-methylprednisolone acetate, at 14-day intervals.
(18) Imported sweets and liqueurs were homogenized and extracted with ethyl acetate.
(19) The aza analogue (RS)-3-hydroxy-2,5-pyrrolidinedione-3-acetic acid (6) of the five-membered citric anhydride (2) was prepared in the sequence citric acid----2-phenyl-1,3-dioxolan-4-one-5,5-diacetic acid (1)----citric acid beta-amide (3)----6 and used to resolve ambiguities in the mechanism of the citrate synthase reaction.
(20) A group of [4-(2-bromoalkanoyl)phenoxy]acetic acids was studied to determine if there was an association between the alkylating ability and the diuretic activity of its members.
Aluminium
Definition:
(n.) The metallic base of alumina. This metal is white, but with a bluish tinge, and is remarkable for its resistance to oxidation, and for its lightness, having a specific gravity of about 2.6. Atomic weight 27.08. Symbol Al.
Example Sentences:
(1) Examination on day 9 and 15 the magaldrate group showed significantly (p less than 0.05) lower aluminium levels than the aluminium hydroxide group.
(2) Al added as AlCl3 or aluminium citrate had no effect, and there was no significant difference in the response of cells from renal failure patients with or without high serum Al levels or controls.
(3) These experimental results demonstrate that aluminium interferes with iron absorption and iron transfer, and suggest that these mechanisms may be responsible for maintaining and even increasing the anaemia observed in aluminium overload.
(4) The latter compounds were reduced with lithium aluminium hydride to the respective amines (II a-c) and then N-alkylated by reaction with 2-propynyl-, 2-butynyl- or 2,3-butadienyl bromides to the corresponding amines (III a-j).
(5) 47 children were immunized in 1968 and 1969 during the first year of life with 3 injections of aluminium free triple vaccine given with an interval of 4--6 weeks.
(6) Rabbits fed a cholesterol-rich diet developed atherosclerosis after 3 months and these rabbits possessed high concentrations of calcium, phosphorus and aluminium in the central nervous system, determined by neutron activation analysis.
(7) These findings suggest that although in rats with normal renal function aluminium absorption appears to be partly vitamin D dependent, 1,25(OH)2D3 does not further augment the enhanced gastrointestinal absorption of aluminium in uraemia.
(8) The entrance window is 12 microns Melinex foil with a thin aluminium surface.
(9) For inactivation of rad54-3 mutant cells, the r.b.e.-values relative to 60Co gamma-rays were 2.6 and 2.4 for carbon K and aluminium K X-rays, respectively.
(10) The absorption of factor VIII from gel filtration fractions, concentrates and plasma by aluminium hydroxide has been studied.
(11) Lymphocytes cultured in the presence of Al-Tf showed a dose-dependent uptake of Al, whereas uptake from aluminium citrate was low and not dose-dependent.
(12) Very small PVC particles, polymerized by the emulsion process, were mounted on an aluminium adhesive tape and pressed with a similar tape.
(13) The antibody responses of animals immunised with keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) in Freund's Incomplete Adjuvant (FIA), diethylaminoethyl dextran (DEAE-dextran) and aluminium hydroxide (alum) were compared with the response to antigen administered in the absence of adjuvants.
(14) to aluminium chronic poisonning; the source of the aluminium intoxication is not aluminium containing phosphate-binding gels but intravenously administreted tape-water.
(15) Bile acids were extracted from serum samples by chromatography on Amberlite XAD-2 and, after alkaline or enzymic hydrolysis, purified by chromatography on aluminium oxide.
(16) As new aluminium equals energy use and environmental destruction, this raises the question: why can't computers be made from recycled aluminium, given that this uses 95% less energy?
(17) In a multicentre study, 146 peptic ulcer patients who had recently healed with H2 antagonists (38 gastric, 108 duodenal ulcers) received randomly for a year one of the following mucosal protecting antiulcer drugs: aceglutamide aluminium salt (AAL), zinc acexamate (ZAC) and magaldrate (MAG).
(18) It permits the absorption of aluminium in amounts similar to aluminium-containing antacids, and toxicity has been demonstrated in the presence of renal insufficiency.
(19) The method consisted first in preconcentrating the samples collected on immersed gauze pads, secondly in the concentration of the virus samples by the following methods-used either separately or in parallel: the Amberlite method, the yeast cell and the aluminium bydroxide concentration method.
(20) The concentrations of 17 trace elements (e.g., copper, cobalt, iron, manganese, chromium, silicon and magnesium) were determined in whole blood samples of 81 persons working with different welding methods on stainless steel or aluminium and 68 nonwelders.