(n.) The Altar; a southern constellation, south of the tail of the Scorpion.
(n.) A name of the great blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna), native of South America.
Example Sentences:
(1) The antitumor effect of C18PCA and Ara-C was investigated against the P388 ascites tumor in BDF1 mice.
(2) However, the walker 256 intramuscular tumor did not respond to ARA-C capsules implanted, and the animals died at the same rate as the controls, with large ulcerated tumor masses and some metastasis.
(3) 5 heavily pretreated patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia or non-Hodgkin lymphoma resistant to alkylating agents were treated with low-dose cytosine arabinoside (ARA-C).
(4) Rat liver microsomes demethylated ara-DMAP much more rapidly than human liver microsomes did.
(5) Enhanced ara-CTP formation was observed in cells lacking cytidine deaminase (L1 210 and HL60), indicating that 3-deazauridine inhibition of deoxycytidylate deaminase may be important in this drug interaction.
(6) This study demonstrates the mutagenic properties of F-ara-A and ara-A and provides evidence for mechanisms by which the arabinosyl nucleosides induce mutation.
(7) Patient cells had low rates for ara-C transport as compared with human and murine experimental cells and correspondingly low binding capacities for the nucleoside transport inhibitor, nitrobenzylmercaptopurine riboside (NBMPR).
(8) The inhibitions by ara-GTP and 9-beta-D-arabinofuranosyladenine 5'-triphosphate were due to competition or partial competition 5'-triphosphate were due to competition or partial competition with deoxynucleoside triphosphate with the same base.
(9) The incorporation of F-ara-A monophosphate into mRNA resulted in premature termination of the RNA transcript and impaired its functioning as a template for protein synthesis.
(10) Pharmacological studies of 5'-esters of 1 beta-D-arabinofuranosylcytosine (ara-C) were performed in three species (mouse, pig, and man).
(11) These results provide some support for the view that cell kill may not be the only basis for the chemotherapeutic effectiveness of ara-C.
(12) Accelerating test at a constant temperature indicates that liposome-entrapped Ara-A has certain chemical stability.
(13) Although statistically significant, the effect of DP on ara-CTP retention in AML blasts was much less pronounced than that previously observed in L5178Y leukemia.
(14) He was treated with the combination chemotherapy of BACOD with high dose ara-C or methotrexate followed by 4 doses of autologous LAK cell infusion resulting in no significant response.
(15) Regardless whether cyclo-C or ara-C is injected, the plasma decay curve of the resultant ara-C is biphasic, with calculated half-lives of 40 min and 2-2.5 hr.
(16) Serial measurements of DNA synthesis and net intracellular ara-C metabolism demonstrated marked increases in both determinants in day 8 residual tumor when compared with the pretreatment cells for newly diagnosed adults achieving complete remission but not for TST-refractory patients.
(17) Determination of the intracellular content of the active metabolite of ara-C, ara-CTP, excluded more prolonged retention of the drug as the basis for potentiation of cytotoxicity.
(18) With the aim of improving the treatment of AML patients the activities of selected nucleoside metabolizing enzymes of possible implication for the initial metabolism of Ara-C have been studied in leukemic and normal cells.
(19) Ara-C. We conclude that prophylactic CNS therapy may cause cognitive dysfunctions.
(20) This was possible because the Ara test, for volatile compounds (such as vinyl bromide), did not require the use of special vaporization techniques, which are difficult to evaluate quantitatively for mutagenic activity.
Aura
Definition:
(n.) Any subtile, invisible emanation, effluvium, or exhalation from a substance, as the aroma of flowers, the odor of the blood, a supposed fertilizing emanation from the pollen of flowers, etc.
(n.) The peculiar sensation, as of a light vapor, or cold air, rising from the trunk or limbs towards the head, a premonitory symptom of epilepsy or hysterics.
Example Sentences:
(1) The following three corresponding arguments are put forward in support of the upgraded placebo-concept of "aura curae" (Latin: "air of care"; "unspecific healing context").
(2) Due to the supernatural aura surrounding mental disease, the lack of a sufficient biological basis, and the capacity to reduce civil rights of individuals, psychiatry occupies a special position among the medical disciplines.
(3) It’s just everything about him; his aura, as well.
(4) AURA may be an appropriate respiratory transducer in those patients requiring oxygen therapy.
(5) Vertigo and disorders of equilibrium are well known as aurae in epileptic diseases, especially in the psychomotor type of seizures.
(6) Migraine with aura patients had a reduced interhemispheric coherence mostly of 12 Hz and 15 Hz F1 components in frontal and temporo-parietal regions.
(7) Others liked it, but felt it lacked the aura of the original.
(8) The typical "march" of the aura symptoms may reflect differences in the ischemic threshold of various neurones leading to dysfunction of more and more neurones as the blood flow gradually decreases.
(9) The fact that it had been smuggled out of prison gave it an added aura.
(10) My personal favorite part was Beyoncé had her backup singers and dancers in pantsuits.” Each celebrity who joined Clinton for her last push seemed to top the previous night, giving her closing appearances an aura of celebration.
(11) Case reports of five patients are presented, each with a specific aura at the onset of the seizures.
(12) The 24 Hz F1 component was augmented only in migraineurs without aura in the parieto-occipital regions in comparison with migraineurs with aura and controls.
(13) The aura study showed focal hyperperfusion in the left frontal region and decreased perfusion in the adjacent cortex posteriorly, suggesting a zone of suppression.
(14) In both samples symptom combinations corresponding to the syndromes of migraine with aura, migraine without aura and tension headache did indeed occur with significant frequency.
(15) Electrical stimulation without prior natural stimulation produced unpleasant sensations in three patients with a history of temporal lobe seizures and olfactory auras, but not in patients with primary generalized or focal epilepsy.
(16) He, of course, disclaimed his commitment, telling an American admirer that he was "a person who prefers life to art, and who knows it is a far finer thing to be in love…" The record of his creativity suggests the opposite, only adding to the aura of enigma that still surrounds him.
(17) Photograph: Alamy Now, among the juniper trees, you can find strip-malls full of crystal shops, aura-reading stations and psychics.
(18) Physical disease, bereavement, isolation, and dependency in elderly people create the aura of rationality frequently and unrightfully attached to suicide in the elderly.
(19) Auras and subclinical seizures detected by depth electrode recording were often not evident with subdural electrodes.
(20) Between attacks of migraine with aura and at the beginning of attacks of both types of migraine the serum 5-HT and 5-HIAA concentration was significantly increased.