(1) In 1971 the Fountain Valley (Calif.) High School established a program at Fairview State Hospital in Costa Mesa.
(2) Calification of dermal elastic fibers is a characteristic feature of affected skin.
(3) MicroScan (Baxter Healthcare Corp., West Sacramento, Calif.) has recently developed a microdilution system for identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing of gram-positive cocci.
(4) Selected medical faculty completed 1 month of facilitator training at the Stanford Faculty Development Program, Palo Alto, Calif.
(5) Commercial DNA probes (Gen-Probe Corp., San Diego, Calif.) for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex Mycobacterium avium, and Mycobacterium intracellulare were compared with conventional methods for accuracy, applicability, and speed for the identification of putative isolates of the M. tuberculosis and M. avium complexes.
(6) To date, A. monolakensis is known only from islands in Mono Lake, Calif.
(7) In the cities of Oasis and Riverside, Calif., tadpole shrimp significantly reduced the abundance of immature mosquitoes (Cx.
(8) The Mycotrim Triphasic flask system (Irvine Scientific, Irvine, Calif.) was compared with a system composed of Mycotrim GU broth (Irvine Scientific) and A7 or A8 agar (Remel, Lenexa, Kans.)
(9) The pathogenicity of a strain of Pasteurella gallinarum isolated in Fresno County, Calif., was compared with the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) strain.
(10) Recent changes in the MicroTrak Chlamydia trachomatis Direct Specimen Test (Syva Company, Palo Alto, Calif.) have led to improved product performance.
(11) For each patient, the probe, a tissue cell culture, and a direct immunofluorescent-antibody test (DFA; MicroTrak; Syva Co., Palo Alto, Calif.) were used.
(12) ), 0.2- and 0.4-micron-pore Nuclepore filters (Nucleopore Corp., Pleasanton, Calif.), and a 0.45-micron-pore Zetapor filters (AMF Cuno, Meridian, Conn.).
(13) We evaluated five enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays from Stony Brook (NY) University Hospital, Cambridge Bioscience (Worcester, Mass), Hillcrest Biologicals (Cypress, Calif), Sigma Diagnostics (St Louis, Mo), and Zeus-Wampole Scientific Inc (Raritan, NJ) and two fluorescent antibody tests (3M [Diagnostic Systems Inc, Santa Clara, Calif] and FIAX [Whittaker M.A.
(14) In a review of over 700 thyroid operations performed at Loma Linda (Calif) University Medical Center in the past 15 years, we encountered only one documented case of Riedel's thyroiditis.
(15) EF Synergy Quad plates, standard microdilution panels prepared in house, Pasco MIC Gram-Positive panels (Difco Laboratories, Detroit, Mich.), MicroScan MIC Type 5 dry panels (Baxter Healthcare Corp., MicroScan Div., West Sacramento, Calif.), and Vitek GPS-TA cards (Vitek Systems Inc., Hazelwood, Mo.).
(16) ; Upland, Calif.; Magna, Utah; and Grand Canyon, Ariz.
(17) White, David (Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.), and Harold P. Klein.
(18) Direct bilirubin tests were ordered 15 times as often per infant at the University of California, San Francisco, as at Stanford (Calif) University, and the reported results were more than twice as high.
(19) An enzyme-linked immunoassay (ELISA) using six recombinant proteins corresponding to large segments of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) gag, pol, and env gene products (HIVAGEN; SmithKline Bio-Science Laboratories, Van Nuys, Calif.) was developed to confirm the presence of antibodies to HIV-1 in sera reactive in the whole-cell-derived virion screening ELISAs.
(20) In 10 patients with bilateral internal thoracic artery grafting, the artery was dilated with a Fogarty IMAG balloon catheter (Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Edwards Division, Santa Ana, Calif.) that was withdrawn at tensions of 20 or 30 gm.
Calin
Definition:
(n.) An alloy of lead and tin, of which the Chinese make tea canisters.
Example Sentences:
(1) Calin Gheorghe, 40, a radio DJ, agrees most Romanians support Latin teams such as Spain and Italy due to language and perceived cultural similarities.
(2) Clinical, laboratory and radiological findings were evaluated in 26 children with Reiter's syndrome, all of whom met the 1982 diagnostic criteria of A. Calin.
(3) Calin is differentiated from leech collagenase in two ways: (1) by demonstrating, by SDS-PAGE analysis of the products of incubations of Calin with Type I collagen at 37 degrees C, that Calin binds to but does not cleave collagen; and (2) by showing that Calin cannot be purified using the methods used to isolate leech collagenase.
(4) Calin's rapid and unusual interaction with collagen makes it a prime candidate for one of the agents that are the causative factors of the prolonged bleeding phenomenon seen after leech bites.
(5) In the follow-up study, Calin's screening test for AS was included and was also found to have a low specificity.
(6) Calin, of molecular size approximately 65,000 (reduced), has a rapid (1-10 min) effect on collagen which is reflected in its ability to suppress collagen-induced platelet aggregation, as well as adhesion of platelets to collagen-coated microcarrier beads.