What's the difference between acme and alme?

Acme


Definition:

  • (n.) The top or highest point; the culmination.
  • (n.) The crisis or height of a disease.
  • (n.) Mature age; full bloom of life.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Astrocyte conditioned medium (ACM) enhanced the survival of neurons and the proliferation of astrocytes in embryonic cortical cultures grown in serum-free defined medium.
  • (2) Race 4 transconjugants containing avrB0 induced a dark brown necrotic HR within 24 h on the soybean cultivars Harosoy and Norchief, whereas race 4 transconjugants containing avrC induced a light brown necrotic HR within 48 h on the soybean cultivars Acme, Peking, Norchief, and Flambeau.
  • (3) Posterior fossa decompression with obex plugging (the Gardner operation) was the procedure of choice for SM-ACM and for idiopathic holocord syringomyelia.
  • (4) A variety of protected peptides up to tetradecapeptides have been chromatographed at pressures of 50 to 150 psi and obtained in analytically pure from within 2 to 4 h. With such commonly used protecting groups as N-benzyloxycarbonyl (Z), N-2-(p-biphenylyl)-2-propyloxycarbonyl (Bpoc), N-t-butyloxycarbonyl (Boc), O- and S-t-butyl (But), and S-acetamidomethyl (Acm), compounds were sufficiently soluble in chloroform, alcohols, acetic acid, or mixtures of these solvents for column loading.
  • (5) Material was fixed in buffered-formalin solution and embedded in metacrylate or Durcupan ACM.
  • (6) In a phase I-II study, 19 patients with acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL) and 8 patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) were given ACM alone according to the regimen designated treatment 1 described above.
  • (7) The lack of significant abnormalities in post-ictal polysomnograms corresponds to a functional integrity of the brainstem structures involved in the global organization of sleep and may represent a useful laboratory feature in the diagnosis of ACM.
  • (8) Proliferation of CFU-acm can be controlled by humoral factors and this allows us to conclude that they are not identical to CFUs and probably belong to the compartment of early hemopoietic cells of the granulocyte series.
  • (9) Sequential studies of the self-limited HgCl2 GN showed that glomerular PCA, proteinuria and glomerular fibrin deposits peaked concomitantly at the acme of the disease, suggesting that immunologically mediated glomerular damage had triggered the extrinsic coagulation pathway.
  • (10) The ACMS said the mining industry ads ignored the impacts of industrialisation, which it called “the fastest growing threat to the reef”.
  • (11) Conversely, the exposure of cells to the anthracycline compounds at 0 degree C resulted in almost complete disappearance of cell kill effects except with ACM; ACM retained substantial cell kill effects even at the given low temperature.
  • (12) With the MM cells, hyperthermia potentiated the cytotoxic effects of doxorubicin (ADM), daunorubicin, mitoxantrone (DHAD), and quelamycin but did not enhance that of aclacinomycin (ACM).
  • (13) These data lead us to conclude that ACM-DOX association partly reverses the DOX resistance at clinically achievable concentrations.
  • (14) The significance of these observations was discussed in terms of possible interactions at the level of ACM and CAF biotransformation and the potential for interactions of CAF with other xenobiotics.
  • (15) That triumphal speech was his apex, the acme, the zenith of his career.
  • (16) The therapeutic value of these compounds for established ACME remains uncertain.
  • (17) The structural basis of this bleeding disorder has been further assessed by studying the interaction of the following Val(12)-substituted human fibrinogen-like peptides with bovine thrombin in aqueous solution by use of two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy (including TRNOE): Ala-Asp-Ser-Gly-Glu-Gly-Asp(7)-Phe-Leu-Ala- Glu-Val(12)-Gly-Gly-Val-Arg(16)-Gly(17)-Pro-Arg-Val-NH2 (F16), Ala-Asp-Ser-Gly-Glu-Gly-Asp(7)-Phe-Leu-Ala-Glu-Val(12)-Gly-Gly-Val- Arg(16) (tF16), Ala-Asp-Ser-Gly-Glu-Cys(Acm)-Asp(7)-Phe-Leu-Ala-Glu-Val(12)-Gly-Gly-Val- Arg(16)-Gly(17)-Pro-Arg-Val-Cys(Acm)-NH2 (F17), and Ala-Asp-Ser-Gly-Glu-Cys(Acm)-Asp(7)-Phe-Leu-Ala-Glu-Val(12)-Gly-Gly- Val-Arg(16) (tF17).
  • (18) A sensitive enzyme immunoassay method (EIA) for an anticancer drug, aclacinomycin A (ACM), has been developed.
  • (19) A comparison of the ACM aa sequence with the aa sequences of other proteins in the NBRF data base reveals that ACM has strong similarity to the N-O-diacetylmuramidase secreted by the fungus Chalaropsis.
  • (20) None of the 8 patients suffering from ovarial cancer benefitted from ACM therapy.

