(n.) An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot.
(n.) Oat.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results suggest that regional lymph node lymphocytes could be used in AIT because of their different function from that of peripheral blood lymphocytes.
(2) The results indicated that in vivo-activated PBT by AIT could not exhibit direct cytotoxicity, but they acquired cytolytic potential, the effect of which was expressed by targeting to tumor cells.
(3) Our purpose was to determine whether differences in androgen activation could be detected between the androgen-stimulated tumor (AST) line, an androgen-independent tumor line carried in intact (AIT-I) and castrated (AIT-C) rats and their DLP tissue of origin.
(4) Group V (AIT and CPA combination); AIT (10DLAKs) was started on day 5 followed by CPA on day 10.
(5) There was a deficit during cooling in the recall of discriminations that had been learned prior to cooling TP or AIT.
(6) To determine the incidence and predictability and to elucidate the pathogenesis of amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis (AIT) and hypothyroidism (AIH).
(7) Clinical efficacy of lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cell adoptive immunotherapy (AIT) in combination with plasma exchange was investigated as protocol 1 in 24 patients with advanced cancer.
(8) Taken together these findings led us to conclude that the AIT carried in castrates is capable of responding to testosterone in a manner similar to that observed for androgen-stimulated DLP of sexually ablated rats.
(9) The results indicate that as a source of LAK cells, the spleen is superior both quantitatively ani qualitatively when compared to peripheral blood and should be seriously considered as the source of cells for AIT of cancer.
(10) These clinical observations support the previous histological data indicating that thyroid follicular disruption might contribute to the pathogenesis of AIT.
(11) A few immunopositive tumor cells were present in AITs carried in untreated castrated hosts.
(12) The previous report demonstrated a mechanism in which OK-432 augments the effect of AIT.
(13) To investigate the possibility that these conclusions were erroneous and based upon analytical artifact, a computer program was used to generate random and independent AOM and AIT for a population of 30,000 "athletes".
(14) Furthermore, like patients with a previous history of subacute thyroiditis and postpartum thyroiditis, the present results suggest that some patients with a previous history of AIT may be at risk to develop hypothyroidism when given excess iodine.
(15) The results suggest that THF-gamma 2 treatment of donors for AIT might be applicable to cancer therapy in humans.
(16) These findings indicate that an immunotherapy of human cancers that are thought to be weakly or nonimmunogenic may be possible by the application of this approach to LAK AIT.
(17) Clinical efficacy of lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cell adoptive immunotherapy (AIT) in combination with plasma exchange and interleukin (IL-2) was investigated in 24 patients with advanced cancer.
(18) We have developed an adoptive immunotherapy (AIT) system using syngeneic tumor-bearer-spleen cells cultured with interleukin-2 (IL-2) and soluble tumor extract.
(19) The development of AIT or AIH was not related to the extent of iodine overload or to the occurrence of de novo thyroid autoantibodies.
(20) Amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis (AIT) occurs most frequently in patients with underlying thyroid disease and is generally believed to be due to the iodine contamination of amiodarone and iodine released by the metabolism of the drug.
Eight
Definition:
(n.) An island in a river; an ait.
(a.) Seven and one; as, eight years.
(n.) The number greater by a unit than seven; eight units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing eight units, as 8 or viii.
Example Sentences:
(1) These eight large plasmids had indistinguishable EcoRI restriction patterns.
(2) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
(3) A series of eight patients with multiple meningiomas is presented.
(4) Eight-week-old virgin untreated female mice were induced to ovulate using equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and were then caged with males overnight.
(5) Development at two to 15 months of age in the 19 surviving infants was normal in nine, suspect in eight, and severely delayed in two patients.
(6) Eight other children (20%) had normal or borderline elevation of CPK-MB fraction and EKG abnormalities combined with abnormal echocardiograms or radionuclide angiograms, and were considered to have sustained cardiac concussion.
(7) By the time Van Kirk returned to the US in June 1943, he had flown 58 combat and eight transport missions.
(8) We studied the effect of low-dose intrathecal morphine (0.00-0.20 mg) on pain relief and the incidence of side effects after cholecystectomy in 139 patients divided into eight groups according to intrathecal morphine dose: groups 1 (0.00 mg), 2 (0.04 mg), 3 (0.06 mg), 4 (0.08 mg), 5 (0.10 mg), 6 (0.12 mg), 7 (0.15 mg), and 8 (0.20 mg).
(9) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
(10) Eighty-eight patients (97%) had a stable fixation and 77 (85%) had resumed preoperative activity or were working but with a residual deficit.
(11) Age-specific MRs for the over-75-year age group were also not related to the winter air temperatures in the eight cities.
(12) Due to continued disease relapse in this group (four of eight patients), long-term survivors should not be identified for a minimum of 3.5 years from the time of initial therapy.
(13) The IgM antibody was found at high titers in each of 70 patients with inflammatory liver disease and at a low titer in one of six patients with inactive cirrhosis; it was not found in eight carriers with normal liver histology.
(14) Affected dogs were from ten breeds and their average age was eight years.
(15) This competence persists over the eight measurement points.
(16) Eight cases of calcification following anterior dislocation of the head of the radius are described.
(17) Six of eight AD and seven of eight vitamin A-adequate dams carried pregnancy to term (greater than or equal to Day 64).
(18) In the subgroup of children under age 5 years at the time of diagnosis, 10 of 11 showed neuropsychologic deficits, and eight of 11 had white matter changes.
(19) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
(20) Eight patients aged 7-15 were using inhaled sympathomimetic aerosols only at the time of buying a nebuliser as compared with most of the older patients, who were using regular oral steroids.