(1) Wiese’s Brait investment vehicle upped its stake in Iceland to 57% from about 20% in October last year.
(2) Additional reporting by Ben Jacobs in Washington and Ellen Brait in New York.
(3) The Home Retail board will also have to consider if they think, because of the synergies Sainsbury’s can offer, if Argos will be more secure there.” The bid for Home Retail marks the latest move into the UK by Wiese, the South African entrepreneur who already owns fashion chain New Look and a majority stake in grocery chain Iceland in the UK via his Brait investment vehicle.
(4) The bid for Home Retail marks the latest move into the UK by Christo Wiese, the South African entrepreneur who owns a 17% stake in Steinhoff and already controls New Look and grocery chain Iceland in the UK via his Brait investment vehicle.
Krait
Definition:
(n.) A very venomous snake of India (Bungarus coeruleus), allied to the cobra. Its upper parts are bluish or brownish black, often with narrow white streaks; the belly is whitish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Adrenal gland is studied histologically in the common krait, the cobra and the viper.
(2) Anticholinesterase did not improve paralysis in 2 patients bitten by kraits.
(3) In situ hybridization with a cloned banded krait sex-specific repetitive DNA probe (Bkm) indicates a high concentration of Bkm sequences on the horse Y chromosome in both normal XY males and XY sex-reversed females.
(4) A nontoxic phospholipase A2 was purified from the venom of Indian krait (Bungarus caeruleus) by a four-step procedure involving electrophoresis, gel filtration and ion-exchange chromatography.
(5) We report our experiences of a patient who required ventilatory care after krait bite.
(6) A peptide, termed kappa-flavitoxin (kappa-flavitoxin), has been purified from the venom of the red-headed krait, Bungarus flaviceps, by low- and high-pressure liquid chromatography.
(7) The effects of five Thai snake venoms--Malayan pit viper--MPV (Ancistrodon rhodostoma); Russell's viper--RVV (Vipera russelli); cobra--CV (Naja naja); king cobra--KCV (Naja hannah) and banded krait--BKV (Bungarus fasciatus)--on blood coagulation fibrinolysis and platelet aggregation were studied.
(8) The Malayan krait (Bungarus candidus) was confused with B. fasciatus in 5 cases and B. fasciatus antivenom was used inappropriately.
(9) Percentage of dorsal chromaffin is higher in the viper and cobra than that of the krait, while that of intercoritcal chromaffin is higher in the krait than that of others.
(10) The krait (Bungarus) venom is known to contain bungarotoxins which act at the neuromuscular junction.
(11) With the exception of the venom of the Malayan krait Bungarus candidus, the elapid venoms had either little or no hyaluronidase activities, whereas the viperid venoms possessed considerable activity.
(12) Such a situation seems to occur in the human species with respect to the banded krait minor satellite, a repetitious DNA sequence associated with sex determination.
(13) I report that chloroquine reduced the toxicity in mice of the venom from the Formosan krait, Bungarus multicinctus, when both venom and drug were administered i.p.
(14) Banded krait minor (Bkm) satellite DNA (related to sequences originally recovered from the W chromosome of the banded krait and consisting essentially of a series of GATA repeats) is found in a wide spectrum of vertebrates and invertebrates.
(15) In amniotes, the banded krait minor (Bkm) minisatellite (GATA), the human telometric sequence (TTAGGG)7, and the Y-specific genes, ZFY and SRY, are associated with a particular sex.
(16) The results indicate that even though there are individual variations in the biological properties of the krait venoms, interspecific differences in the properties can be used for differentiation of the venoms from the four species of Bungarus.
(17) The respiratory failure in 2 patients was successfully treated by mechanical ventilation for 8 and 30 h. These observations confirm the importance of neurotoxic symptoms following bites by these species but also suggest a contributory role of generalized rhabdomyolysis in krait victims and emphasize the problem of severe local tissue necrosis in cobra victims.
(18) The intravenous median lethal doses (LD50), protease, phosphodiesterase, alkaline phosphomonoesterase, L-amino acid oxidase, acetylcholinesterase, phospholipase A, 5'-nucleotidase, hyauronidase and anticoagulant activities of fourteen samples of venoms from the four common species of krait (Bungarus caeruleus, Bungarus candidus, Bungarus multicinctus and Bungarus fasciatus) were examined.
(19) Banded krait minor ("Bkm") satellite DNA, originating in the W-chromosome of the snake Bungarus fasciatus, has been found in the genome of diverse eukaryotic species including fruit fly, quail, and horse.
(20) A postsynaptic acting short chain alpha-toxin, B.f. III, was isolated from venom of the banded krait (Bungarus fasciatus) using ion-exchange chromatography.