(n.) The name given in the Bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.
(n.) "Original sin;" human frailty.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ADAM derivative of carnitine was separated from decomposition products of the reagent and related compounds such as amino acid derivatives on a silica gel column eluted with methanol-5% aqueous SDS-phosphoric acid (990:10:1).
(2) At a private meeting last Tuesday, Hunt assured Cameron and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, that he had not been aware that his special adviser, Adam Smith, was systematically leaking information and advice to News Corp about its bid for BSkyB.
(3) Alec played a role in the resignation of the UK defence secretary Liam Fox last year over his close ties to his friend Adam Werritty.
(4) Ridley and Boyega are part of a swathe of actors – also including Girls' Adam Driver and Ingmar Bergman regular Max von Sydow – who were confirmed by studio Disney in May.
(5) As ABC reports, Adam Bandt, the only Greens MP in the lower house, won his Melbourne seat with the help of Liberal preferences at the last election, and may struggle to hold it on 7 September.
(6) The 25-year-old student is adamant that her mother, Berta Cáceres Flores, will not become just one more Honduran environmental activist whose work was cut short by their assassination.
(7) Adam Ramsay, 28, from Oxford, is volunteering over the weekend.
(8) There are harsh lessons in football and we have learned some over the last week.” Two James Milner penalties and goals from the impressive Adam Lallana, Sadio Mané and Philippe Coutinho took Liverpool’s tally to 24 in eight games.
(9) Adam Suckling, the corporate affairs director of News Corp Australia, said the provision should be considered alongside mandatory data retention and other security legislation that had passed the parliament in the past year.
(10) The Treasury was adamant last night that this would not be the impact at an industry level and produced figures that showed, for instance, in 2014-15, the corporation tax costs being £0.4bn, compared with a bank levy yield of £2.4bn.
(11) Adam Boulton, Colin Brazier and Gillian Joseph will report from around central London, as will the Skycopter.
(12) Hopefully it could be just a week 7.03pm Michel texts Adam Smith thanks for your patience today 9.31pm Michel texts Adam Smith are you publishing the Slaughters and May opinion tomorrow?
(13) Off came defensive midfielder Claudio Yacob, rendered surplus to requirements by the dismissals of Afellay and Adam, and on went forward Rickie Lambert.
(14) At least half of the perpetrators in 100 rampages studied by the New York Times were found to have signs of serious mental health issues, and it was reported last week that Adam Lanza's mother was in the process of having him committed when he embarked on the Newtown rampage.
(15) He also said special advisers needed better training and management and that something had gone wrong in the supervision of Hunt's special adviser Adam Smith.
(16) There were some shocking penalties in that bunch, none more so than Charlie Adam's.
(17) However, the shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander , is adamant Labour could not afford to spend the first two years of government wrestling with a referendum on Europe, pointing to the energy it had expended on the near-disastrous no campaign for the Scotland independence vote.
(18) It featured Adam Dalgliesh, the poet-policeman, and he seemed old-fashioned, too, intellectual and a trifle upper-class.
(19) Thorgerson is survived by his wife, Barbie Antonis; her children, Adam and Georgia; his son Bill, from his earlier relationship with Libby January; and his mother, Vanji.
(20) Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt was grilled for six hours at the Leveson inquiry and his evidence touched on phone-hacking, his meetings with the Murdochs, the role of his former special adviser Adam Smith and whether he really did hide behind a tree.
Progenitor
Definition:
(n.) An ancestor in the direct line; a forefather.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effects of in vivo administration of native prostaglandin E2 (PGE) on the cycling status of the granulocyte-monocyte progenitor cell (CFU-GM) were examined in a mouse model.
(2) In healthy persons the supernatant of lymphocytes preincubated with PHA and ALG was found to show a stimulating effect to clonogenic properties of marrow progenitors, the mentioned effect being not in proportion to the concentration value.
(3) We therefore think that the detailed examination of CALLA(-) non-T non-B ALL cells using myeloid specific antibodies is helpful in clarifying the characteristics of myeloid precursors and the common bipotential stem cell of lymphoid and myeloid progenitors.
(4) The high levels of circulating progenitor cells in ALL and CLL patients clearly distinguish them from other cytopenic hematological malignancies, in which decreased progenitor cell levels have been demonstrated previously (acute myeloid leukemia, hairy cell leukemia).
(5) Studies on proliferation and differentiation of granulocyte-monocyte progenitor cells in Chediak-Higashi syndrome (CHS) were done on a 1-month-old patient, using the soft-agar bone marrow culture technique.
(6) Certain mouse and human hematopoietic progenitor cells also contain an aldehyde dehydrogenase that catalyzes the detoxification of aldophosphamide, but the specific identity of this enzyme remains to be established.
(7) Mouse spleen cells rich in erythroid progenitors were washed free of endogenous Epo and then incubated in the absence of Epo.
(8) The bone marrow differentials and numbers of granulocyte-macrophage progenitors (CFC-GM) were determined after irradiation with 1.5 Gy.
(9) However, the studies on 0-2A progenitor cells were carried out in bulk cultures of optic nerve, and so it was possible that other cell-cell interactions were required for differentiation in culture.
(10) In culture, GY30 cells sustain the production of granulocyte-macrophage progenitor cells (GM-CFU) but fail to support the survival of pluripotential stem cells (CFU-S).
(11) The development of T cells from stem (progenitor) cells to effector cells results from a two-wave process of proliferation and differentiation.
(12) No chemical or immunological differences were observed in the cell wall carbohydrate of the noncapsulated streptococcus, 89R50, and that of its capsulated progenitor.
(13) This is exemplified in lymphoma cells (chronic lymphocytic leukemia of B or T type, Sezary Syndrome, immunocytoma) that resemble mature and immunocompetent T and B cells, in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) (equivalent to thymus cells) and in non-T ALL (corresponding to lymphoid progenitor cells in the bone marrow).
(14) We studied MDS-associated inhibitory activity, which inhibited colony formation in vitro of granulocyte-macrophage progenitors (CFU-GM).
(15) In contrast, populations containing BFUe yielded a striking (sixfold for CFUe; 23-fold for e-clusters) expansion of late progenitors in the presence of Epo.
(16) The stem cell loss immediately following 55Fe injection is in our interpretation caused by rapid differentiation along the erythroid pathway in a response that involves all progenitor populations.
(17) We report here that human IL-6 and IL-3 act synergistically in support of the proliferation of progenitors for human blast cell colonies and that IL-1 alpha reveals no synergism with IL-3 when tested against purified human marrow progenitors.
(18) In addition, we have examined the ability of these fibroblasts and their conditioned medium (CM) to induce differentiation of human hemopoietic progenitor cells.
(19) AF and its deacetylated form inhibited the development of macrophage and granulocytic colonies from progenitor cells in human bone marrow even at concentrations less than or equal to 10(-9)M. The disease suppressive activity of AF could result in part from the reduction of cell numbers in arthritic lesions and our findings provide a mechanism for this possibility.
(20) Spontaneously hypertensive rats (SH) with an increased number of red blood cells (RBC), microcytosis, and normal hemoglobin (Hb) concentration were used to study the effect of different manipulations of the erythron on erythropoietin production and on erythroid progenitor proliferation by bone marrow cells in order to gain insight regarding the regulation of erythropoiesis.