(n.) A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization.
(v. t.) To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.
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.
Alumni
Definition:
(pl. ) of Alumnus
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty-five of the 29 eligible doctoral programs in nursing participated in the study; results are based on the responses of 326 faculty, 659 students, and 296 alumni.
(2) The club’s alumni president, Charles Storey, had previously written a letter to the student newspaper to argue that “forcing single-gender organizations to accept members of the opposite sex could potentially increase, not decrease, the potential for sexual misconduct”.
(3) It is the alumni of great research universities that drive economic growth through the opportunity to use their expertise and creativity in businesses, in particular by solving problems and developing new products for demanding customers.
(4) With or without consideration of hypertension, cigarette smoking, extremes or gains in body weight, or early parental death, alumni mortality rates were significantly lower among the physically active.
(5) Curb them, now | Owen Jones Read more The inquiry followed findings by the education charity the Sutton Trust in 2016, which showed that the UK’s most high-profile jobs – from the entertainment industry to politics and journalism – were disproportionately populated by alumni of private schools and Oxbridge .
(6) Last weekend, one of the most glittering alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kharagpur did not show up to give a school prize as he had promised.
(7) But few, if any, of its alumni celebrated its 30th birthday earlier this year.
(8) Replies of the 728 respondents to the second survey confirm that HUCM's predominantly black alumni were continuing to provide patient care to a substantial number of poor blacks in urban areas.
(9) The author describes how an active alumni association can meet the needs of nursing schools and their graduates by increasing revenues and student recruitment, providing opportunities to network, and disseminating information.
(10) Alumni saw a need for more training in orthopedics, rehabilitation, and office management.
(11) In the present study, the authors assessed the impact of these programs by a review of grant proposals and a survey of alumni for each program.
(12) This article is based on the speech he delivered in that capacity on October 30, 1987, at the Annual Scientific Program of the Alumni Association, supplemented by material he presented at a three-day International Conference on the Ilizarov Techniques for the Management of Difficult Skeletal Problems which was sponsored by HJDOI November 1-3, 1987.
(13) The second issue is that a third of our undergraduate alumni have said that while they’d like to do a postgraduate course they don’t want to add to their debt burden.” The consortium consists of the universities of Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Warwick and York.
(14) Surveying alumni of a college of optometry provides vital information on the effectiveness of academic and clinical programs which prepare students for the practice of optometry and for advancement of the profession.
(15) A survey of alumni of the Cleveland Clinic's graduate training programs was conducted in September 1986.
(16) We used questionnaires to examine patterns of physical activity and other personal characteristics in relation to the subsequent development of NIDDM in 5990 male alumni of the University of Pennsylvania.
(17) Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore, Professor Lorraine Gamman of Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, and Janet Lee, editor of the The Culture Show, are all Middlesex Polytechnic alumni who were given grants to study there: Suzanne Moore: Everything Middlesex gave me happened because I had a grant When I first started working in newspapers people kept asking me which college I had been to.
(18) Physical and social characteristics recorded at college physical examination and reported in subsequent questionnaires to alumni in 1962 or 1966 by 50,000 former students from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania were reviewed for their relationship to major site-specific cancer occurrence.
(19) Analyses indicated that alumni and those who dropped out were remarkedly similar with regard to demographic characteristics such as age, sex, ethnicity, and prior academic achievement.
(20) The annual figure was some £50m higher than the previous record of £753m raised in 2011-12, and included contributions from 251,000 donors including 183,000 alumni, as universities increased their efforts in contacting graduates and their families.