(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.
Ara
Definition:
(n.) The Altar; a southern constellation, south of the tail of the Scorpion.
(n.) A name of the great blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna), native of South America.
Example Sentences:
(1) The antitumor effect of C18PCA and Ara-C was investigated against the P388 ascites tumor in BDF1 mice.
(2) However, the walker 256 intramuscular tumor did not respond to ARA-C capsules implanted, and the animals died at the same rate as the controls, with large ulcerated tumor masses and some metastasis.
(3) 5 heavily pretreated patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia or non-Hodgkin lymphoma resistant to alkylating agents were treated with low-dose cytosine arabinoside (ARA-C).
(4) Rat liver microsomes demethylated ara-DMAP much more rapidly than human liver microsomes did.
(5) Enhanced ara-CTP formation was observed in cells lacking cytidine deaminase (L1 210 and HL60), indicating that 3-deazauridine inhibition of deoxycytidylate deaminase may be important in this drug interaction.
(6) This study demonstrates the mutagenic properties of F-ara-A and ara-A and provides evidence for mechanisms by which the arabinosyl nucleosides induce mutation.
(7) Patient cells had low rates for ara-C transport as compared with human and murine experimental cells and correspondingly low binding capacities for the nucleoside transport inhibitor, nitrobenzylmercaptopurine riboside (NBMPR).
(8) The inhibitions by ara-GTP and 9-beta-D-arabinofuranosyladenine 5'-triphosphate were due to competition or partial competition 5'-triphosphate were due to competition or partial competition with deoxynucleoside triphosphate with the same base.
(9) The incorporation of F-ara-A monophosphate into mRNA resulted in premature termination of the RNA transcript and impaired its functioning as a template for protein synthesis.
(10) Pharmacological studies of 5'-esters of 1 beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine (ara-C) were performed in three species (mouse, pig, and man).
(11) These results provide some support for the view that cell kill may not be the only basis for the chemotherapeutic effectiveness of ara-C.
(12) Accelerating test at a constant temperature indicates that liposome-entrapped Ara-A has certain chemical stability.
(13) Although statistically significant, the effect of DP on ara-CTP retention in AML blasts was much less pronounced than that previously observed in L5178Y leukemia.
(14) He was treated with the combination chemotherapy of BACOD with high dose ara-C or methotrexate followed by 4 doses of autologous LAK cell infusion resulting in no significant response.
(15) Regardless whether cyclo-C or ara-C is injected, the plasma decay curve of the resultant ara-C is biphasic, with calculated half-lives of 40 min and 2-2.5 hr.
(16) Serial measurements of DNA synthesis and net intracellular ara-C metabolism demonstrated marked increases in both determinants in day 8 residual tumor when compared with the pretreatment cells for newly diagnosed adults achieving complete remission but not for TST-refractory patients.
(17) Determination of the intracellular content of the active metabolite of ara-C, ara-CTP, excluded more prolonged retention of the drug as the basis for potentiation of cytotoxicity.
(18) With the aim of improving the treatment of AML patients the activities of selected nucleoside metabolizing enzymes of possible implication for the initial metabolism of Ara-C have been studied in leukemic and normal cells.
(19) Ara-C. We conclude that prophylactic CNS therapy may cause cognitive dysfunctions.
(20) This was possible because the Ara test, for volatile compounds (such as vinyl bromide), did not require the use of special vaporization techniques, which are difficult to evaluate quantitatively for mutagenic activity.