(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.
Alumnus
Definition:
(n.) A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning.
Example Sentences:
(1) You're an alumnus of Nottingham's respected Television Workshop (past students include Samantha Morton).
(2) Though Chasez has pursued a relatively successful post-Sync career, as a solo artist and reality TV judge, the group has a yet more famous alumnus.
(3) LTPA was measured with the Lipid Research Clinics (LRC), Godin Leisure-Time Exercise, and the College Alumnus physical activity questionnaires.
(4) Just before the Murdoch tweet, Colin Moynihan – a former Tory minister, alumnus of Monmouth school and chair of the British Olympic Association – cited the fact that 50% of Britain's gold-medal winners at the Beijing Olympics were from private schools as "one of the worst statistics in British sport".
(5) Some years ago, in company with Divya Narendra, another Harvard alumnus who had worked with them on the original concept, they launched a lawsuit against the Facebook founder that resulted in two things: a $65m legal settlement in which the Winklevii got $20m in cash and $45m-worth of Facebook shares; and a major Hollywood movie – The Social Network – which tells the story in colourful terms.
(6) I hope that King’s will listen to its most beloved alumnus and a man revered around the world as a moral voice,” said Mark Horowitz, from the Fossil Free KCL campaign.
(7) What clearly will not influence Davies, a Manchester Grammar School boy, Oxford graduate and alumnus of Stanford Graduate School of Business, is the prime minister's notion of a happiness index, once promoted by David Cameron as a rival barometer of success to growth which, it was said, would play a key role in the big future policy decisions.
(8) Market abuse An alumnus of Clifton College, a leading private school, and Oxford University, Sants is invariably described as smooth by anyone who has had dealings with him.
(9) As a black alumnus who walked past that statue for four years, I think Rhodes should be left exactly where he is “He was racist.
(10) "Well, if you were to pick up our March edition (on sale February 5), you could see the single healthiest foodstuff available at each and every Premiership ground in the country," writes kindly GU alumnus and now commisioning editor at Men's Health magazine, Dan Jones.
(11) He was elected to that post on his second attempt, in 1978, helped by another St John’s alumnus and Catholic politician, the Democratic governor, Hugh Carey .
(12) A lawyer and University of Michigan alumnus, Orr helped steer Chrysler out of bankruptcy, but this is a dilemma of an altogether greater magnitude.
(13) It may also say something about modern debate that the most teeth-grinding aspect of Osborne's move barely attracted comment – but the spectacle of an alumnus of St Paul's School worth an estimated £4m kicking the poor in order to preserve his political skin is irksome, to say the least.
(14) The Mackintosh Building is not just part of Glasgow's heritage - it is a national treasure May 23, 2014 3.53pm BST Another alumnus of the GSA is the broadcaster and journalist Muriel Gray, pictured here in tears near the scene of the fire.
(15) A Procter and Gamble alumnus, Bret is a past board member of Stanley Park Ecological Society and licensee for TEDxUBC.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump arrived just in time to do the monologue where a gag about how Trump actually thought plus-sized brunette cast member Aidy Bryant was Rosie O’Donnell was moderately amusing, as was Trump standing cheek to impressive jowl with two of his impersonators from the show, current cast member Taran Killam and alumnus Darrell Hammond, who did fake-Trump duties back in 2004 when he last hosted the show, at the height of his The Apprentice resurgence.
(17) Ralph Egwu, 27, is working with Edinburgh University alumnus Amy Burridge towards an A-level in government and politics in what is his first experience of formal education.
(18) Updated at 12.59pm BST 12.41pm BST Shiv Malik has joined the blog with this dispatch from a Hounslow school that boasts a fairly famous alumnus: I’m here at Feltham community college on the outskirts of west London where pupils and teachers have delivered a “truly outstanding” set of academic results.
(19) Relations were at a low during Boris Yeltsin's presidency, but there was a marked thaw after Aliev's fellow KGB alumnus, Vladimir Putin came to power.
(20) With regard to all-cause mortality, cigarette smoking and hypertension were most hazardous for the individual; smoking and lack of vigorous recreational play were most hazardous for the alumnus population as a whole.