(1) Beige mice treated with androgen had significantly higher kidney beta-glucuronidase, beta-galactosidase, and N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (hexosaminidase) levels than normal mice.
(2) My immediate suspicion is that the pupil is taking the same course as the master, though I accept it is a large thesis to hang on beige furnishings.
(3) These changes were more severe and diffuse than those seen in mice systemically injected with rhIL-2 alone, and in beige mice (deficient in NK cells and certain enzymes of polymorphonuclear leukocytes) injected with rhIL-2 and rhIFN-alpha.
(4) Every day, about 500 trucks cross the border, kicking up a beige haze of dust.
(5) Cells of the beige mouse contain abnormally large lysosomes and show enhanced capping of concanavalin A.
(6) Thus we conclude that beige neutrophil precursors express neutral proteinase activity, which is largely and irreversibly depleted by the time they fully mature in marrow.
(7) Such accumulations of ingested membranes were not observed in the pigment epithelium of exposed or aging albino mice heterozygous for the beige gene.
(8) Indo also effectively inhibited LLC growing either in the footpad or in the inguinal region of nude or beige mice.
(9) Mice with a severe combined immunodeficiency in B and T lymphocytes and natural killer cells (SCID-beige) were inoculated intranasally with sialodacryoadenitis (SDA) virus, a coronavirus of rats.
(10) Postulating a link between these findings and the known immunological defect of beige-J mice (Chediak-Higashi syndrome), we examined the effect of splenectomy on beige-J mice and the adoptive transfer of their mononuclear spleen cells to normal littermate controls (2 x 10(7) cells via tail vein).
(11) Peritoneal and splenic macrophages from beige mice were exposed in vitro to NK cells obtained from MAC-infected and uninfected black mice.
(12) NK cells of beige mice were also activated by CL 246,738.
(13) These responses can be reproduced in vivo in the beige (CH) mouse.
(14) beta-Glucuronidase activity, used as a lysosomal enzyme marker, is not elevated in beige-J-cultured kidney cells compared with controls, as it is in the intact kidney.
(15) While Jackie, 43, titivates her fleet of irritable lapdogs, David, 74, lumbers around like an elderly labrador in beige utility shorts, barking about third parties and negative equity into his mobile headset, one ear forever scanning the distance for the elusive squawk of an incremental loan agreement.
(16) By contrast, the unit volume of beige mouse pancreatic acinar cell granules was only slightly (23%) greater than that of control cells.
(17) The development of antigen-induced arthritis in normal mice has been compared with that in beige mice.
(18) Beige mice were infected orally (1 x 10(8) or 1 x 10(4) cfu, five doses), and consistent, reproducible disseminated infections after 4 and 8 weeks, respectively, were obtained.
(19) Likewise, peritoneal exudate leukocytes of beige mice (the murine counterpart of CHS) contained correspondingly reduced levels of their major neutral protease, a serine enzyme of mol wt 27,000.
(20) This study was conducted determine the effects of diet (soft diet) on the periodontium and leukocyte functions of beige mice by observing the periodontium and the activity of the cells.
Siege
Definition:
(n.) A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne.
(n.) Hence, place or situation; seat.
(n.) Rank; grade; station; estimation.
(n.) Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter.
(n.) The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade.
(n.) Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession.
(n.) The floor of a glass-furnace.
(n.) A workman's bench.
(v. t.) To besiege; to beset.
Example Sentences:
(1) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
(2) Monuc was not able to prevent the siege of Bukavu by rebel commanders in 2004 or to counter threats posed by the Rwandan FDLR militia or Laurent Nkunda's National Congress for the Defence of the Congolese People (CNDP) rebellion.
(3) Madaya: residents of besieged Syrian town say they are being starved to death Read more The Syrian regime and Hezbollah have put Madaya under siege for more than six months now as a response to the siege of the northern towns of Fua and Kefraya by anti-regime forces.
(4) Libraries were already under siege before the recession struck.
(5) As we settle down to chat in the deputy prime minister's ramshackle constituency base at 85 Netherfield Road, Sheffield, it is hard to dispel the impression that he's still a man under siege.
(6) Meanwhile Burnham is a blue Scouser, and nobody really hates Evertonians because they make sweets, and haven’t beaten anyone of note since Prince Rupert’s siege of 1644 .
(7) In 1993, at the Branch Davidian religious compound outside Waco, Texas, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms didn’t wait for the sect leader, David Koresh, to leave before attempting to arrest him and got into a gun battle that claimed 10 victims and led to a disastrous 51-day siege culminating in dozens more deaths.
(8) Madaya is an example of where over a million Syrians remain under siege with extremely limited medical evacuations today.” Speaking on behalf of the Syrian NGO alliance, Fadi Al-Dairi, the co-founder of Hand in Hand for Syria, told the Guardian: “We have been cooperating with OCHA, but we would add our points and OCHA Damascus would remove them.
(9) He didn't even mind the National Front turning up and sieg-heiling during gigs, which seems enormously sporting of him, given his raft of horrifying stories about experiencing racism in 60s and 70s Britain, and the scars he still bears as the result of a racially motivated 1980 knife attack.
(10) The noise was back and so was the siege, the ball thrown into the area, bodies flying.
(11) Sydney siege inquest: hostage pleaded with police to storm Lindt cafe urgently Read more They had taken cover after the final group to escape the siege had successfully fled in the early hours of 16 December 2014.
(12) The mood did not improve in 1980 when Iran's London embassy was taken over by Iraqi-backed gunmen before the siege was dramatically ended by the SAS hostage rescue.
(13) Killer Mike and Talib Kweli both appeared on news channels such as CNN and Fox to offer measured words on the situation (Killer Mike: “We have essentially gone from being communities that were policed by people from the communities to being communities that are policed by strangers, and that’s no longer a community, that’s an area that’s under siege”), while Common interrupted the MTV Video Music Awards to deliver a considered monologue on Ferguson , calling for a moment of silence “for Mike Brown and for peace in this country and in the world”.
(14) The second half came to resemble a siege, with Tottenham committing numbers forward and creating openings, and Newcastle struggling to escape their half.
(15) So they'll free a few hostages, but continue siege?
(16) Two years later, the offices of Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood were trashed after an all-night siege , with looters seizing door-labels of prominent Brotherhood leaders as trophies.
(17) Ohler’s book may well irritate some historians; he makes flippant remarks and uses chapter titles such as “Sieg High!” and “High Hitler”.
(18) The inquest heard at times harrowing detail about how gangs of local teenagers and children, some as young as 10, had the family "under siege".
(19) An orderly process of dealing with asylum claims at the earliest point would be infinitely preferable to desperate families laying siege to central European railway stations, risking their lives clinging on to vehicles at Calais or suffocating in vehicles transporting them across borders.
(20) He says incidents like that which left Omran Daqneesh stunned and bloodied are all too common in a city under siege The pictures of the injured five-year old Omran Daqneesh have shocked the world, but doctors in Aleppo see dozens of desperate children like him every week, often with worse injuries and many entirely beyond help.