(a.) Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.
(n.) A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.
Example Sentences:
(1) A spindle cell sarcoma appeared 20 months after implantation of a pellet of 3-methylcholanthrene in the denervated foreleg of an adult frog, Rana pipiens.
(2) The possibility that the ventral nerve photoreceptor cells serve a neurosecretory function in the adult Limulus is discussed.
(3) On the other hand, the LAP level, identical in preterms and SDB, is lower than in full-term infants but higher than in adults.
(4) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
(5) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(6) The anticonvulsant properties of the endogenous excitatory amino acid antagonist, kynurenic acid (KYA), were studied in prepubescent and adult rats using the amygdaloid kindling model of epilepsy.
(7) The purpose of the present study was to report on remaining teeth and periodontal conditions in a population of 200 adolescent and adult Vietnamese refugees.
(8) At the highest dose of chloroquine tested (500 microM), a slightly greater increase in insulin binding and a decrease in insulin degradation were observed in fetal cells as compared with adult cells.
(9) The problem of treatment oneside malocclusions of adult patients needs to concern of anchorange.
(10) The distribution of gelsolin, a calcium-dependent actin-severing and capping protein, in the retina of the developing and adult rabbit was studied.
(11) We have measured the antibody specificities to the two polysaccharides in sera from asymptomatic group C meningococcal carriers and vaccinated adults by a new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) procedure using methylated human serum albumin for coating the group C polysaccharide onto microtiter plates.
(12) Descriptive features of the syndrome in children, adults and adolescents are given based on the respective work of Pine, Masterson and Kernberg.
(13) The main clinical symptom was pain, usually sciatica, while neurological symptoms were less common than they are in adults.
(14) Intestinal glands are not observed until 8.5cm, and are shallow in depth even in the adult.
(15) An anatomic study of the peroneal artery and vein and their branches was carried out on 80 adult cadaver legs.
(16) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(17) The authors followed up the occurrence of inflammation-mediated osteopenia (IMO) in young and adult rats weighing 50 g and 150 g, respectively.
(18) Previous studies in this laboratory with particulate Mn3O4 have shown that preweanling rats have substantially higher tissue Mn concentrations than similarly treated adults, indicating possible differences in uptake or elimination or both.
(19) It has also been reported in a severe form with fever and systemic symptoms both in children and adults.
(20) These results do not support the view that in the rat pheromones from adult males enhance puberty in females, contrary to what is known to happen in the mouse.
Chaperon
Definition:
(n.) A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood.
(n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
(n.) A matron who accompanies a young lady in public, for propriety, or as a guide and protector.
(v. t.) To attend in public places as a guide and protector; to matronize.
Example Sentences:
(1) The molecular chaperone GroE facilitates correct protein folding in vivo and in vitro.
(2) Ellen Page is to make her directorial debut with Miss Stevens, starring Anna Faris as a teacher chaperoning a mob of high school students to a state drama competition.
(3) According to its physical and biochemical properties, poly(L-malate) may alternatively function as a molecular chaperone in nucleosome assembly in the S phase and as both an inhibitor and a stock-piling agent of DNA-polymerase-alpha-primase in the G2 phase and M phase of the plasmodial cell cycle.
(4) Two proteins, P1 and P2, which are specifically altered in mammalian cell mutants resistant to antimitotic drugs, have been identified as the homologs of two members of the class of proteins known as molecular chaperones.
(5) In his previous job, as BBC Vision director, he made a generally favourable impression on media reporters, especially those from papers hostile to the corporation, for his willingness to attend friendly and gossipy dinners without being chaperoned by BBC minders.
(6) Spending time with Fred Miller, 93, and his fiancee Joan Emms, 84, veers close to chaperoning lovestruck teens.
(7) In the presence of HSP70s both the autoprotease and transpeptidase activities were inhibited, indicating that these chaperones can interact with nascent polypeptides and, in the cases studied here, perturb their normal structures.
(8) Other reasons for using a chaperone included a patient with emotional problems, a history of rape or sexual abuse, a seductive patient, an uncomfortable patient or physician, a first pelvic examination, and medicolegal issues.
(9) In a survey of 200 female patients attending a five-man practice in a health centre, 75 per cent of the respondents stated that they would like to be offered a chaperone at pelvic examinations.
(10) Complementation experiments with E. coli groE mutants showed that the chaperonin-10 and chaperonin-60 genes from the endosymbiont are expressed in E. coli and that they can function as molecular chaperones together with endogenous GroEL and GroES, respectively.
(11) We have previously reconstituted the soluble phase of precursor protein translocation in vitro using purified proteins (the precursor proOmpA, the chaperone SecB, and the ATPase SecA) in addition to isolated inner membrane vesicles.
(12) These results support the notion that both H and L chains require the chaperoning function of BiP before or during the process of antibody assembly.
(13) Constitutively expressed heat-shock proteins of the hsp60 and hsp70 families, classified as 'molecular chaperones', have important functions in the folding and intracellular sorting of newly-synthesized proteins.
(14) This sequential mechanism of chaperone action may represent an important pathway for the folding of newly synthesized polypeptides.
(15) At times the tightly chaperoned tour already felt as if National Lampoon’s Cuban Vacation had been scripted by over-earnest communist officials.
(16) These findings demonstrate that the GdnHCl denaturation of complex polymeric proteins is unlikely to follow a reversible two-state denaturation pathway, and support the involvement of a chaperone-like protein in the folding and assembly of the fimbriae in vivo.
(17) The only exit from chaperones and chilblains was marriage.
(18) The medical literature contains no consistent recommendations regarding chaperon practices during physical examination of patients.
(19) We investigated whether in vivo holoenzyme formation was influenced by the association of the apoenzyme with cellular chaperones.
(20) The level of awareness of clinical teaching was poor and examination of women patients without a chaperone caused distress and should be rectified.