(1) 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.
(2) Interferon alfa-2a appears to induce the early regression of life-threatening corticosteroid-resistant hemangiomas of infancy.
(3) Interferon alfa-n1 is not available in Australia except for use in a clinical trial in patients who are HIV seropositive.
(4) Recombinant interferon alfa-2a (Roferon-A, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Nutley, NJ) has been evaluated in clinical trials of more than 1300 patients with a broad spectrum of oncologic disease.
(5) It is concluded that prostaglandin F2 alfa may be safely given to patients who are going to be anaesthetized, but the patients must be considered as having a full stomach and therefore treated as such.
(6) Eleven patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma stages Ib-IV a were treated with a combination of interferon alfa-2a and photochemotherapy.
(7) In the original interferon alfa-2b study of 195 patients, only three of the 159 patients achieving a normalization of their blood counts have subsequently died.
(8) Further binding of one molecule of aldolase for each strand of 280 actin monomers halves the apparent viscosity of the alfa-actinin-F-actin system without any desorption of alfa-actinin.
(9) Recombinant human interferon alfa-A (rIFN alpha A) had a dose-related suppressive effect on human T lymphotropic virus type III (HTLV-III) replication in vitro in normal peripheral-blood mononuclear cells (PBMC).
(10) Accordingly the maternal serum alfa fetoprotein may consider like fetal blood sediment examination.
(11) Among the rare hemoglobinopathies found in Cost Rica are those of the Alfa, Beta, and Delta chains.
(12) The efficacy of epoetin alfa (recombinant human erythropoietin) has been tested for treating the anemia associated with end-stage renal disease.
(13) To confirm the findings of pilot studies that interferon alfa is an effective treatment of Europid men with chronic hepatitis B virus infection.
(14) In 40 patients with diabetes mellitus type II without clinical signs of any organ complications and in the respective control group the following indices of hemostasis were assessed: 1) activity of AI-III, 2) activity of alfa-2-AP, 3) fibrinogen, 4) time of fibrinolysis, 5) platelets count, adhesiveness and spontaneous aggregation, 6) kaolin-cephalin and profil stipven-cephalin plasma times.
(15) Interferon Alfa proves to be of the most usefulness in this disease, studies should be continued up to one year after the treatment has ended.
(16) Because epoetin alfa does not produce therapeutic effects for at least 7 to 14 days, it is an ideal agent for formulary restriction.
(17) Interferon alfa (IFN-alpha), although able to enhance PBMC-mediated Lym-1 ADCC and non-ADCC lysis, had no effect on granulocyte activity.
(18) At this latter level a synergistic effect between penicillin and interfering alfa-streptococcal strains could be demonstrated.
(19) The data demonstrate that intralesional injection of the interferon alfa-n3 did not induce the development of HAMA.
(20) We conducted a phase II clinical trial of fluorouracil (5FU) and recombinant interferon alfa-2a (rIFN alpha-2a) in 52 previously untreated patients with bidimensionally measurable metastatic colorectal cancer.
Alga
Definition:
(n.) A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervae, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) An an initial stage in the study of proteins from thermophilic algae, the enzyme ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase 2-phospho-D-glycerate carboxylyase (dimerizing, EC 4.1.1.39) was purified 11-fold from the thermophilic alga Cyandium caldarium, with a 24% recovery.
(2) The structures of 1 and 2 are closely related to the metabolites previously isolated from the alga Caulerpa prolifera.
(3) We have used two monoclonal antibodies to demonstrate the presence and localization of actin in interphase and mitotic vegetative cells of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
(4) Many other innovations are also being hailed as the future of food, from fake chicken to 3D printing and from algae to lab-grown meat.
(5) Dunaliella bardawil, a unicellular green alga that can be induced to accumulate massive amounts of beta-carotene, is particularly suitable for studies of carotenogenesis regulation and its links to developmental and adaptive processes in the chloroplast.
(6) Among the algae species studied, Falkenbergia rufolanosa is the most active in front of all the fungi tested.
(7) But the study’s co-author Mark Hay, a professor from the Georgia Institute of Technology, said the discovery here was that greater carbon concentrations led to “some algae producing more potent chemicals that suppress or kill corals more rapidly”, in some cases in just weeks.
(8) The light-induced turnover of P700 was measured spectrophotometrically in a wide variety of algae and some photosynthetic mutants.
(9) In excised regenerating peduncles algae divide before digestive cells, and at the onset of digestive cell division mitotic cells were found to contain almost twice the number of algae as before excision.
(10) Cell division in Euglena is compared with that of certain other algae.
(11) An enzyme was isolated from a eucaryotic, Chlorella-like green alga infected with the virus PBCV-1 which exhibits type II restriction endonuclease activity.
(12) The amoeba, however, could not use yeasts, molds, or a green alga as a nutritional source.
(13) The photochemical activities and fluorescence properties of cells, spheroplasts and spheroplast particles from the blue-green alga Phormidium luridum were compared.
(14) Free amino acid pools were examined for cultures of vegetative cells, gametes, and mature zygotes of the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Dangeard).
(15) Crude ferredoxin preparations were obtained from blue-green algae, green algae, ferns, and higher plants.
(16) These organisms, typically bacteria or algae, are used to produce valuable commodities such as flavorings and oils.
(17) A pure culture of the green eukaryotic alga Chlorococcum sp.
(18) The alga may be defective in a regulatory mechanism that controls the reoxidation of reduced pyridine nucleotides formed during photosynthesis.
(19) Methods are described for preparation of pulse-labeled ribonucleic acid (RNA) from the blue-green alga Anacystis nidulans.
(20) Methyl-5(or 4)-(3,3-dimethyl-1-triazeno)-imidazole-4(or 5)-carboxylate was shown to have in vitro antimicrobial activity against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, yeasts, filamentous fungi, and algae.