(n.) A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tanners. In the U. S. the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees.
(a.) Alt. of Aller
Example Sentences:
(1) This was caused by ingestion of branches of the alder buckthorn (Frangula alnus (mill.)
(2) If the majority of relevant tree pollens are to be included in a diagnostic or therapeutic programme in Western Sweden it should contain birch, alder, hazel, beech and bog-myrtle allergens.
(3) Alder was travelling to New Zealand with his friend Liam Sweeney, 28, to watch their team play pre-season friendlies.
(4) In previous experiments it was found that birch, beech, alder, hazel and oak are pollens with importance in pathogenesis of early pollinosis in our region of Central Europe.
(5) Cross-incubations: birch pollen incubated with antibodies against hazel (Ab-CA), or alder (Ab-AI), showed various intensities of gold labelling for each of the three species.
(6) Three diastereomers of bicyclo[2.2.1]hept-5-en-2-yl phenyl sulfoxide were prepared by Diels-Alder [4 + 2] cycloadditions between phenyl vinyl sulfoxide and cyclopentadiene.
(7) Both had Alder type granulations in polymorphonuclear leukocytes and to a lesser degree in monocytes.
(8) This paper documents the experience at the Royal Liverpool Childrens Hospital, Alder Hey, from 1973 to 1989.
(9) We reported earlier that NTP react with unsaturated lipids in a pseudo Diels-Alder reaction, thus forming stable nitroxide radicals.
(10) An improved, large scale synthesis of the ergosteryl acetate-maleic anhydride Diels-Alder adduct and its pyrolysis are described.
(11) Partial identity between the major allergens of birch, beech, alder, hazel and oak pollen extract could be identified by means of RAST-, ELISA- and CRIE-inhibition as well as further types of crossed immunoelectrophoresis.
(12) In the 1960s and 70s it was Dutch elm disease, which killed 30m trees; in the 1990s it was a new Phytophthora which devastated alders along riverbanks.
(13) Mouse hepatoma cell line, Hepa-1, was exposed to acetone extracts of hardwoods (alder and aspen), softwoods (pine and a mixture of pine and spruce) and cellulose materials.
(14) Thirty-nine children with rhinoconjunctivitis due to birch pollinosis were given immunotherapy for 3 years with a potent, purified pollen preparation made from either birch alone or from a mixture of birch, alder and hazel.
(15) With the present demands for purification and standardization of allergen extracts it is of practical and economic interest to know that tree pollen-allergic patients showing positive reactions to birch, alder and hazel extracts can be effectively treated using birch pollen extract alone.
(16) A detailed analysis was made of the reactivity patterns of birch pollen-allergic subjects from Norway and Australia to the various IgE-binding components of pollens from several different birch and alder species.
(17) Results reported here provide the first evidence of birch and alder pollen allergies in Australia.
(18) The content of antigens and allergens of alder (Alnus incana), birch (Betula verrucosa), timothy (Phleum pratense), cat and dog dander, house dust mite (Dermatophagoides farinae), mould (Cladosporium herbarum), hen egg white and codfish (DIII) were investigated by crossed immunoelectrophoresis (CIE), crossed radio immunoelectrophoresis (CRIE), radio allergosorbent test (RAST) inhibition and quantitative precipitation inhibition analysis by laser nephelometry.
(19) The treatment of vitamin D3 acetate with selenium dioxide and t-butyl hydroperoxide leads to a mixture from which a Diels-Alder dimer of 1-oxotransvitamin D3 acetate was isolated.
(20) Among the British victims were Newcastle United fans John Alder, who was in his 60s, and Liam Sweeney, 28, who were travelling to New Zealand to watch the football team's pre-season tour.
Topographic
Definition:
() Alt. of Topographical
Example Sentences:
(1) These results show that this method is useful in topographical evaluation of CBF changes.
(2) A topographic relationship was recognized between the MM and the anterior thalamic nuclei.
(3) CNV1 was recorded at the vertex while CNV3 was recorded at multiple electrode sites to assess topographical differences.
(4) a) To determine the frequency of perforations in latex surgical gloves before, during, and after surgical and dental procedures; b) to evaluate the topographical distribution of perforations in latex surgical gloves after surgical and dental procedures; and c) to validate methods of testing for latex surgical glove patency.
(5) It has been shown that adequate brain provision of this process is based in adults both on the functional topographic differentiation and specialization of separate perceptive operations and on the possibility of controlling generalized and local activating influences according to task requirements.
(6) The slope of Phase III in both N2 and He washouts was influenced in an inconstant fashion, probably reflecting differing contributions from topographic and intraregional inhomogeneities of ventilation in these subjects.
(7) Comparative study of topographic and receptor selectivity of emotionally positive (place preference test) and analgetic (electrical and pressure nociceptive stimulation of the tail) effects of opioids was performed in rats.
(8) Topographical analysis on the basis of these areas may be useful for the evaluation of visual fields, particularly those of glaucoma.
(9) Topographically the regions of air and atelectasis corresponded to the distribution of ciliated and flat epithelia in the middle ear, respectively.
(10) The STM topographical arrays and the molecular dimensions obtained are in good quantitative agreement with the corresponding X-ray crystallographic data.
(11) The topographic distribution of labeled cells in the medulla containing either a single fluorescent tracer or both tracers were plotted.
(12) After small injections into different spinal cord segments in 16 cats the labelled cells were found mainly in the rostral and ventral portions of the ipsilateral LCN, without a detectable topographic organization.
(13) To illustrate its potential for imaging ion currents through channels in membranes, a topographic image of a membrane filter with 0.80-micrometer pores and an image of the ion currents flowing through such pores are presented.
(14) Furthermore, the topographical distribution of cholinergic fibers and terminals in the interpeduncular nucleus, which reflects the habenulo-interpeduncular projection as well as cholinergic projections coming from different sources, was substantially preserved.
(15) Single islet cells in monolayer cultures of neonatal rat pancreas were microinjected with fluorescein and scanned topographically by microfluorometry.
(16) On the other hand, no consistent topographical correspondence between Cb-ir perikarya and CCK- or L-ENK-ir fibres was evident.
(17) Injections of wheat germ agglutinin-horseradish peroxidase (WGA-HRP) in the prefrontal, motor, somatosensory, auditory and visual areas, and HRP or WGA-HRP injections in the thalamus showed that: (1) the claustroneocortical projections originate in the dorsal claustrum and are distributed to the entire neocortex; these projections are mainly ipsilateral but some also originate contralaterally; (2) the claustroneocortical projections show a rough topographic organization; there exists a substantial degree of overlap; and (3) the claustrothalamic projection, arising throughout the dorsal claustrum, is strictly ipsilateral.
(18) Topographic-anatomical peculiarities of the dog closely resemble those of the man and, moreover, the dog is often used as an experimental model.
(19) Differences in consciousness and in motor, sensory, and oculomotor deficits were found among the topographic subgroups.
(20) Angioscopy provided cross-sectional topographic views of thrombosed lumen and showed charring and shrinkage of thrombus following laser angioplasty.