(1) S-Adenosyl-L-methionine (Ado-met) administration to rats significantly improved liver necrosis induced by thioacetamide (TAA) as evidenced by reduction of TAA-elevated catalytic activity of serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALAT).
(2) ASAT and ALAT concentrations were not significantly different in patients with increased TBG and patients with normal TBG, whereas mean concentrations of serum albumin and cholinesterase and mean prothrombin times (in percent) in the former group were significantly higher than those in the latter group (P less than 0.05, P less than 0.05, and P less than 0.001, respectively).
(3) 3 months after initiation of the treatment, gamma-glutamyltransferase, ASAT, ALAT and MCV are normalized.
(4) Of these indicators, preoperative radiologic studies, serum levels of ALAT (GPT) and serum levels of alkaline phosphatase showed the best sensitivity, specificity as well as positive and negative predictive value.
(5) During the diagnosis and subsequent monitoring of patients with acute leukaemia, and of those with terminal blastic crisis in chronic myelogenous leukaemia, the activity of total LDH, ALAT, AP, ASAT as well as the isoenzymes LDH-H, LDH-M were measured in the plasma.
(6) Average and specific individual courses of the following parameters are reported in this paper, with reference being made to eight of eleven clinical heart transplantations so far performed at the authors' department: lactate, pyruvate, myoglobin, ASAT, ALAT, GGT, CK, CK-MB, LDH, LDH-1, and glycogen phosphorylase.
(7) Other parameters such as: ALAT, LAP, G--GT and bilirubin were elevated most often in patients with viral hepatitis as well as in patients with obstructive jaundice.
(8) Serum amylase, ASAT (GOT), and ALAT (GPT) became normal parallel with body weight.
(9) The action of both noxae caused a drastical increase in enzyme activities in the initial phase lipase : 8-20 fold, ALAT: 7 fold, alpha-Amylase: 2.5 fold).
(10) There was no correlation between osteocalcin and blood calcium, blood phosphorus, ALAT, ASAT, alkaline phosphatase, 5'-nucleotidase, albumin or bilirubin levels, or with the prothrombin time.
(11) We studied the relationship between the ratio of serum aspartate aminotransferase (ASAT) to alanine aminotransferase (ALAT) and histologic changes in human and experimental alcoholic liver disease.
(12) 316 clones were identified using electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gel by 8 enzymes: PGI, PGM, 6-PGD, MDG, G-6-PGD, ME, ALAT, ASAT--and tested for pathogenic activity on golden hamsters.
(13) These were: secretion of bile, fluid pressure in the portal vein, the level of GPT (ALAT) transaminase, urea nitrogen, and glucose in the perfusate.
(14) The method showed corresponding results or identiy of all individuals tested with three representative enzymes (ALAT, glucosephosphate isomerase and adenylate kinase).
(15) A T.b.gambiense stock from man in Zaire had the ALAT pattern characteristic of T.b.gambiense from Senegal and Nigeria, together with the ASAT triplet found in most T.b.gambiense stocks.
(16) Ten serum parameters were determined: AP, ALAT, ASAT, GT, CK, urea, cholesterol, creatinine, total protein and albumin.
(17) For the assessment of liver functions designations AlAT, AspAT, FA, prothrombin index, bilirubin and iron content in serum, proteinogram and thymol turbility test were prepared and carried out.
(18) ASAT and ALAT mean values obtained with and without P5P in old people were similar to those found in young subjects.
(19) 135 stocks of Leishmania major from man, reservoir hosts and sandflies were characterized using thin-layer starch-gel electrophoresis of 13 enzymes: MDH, 6PGD, GD, SOD, ASAT, ALAT, PK, PGM, ES, NH, PEPD, MPI, GPI.
(20) Raised heaptic copper content did not always coincide with enhanced urinary copper excretion, but was significantly correlated with this parameter and also with ceruloplasmin, alkaline phosphatases, and vitamin-K-dependent clotting factors, but not with ALAT.
Palate
Definition:
(n.) The roof of the mouth.
(n.) Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.
(n.) Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste.
(n.) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.
(v. t.) To perceive by the taste.
Example Sentences:
(1) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
(2) Although each of palate and limb is concurrently susceptible to epigenetic regulation, their differential intrinsic genomic capabilities appear to have been uncoupled.
(3) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
(4) Retrognathia or retrusion of the maxilla and mid-face is present in about one-third of treated cleft palate patients.
(5) Cleft palate was found in 98.1% of fetuses in the positive control group and none of them in the negative control group.
(6) An examination of 9720 Zagreb school children, 6-13 years of age, revealed submucous cleft palate (SMCP) in 5 and cleft uvula in 232.
(7) Adult ambulatory patients routinely self-administering potassium chloride solution rate the palatability and acceptance of each preparation.
(8) It was treated by the method of free autogenous gingival graft on the labial side and gingivectomy by flap on the palatal side.
(9) To clarify the mechanism by which retinoid causes cleft palate, we investigated the effect of retinoic acid (RA) on proliferation activity and glycosaminoglycan (GAG) synthesis in mouse fetuses palatal mesenchymal (MFPM) cells.
(10) Since d-fenfluramine failed to alter saccharin preference, it is unlikely that the slowed eating rate induced by this compound indicates a reduction in food palatability.
(11) The familial association of epilepsy and cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL (P)) is analyzed assuming both entities share common genetic predisposing factors.
(12) An experimental study in the white rat (Sprague-Dawley) was undertaken to evaluate the frequency of fisula formation after palatal midline osteotomies as used in surgical-orthodontic "rapid-expansion" procedures.
(13) In addition to vocal cord paralysis on the laryngoscopy, videofluoroscopy confirmed diminished mobility of the soft palate.
(14) In the following, there will be indicated the approved techniques and methods of suturing the cleft palate and a new method will be discussed related to the reciprocal Z-type plastic operation.
(15) Fifty per cent of the children with clefts of the palate and lip had deviated nasal septum producing nasal obstruction.
(16) At 0 hours only the hard palate in the experimental group had elevated, but at 2 and 4 hours almost half this group showed elevation of the soft palate as well, and, in addition, contact had been made between the elevated shelves.
(17) Palates from C3H mice were implanted onto prepared graft beds in histocompatible F1 hybrid mice.
(18) An infant with a complete unilateral cleft of the lip and palate underwent maxillary expansion treatment using an oral orthopedic appliance.
(19) Four years on from that speech, his strategy is bearing fruit – in a less than palatable way.
(20) The classical form most commonly observed on the buccal, palatal and labial mucosa shows a fine lacework of white papules and lines.