(1) The current studies suggest that the autochthonous mammary tumor cells, independent of estrogen for cell growth, were still inducible for casein gene expression in vitro and in vivo by appropriate hormones.
(2) A wide but discontinuous distribution of the snail on the north coast of Haiti is confirmed (no autochthonous infections with S. mansoni have been reported).
(3) Furthermore, it was also confirmed that TIL-LAK cells could be induced in autochthonous mouse tumor systems and human gastric tumor systems.
(4) Neither patients' sera nor peripheral blood leukocytes showed significant cytotoxicity against autochthonous tumour cells in microtitre assays.
(5) Neutrophils and macrophages first appeared following transplantation of autochthonous tumor.
(6) Aerobic microorganisms are constantly entering the digestive tract with food, but colonization is resisted by autochthonous anaerobic flora (microbial colonization resistance) and by host-related factors (physiologic colonization resistance).
(7) The mitogenic response of some but not all hyporesponsive spleens from autochthonous tumor bearers was restored after removal of phagocytic macrophages.
(8) When different methods of treatment of the stimulating autochthonous blasts were compared with untreated cells, mitomycin C gave the highest stimulation indices 2 out of 3 tests.
(9) Two tumor models were selected: (a) autochthonous, MNU-induced mammary carcinoma and (b) transplanted rat leukemia L5222.
(10) The promising activities of these new platinum-linked phosphonic acids in autochthonous rat colorectal carcinoma and in human colorectal cancer cell lines warrant further investigations of compounds of this class to elucidate their role in the treatment of colorectal cancer.
(11) Our results demonstrate that anti-inflammation is probably not required for emergence and growth of these autochthonous tumors, that strongly immunogenic tumors may actually enhance macrophage responses and that the effect of tumor bearing on macrophage inflammation is a characteristic of the tumor, including its site and host of origin, its immunogenicity and its transplant generation.
(12) Among 154 different, MCA-induced mouse sarcomas, the immunogenicities of those tumors that had had the shortest original latencies in their autochthonous hosts were of an intermediate level with relatively little scatter.
(13) Antibody-dependent, cell-mediated cytotoxicity in the Moloney sarcoma virus (MSV) system was analyzed in terms of the ability of autochthonous antibody to induce or potentiate cytotoxicity by lymphocytes from animals infected with MSV.
(14) Sera of eight unselected adult patients with acute myelogenous leukemia obtained before and after chemotherapy were repeatedly tested for specific complement-dependent cytotoxicity against autochthonous peripheral white blood cells from the acute leukemia stage and from the remission stage, respectively.
(15) The antitumor activity of the cell-wall skeleton (CWS) of Propionibacterium acnes C7 was examined by using transplantable tumors in syngeneic mice and in guinea pigs, and autochthonous tumors in mice.
(16) Serums from three patients with renal cell carcinoma, one without any recurrent tumor and two with metastases, appear to significantly block the autochthonous and allogeneic lymphocyte cytotoxicity.
(17) This expression of metastatic potential was significantly different (p less than 0.05) from 14 primary cancers without autochthonous host metastases.
(18) Cells from autochthonous mouse mammary carcinomas which display estrogen-independent growth in vivo were studied for their hormonal responses in primary culture.
(19) Autochthonous, homologous, and heterologous immunizations of chickens and rats did not produce a detectable antibody response to a virus-specific tumor surface antigen.
(20) The lysis pattern of autochthonous M. tuberculosis is characterized by a prevalence of sensitivity to phages DS6A, GS4E, BG1, and D34.
Endemic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Endemical
(n.) An endemic disease.
Example Sentences:
(1) Findings on plain X-ray of the abdomen, using the usual parameters of psoas and kidney shadows in the Nigerian, indicate that the two communities studied are similar but urinary calculi and urinary tract distortion are significantly more prominent in the community with the higher endemicity of urinary schistosomiasis.
(2) Socio-economic improvement or behavioural changes appear necessary for the control of trachoma in endemic areas.
(3) Thirty-six dogs were seropositive, 28 of which had not traveled to endemic areas.
(4) The studies reported here examined physical interactions between V. cholerae O1 and natural plankton populations of a geographical region in Bangladesh where cholera is an endemic disease.
(5) Since then the intensive development of anti-malaria campaigns in urban areas over about ten years led temporarily to a considerable decrease in the level of endemicity, while in rural areas it remained unchanged.
(6) Superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and its concentration were measured in thyroid tissues obtained from patients with Graves' disease, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, differentiated thyroid cancer, and endemic goiter (before and after iodine supplementation) as well as in normal thyroid tissue (paranodular tissue) from patients with follicular adenomas.
(7) XLP was first described in 1975, when EBV was still focused on as an immediate oncogenic agent, but with some uncertainties raised by the absence of EBV in most non-endemic Burkitt lymphoma.
(8) Routine vaccination of travellers to endemic areas cannot be recommended; however, for people travelling to regions with a high transmission rate vaccination should be considered.
(9) There is no reason to describe deafness and deafmutism in an area with severe endemic goitre as a separate entity.
(10) Patients with reactive arthritis, sacroiliitis, spondylitis or Reiter's syndrome following intestinal infection from Yersinia, Salmonella, Shigella or Campylobacter organisms have been reported from endemic areas and after epidemic dysenteries.
(11) These preliminary results suggest that finger stick blood samples, collected on filter paper, could be used for FTA-ABS testing of remote rural populations--such as in areas where yaws is endemic.
(12) The underlying health problems that are still endemic to this region will probably be reflected to a greater extent in longer term follow-up.
(13) This test by virtue of its high sensitivity and the facilities in processing a large number of specimens, can prove to be useful in endemic areas for the recognition of asymptomatic malaria and screening of blood donors.
(14) This latter event might be one of the factors which results in a correlation of Burkitt's lymphoma with malaria endemic regions.
(15) Two populations living in separate areas in Tanzania known to be endemic for S. haematobium were investigated for the effects of the infection on community health.
(16) In many of the special nursing homes for aged, not a few aged women practiced activities uniquely associated with traditional religion on strongly reflecting the fact that endemic religion is deeply embedded in their thinking.
(17) To define the epidemiology of HIV-2 infection, we conducted a case-control study among hospitalized patients at an acute care hospital in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, a country with endemic HIV-2 infection.
(18) V. cholerae was isolated throughout the year indicating the endemicity of cholera in Bombay.
(19) Earlier studies of adults there had shown an intermediate degree of HBV endemicity (hepatitis B surface antigen carrier rate greater than 2%).
(20) Calcification on abdominal radiographs, especially serpiginous, seen in the region of the neck of gallbladder, appears to be the clue to the diagnosis of gallbladder schistosomiasis in people from endemic areas.