What's the difference between agent and interagent?
Agent
Definition:
(a.) Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action.
(n.) One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.
(n.) One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.
(n.) An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent; as, heat is a powerful agent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Combinations of maximum amounts of glucagon and the cyclic nucleotide did not produce a greater effect than either agent alone.
(2) Assessment of the likelihood of replication in humans has included in vitro exposure of human cells to the potential pesticidal agent.
(3) In addition, intravenous injection of complexes into rabbits showed optimal myocardial images with agents of intermediate lipophilicity.
(4) This study examined the [3H]5-HT-releasing properties of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and related agents, all of which cause significant release of [3H]5-HT from rat brain synaptosomes.
(5) The quaternary structure of ribonucleotide reductase of Escherichia coli was investigated, with the use of purified B1 and B2 proteins and bifunctional cross-linking agents.
(6) Rapid overgrowth of all cultures with the E. coli necessitated the use of selective media containing antimicrobial agents to which the E. coli was sensitive.
(7) These membrane perturbation effects not observed with bleomycin-iron in the presence of a hydroxyl radical scavenger, dimethyl thiourea, or a chelating agent, desferrioxamine, were correlated with the ability of the complex to generate highly reactive oxygen species.
(8) of PLA2 caused marked degranulation of mast cells in the rat mesentery which was facilitated by addition of calcium ion (10 mM) but antagonized by pretreating with three antiinflammatory agents.
(9) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
(10) Acquired drug resistance to INH, RMP, and EMB can be demonstrated in M. kansasii, and SMX in combination with other agents chosen on the basis of MIC determinations are effective in the treatment of disease caused by RMP-resistant M. kansasii.
(11) The secondary leukemia that occurred in these patients could be distinguished from the secondary leukemia that occurs after treatment with alkylating agents by the following: a shorter latency period; a predominance of monocytic or myelomonocytic features; and frequent cytogenetic abnormalities involving 11q23.
(12) The agent present in the serum which causes dissolution of the fibrin clot was isolated and identified as pepsinogen.
(13) The active agents modestly improved treadmill exercise duration time until 1 mm ST segment depression (3%), and only propranolol and diltiazem had significant effects.
(14) Maximal covalent binding of [4,5-14C]ronidazole to DNA also required four-electron reduction, consistent with previous studies of the covalent binding of this agent to immobilized sulfhydryl groups [Kedderis et al.
(15) Since interferon alfa-2b (Intron A) is useful as a single agent, it is important to determine if interferon can be combined with standard chemotherapy to improve both response and survival in patients with cancer.
(16) Median effect analysis was applied for the evaluation of in vitro effect by the growth inhibition, and the in vivo effect by comparison of the increase of life span (ILS) in a combined group with the sum of ILS's in 2 single agent groups.
(17) Noradrenaline (NA) was released from sympathetic nerve endings in the tissue by electrical stimulation of the mesenteric nerves or by the indirect sympathomimetic agent tyramine.
(18) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
(19) Combining maximally effective concentrations of each of these stimulating agents produces an additive increase in both the level of 32P incorporation into tyrosine hydroxylase and the degree of activation of the enzyme.
(20) The review provides an update of drug-induced pulmonary disorders, focusing on newer agents whose effects on the lung have been studied recently.
Interagent
Definition:
(n.) An intermediate agent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Acceptance by the peer group (Mauksch and Miller, 1981) was achieved through the group decision-making process in the units and the interagency meetings of the head nurses and supervisors.
(2) He works closely with the secretary and other high-level leaders in the defense department and throughout the interagency, as well as with our international partners and members of Congress,” McKeon said, adding that Lewis has “enabled President Obama and Secretary Carter to achieve significant progress towards their shared goal of closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in a responsible manner”.
(3) Of the 2 programs studied, the New Haven Young Mothers Program(YMP) provided medical services while the Hartford Interagency Service (IAS) did not.
(4) Classrooms were classified by ratio and group size provisions of the Federal Interagency Day Care Requirements (FIDCR) and by the Early Childhood and Infant and Toddler Environmental Rating Scales.
(5) An interagency pilot program in New York City is described and the importance of "aggressive" outreach is emphasized.
(6) Emphasis was placed on four suggested functions of consultation: definition and legitimation of a situation or of facts as "problematic"; raising the priority of an i5sue on the agenda of action in a consultee's agency; legitimation of deviant administrative behavior, and creation and sustenance of interagency linkages.
(7) An interagency collaborative study was conducted to ascertain the perceptions of nurses, physicians, and laypersons about this issue.
(8) Previous research suggests the importance of multidisciplinary, interagency approaches in creating effective and efficient community service delivery systems for the prevention of child maltreatment.
(9) The need to establish interagency networks with continuing consultation and discussion concerning each patient is stressed, as well as the essentiality that our professions learn and cultivate general systems principles.
(10) Support for staffing is provided by the United States Public Health Service Interagency Committee on Pain and Analgesia.
(11) We present a program based on the application of a comprehensive care model in the Kupat Holim clinic and the integration of an interdisciplinary, interagency treatment team in which the focus of intervention is the clinical responsibility of the family physician.
(12) The Neonatal Network, a model program for interagency service coordination for primarily indigent, minority very-low-birth-weight infants and their families is described.
(13) The proposed modified definition of learning disability by the Interagency Committee on Learning Disabilities, which includes social skills deficits as a specific learning disability, is presented and discussed.
(14) The origins, structure, and functions of the interagency New York City Task Force on Prison Mental Health Services are explained.
(15) The workshop, which was chaired by James L. Whittenberger of the University of California's Southern Occupational Health Center with Dr. Robert Frank of Johns Hopkins University, cochairman, represented a major effort by the interagency Task Force on Environmental Cancer and Heart and Lung Disease to address in fiscal year 1983 its mandate to assess current evidence and recommend integrated federal research programs toward relating human illness with environmental pollution.
(16) "Similar to what we did in Haiti... through interagency agreements where funding transfers were done."
(17) The Fourth Conference for Federally Supported Human Nutrition Research Units and Centers, sponsored by the Interagency Committee on Human Nutrition Research, addressed two topics: nutrition and function, and nutrient interactions and toxicities.
(18) This study was undertaken to test the hypothesis that differences in choice of data to utilize also have a significant impact on interagency variation.
(19) Indeed, he is one of 51 men still held who have long been approved for release from Guantánamo after interagency reviews.
(20) The current NSC spokesman, Ned Price, said in an email: “The administration has undertaken its national security transition planning with the utmost rigour and seriousness in order to effect the most seamless and responsible transition.” Senior adviser on Trump's diplomacy: 'I can't keep up with the tweets' Read more Price added: “We have been working since this spring to assemble a broad variety of transition material focused on critical national security challenges as well as NSC organizational issues and the NSC-led interagency policy process.