(1) The secretion of the ABH antigens in saliva was tested in indigenous individuals of several populations: Icelanders in Reykjavik and Husavik (northeastern Iceland), Aland Islanders, Finno-Ugrians (Finns, Finnish Lapps, Komi) and Eskimos (Augpilagtok, northwestern Greenland).
(2) Because of this similarity and the defective dark adaptometry that has been reported in patients with this disorder, we believe that Aland Island eye disease is more appropriately classified as a form of congenital night blindness than as a form of ocular albinism.
(3) The series of triplet families from both Aland and Finland as a whole indicate a considerably higher frequency of twinning on the maternal than on the paternal side.
(4) A reinvestigation of a Danish family with X-linked inherited congenital nystagmus through 6 generations revealed a congenital stationary retinal dysfunction syndrome with characteristics of both incomplete congenital stationary night blindness and Aland Eye Disease.
(5) These differences in migration rates can in turn be attributed to greater geographic isolation in Aland and the contrasting social structures of the two populations.
(6) These findings are in agreement with clinical, nystagmographic and EM findings that Aland eye disease is distinct from the Nettleship-Falls type of X-linked ocular albinism.
(7) Among Alanders and Swedes on the Finnish mainland the frequency (around 20%) was comparable to Swedish values but considerably higher than among Finns (13-14%).
(8) These attempts have resulted in a more general model, which was then applied to data from Aland Islands (1750-1939), Nmes (1790-1875), Stuttgart (about 1790-1900) and Utah (1850-1900).
(9) Electrophysiological studies showed that a patient with Aland eye disease had no misrouting of the optic pathways which is always found in all forms of albinism as a consequence of the retino-geniculate anomaly.
(10) Most cases were from Aland Islands and nearby south-western main Finland.
(11) Comparison with a Finnish population and one from the Aland Islands revealed similar systolic blood pressures in females, but definitely lower values in male Lapps and Skolts.
(12) Furthermore, Aland eye disease is different from X-chromosomal congenital stationary night blindness with myopia by the fact that the scotopic functions are only moderately affected and there is no restriction of the peripheral photopic visual fields.
(13) These trends are consistent with changing migration patterns and isolate breakdown in Aland since 1900.
(14) Bites of the tick are believed to be common in Aland, an island province of Finland in the Baltic Sea.
(15) The contribution of inbreeding to the prevalence of recessive genetic diseases in the Aland Island parish of Sottunga is investigated.
(16) A study was conducted on twinning in relatives of consecutive triplet sets in the Aland Islands in the years 1740-1939.
(17) In the Alandic familial cases the cataracts appear to be an autosomal recessive trait.
(18) Monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies against mammalian intermediate filament (IF) proteins were used to demonstrate IF expression in tissues and lymphoma tumors of northern pikes, Esox lucius L., from the Aland Islands of Finland by indirect immunofluorescence microscopy.
(19) If further studies confirm that the disorders are the same, we recommend use of the term Aland Island eye disease or Forsius-Eriksson-Miyake syndrome.
(20) On the Aland Islands, a 1-month-old girl was diagnosed as having Wolman disease.
Bland
Definition:
(a.) Mild; soft; gentle; smooth and soothing in manner; suave; as, a bland temper; bland persuasion; a bland sycophant.
(a.) Having soft and soothing qualities; not drastic or irritating; not stimulating; as, a bland oil; a bland diet.
Example Sentences:
(1) For further education, this would be my priority: a substantial increase in funding and an end to tinkering with the form of qualifications and bland repetition of the “parity of esteem” trope.
(2) Reoperation was more frequent after valve replacement with bioprostheses (6.7% per patient year) than after valvuloplasty (4.3% per patient year) and after mechanical valve replacement (1.5% per patient year; P less than 0.02), and was necessitated mainly by residual or recurrent valve dysfunction after valvuloplasty, bland or infected periprosthetic leaks in mechanical valves and degradation of bioprostheses.
(3) "Everyone calls him the Socialist Worker Padre," one bland senior cleric told me with a sly and dismissive laugh.
(4) ABNORMALITIES OF THE CERVICAL EPITHELIUM ARE SET OUT IN TWO MAIN GROUPS: bland lesions which are regarded as unrelated to malignancy, and malign lesions which are considered as potential precursors of invasive carcinoma.
(5) Embolization with avitene, PVA and ethanol induced a more bland histological reaction than the one observed with IBCA.
(6) Sir Christopher Bland, the former BBC chairman, told the BBC News channel the allegations were "very serious" but warned against jumping to conclusions about Rippon stepping aside.
(7) Among pro-independence people there are widespread concerns that if the SNP moves too quickly on a referendum it will cast the choice in the often bland New Labour-ish terms it uses for everyday politics – and thus deprive Scotland of a crucial opportunity to discuss its future, as well as threatening their chances of winning.
(8) But blandness in public should not be mistaken for blandness of character, and there are signs that she is beginning to emerge from the passive role she has been playing.
(9) Most examples measure less than or equal to 0.5 cm and are composed of a partially encapsulated mass of bland Schwann cells and innumerable tiny axons arranged in interlacing fascicles.
(10) His neutralisation strategy has amounted to little more than bland statements of support and efforts to keep the NHS out of the news.
(11) He is a regular panellist on comedy news quizzes, and reaches for Wodehouse in depicting 70s foreign secretary Lord Home "playing Lord Emsworth to Heath's Empress of Blandings".
(12) Pathologic examination of the orbital breast metastases revealed two types: an adenocarcinomatous pattern with nests of pleomorphic malignant appearing cells and a histiocytoid variant with bland, large cells similar to histiocytes.
(13) Unfortunately, the commercials are so bland and empty that they’re almost certainly doomed to failure.
(14) Much of the time he sounds bland, monotonal, bobbing gently along.
(15) The frequency of major events during follow-up (thromboembolism, anticoagulant related hemorrhage, bland perivalvular leak and prosthetic valve endocarditis) were similar, but the frequency of primary tissue valve failure was markedly different for the two valves (1.1% per patient-year for Ionescu-Shiley valves and 5.9% for the Hancock valve).
(16) A bland vasculopathic process resulting from metabolic or immunologic disturbances appears to be the best explanation for this new syndrome, which has previously been recognized only in Japan.
(17) The anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (Bland-White-Garland Syndrome) is a rare congenital malformation reported to occur in 0.25-0.5% of all congenital cardiac anomalies.
(18) He recommends not a bland and stimulus-free environment, but one whose elements are unobtrusive and unambiguous.
(19) David Bell will be online this afternoon at 4.15pm to answer your points at www.EducationGuardian.co.uk Changing faces of Ofsted Stewart Sutherland 1992-1994 Sutherland was criticised for a slow start and bland inspections.
(20) Two deceptively benign-appearing, unclassifiable but very similar fibromyxoid sarcomas characterized histologically by bland, innocuous-appearing fibroblastic cells and a swirling, whorled growth pattern are presented.