(n. sing. & pl.) Anything given gratuitously to relieve the poor, as money, food, or clothing; a gift of charity.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to histopathologic aspect the patients were divided into two groups: I--with active lymphocytic myocarditis (ALM); II--without ALM: 51 patients.
(2) The recent proposal that acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM) is a distinct clinico-histological entity, however, is more difficult to accept.
(3) The presence of helminthic invasion of the liver--opisthordiasis resulted in hepatitis, pancreatitis that would not respond to therapy in patients with ALMS.
(4) 'If you meet, you drink …' Thus introduced to intoxicating liquors under auspices both secular and sacred, the offering of alms for oblivion I took to be the custom of the country in which I had been born.
(5) However, the degree of heterogeneity of HMW-MAA within a positive primary ALM lesion, as measured by the percentage of stained melanoma cells, is lower than that of Mr 97,000 MAA and GD3.
(6) The computer-derived unidirectional flux coefficients were in keeping with active ALM transport and passive, carrier-mediated LM transport.
(7) Michaelis constants and maximal velocities measured at 33 degrees C, for UK and ins-UK, were identical when ALMe was used, but slightly different with AGLMe.
(8) Further characterization of the ALM is warranted in an effort to explain the enhancement of the bactericidal capacity of alveolar macrophages by most, but not all, H-ALM tested.
(9) These antigenic differences do not reflect an antigenic paucity of ALM cells, since ALM lesions express a higher level of T4-tyrosinase than NM lesions and a level of HLA Class I antigens similar to that of NM lesions.
(10) Since protein-bound AGEs recognized by the antibodies were labile to acid hydrolysis, the antibodies were further characterized by using the AGE-alpha-acetyl-L-lysine methyl ester (AGE-ALME) with a brown and fluorescent property as well as the AGE-proteins.
(11) This doses of Alm did not cause significant vasoconstriction during normoxic gas ventilation compared with malic acid.
(12) Responses to angiotensin II were not decreased by Alm.
(13) In addition, we discussed ALM precancerous lesions called plantar premalignant melanosis, which consist of B- and C-phases only.
(14) Pigment formed by alm-1 microsclerotia from (+)-scytalone had chemical and physical properties identical with those of melanin in the wild-type fungus.
(15) There was no difference in the uptake of the bacteria by PAM when ALM was present.
(16) Previous reports indicate that the in vitro bactericidal activity of rat alveolar macrophages (AM) is dependent on the lipid fraction (ALM-L) of the alveolar lining material (ALM).
(17) Ventilation was not affected by ALM during air breathing and was slightly, although not significantly, increased during hypoxic rest and exercise.
(18) The differences between our results and those of earlier studies using ALM from rats may relate to interspecies differences in the composition of ALM.
(19) ALM does not make detectable levels of late viral proteins and is minimally 200-fold depressed in the accumulation of cytoplasmic polyadenylated late RNA.
(20) On the other hand, the survival of patients with ALM was inversely correlated with the expression of intercellular adhesion molecule 1 or HMW-MAA in their primary lesions.
Alums
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Although alum adsorbed allergen could induce IgE synthesis in mice primed with liposome entrapped allergen the increase in serum specific IgE levels was lower than the animals primed and challenged with alum adsorbed allergen.
(2) Effective adjuvanticity as measured by the titre of the anti-peptide or anti-protein response in mice varied in the order: Algammulin, Montanide ISA 50 greater than or equal to Freund's adjuvant, Montanide ISA 708, 721, 70 much greater than alum, Squalene Arlacel greater than SAF-1.
(3) IgE levels in nude mice were estimated by the one-step single radial radiodiffusion method antisera prepared by immunization of guinea pigs with an IgE-rich fraction obtained from sera of normal mice infected with Nippostrongylus brasiliensis and immunized with DNP-ovalbumin in alum gel.
(4) Over 90% of the anti-OVA antibodies were of the IgGl isotype with both adjuvants; OVA in alum induced slightly more IgGl anti-OVA antibodies than cFA.
(5) Sections are brought to water, stained in Delafield's alum hematoxylin for 10 minutes, washed in tap water for 10 minutes, counterstained in 1% Procion brillant orange M-GS for 15 minutes and washed in distilled water for 10 minutes.
(6) The antibody responses of animals immunised with keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) in Freund's Incomplete Adjuvant (FIA), diethylaminoethyl dextran (DEAE-dextran) and aluminium hydroxide (alum) were compared with the response to antigen administered in the absence of adjuvants.
(7) Wash thoroughly in water and place in 4% iron alum solution for two hours.
(8) The stability of ragweed extracts as measured by Antigen E content is markedly enhanced with little loss after 15 month storage at 4 degrees C, when the extract is prepared as an alum precipitated suspension.
(9) The choice of the carrier seemed to play an important role for both the level and maintenance of the secondary IgG response, attained as a consequence of a booster immunization with TT-alum.
(10) Six commercially available clostridial vaccines comprising one oil-emulsion, two alum-precipitated and three aluminum hydroxide adjuvanted preparations, each containing between two and seven antigenic components, were administered to groups of 10 rabbits and eight sheep in accordance with manufacturers' recommendations.
(11) So those undesirable gastric mucosa side effects that can be observed or presumed by the intake of NaF and CaF2 + alum are presumably neglibile.
(12) We reported previously that CBA mice pretreated with dinitrophenyl-Bordetella pertussis (DNP-BP) conjugates exhibited sharply decreased anti-DNP IgE, and increased IgG2a antibodies following immunization with DNP-ovalbumin (DNP-OA) in alum.
(13) An experimental review of the Feulgen and gallocyanine-chrome-alum stains for quantitative cytophotometry of DNA in tissue sections yielded information on the preparation and staining of tissue for quantitative absorbance microspectrophotometry.
(14) Alum, due to its safety and efficacy remains the drug of first choice for persistent vesical hematuria.
(15) Antibodies to the preparation were induced in rabbits by using alum as an adjuvant.
(16) Prior inoculation of mice with alum-adsorbed anti-idiotype potentiated the immune response to a subsequent inoculation with either native HBsAg particles or with a synthetic HBsAg peptide.
(17) Genetically modified M (pre-S2+S; P31) protein (M-P31c) particles were formulated into a vaccine (TGP-943) through adsorption on to an alum adjuvant.
(18) Sequential treatment with 5 X Denhardt's solution followed by gelatin-chrome alum resulted in enhanced specificity of labelling and excellent chromosome morphology, as well as reduced levels of background.
(19) Despite positive staining reactions with the presumptive neurosecretory stains, paraldehyde-fuchsin and chrome-alum-hematoxylin, ultrastructurally these glands exhibit many non-neural characteristics.
(20) Primary immunization with alum prepared using AlK(SO4)2 and adjuvant enhanced IgE production in the guinea pig.