(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.
Ava
Definition:
(n.) Same as Kava.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ava had moved to London to star opposite James Mason as the Empress of Austria in the film Mayerling .
(2) On the basis of these pharmacokinetic studies it can be concluded that both vinpocetine and AVA show linear pharmacokinetics at the doses used and that there is no accumulation or autoinduction.
(3) Using four restriction sites (Hinc II psi beta, Ava II beta, Hind III beta, and BamH I beta), prenatal diagnosis is feasible in all families.
(4) In the presence of 5-AVA (1 mM) the concentration response curve to GABA was shifted to the right without a reduction of the maximal effect attainable.
(5) In this study, Doppler techniques were used to predict PG and aortic valve areas (AVA) in adults with aortic stenosis (AS).
(6) People often wrongly assume that young relationships are fleeting and so cannot be abusive, says Joanna Sharpen, of Against Violence and Abuse (Ava) .
(7) We have determined that the type II restriction enzyme Ava II, isolated from Anabaena variabilis, recognizes and cuts the sequence (formula: see article).
(8) RPMI-4265 (B cell) and HUT-78 (T cell) constitutively express HLA-DR. HL-60 (myelomonocyte) and U-937 (monocyte) can be induced to express HLA-DR. Jurkat and Molt-4 (T cells) do not and cannot be induced to express HLA-DR. Based on the known nucleotide sequence of the HLA-DR alpha gene, methylation-sensitive restriction endonucleases Msp I, Hpa II, Hha I, Ava I, Hae II, and Sma I were used to detect the CpG methylation in three regions of the HLA-DR alpha gene: the 5'flanking region, the exon 1 region, and the coding region containing exons 2, 3, 4, and 5.
(9) Reproducibility of the AVA program (version 3.5) was tested (1) by analyzing the same analog tracing 10 times in 150 patients, and (2) by studying the influence of 12 different sets of prior probabilities (PRP), using the digital data from a total of 2718 patients.
(10) Up to an infusion rate of 3.0upg kg - I min- 1 the decrease in AVA-flow was due to a fall in arterial blood pressure, but at the highest infusion rate both the decrease in arterial perfusion pressure and an increase in their resistance contributed to a further decrease in AVA blood flow.
(11) The increase in AVA resistance with SFNS apparently resulted from a combination of alpha 1 and alpha 2 receptor stimulation but not histaminergic effects.
(12) Although SP is a potent vasodilator there is little evidence of its role in thermoregulation; however it may be involved in a local axon reflex and cause antidromic vasodilatation of local vessels particularly AVAs.
(13) All patients had the aortic valve area (AVA) determined by cardiac catheterization.
(14) After the oral or intravenous administration of 10 mg vinpocetine to dogs the pharmacokinetics of its main metabolite, apovincaminic acid (AVA) can be described by a two-compartment open model.
(15) Cold acclimation of the chickens increased the density of AVAs by a factor of 2.1-3.2.
(16) Due to differences in distribution and density, AVAs play a more significant role in thermoregulation in the northern fur seal than in the California sea lion.
(17) When these results are considered together with recently defined differential influences of reflex and direct effects of temperature on blood flow through cutaneous AVA's and capillaries, it is concluded: (1) That thermally-induced reflex changes in skin blood flow are mediated via sympathetic nervous action on AVA's; (2) Changes in blood flow evoked by direct heating take place through the capillaries, not the AVA's, quite independently of SkNA.
(18) A higher thoracic skin temperature (Tths) for broody hens compared to non-broody hens suggests that brood patches are the probable site of this increased flow through arteriovenous anastomoses (AVAs).
(19) This study presents evidence that AVA antagonizes central pharmacological actions of baclofen at both spinal and supraspinal sites without affecting the actions of a GABAA agonist, muscimol.
(20) The beta A chromosomes were mapped by scoring the presence (+) or the absence (-) of seven different restriction sites (Hinc II site 5' to the epsilon-globin gene; Hind III sites in the G gamma- and A gamma-globin genes; Hinc II sites in and 3' to the psi beta 1-globin gene; Ava II site in the beta-globin gene; Bam HI site 3' to the beta-globin gene).