(n.) A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes.
(n.) One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.
(n.) A dupe.
(v. t.) To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally.
Example Sentences:
(1) In recent studies, we have found that Gal alpha 1----3Gal beta 1----4GlcNAc residues are abundant on red cells and nucleated cells of nonprimate mammals, prosimians, and New World monkeys, but their expression is diminished in Old World monkeys, apes, and humans.
(2) The sequence of the murine protein differs from that of the human protein in 10% of residues, and it may be presumed that some of these differences are responsible for the inability of gibbon ape leukemia virus to infect mouse fibroblasts.
(3) Other differences in cytoarchitecture, within the great apes and humans, include decreases in the small and giant cell populations of the cochlear complex.
(4) In order to analyse possible mechanisms of N-action of these factors, we have cultured APE explants for 3 or 18 h in the medium containing various concentrations of con A, PHA of EBDNF.
(5) We are by far the most successful of the great apes and have pushed our cousins right up against the wall.
(6) Finally, the M. fuscata replication sequence presented here will provide a necessary foundation for future comparisons between apes and man.
(7) Miocene hominoids from Europe are among the earliest members of the great ape and human clade (the Hominidae).
(8) 4-[[N-(3-Chlorophenyl)-carbamoyl]oxy]-2-butynyltrimethylammonium chloride (McN-A-343) and N-ethyl-guvacine propargyl ester (NEN-APE) produced minimal or no arteriolar vasodilation.
(9) Gibbons that acquired infectious gibbon ape leukemia virus, either naturally by exposure to a virus-shedding ape or experimentally by deliberate virus inoculation, had the same levels of serum lytic activity as did unexposed gibbons that had no detectable antibodies to gibbon ape leukemia virus.
(10) After this separation, the ancestral DRB1 gene of the DRw52 group duplicated in the Old World monkey lineage to give rise to genes at three loci at least, while in the ape lineage this gene may have remained single and diverged into a number of alleles instead.
(11) The results conform to the general pattern that great apes exhibit many cognitive skills comparable to those of 2-year-old humans.
(12) They adhered to and, when capacitated, penetrated the vestments of the oocyte of an ape--the gibbon, Hylobates lar--both in vivo and in vitro.
(13) Relative to human, no translocations were detected in great apes, except for the well-known fusion-origin of human chromosome 2 and a 5;17 translocation in the gorilla.
(14) Replacement of the N-methyl group in arecoline and APE by larger substituents (ethyl, n-propyl, n-butyl, benzyl, phenylethyl) as well as N-methylation resulted in a decrease or even a complete loss of agonistic activity.
(15) The deflecting wrinkle is a well-known character state of the lower m2 and M1 of the human dentition, but there is little information regarding its presence in great apes.
(16) She had no idea what she was saying.” The girl, Julia, was escorted from the ground by security guards after she was identified by Goodes as having called him an “ape” .
(17) Gonococci attached to, damaged, and invaded the oviduct (fallopian tube) mucosa of chimpanzees (which are apes) but not the oviduct mucosa of baboons (which are monkeys).
(18) The TLC analysis indicated that the oligomer produced by APE is not identical to the 2'-5' oligoadenylate.
(19) All positive sera from gibbon apes reacted as HSV-1 positive.
(20) Little evidence exists that apes can use symbols as names, that is, as a means of simply transmitting information.
Apo
Definition:
() A prefix from a Greek preposition. It usually signifies from, away from, off, or asunder, separate; as, in apocope (a cutting off), apostate, apostle (one sent away), apocarpous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fibroblasts from WHHL rabbits bound little, if any, human LDL, an apo B-containing lipoprotein, in 4 degrees C equilibrium binding experiments.
(2) 5) The rates of inactivation of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, apo-ornithine aminotransferase [EC 2.6.1.13], apo-tyrosine aminotransferase [EC 2.6.1.5], apo-cystathionase [EC 4.4.1.1], glucokinase [EC 2.7.1.2], glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase [EC 1.2.1.12], and malate dehydrogenase [EC 1.1.1.37] by the new cathepsin were higher than those by cathepsin B.
(3) Both Apo AI (48%) and Apo AII (5.5%) were greatly diminished and Apo E was present in remarkably high amounts (39%) with two additional isoforms (Apo E'1 and Apo E'2).
(4) This technique also revealed that the apo(a) isoform pattern of aortic homogenate was comparable to the individual serum pattern.
(5) Moreover, a prominent reduction in serum Apo A-1 was found in dialysed diabetic patients.
(6) Overall, there was a significant inverse correlation between apo(a) mRNA size and its concentration in the liver, despite a marked interindividual variability in the relative amounts of similar-sized transcripts.
(7) These findings suggest an increased central pool free cholesterol synthesis in individuals possessing the apo epsilon-4 versus epsilon-2 allele.
(8) There were 412 plasma samples (59.5%) that contained a single band, 274 (39.6%) contained two bands, and only 6 (0.9%) had no detectable apo[a] band.
(9) These variations in apo C-II were closely correlated with the plasma clearance of triglyceride.
(10) The present experiment was conducted to determine if a single direct dopamine (DA) agonist, apomorphine (APO), pretreatment could produce a rapid uncoupling of the striatal DA D-2 receptor from its G-proteins.
(11) The PvuII-CIII and PvuII-AIV polymorphisms were both associated with differences in apo AI levels, explaining 3.7%-5.7% of the sample variance.
(12) The association constant for the complex of melittin with apo-alpha-lactalbumin determined from spectropolarimetric melittin-titration data is 2 X 10(7) M-1.
(13) Metabolic evaluations, which included measurements of fasting blood glucose, insulin, C-peptide, total cholesterol, triglyceride, total lipids, HDL-cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol and apolipoproteins (Apo A1, Apo A2 and Apo B), were performed before treatment and every 3rd cycle during the treatment period.
(14) From these results, we conclude that Apo A-II may be effective as a biological marker for alcohol drinking independent of Apo A-I and HDLC, while cigarette smoking may affect Apo B through a certain direct mechanical effect.
(15) When the effect of apo E polymorphism on serum lipid traits was estimated in boys and girls separately, variation at the apo E gene locus explained 10.4, 13.3, 13.3, and 13.5% of the phenotypic variance in serum total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, apo B, and HDL-E levels, respectively, in boys, while in girls only the effect on HDL-E levels (19.3%) reached statistical significance.
(16) The ability to induce apoAI and apoCII and the kinetics with which they respond to low levels of estrogen correlate with levels of nuclear type I estrogen binding sites, while increases in apoE and apoB synthesis in response to high concentrations of hormone correlate with the induction of type II sites.
(17) We have isolated, by anti-LDL affinity chromatography, apo B-containing lipoproteins from homogenates of atherosclerotic plaques excised from the human aorta.
(18) The frequencies of the apo A-IV alleles in this sample were f(A-IV1) = 0.919, f(A-IV2) = 0.077, and f(A-IV3) = 0.004.
(19) Previous studies suggest that during nerve regeneration apoE acts as a lipid transport protein that assists in the rapid initial extension of axons and then in their myelination.
(20) That fraction was distinct from the lipoproteins principally responsible for the increase in apo B and cholesterol levels in those animals.