(1) There were no significant differences in the NAG indices either between fullterm and preterm babies or between appropriate for gestational age (AGA) and small for gestational age (SGA) neonates of the normal group.
(2) Mutations recovered after exposure to carboplatin display the same preference for sequences that contain 5'-AGG-3', 5'-AGA-3' and 5'-GAG-3' as was found for cisplatin.
(3) We compared the cranial ultrasound results of 197 SGA infants with 197 appropriate for gestational age (AGA) neonates, matched for gestation and gender, to determine if growth retardation is associated with a difference in ultrasound detectable CNS abnormalities.
(4) Levels of TSH, thyroxine-binding globulin, thyroxine (T4), free T4, triiodothyronine (T3), and free T3 were compared with those from 62 appropriate for gestational age (AGA) fetuses.
(5) In order to determine the prevalence of glucose intolerance in pregnancy, 2,230 consecutive women attending the antenatal clinic at the Aga Khan University Medical Centre in Karachi, Pakistan were subjected on the first antenatal visit, irrespective of gestational age, to a 75 g glucose challenge followed 2 hr later by plasma glucose determination.
(6) In this study other biochemical and physical tests were applied to a group of fetuses with deviating BPD growth in order to improve the discriminatory rate between infants subsequently born AGA or SGA.
(7) Now I’ve got this bee in my bonnet and want to tell people “Roast it whole until the skin’s soft, take it out of the Aga, cool it a bit and it will be just lovely”.
(8) Multivariate analysis in 66 couples and their children confirmed a greater tendency toward the influence of parental factors in AGA children and a more significant relationship with perinatal factors in SGA children.
(9) Preterm AGA children had only slightly higher risk scores in relation to fine motor, upper motor and perceptive functions than control children.
(10) Levels of TSH were significantly higher and T4 and free T4 significantly lower in the SGA than in AGA fetuses.
(11) The heterozygous family members were identified by reduced activity of AGA in lymphocytes.
(12) Simultaneous determination of antigliadin (AGA) and antiendomysium (EMA) levels, and gliadin and tissue absorption studies, showed that JAB and AGA are different, whereas JAB and EMA are probably identical.
(13) The effect of the pin3 mutation is abolished by the wild-type allele of argU, an arginine tRNA that reads the rare Arg codons AGA and AGG, which are used for eight of the 14 Arg codons in the old gene.
(14) Socioeconomic status was related to MDI scores for AGA but not SGA infants.
(15) Aspartylglucosaminuria (AGU) is a lysosomal storage disease due to mutations in the aspartylglucosaminidase (AGA) gene.
(16) Cytosols prepared from renal medulla and cortex were separately analyzed for oestrogen receptor molecules aga gel electrophoresis.
(17) The specificity of AGA cannot be calculated from these figures as they are biased.
(18) MAC is highly correlated with birth weight either in AGA (r = 0.936; P less than 0.001) or in SGA infants (r = 0.860; P less than 0.001).
(19) Maternal stimulation and co-ordinated infant signalling in AGA dyads, and infant quietness and maternal activity encouraging quietness in SGA dyads, were patterns in high-scoring subjects.
(20) In contrast to the urea excretion the excretion of ammonia was highest on the 10th day of life in both groups, but the excretion was significantly higher in the SGA-infants if compared to the AGA-infants.
Ago
Definition:
(a. & adv.) Past; gone by; since; as, ten years ago; gone long ago.
Example Sentences:
(1) The role of whole Mycobacteria, mycobacterial cell walls and waxes D as immunostimulants was well established many years ago.
(2) Wages for the population as a whole are £1,600 a year worse off than five years ago.
(3) Accidentally discovered nearly 40 years ago as the first true antidepressants, the MAOIs soon fell into disfavor due to concerns about toxicity and seemingly lesser efficacy compared with the newer tricyclic compounds.
(4) When my boyfriend and I first got together a year ago, our sex life was romantic and playful.
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(6) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
(7) But the condition of edifices such as B30 and B38 - and all the other "legacy" structures built at Sellafield decades ago - suggest Britain might end up paying a heavy price for this new commitment to nuclear energy.
(8) Just a few months ago, a director-level position job for Sears was floated by me from the department store chain's headquarters in Chicago.
(9) Responding to a “We the People” petition, launched after Snowden’s initial leaks were published in the Guardian two years ago, the Obama administration on Tuesday reiterated its belief that he should face criminal charges for his actions.
(10) Emily Stow London • Until I retired a year ago I was a consultant anaesthetist with a special interest in obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia.
(11) A role for cAMP in the process of LHRH release was suggested several years ago, but only recently has the validity of this notion come under close scrutiny.
(12) Not long ago the comeback would have been impossible to imagine.
(13) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
(14) In one of them, who sustained a complete membranous disruption 5 weeks ago, transluminal puncture failed because of the movable proximal urethra.
(15) New developments in data storage and retrieval forecast applications that could not have been imagined even a year or two ago.
(16) After two placings of shares with institutional investors which began two years ago, the government has been selling shares by “dribbling” them into the market.
(17) Welcomed with open arms a month ago, Syrians are now attacked on popular television talkshows where they are described as Morsi sympathisers.
(18) Two years ago I met a wonderful man and we now feel it’s time to tie the knot.
(19) Lofgren complains that " the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital centre today ".
(20) said Bengis, a Miami-based lawyer who campaigned hard for Hillary Clinton four years ago before she conceded the Democratic Party's nomination to Barack Obama.