(n.) A very high mountain. Specifically, in the plural, the highest chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzerland, etc.
(n.) Fig.: Something lofty, or massive, or very hard to be surmounted.
(n.) A bullfinch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Northern blot analysis with an 18-mer radiolabelled oligonucleotide, derived from an ALP specific cDNA clone, revealed a specific mRNA of about 700-800 nucleotides in HS-24 tumor cells.
(2) Serum gamma glutamyl transferase (gammaGT) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activities have been estimated in 49 epileptic patients taking anticonvulsant drugs.
(3) These data suggest that although the major effect of ALP is on the inhibition of the generation of the autoimmune response there appeared to be some therapeutic benefit at a later stage of acute disease.
(4) There was also a reduced crypt cell proliferation, a reduced villus height and a decreased ALP activity in the ileal mucosa.
(5) He is joined by Cathy O’Toole, the ALP candidate for the crucial swing seat of Herbert where Rudd’s campaign bus has stopped on Sunday evening.
(6) Activities of alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), creatine phosphokinase (CPK), and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) were determined in plasma, kidney, liver, and muscle from five species of captive birds.
(7) ALP activity in PLF was stimulated but that of osteoblasts was inhibited under the hypoxic condition.
(8) Symptomatic hypercalcemia recurred during lactation after each of two pregnancies, associated with increased bone turnover (rise in ALP, osteocalcin, and urine hydroxyproline excretion) which appeared to be independent of changes in major calcium-regulating hormones.
(9) Excluding patients who died within 9 days of admission, the maximum serum ALP-I concentration was well correlated with the functional outcome.
(10) Plasma enzymes, AST, ALP, MDH, LDH, ALD, acid phosphatase (ACP) and ICDH and the metabolites bile acids, bilirubin, creatinine and urea were elevated.
(11) The genetic distances separating 14 Spanish goat breeds are calculated from gene frequency data of 14 genetic blood markers (GSH, Ke, Hb, Dia, Ct, MDH, CA, X, NP, Alp, Am, Cp, Tf and Al).
(12) The effects of prostaglandins (PGs) on the induction of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) were investigated in osteoblastic clone MC3T3-E1 cells cultured in serum-free medium.
(13) Protein kinase C inhibitors (H-7 and staurosporine) but not a protein kinase A inhibitor (HA1004) significantly suppressed the ALP activity induced by the simultaneous treatment with RA and rhG-CSF.
(14) SF had lower levels of serum Ca, urinary Ca, ALP and serum PTH than NSF.
(15) Cutoff and predictive values of liver ALP, high-molecular-mass (high-M(r)) ALP, and bone ALP were established for detecting liver and bone metastasis.
(16) In a recent light microscopic investigation, ALP was detected in the connective tissue matrix of the lung.
(17) The hepatocellular pattern of disease is characterized by increases in leakage enzymes such as SDH, GLDH, and ALT and the cholestatic pattern by increases in induced enzymes (ALP and GGT).
(18) U is for United States As ever, there will be plenty of American businessmen on parade at the forum, since they like a few days' R&R in the Alps.
(19) The other cell populations did not show an increase of ALP activity during the culture period.
(20) The ALP finished paying back the loan, plus interest, in 2013.
Palp
Definition:
(n.) Same as Palpus.
(v. t.) To have a distinct touch or feeling of; to feel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The GRC bound to immobilized histones could be eluted with PALP, but not with its related compounds, such as pyridoxamine, pyridoxamine 5'-phosphate, pyridoxal, and pyridoxine, suggesting a specific effect of PALP.
(2) The lobus glomeratus receives inputs from the maxillary palps and also from processess of deutocerebral neurons.
(3) Lon-directed degradation of SulA was energy dependent, as was the increase in degradation of SulA in delta lon pAlp+ cells.
(4) Paper electrophoretic analysis showed that in the mixture of TOB and PALP, the spot corresponding to TOB alone almost disappeared and the spot associated with TOB overlapped with that associated with PALP, although the spots of TOB alone and PALP alone were observed as single spots on the cathode and anode sides, respectively.
(5) The activated glucocorticoid-receptor complexes (GRC) from rat liver bind tightly to histone (from calf thymus)-agarose and cannot be eluted with 3 M KCl or 50% ethylene glycol, but can be eluted with 20 mM pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PALP).
(6) Physiologically, the palp-pit receptors respond uniformly; they are most excitable by stimulation with carbon dioxide while they exhibit relatively moderate responses to various odorants.
(7) Testing of MAb binding to bacteria showed that a part of the BLp I, PALp I, and PALp II sites was immunoaccessible in intact homologous bacteria, and that the Hm I and Hm II epitopes were inaccessible.
(8) It is suggested that there may be an instability of the PALP-albumin complex in this condition.
(9) A gonadotropic inhibition is observed by means of oothecal production in Periplaneta americana after unilateral amputation of the mandible, the maxillary palp and the labial palp, in females reared with males at emergence.
(10) Similar assays with males deprived of maxillary palps make it unlikely that the basiconic-like sensilla on these appendages are needed to perceive the attraction pheromones.
(11) If used together with a myoma drill, large holes can be punched into tumours, making them for the first time well palp-able and revolvable.
(12) When aspartate- and alanine transaminase (AST and ALT, respectively) activities were studied in homogenates of rat cerebellum, brain cortex and brain stem (using a modified procedure by Raitman and Frenkel), addition of 50 microM pyridoxal-5-phosphate (PALP) increased 2-3-fold the activity studied.
(13) Their action is evidently realized on the level of competition with PALP when these compounds attach to apotransaminases.
(14) Intrarenal TOB levels in rats receiving TOB and PALP were lower than those in rats given TOB alone.
(15) The effect of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PALP) and trifluoperazine (TFPZ), the calmodulin antagonist, on in vitro platelet adhesion to collagen and collagen-induced platelet activation was studied using platelet-rich-plasma (PRP) or washed platelets (WPL).
(16) Sparse fibers were also seen in the body wall, parapodia, and cephalic palps.
(17) The olfactory sensilla on the maxillary palp tip of Locusta migratoria (L.) resemble the surrounding contact chemoreceptors in general morphology.
(18) The presence of MAO in the epithelium of the buccal palps was also demonstrated.
(19) However, pALP appears to lack the internal signal sequence of the corresponding human protein.
(20) The formation of the decarboxylated product, muscimol, which primarily occurred in a synaptosomal fraction, was dependent on the presence of pyridoxal-5-phosphate (PALP) and was inhibited by (S)-glutamic acid, 3-mercaptopropionic acid (3MPA), aminooxyacetic acid (AOAA), and allyglycine, suggesting that ibotenic acid is a substrate for GAD.