(n.) The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions.
Example Sentences:
(1) The complete human genomic glutathione-S-transferase-pi gene (GST-pi) was isolated from a lambda Charon 4A bacteriophage library which was screened by hybridization to a human GST-pi cDNA.
(2) The promoter of the gene coding for the rat cytosolic aspartate aminotransferase was cloned from a Charon 4A genomic library.
(3) DNA restriction analysis of biologically active lambda Charon 27-LD recombinant clones indicated that individual LD viruses contained similar but not identical deletion endpoints.
(4) A bovine tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) cDNA probe was used to screen a charon 30 genomic library.
(5) Segments of the replication control region of bacteriophage lambda (lambda) and lambda mutants defective in replication were attached in vitro to the phi80 phage vector Charon 3 and to the plasmid vector mini Col El (pVH51).
(6) A library of random chicken DNA fragments, 15-22 kb long, has been prepared in the vector lambda Charon 4A.
(7) Charon ventriculi comprised over 30% of the total protozoa observed in rumen contents of a Flamenga cow fed Rhodes grass hay (Chloris gayana).
(8) We have isolated the genomic clone, which contained 5'-flanking region for human terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase (TdT) gene, by screening Charon 4A library and determined its nucleotide sequence.
(9) The gene encoding rat fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase was isolated from a rat genomic Charon 4A library by screening with a cDNA to the rat liver enzyme.
(10) A mouse genomic library in lambda Charon 4A was screened for putative ribosomal protein genes using a fragment of the gene encoding Drosophila ribosomal protein 49 as a hybridization probe under nonstringent hybridization conditions.
(11) Sau3A fragments of genomic DNA from the fungus were cloned in a lambda Charon 35 vector.
(12) A series of recombinant bacteriophages, spanning the chromosomal region between the dnaG and cca genes at 66 min on the E. coli linkage map, were isolated from a lambda Charon 28 partial Sau3A E. coli DNA library using recombinant plasmids containing regions between dnaG and cca as probes.
(13) A similar determinant exists in Charon 4A and maps in phi 80-derived sequences, between nin5 and the Rz homology with lambda.
(14) In addition, three overlapping clones covering more than 21 kilobases of the Type III gene were isolated from Charon 4A libraries of human genomic fragments.
(15) From the gene library of hybridoma PTF-02 in phage Charon 28 both K genes were isolated.
(16) A bovine genomic library constructed by partial Sau3A digestion and contained in lambda Charon 30 was screened by in situ hybridization with a 1.3-kilobase (kb) sheep elastin cDNA clone [Yoon, K., May, M., Goldstein, N., Indik, Z., Oliver, L., Boyd, C., & Rosenbloom, J.
(17) These two sequences, DC3 and DC4, have been isolated from a Charon 4A-D. melanogaster genomic library.
(18) A genomic library has been constructed in the vector lambda charon 4A containing insert sizes of 13-20 kilobases.
(19) A. Charon, T. A. Luger, S. E. Mergenhagen, and J. J. Oppenheim, Infect.
(20) A chicken histone H2A probe has been used to isolate five different clones from a mouse genomic library in lambda Charon 4A.
Hades
Definition:
(n.) The nether world (according to classical mythology, the abode of the shades, ruled over by Hades or Pluto); the invisible world; the grave.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aside from the US presidency, the big debate of Bilderberg 2012 is likely to be: what in Hades do we do about Greece?
(2) Cerberus, named after the mythical three-headed dog that guards Hades , declined to comment on why a Dutch entity had bought the mortgages or whether it would pay the same amount of UK tax as a UK-registered entity would have done.
(3) In another herd -- numbering 18 sows -- all sows which hade farrowed during the last 4 months before the present investigation, had developed the Mastitis-Metritis-Agalactia syndrome (MMA).
(4) There was no way we were going to put wigs on them, it was already hotter than Hades on the set.
(5) Based on the fantasy novel by Joe Hill , this looks like one of those teen-orientated movies you really wish had been directed by David Cronenberg as a full-on body horror in which Radcliffe slowly metamorphosises into a hideous creature from the seventh layer of Hades.
(6) Timarion, the fictive narrator, falls ill with a fever and is brought to Hades by two conductors of souls.
(7) It was very toddler unfriendly; I must have asked in about 25 bistros if they hade a high chair, and they would look at me as if I’d asked to bring my horse into the restaurant.
(8) In order to estimate the combined effect of ethanol and fatigue on the activity of tendon reflexes, the mechanical threshhold and the latency of the patellar tendon, the radial and the biceps reflexes as well as the time of contraction of the musculus quadriceps femoris was investigated in men, with an ethanol level in blood at 80 mg % during elimination-period, and with tired subjects meaning that they hade done their usual daywork and had been awake for about 20 to 22 hours.
(9) In Scotland, for example, we have found that Cerberus is tougher in enforcing breaches in covenants.” Taking its name from the mythical multi-headed dog that guarded Hades and prevented the dead from leaving, the New York-based group was founded by Stephen Feinberg and other former employees of Drexel Burnham Lambert, a junk bond specialist that collapsed into bankruptcy in 1990.
(10) Patients with a tumor size of less than 5 cm hade a 5-year survival rate of 21%, but 38% of the patients had a tumor size of greater than 10 cm and none of these lived for more than 4 years.
(11) He wrote his first story while still at school: The Hades Business, originally published in the school magazine.
(12) Half a mile across the sea is the legendary island of Keros, once thought to be the doorway to Hades, and now uninhabited except for teams of visiting archeologists from Cambridge University picking through the rich remains of Bronze Age Cycladic history.
(13) In Hades Timarion sues to the court of judges of the dead.
(14) The tumors of different histological types hade close sensitivity to the tested drugs.
(15) This was Operation Hades, later renamed the friendlier Operation Ranch Hand – the source of what Vietnamese doctors call a "cycle of foetal catastrophe".
(16) According to a decree by Asclepios and Hippocrates posted in Hades, any person that has lost one of his four elements may not live longer.