(1) Aperient use was almost eliminated, bowel function improved, and there appeared to be no adverse effects on body weight, or on nutritional or mineral status.
(2) In 14 of 16 cases negative by culture and cytotoxin, a plausible non-microbiological case for diarrhoea was found, including aperients in six.
(3) Aperient pressures as well as flow amounts in relation to given pressure values are determined and plotted.
(4) In men there were fewer constipated days and need for aperients after the bran was withdrawn.
(5) This significantly reduced the need for aperients and suppositories but revealed unexpected differences in response by sex.
(6) Although cheap and effective in replacing aperients, there were problems in administration and control of incontinence for the nursing staff.
Mimicry
Definition:
(n.) The act or practice of one who mimics; ludicrous imitation for sport or ridicule.
(n.) Protective resemblance; the resemblance which certain animals and plants exhibit to other animals and plants or to the natural objects among which they live, -- a characteristic which serves as their chief means of protection against enemies; imitation; mimesis; mimetism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Antigenic mimicry by T. cruzi antigens sharing epitopes with host macromolecules has been implicated in the pathogenesis which is thought to have a significant autoimmune component.
(2) To investigate the possible involvement of epitopes shared by microbial antigens and host self-components in initiation of autoimmunity (molecular mimicry), a sequence data bank was screened for proteins containing an amino acid motif identical or related to ERKRR.
(3) The homology thus revealed not only lends strong support to mechanisms of autoimmunity that invoke the theory of molecular mimicry of viral proteins, but also suggests a rationale for the skeletal muscle target of polymyositis.
(4) They include antigenic variation, antigenic polymorphism, antigenic mimicry and direct interference with the generation of the host immune response.
(5) The basis of the stimulation of this group of autoantibodies is at least in part due to antigenic mimicry between the envelope protein VP3 of LDV and determinants of intermediate filaments, since a panel of monoclonal antibodies cross-reacts with both.
(6) The role of molecular mimicry in the spondyloarthropathies was investigated with respect to the epitopes involved.
(7) The possibility of molecular mimicry (antibody cross-reactivity between LCM and RBC membrane epitopes) was considered but appeared unlikely since the RBC antibody eluates gave no signal in an LCM-specific ELISA (which showed an ever increasing serum titer of virus-specific antibody).
(8) To examine how mimicry was influenced by a person's power and the status of those around them, Carr asked 55 volunteers to watch videos of high-status people (such as a doctor or business leader) or low-status people (a worker in a fast food restaurant, say, or a rubbish collector) either being happy or angry.
(9) Although several means have been hypothesized to play a role in disease, a widely accepted mechanism for viral-induced autoimmunity is molecular mimicry.
(10) In an effort to understand the structural basis for antigen mimicry by internal image antibodies, we determined the variable (V) region sequences of two mouse mAbs that mimic the rabbit Ig a1 allotype.
(11) Phenotypic switching and molecular mimicry may also provide the organism with an arsenal of mechanisms to evade host defenses.
(12) The binding of antibodies in the sera of patients with Lyme arthritis to the NH2-terminal region of the flagellar protein, a region with sequence homology to the flagellar proteins of other bacterial species, suggests the possibility that antigenic mimicry contributes to the immunopathogenesis of Lyme disease.
(13) Antigenic mimicry has been demonstrated to be operative, since they are cross-reactive to viral proteins.
(14) Although the thickness of the soft tissue is dependent on exogenous factors, such as nutrition, mimicry, and so forth, the dimensions of the bony nose apparently also influence the skin depths to some extent.
(15) Molecular mimicry or epitope similarity between group A streptococcal M proteins and myosin may contribute to the presence of heart reactive antibodies in acute rheumatic fever.
(16) Our results show that the macromolecular assemblage approach bears immunological mimicry of the gp120 of HIV virus and may lead to useful vaccines against HIV infection.
(17) Variations in the antigenic behaviour of parasites and their immunological mimicry by uptake of substances from the host and their immunosuppressive action are discussed.
(18) Hence it is not likely to be involved in the pathogenesis of HAM through molecular mimicry.
(19) It has been suggested that molecular mimicry might be a reason for autoimmunity as a result of immunological cross reactivity.
(20) Other mechanisms including antigenic mimicry by capsular polysaccharides and antigenic masquerade by immunoglobulin fragments confer additional resistance to the extracellular life style of these organisms.