(1) COP-BLAM III therapy was given to 18 patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and the therapeutic effects as well as adverse effects of the treatment were examined.
(2) COP-BLAM therapy, which has recently been reported to be useful in the treatment of malignant lymphoma, was performed on aged patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and the results and adverse effects of the treatment were evaluated.
(3) The course of disease in 61 consecutive patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma of high grade malignancy, treated between 1979 and 1985 with either CHOP or COP-BLAM regimen, was analysed retrospectively.
(4) A full but short remission set in during a six-drug COP-BLAM treatment regimen.
(5) COP-BLAM III, an outgrowth of studies using infusional therapy, differed from COP-BLAM by using infusional bleomycin and vincristine alternated with bolus vincristine.
(6) By introducing TnblaM into bacterial cells and selecting ampicillin-resistant (ApR) colonies, the subset of isolates producing extracytoplasmic BlaM, and hence containing TnblaM inserted in genes encoding secreted proteins and cell envelope proteins, can be directly selected.
(7) COP-BLAM V employs four to six sequential cycles of infusional chemotherapy tailored to the rapidity of response.
(8) Elderly patients (aged greater than or equal to 65 years) with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma were treated either with CHOP or COP-BLAM therapy, and the effectiveness and reverse effects of COP-BLAM therapy were compared with those of CHOP therapy.
(9) Of 18 patients (median age; 68 years), who were treated with COP-BLAM therapy, 8 had of large lymphoma and 10 medium lymphomas in histopathological classification.
(10) Moreover, the ApR selection that is used with TnblaM can be fine-tuned to obtain blaM fusions to poorly or well-expressed genes.
(11) These regimens, COP-BLAM III, MACOP-B (methotrexate, doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, prednisone, bleomycin), ProMACE-CytaBOM (ProMACE plus cytarabine, bleomycin, vincristine, methotrexate), and high-dose doxorubicin with cytarabine, have produced over 80% CRs and survival plateaus in excess of 60%.
(12) COP-BLAM (cyclophosphamide, vincristine, prednisone, bleomycin, doxorubicin, procarbazine), M-BACOD (methotrexate, bleomycin, doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, dexamethasone), and ProMACE-MOPP (prednisone, methotrexate, doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, etoposide, mechlorethamine, vincristine, procarbazine, prednisone) have produced CRs in excess of 70% and have demonstrated an increase in survival that has been associated with a concomitant increase in toxicity.
(13) The components of this system are the direct expression vector, pYZ4, and the mature beta-lactamase (BlaM) cassette plasmid, pYZ5, that can be used to generate translational fusions of BlaM to any synthesized membrane protein.
(14) Among 13 patients in advanced stage treated with COP-BLAM therapy, CR was achieved in 11 (84.6%).
(15) Preliminary results in patients with high-risk Hodgkin's disease suggest COP-BLAM V may be effective despite the shortened treatment time.
(16) Various seats and microphones cover the stage: this is a reading, not a stage adaptation; there will be no blood, just a lot of finger-guns and Tarantino yelling "blam-blam-blam!"
(17) Patients in partial remission (PR) or with less of a response to COP-BLAM were switched to IMV.
(18) The fusion protein conferred ampicillin resistance on individual host cells, indicating that the BlaM portion had been translocated to the bacterial periplasm, and that, by inference, the eukaryotic plasma-membrane protein can insert into the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane.
(19) After completion of three courses of COP-BLAM III therapy, which was started on June 7, a partial response was achieved.
(20) TnblaM is a spectinomycin-resistant derivative of Tn5 with an unexpressed open reading frame encoding mature beta-lactamase (BlaM) at its left end.
Flam
Definition:
(n.) A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.
(v. t.) To deceive with a falsehood.
Example Sentences:
(1) FLAM-76 cells were positive for cytoplasmic kappa (kapp)-type immunoglobulin but did not secrete it into the culture medium.
(2) The flanking sequence contains an open reading frame that probably corresponds to the 5' end of flaM.
(3) The Na and K ionic flows were measured by flam-photometric dosimetry allowing a 10(-5) Kg.
(4) These directed the synthesis of polypeptides with the following apparent molecular weights: flaV, 11,000; flaK, 42,000; flaL, 30,000 and 27,000; flaM, 38,000; flS, 60,000; and flaT, 35,000.
(5) (ii) hag gene expression was positively regulated by flaA, FLAB, flaC, flaD, flaE, flaG, flaH, flaI, flaK, flaL, flaM, flaN, flaO, flaP, flaQ, flaR, flaV, flaW, flaX, flaY, flaZ, flbA, and flbB genes.hag-lac expression was not observed in strains with these fla mutations.
(6) No structures homologous to flagellar bases or their parts were detected in the early-fla group nonflagellate mutants of flaAI, flaAII, flaAIII, flaB, flaC, flaD, flaE, flaFII, flaFIII, flaFVI, flaFVII, flaFX, flaK, and flaM.
(7) The identification of a free left Alu monomer (FLAM) family plus a free right Alu monomer (FRAM) family suggests that the dimeric structure results from the fusion of a FLAM sequence with a FRAM sequence (2).
(8) A friend from university also said Cameron smoked cannabis with him occasionally while listening to Supertramp as part of a group called the Flam Club.
(9) In particular, the following mutants were shown to have beta-galactosidase activity in the membrane fractions: on the inner membrane, mutants with flaB fusions, and on the inner and outer membranes, mutants with flaA4850, flaM, and flaU4849 fusions.
(10) The opposition leader, Tony Abbott , dismissed Beattie as "another flim flam man" who would just add to the leadership instability.
(11) FLAM-76 cells expressed CD38 (OKT10) and cell adhesion-associated antigens such as CD44 and CD54 (ICAM-1).
(12) "I don't know if they were deliberately hidden or just lost in the civil service flam – but because of this vast flow of material you would suddenly find a reference, for example, to 'we are going to lift the cap on the number of private beds in NHS hospitals' very deep in the impact memorandum."
(13) By using these mutant strains, the transcriptional order was shown to be flaV-flaK-flaL-flaM-flaS-flaT.
(14) Thus, the growth of FLAM-76 appeared to be regulated by the paracrine mechanism of IL-6.
(15) Among flagellar mutants of Escherichia coli, flaM or flaU mutants form basal bodies lacking the outer P and L rings, whereas flaY mutants predominantly form basal bodies lacking the L ring.
(16) Gene-polypeptide correlations from other studies enabled us to complete gene-polypeptide-structure correspondences for these two proteins as flaM----39-kilodalton protein----P ring and flaY----26-kilodalton protein----L ring.
(17) As for Buerk, he later dismissed the coverage as "silly season flam".
(18) The first phase, which involves only monomeric elements, is characterized by deep remodelling of the progenitor sequences and ends with the appearance of the first Alu dimeric element through the fusion of a FLAM and a FRAM element.
(19) From these experiments, we propose that the gene order in region II is flaK-flaE-motA-motB-cheA-cheW-cheR-cheB-++ +cheY-flaM-flaC, which is identical with that in E. coli.
(20) Chromosome analysis revealed FLAM-76 to have a hypodiploid chromosome constitution with t(11;14)(q13;q32) abnormality, which frequently is seen in neoplasms of B-cell origin.