(n.) A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or braise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty-nine deletion breakpoints were mapped in 220 kb of the DXS164 locus relative to potential exons of the Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy gene.
(2) DNA studies were undertaken following 53 requests from pregnant women at risk for Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy, including 32 in whom there was only 1 affected individual in the family (sporadic cases).
(3) This appears to be a newly described entity, although it resembles a Becker's nevus without hypertrichosis or an typical café au lait spot.
(4) We present 19 patients from 12 families with mild (Becker) X-linked recessive dystrophy and compare them with previously described cases.
(5) The inheritance of seven restriction fragment length polymorphisms detected by DNA probes has been studied in families with Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies (DMD and BMD).
(6) Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (DMD, BMD) have both been clinically recognized for over 100 years, yet throughout much of that time nothing beyond clinical evaluation and supportive care during the disease course was available to patients.
(7) The methods of Bunnell, Kleinert and Kessler, who use the imbedded suture, were compared with the method of Becker, in which an external cross suture is used.
(8) Schuberth and Eimas (1977) reported that semantic priming and frequency have additive effects on RTs in lexical decision tasks, whereas Becker (1979) reported that the same two factors interact.
(9) 1. mdx mice do not express dystrophin, the product of the gene which is defective in Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy.
(10) DNA analysis showed that the second mutation, a deletion, arose in the same gene carrying the primary defect which produced a Becker phenotype in the affected males.
(11) The assay we developed (Ruohola et al., 1988) differs from the mammalian assay (Beckers et al., 1987) in that we introduce radiolabeled marker protein into the ER in vitro during translocation rather than during virus infection.
(12) Unstained fibers were observed in mitochondrial myopathies, in Becker, Emery-Dreifuss, limb-girdle, facio-scapulo-humeral muscular dystrophies, muscle infarction, polymyositis, motor neuron diseases and neuropathies.
(13) Clinically and histologically the lesions resemble Becker's nevi with the exception that on histologic examination a hamartomatous proliferation of smooth muscle is prominent.
(14) We found very low levels (less than 3 percent of normal levels) or no dystrophin in the severe Duchenne phenotype (35 of 38 patients), low concentrations of dystrophin in the intermediate (outlier) phenotype (4 of 7), and dystrophin of abnormal molecular weight in the mild Becker phenotype (12 of 18).
(15) Fast-twitch extremity muscle fibers are preferentially affected in Duchenne's and Becker's muscular dystrophy.
(16) A panel of patients with Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (DMD and BMD) has been screened with the cDNA probes Cf56a and Cf23a, which detect exons in the central part of the DMD gene.
(17) We describe 9 patients who presented Becker's nevus (BN) together with a malignant melanoma (MM).
(18) An otherwise normally developed child who had this hamartoma at birth is described in an attempt to clarify the relationship between pilar smooth-muscle hamartomas and Becker's melanosis.
(19) "It's a form of asymmetric warfare," said William Becker, a lawyer and conservative advocate who represented the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes Committee in its losing battle with the city council.
(20) Using these criteria the families from Erfurt and Warsaw could be clearly separated into classical Duchenne (DMD) and classical Becker (BMD) type patients.
Decker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer; as, a table decker.
(n.) A vessel which has a deck or decks; -- used esp. in composition; as, a single-decker; a three-decker.
Example Sentences:
(1) The letter to Florence Nightingale was written by Bernita Decker as part of a nursing course assignment for our Nurse Educator advisor, Betty Pugh.
(2) Quick outs • Random subplot of the week: Peyton Manning throwing Denver’s first touchdown to Jacob Tamme, a man who rarely gets much attention in that high-powered Broncos offense, but who has been riding to every home game with the quarterback, plus receiver Eric Decker, for the last two years .
(3) A white double-decker bus, also packed with foreigners, lurches in behind, then come vans and more coaches.
(4) This dissection is a manifestation of "nesting," which is a hierarchical framework for the description of the behavior of complex macromolecules [C. H. Robert, H. Decker, B. Richey, S. J. Gill, and J. Wyman (1987) Proc.
(5) The TNF-elicited PGE2 production together with the previously described [Karck, Peters & Decker (1988) J. Hepatol.
(6) The carrier said the double-decker Airbus A380 plane landed safely with no injuries to any passengers or crew.
(7) Complement C3d split product was estimated using double-decker rocket immunoelectrophoresis (DD-RIE) and measurements of C3d neodeterminants exposed after C3 activation was carried out with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
(8) Last Wednesday a 21-year-old male cyclist, who is also yet to be named, died after a collision with a double-decker bus at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Road.
(9) Although the double-decker bus height sarsens are undoubtedly the most impressive, Darvill and Wainwright believe they were essentially an architectural framework for the bluestones, just as towering medieval cathedrals grew over the shrines of saints.
(10) The New York Jets’ newly acquired wide receiver Eric Decker paid half that to Jeff Cumberland to get No87.
(11) Uromodulin binds recombinant murine interleukin 1 alpha with high affinity, and this binding can be inhibited by addition of specific saccharides (Muchmore, A. V., and Decker, J. M. (1987) J. Immunol.
(12) And bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis agreed a £660m deal to build single-decker buses that China’s BYD will equip with batteries to run as electric vehicles.
(13) 9.45pm GMT Patriots 3-13 Broncos, 13:56, 3rd quarter Okay, so on 2nd and 9 for realsies, Manning and Decker connect for 18 yards to make it to their own 39, and then Moreno picks up six yards and this is just knife-through-butter now.
(14) At his trial, Loukaitis even said that he tried to model his life after Decker.
(15) The 160 kb plasmid pAO1 from Arthrobacter oxidans (Brandsch and Decker 1984) was subcloned in Escherichia coli with the aid of the plasmid vectors pUR222 and pBR322.
(16) The results were analyzed globally within the framework of a nested allosteric model [Robert, C.H., Decker, H., Richey, B., Gill, S.J., & Wyman, J.
(17) A study of well-being in middle-aged and elderly spinal cord injured persons (Decker & Schulz, 1985) found that long-term coping was facilitated by the presence of a primary support person or caregiver.
(18) Archaeologists have argued for centuries about what Stonehenge really meant to the people who gave hundreds of thousands of hours to constructing circles of bluestones shipped from Wales, and sarsens the size of double-decker buses dragged across Salisbury plain.
(19) All the same, it is the equivalent of driving an old double-decker bus into Bristol dock.
(20) The city lives on cement, as if it also flowed down the mountains to settle in petrified squares – poor houses, rich houses, triple-decker freeways, malls, sculptures – all cement, clean and jagged, painted, naked or white, in between parks and clumps of nature; but the valley's sheer scale, along with the size of the sky, rescues it all.