(1) The first case was a 45-year-old cachectic man with extensive bilateral pulmonary infiltrates.
(2) Within 3 days after 5'-deoxy-5-fluorouridine was administered to cachectic mice with large tumor burdens, the wasting was immediately reversed even at doses in which there was increase or no significant reduction in tumor growth.
(3) When TPN was used in inoperable, cachectic patients (8 patients-group 3) to permit them to tolerate radiotherapy or chemotherapy, the mortality was 37.5%.
(4) Insulin administration resulted in preservation of host nitrogen, fat, potassium, sodium, and chloride in cachectic tumor-bearing rats.
(5) To explore these questions, plasma was sterilely collected and pooled from 103 terminally cachectic Fischer 344 rats implanted with an experimental sarcoma.
(6) This procedure was successfully used in two patients with nephroctic syndrom secondary to a renal amyloïdosis, who where in a cachectic state.
(7) The results are in accordance with the hypothesis that glucocorticoids are involved in the increased protein catabolism of skeletal muscles and other signs of cachectic tumor patients.
(8) The studies reported here were provoked by the observation that tumor-bearing rats become extremely cachectic and develop hypertriglyceridemia as they become hypercalcemic.
(9) Bacterial pathogens which infect pulmonary macrophages may elicit the secretion of TNF-alpha within the lungs and lead to the cachectic state associated with chronic pneumonia.
(10) A particular cachectic syndrome, the "slim disease", which is highly suggestive of AIDS in Africa, constitutes the substratum for the clinical definition for AIDS.
(11) Evidence is presented to support a role for interleukin (IL-6) as a cachectic factor in the development of cancer cachexia in this model system.
(12) We now report that the hyperlipidemic effect of TNF persists during chronic TNF administration in the absence of any cachectic effect of TNF.
(13) Increased TNF-alpha levels have been observed not only in cancer patients but also in cachectic patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), and TNF-alpha is known to increase the expression of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) via activating its long terminal repeat (LTR).
(14) Serum cortisol and urinary excretion of vanillymandelic acid were higher, and serum insulin level tended to be lower in cachectic patients postoperatively.
(15) No cachectic effect was detected in either half of the NTB parabionts.
(16) 2) Normal human RBC were made less deformable and their membrane was made fragile by treatment with cachectic plasma from those patients, and these changes in physical properties were irreversible.
(17) The growth rate of the MAC16 tumour in cachectic animals was significantly enhanced by the hypolipidemic agent bezafibrate, while the growth rate of a histologically similar tumour, the MAC13, which grows without an effect on host body compartments was unaffected.
(18) The concentration of SAA did not correlate with the duration of AD or AD-like process although the highest values were found in cachectic AD patients confined to bed.
(19) Fistulization in the transverse colon led to a short-circulting of the small bowel and an advanced cachectic condition.
(20) Once daily NPH insulin for 5 days during cachectic decline was well tolerated (no treatment deaths), and improved median survival of TB rats randomized to insulin (15 days) compared to controls (13 days, p = 0.06).
Mobile
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
(a.) Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
(a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
(a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
(a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
(a.) The mob; the populace.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(2) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(3) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(4) Their particular electrophoretic mobility was retained.
(5) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
(6) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
(7) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
(8) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
(9) The molecule may already in its native form have an extended conformation containing either free sulfhydryl groups or small S-S loops not affecting mobility in SDS-PAGE.
(10) Furthermore, carcinoembryonic antigen from the carcinoma tissue was found to have the same electrophoretical mobility as the UEA-I binding glycoproteins.
(11) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
(12) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(13) In order to obtain the most suitable mobile phase, we studied the influence of pH and acetonitrile content on the capacity factor (k').
(14) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
(15) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(16) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
(17) Heparitinase I (EC 4.2.2.8), an enzyme with specificity restricted to the heparan sulfate portion of the polysaccharide, releases fragments with the electrophoretic mobility and the structure of heparin.
(18) The transference by conjugation of protease genetic information between Proteus mirabilis strains only occurs upon mobilization by a conjugative plasmid such as RP4 (Inc P group).
(19) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(20) Moreover, it is the recombinant p70 polypeptides of slowest mobility that coelute with S6 kinase activity on anion-exchange chromatography.