(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.
Stone
Definition:
(n.) Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.
(n.) A precious stone; a gem.
(n.) Something made of stone. Specifically: -
(n.) The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
(n.) A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
(n.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
(n.) One of the testes; a testicle.
(n.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
(n.) A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
(n.) Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
(n.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone.
(n.) To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
(n.) To make like stone; to harden.
(n.) To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
(n.) To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
(n.) To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among its signatories were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.
(2) Follow-up studies using radiological methods show worse results (recurrent stones in II: 21.2%, in I: 5.8%, stenosis of EST in II: 6.1%, in I: 3.1%): Late results of EST because of papillary stenosis are still worse compared to those of choledocholithiasis.
(3) Other serious complications were reservoir perforation during catheterisation in 3 and development of stones in the reservoir in 2 patients.
(4) In conclusion, 1) etiology of urinary tract stone in all recurrent stone formers and in all patients with multiple stones must be pursued, and 2) all stones either removed or passed must be subjected to infrared spectrometry.
(5) Predisposition to pancreatitis relates to duct size rather than stone size per se.
(6) Three of these patients, who had a solitary stone could successfully be treated by ESWL as monotherapy.
(7) In cholesterol stones and cholesterolosis specimens, relatively strong muscle strips had similar responses to 10(-6) M cholecystokinin-8 in normal calcium (2.5 mM) and in the absence of extracellular calcium.
(8) No significant complications were related to ESWL and 90% of those followed up after successful ESWL proved stone-free at 6 weeks.
(9) The addition of alcohol to the drinking-water resulted in the formation of stones rich in pigment.
(10) One biliary stone showed cholesterol with spherical bodies of calcium carbonate and pigment.
(11) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
(12) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(13) The minimal advantage in rapidity of stone dissolution offered by tham E over tham is more than offset by the considerably increased potential for toxic side effects.
(14) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
(15) It is no longer necessary for the kidney to be free of stones at the end of the operation.
(16) So let's be clear: children taking this drug, which is administered orally, do not get stoned.
(17) Patients with unilateral renal stone(s) with at least 1 diameter between 7 and 25 mm.
(18) Whether they affect ureteral motility in vivo or whether they can counteract ureteral spasm associated with ureteral stones have not been established.
(19) Recurrent stones are usually "silent," and we do not usually treat asymptomatic stones.
(20) Forty impressions were poured with the disinfectant dental stone and a similar number were poured with a comparable, nondisinfectant stone.