(1) We have previously shown that, with moderate hydration (2.5 L) of the recipient, together with rapid infusion of 250 ml of mannitol 20% just before clamp removal, the incidence of ARF decreased to below 10%.
(2) The factors predisposing to and complicating acute renal failure (ARF) in the medical intensive care unit (ICU), and their relative influence on outcome during ARF are unclear.
(3) Frusemide has been given to try to prevent this change in glycerol-induced ARF because of its effect in redistributing renal blood flow from medulla to cortex.
(4) Five different human ARFs have been identified by cDNA cloning.
(5) Studies of calcium antagonists in humans with ARF have been confined to patients undergoing renal transplantation.
(6) With an additional procedure of adrenalectomy (BN + Ax), the enzyme activity failed to show any increase in ARF rats produced by BN.
(7) Glycerol-induced ARF in rats or rabbits has been studied to investigate the pathogenesis of myoglobinuria-associated ARF.
(8) The results demonstrate that redistribution of ARF to the vesicle membrane correlates with the intravesicular pH established by a vacuolar-type H(+)-ATPase.
(9) Uptake of tetraethylammonium with or without an H+ gradient was decreased in membrane vesicles from ARF rats compared with normal rats.
(10) Hybridization of a bovine ARF 2 cDNA under low stringency with mammalian poly(A)+ RNA resulted in multiple bands that were subsequently assigned to the known ARF genes using ARF-specific oligonucleotide probes.
(11) (2) The interstitium of the cortex and of the outer stripe of the outer medulla is significantly widened in most cases of ARF.
(12) These were characterized by ballooning of the capillaries, thickening and splitting of glomerular basement membrane (GMB), fibrin thrombi in the capillaries, and mesangial cell proliferation most prominently seen in Ecchis carinatus bites resulting in ARF.
(13) ARF was centered in the inner city, where the incidence among black children reached 15.21.
(14) The renin-angiotensin system does not seem to contribute to the reduction of renal function in norepinephrine-induced ARF in dogs.
(15) It is concluded that reciprocal changes in RA and RE are the immediate cause of filtration failure in this form of ARF and that, in the virtual absence of filtration, tubular leakage can play no important role.
(16) No significant differences were present between both groups when they were analyzed for ARF incidence (15% vs 23.8%); overall incidence was 19.5%.
(17) Hospital records from all Swedish children 0-15 years old diagnosed as having acute rheumatic fever (ARF) during 1971-80 were studied.
(18) The spectrum and outcome of acute renal failure (ARF) were studied in 205 children aged between 1 month and 12 yr.
(19) Its presence in Giardia is consistent with the view that ARF emerged before the divergence of this protozoan from other eukaryotes (approximately 1.5 billion years ago), and that an ARF-like protein may have been the ancestor of several other classes of signal-transducing guanine nucleotide-binding proteins, including the alpha subunits of the heterotrimeric G proteins.
(20) The rate of carditis (3 of 10 patients) was similar to that in older studies of adults with ARF.
Orf
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Orfe
Example Sentences:
(1) Translation of the tnsC ORF reveals strong homology to a consensus sequence for nucleotide binding sites as well as a region of similarity to a transcriptional activator (MalT).
(2) The 912 nucleotide ORF has been identified as the cell-to-cell transport protein gene.
(3) The RNA sequence was 6791 nucleotides in length and contained four open reading frames (ORFs).
(4) DNA sequence analysis of a 3.8-kb genomic piece allowed identification of (i) an open reading frame (ORF) with striking homology to the previously identified D. melanogaster ORF and (ii) conserved sequence elements of possible regulatory relevance within and flanking the second intron.
(5) A consensus promoter sequence was found immediately 5' to the first ORF.
(6) The tat open reading frame (ORF) has a strong signal for translation initiation, while rev and vpu ORFs have weaker signals.
(7) No homology to any published protein sequence was found for the smaller ORFs.
(8) The positive-strand RNA genome of pestiviruses contains a single large open reading frame (ORF) extending its entire length and is capable of encoding 450 kDa of protein.
(9) The ten classes of mutants included (i) mutants showing abortive intracellular and extracellular growth; (ii) mutants showing abortive intracellular growth; (iii) rough mutants; (iv) mutants showing greatly reduced hemolysin and phospholipase secretion but showing normal growth in cells and little or no association with F-actin; (v) mutants with mutations mapping to an open reading frame (ORF) adjacent to hlyA and referred to as ORF U, lacking phospholipase activity, and with 50% normal hemolysin activity; (vi) mutants with reduced secretion of both hemolysin and phospholipase; (vii) nonhemolytic mutants with mutations mapping to the structural gene, hlyA; (viii) mutants with 25% normal hemolysin secretion and absolutely no association with F-actin; (ix) mutants with mutations mapping to ORF U, lacking phospholipase activity, and with normal hemolysin activity; and (x) mutants showing a mixed-plaque morphology but normal for all other parameters.
(10) The region of the AcMNPV genome encompassing EcoRI-H and -S (map positions 82.6-85.8) contains five open reading frames (ORFs) forming one transcriptional unit.
(11) We have used immunoblotting analysis to identify four protein products of orf-1.
(12) The nucleotide sequences, comprising a total of 8.6 kb, and the amino acid translations for nine predicted open reading frames (ORFs) (designated SalF4L, SalF 19R, SalF21R, B4R, B8R, B9R, B10R, and B14R) are presented.
(13) The Cs cob.1 ORF was cloned into the vector pMALcr1 and over-expressed as a hybrid protein fused to maltose-binding protein (MBP).
(14) Starting from two in-frame AUG codons (seven amino acid residues apart) an open reading frame (ORF) was identified that extended in frame into the ORF coding for the downstream E2 membrane protein gene.
(15) Oral antisecretory potency of ORF 17583 in gastric fistula dogs was 31 times greater than cimetidine, 3.7 times greater than ranitidine and equal to that of omeprazole and famotidine.
(16) sigB lay in an operon with four open reading frames (orfs) in the order orfV-orfW-sigB-orfX, and lacZ gene fusions showed that all four frames were translated in vivo.
(17) An upstream sequence surrounding the first AUG of the smaller ORF corresponds to a potentially functional initiation codon.
(18) An open reading frame (ORF) coding for a 57.3 kDa polypeptide was identified.
(19) A 591-nt ORF is located near the 5' end of MStV RNA3, while a second ORF of 948 nt is located near the 3' end in the viral complementary RNA (vcRNA).
(20) The nucleotide sequence showed two overlapping open reading frames (ORFs) within the kikA region.