(n.) A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.
Example Sentences:
(1) by oxygen or assisted ventilation was accomplished by members of a recently created national organisation (ANTA-DIR, 1980).
(2) Treatment with LHRH-anta produced a significant decrease in thymus wt, an alteration of the maturational pattern characterized by a cellular monomorphism, reduced thymocyte volume, reduction of the cortical area, and depauperation of the epithelial microenvironment.
(3) ANTA is shown here to be an intermediate of normal astrocyte metabolism and to display appropriate kinetic characteristics compatible with its proposed role in inducing part of the delayed neuronal loss that occurs after a brain injury (secondary neuronal death).
(4) Kinetic studies showed that ANTA induces a slow (greater than 12 h) degeneration of cultured granule cells.
(5) When LHRH-anta-treated adult (3-month-old) rats were challenged with an antigenic stimulus (multiple sc injections of complete Freund adjuvant and BSA) and antibody (anti-BSA antibodies of the immunoglobulin G class) production measured in the serum after 15 days, a marked and significant decrease in immunoglobulin G levels was observed, compared to the values measured in untreated control.
(6) "The greatest unfairness is that the poor are the victims of our archaic legislation," said Camara, a law professor at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar.
(7) The specificity of such effect was demonstrated by 1) the failure of LHRH fragments [LHRH-(1-6)] to mimick the LHRH stimulatory effect; and 2) the complete reversal produced by simultaneous addition of a potent LHRH-ANTA on IL-2 receptor expression induced by LHRH.
(8) The marked modulation of lymphocyte function exerted by the hypothalamic decapetide LHRH prompted us to study the possible involvement of the neuropeptide in one of the major steps of lymphocyte proliferation, namely the expression of interleukin-2 (IL-2) receptor during in vitro treatment of rat lymphocytes with LHRH agonists (LHRH-A) or antagonists (LHRH-ANTA).
(9) Moreover, a reduced percentage of the T-helper lymphocyte subpopulation followed LHRH-anta administration.
(10) Astrocytes were also found to inactivate rapidly isobutanol-extracted ANTA in normal K+-containing growth medium.
(11) An isogenic nhaA (formerly antA) deletion strain, however, is not significantly different from wild type in this respect.
(12) A low-molecular weight astrocyte-derived neuronotoxic activity (ANTA) was detected, using a colorimetric bioassay of cell survival, by its effect on cultured granule cells.
(13) Moreover, basal and lectin stimulation of IL-2 receptor-positive cells were significantly inhibited by treatment with the LHRH-ANTA.
(14) The described immune deficiencies in LHRH-anta-treated rats were associated with a clear inhibition of sexual maturation.
(15) A similar effect of the LHRH-anta treatment on splenocyte cultures was measured.
(16) Whereas in control animals the maturation of mitogenic potential in thymocyte cultures showed a progressive and age-dependent increase, reaching a maximal activity at 30 days of age and then decreasing after puberty onset, in LHRH-anta-treated rats, the thymocyte's proliferative response was completely blocked at 7 days of age and remained very low at each time interval studied, until 3 months of age.
Manta
Definition:
(n.) See Coleoptera and Sea devil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Praia do Cabeço is popular with clammers but also families and strollers, and runs from Monte Gordo to Manta Rota.
(2) The parameatal foreskin flap, both in the form of a manta-wing and in extended circumferential form, appears to have an enough microcirculation suitable for one-stage repair (OUPF II and OUPF IV, respectively) of hypospadias.
(3) The trade is on the increase, with Mozambique recording an 86% decline in sightings of the fish over the past eight years, but manta rays are very important for tourism and attract divers who will pay a lot to see them.
(4) Anderson-TAMVEC (Houston and College Station, Texas), University of Washington (Seattle, Washington), and MANTA (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.).
(5) Conservationists have called for legal protection of species such as sharks and manta rays, the banning of gillnets – which create a wall of netting to catch fish – and greater education of and alternative livelihoods for fishermen.
(6) The determination of the RBE for the MANTA fast neutrons produced by NRL is inprogress, with the model system using tumor cell population kinetic response patterns assayed in vitro after irradiation in vivo.
(7) Those looking for a tapering would welcome the forthcoming drop in the monthly purchase amount,” said Grant Lewis and Mantas Vanagas, at Daiwa Capital Markets.
(8) There is a manta ray inside the tank who is a music producer called Tony Reason.
(9) Photograph: Alamy She continued: "People come from all over the world to enjoy diving with sharks and manta rays, but if this goes on, they won't be there any more.
(10) The Cites meeting is also considering protection for manta rays, which are being fished for their gill plates, sold in China as medicine and claimed to treat a range of health complaints from asthma to chicken pox and even cancer.
(11) Marshall, principal scientist for the manta ray programme, said: "We're looking at decimation in the next decade or decade-and-a-half.
(12) I am keen to see trade controls introduced for vulnerable and endangered species like porbeagle, hammerhead and oceanic whitetip sharks and manta rays."
(13) A system has been developed for the computer generation of dose distributions for the MANTA-NRL fast-neutron radiotherapy beam.
(14) Helen got scuba qualified, and we spent hours diving alongside whale sharks and manta rays, but the sea lions stood out as our finest animal encounter.
(15) But this burgeoning trade along the Mozambican coast is putting precious species such as manta rays in existential danger, according to local conservationists.
(16) But it is an open secret that Chinese syndicates are supplying improved fishing nets, buying shark fins and manta ray "wing" tips and shipping them back to Asia, where there is increasing demand for delicacies such as shark fin soup.
(17) Time is running out for the manta ray, a beautiful fish with big, triangular pectoral "wings" that has a meagre reproductive cycle.
(18) The displacement correction factor to be used for analysis of fast-neutron dosimetric measurements using air-filled EG and G tissue-equivalent ion chambers in a tissue-equivalent phantom has been investigated using the MANTA neutron radiotherapy beam generated by 35-MeV deuterons on a thick Be target.
(19) There’s whale watching, swimming with dolphins, and diving with manta rays to be had, plus canyoning and kayaking.
(20) First, the centrality of the state as the driver of modernisation, a tenet linked to anti-imperialism vis-a-vis the US (closing the Manta military base; the aggressive struggle against American energy group Chevron and the environmental destruction it caused in the Amazon; and granting asylum to Julian Assange).