Alme


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Almeh

Example Sentences:

  • (1) According to histopathologic aspect the patients were divided into two groups: I--with active lymphocytic myocarditis (ALM); II--without ALM: 51 patients.
  • (2) The recent proposal that acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM) is a distinct clinico-histological entity, however, is more difficult to accept.
  • (3) The presence of helminthic invasion of the liver--opisthordiasis resulted in hepatitis, pancreatitis that would not respond to therapy in patients with ALMS.
  • (4) 'If you meet, you drink …' Thus introduced to intoxicating liquors under auspices both secular and sacred, the offering of alms for oblivion I took to be the custom of the country in which I had been born.
  • (5) However, the degree of heterogeneity of HMW-MAA within a positive primary ALM lesion, as measured by the percentage of stained melanoma cells, is lower than that of Mr 97,000 MAA and GD3.
  • (6) The computer-derived unidirectional flux coefficients were in keeping with active ALM transport and passive, carrier-mediated LM transport.
  • (7) Michaelis constants and maximal velocities measured at 33 degrees C, for UK and ins-UK, were identical when ALMe was used, but slightly different with AGLMe.
  • (8) Further characterization of the ALM is warranted in an effort to explain the enhancement of the bactericidal capacity of alveolar macrophages by most, but not all, H-ALM tested.
  • (9) These antigenic differences do not reflect an antigenic paucity of ALM cells, since ALM lesions express a higher level of T4-tyrosinase than NM lesions and a level of HLA Class I antigens similar to that of NM lesions.
  • (10) Since protein-bound AGEs recognized by the antibodies were labile to acid hydrolysis, the antibodies were further characterized by using the AGE-alpha-acetyl-L-lysine methyl ester (AGE-ALME) with a brown and fluorescent property as well as the AGE-proteins.
  • (11) This doses of Alm did not cause significant vasoconstriction during normoxic gas ventilation compared with malic acid.
  • (12) Responses to angiotensin II were not decreased by Alm.
  • (13) In addition, we discussed ALM precancerous lesions called plantar premalignant melanosis, which consist of B- and C-phases only.
  • (14) Pigment formed by alm-1 microsclerotia from (+)-scytalone had chemical and physical properties identical with those of melanin in the wild-type fungus.
  • (15) There was no difference in the uptake of the bacteria by PAM when ALM was present.
  • (16) Previous reports indicate that the in vitro bactericidal activity of rat alveolar macrophages (AM) is dependent on the lipid fraction (ALM-L) of the alveolar lining material (ALM).
  • (17) Ventilation was not affected by ALM during air breathing and was slightly, although not significantly, increased during hypoxic rest and exercise.
  • (18) The differences between our results and those of earlier studies using ALM from rats may relate to interspecies differences in the composition of ALM.
  • (19) ALM does not make detectable levels of late viral proteins and is minimally 200-fold depressed in the accumulation of cytoplasmic polyadenylated late RNA.
  • (20) On the other hand, the survival of patients with ALM was inversely correlated with the expression of intercellular adhesion molecule 1 or HMW-MAA in their primary lesions.

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