(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.
Pecker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.
(n.) An instrument for pecking; a pick.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have recently reported that glucagon activated the L-type Ca2+ channel current in frog ventricular myocytes and showed that this was linked to the inhibition of a membrane-bound low-Km cAMP phosphodiesterase (PDE) (Méry, P. F., Brechler, V., Pavoine, C., Pecker, F., and Fischmeister, R. (1990) Nature 345, 158-161).
(2) I’ve always called him Cold Pecker and I always will.” I mishear her.
(3) These properties of Ca2+ transport by vesicles reconstituted from liver plasma membranes suggest that this ATP-dependent Ca2+ transport component is different from the high affinity (Ca2+-Mg2+)-ATPase found in the same membrane preparation (Lotersztajn, S., Hanoune, J. and Pecker, F. (1981) J. Biol.
(4) A clinical classification of this traumatic pathology according to the epidural hematoma classification of Pecker et al is proposed.
(5) They mostly boil down to inter-male rivalries and hierarchies of masculinity – the pecker pecking order, if you will: the bigger the mister, the bigger the man.
(6) Friday on Morning Joe, Scarborough claimed several top White House staffers had warned him that an article in the National Enquirer, a tabloid controlled by Trump ally David Pecker, would unmask the couple’s relationship.
(7) 256, 11209-11215; Lotersztajn, S. and Pecker, F. (1982) J. Biol.
(8) magazine is a very important strategic acquisition for AMI, as it increases our market share in newsstand unit sales from 30% to 36%," said David Pecker, AMI chairman, president and chief executive.
(9) We have recently shown that nanomolar concentrations of glucagon-(19-29), which can derive from native glucagon by proteolytic cleavage of the dibasic doublet Arg17-Arg18, inhibit the Ca2+ pump in liver plasma membrane vesicles independently of adenylyl cyclase activation (Mallat, A., Pavoine, C., Dufour, M., Lotersztajn, S., Bataille, D., and Pecker, F. (1987) Nature 325, 620-622).
(10) The morphology of the follicular epithelium during the course of oogenesis in poultry (duck goose, hen, turkey) and at the first stages of oocyte growth in some wild birds (finch, totmit, wood-pecker, pigeon) was studied.
(11) The purified (Ca2+-Mg2+)-ATPase from rat liver plasma membranes (Lotersztajn, S., Hanoune, J., and Pecker, F. (1981) J. Biol.