(n.) The science of autographs; a person's own handwriting; an autograph.
(n.) A process in lithography by which a writing or drawing is transferred from paper to stone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Zymographic analysis and reverse fibrin autography disclosed a 120 kD t-PA-PAI-1 complex and a 50 kD free form of PAI-1 in the supernatants of both unstimulated and TNF-stimulated cells; PAI-1 was released in excess and free t-PA was not observed.
(2) We determined plasminogen activator (PA) and PA inhibitor (PAI) activities in the intra- and extracellular compartments of an experimental pancreatic ascites tumour with indirect and direct functional assays, and partially characterized these activities on SDS-polyacrylamide gels coupled with fibrin and reverse fibrin autography.
(3) Neither endothelial cell type from human kidney produced plasminogen activator inhibitor, as determined by reverse fibrin autography and titration assays.
(4) The cultured tissue has been shown by radio-autography to incorporate [3H]leucine into proteins of the villus epithelial cells and [3H]thymidine into nucleic acid, predominantly by the enteroblasts.
(5) Amino acid deprivation and glucagon are both potent inducers of autography and proteolysis in liver.
(6) Using sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and fibrin autography techniques, we showed that the increase in fibrinolytic activity in response to glucocorticoids resulted from increased production of tPA rather than urokinase-like PA.
(7) A plasminogen activator (PA), Mr 72,000, was detected in conditioned medium from human melanocyte cultures by fibrin autography.
(8) Platelet lysates were also treated with an excess of soluble t-PA, which formed complexes with active PAI-1, whereas the latent form was detected by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and reverse fibrin autography.
(9) The ECM-associated tPA was functionally active as determined by fibrin autography and approximately 95% of the PA activity observed in intact, plated cells was localized to the ECM.
(10) They consist of areas of cholinesterase activity (detected histochemically) localized on the myotube membranes and of mutiple clusters of ACh receptors whose 125I-alpha-bungarotoxin binding sites are revealed by radio-autography.
(11) Autography showed that 4 h after EEDQ treatment no preferential labeling of the striatum can be seen.
(12) Although uPA had not been detected previously as a product of rat osteoblasts, treatment of lysates of osteoblast-like cells with plasmin yielded a band of PA activity on reverse fibrin autography, corresponding to a low Mr form of uPA.
(13) The early events in herpes simplex virus infection were studied by means of radio-autography.
(14) In clot lysis assay systems containing washed human platelets as a source of PAI, bovine-activated protein C-dependent fibrinolysis was associated with a marked decrease in PAI activity as detected using reverse fibrin autography.
(15) Escherichia coli lysogenic for lambda 9.2, but not for lambda gt11, produced a fusion protein of 180 kDa that was recognized by affinity-purified antibodies against the bovine aortic endothelial cell beta-PAI and had beta-PAI activity when analyzed by reverse fibrin autography.
(16) Fibrin autography also revealed that hPTH(1-34) increases tPA and uPA activity, especially after cycloheximide treatment in UMR 106-01 cells.
(17) Immunoprecipitation and fibrin autography of PPP from two patients with markedly elevated basal t-PA antigen levels demonstrate that the t-PA antigen was present in PPP primarily in complex with PAI-1.
(18) The follicular fluid samples (n = 25) were analyzed for total tissue-type PA antigen, PA enzyme activity by fibrin autography, PAI activity, PAI type 1 (PAI-1) antigen, and PAI-1 mRNA.
(19) The molecular analysis of plasminogen activator (by SDS-PAGE and fibrin autography) showed a single molecular form of 52,000 daltons, inhibited by an antibody against human urokinase.
(20) By reverse fibrin autography after SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, a plasminogen activator inhibitor was detected with a molecular weight of 46,000.
Biography
Definition:
(n.) The written history of a person's life.
(n.) Biographical writings in general.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his biography, Tony Blair admits to having accumulated 70 at one point – "considered by some to be a bit of a constitutional outrage", he adds.
(2) Michael Holroyd, in his biography of George Bernard Shaw , gives an illuminating example of myopic hostility to Russia by the right even when we desperately needed allies.
(3) Tommy (1975), an engaging version of the Who's slightly dotty rock opera, was followed by two of his less successful freeform biographies, Lisztomania (1975), starring the Who's Roger Daltrey, and Valentino (1977), starring Rudolf Nureyev.
(4) A biography, magazine articles, and various surveys of his work convey the impression that his ideas are timely, or at least that they are historically important.
(5) Haki's naivety about English detective fiction is more than matched by Latimer's ingenuous excitement as Haki describes to him Dimitrios's sordid career, and he decides it would be fun to write the gangster's biography.
(6) "Cameron's interpretation of Merkel's stance is partially based on a misunderstanding," said Stefan Kornelius, foreign editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung and author of an authorised Merkel biography.
(7) His many books, which included a biography of Oliver Cromwell and a celebration of the radical millenarian groups of the period called The World Turned Upside Down, were widely read.
(8) A brief biography of David Edward Hughes is outlined.
(9) Yet the biography of this pupil and successor of Korsakov is that of a liberal, who championned the cause of human rights under the ancient regime, and in particular those of the mentally ill. His theoretical writings, published in the medico-psychological Annales in 1903-1904, are a contribution to the critique made by the French speaking school of the extended conception of dementia praecox developed by Kraepelin in 1899, and taken up by Bleuler in 1911, with his description of the group of schizophrenias.
(10) Another lawsuit obliged Ian Hamilton to rewrite large sections of an unauthorised biography published in 1988 – the supreme court ruled that quotations from Salinger's letters infringed his copyright.
(11) As any biography will also tell you, for all his shape-shifting brilliance, Bowie is a Royal Variety Performance vaudevillian at heart.
(12) It is a sophisticated grid, mounted upon a database that is said to have been more than two years in the development, containing biographies of individuals believed to pose a threat to US interests, and their known or suspected locations, as well as a range of options for their disposal.
(13) After the Scot sued Rooney over allegations in a biography the pair reconciled but whether Moyes would want him to stay at United is not yet clear, though he will have the final say on the striker's future.
(14) In the case of Twitter this may include who wrote the tweet, their biography, their location, when it was written, how many other tweets have been on that users account, what time it was, who it was sent to, where the author is normally based and, surprisingly in the case of Twitter , the 140 characters of the content in the tweet as well,” he said.
(15) For a time, he tells me, the new library operated without a biography section; crime and sci-fi disappeared, too.
(16) The details of her biography presented here are not as well known--especially the subsequent course of her illness and treatment and her struggle against prostitution and the white slave trade, the latter carried on with special fascination.
(17) I first met Boris in 1987, and a few years ago wrote an unauthorised biography of him , but no specialist knowledge is required to see that this is what he is like.
(18) Douglas county sheriff John Hanlin said during the press conference that officials were still working to notify victims next-of-kin and said the medical examiner’s office was expected to release their names and brief biographies Friday afternoon.
(19) As the key leave campaigner Boris Johnson said in his biography of Winston Churchill two years ago, the European Union, together with Nato, “has helped to deliver a period of peace and prosperity for its people as long as any since the days of the Antonine emperors”.
(20) He was an astonishing figure, as Tim Hilton’s magisterial 2002 biography of him proves.