(n.) A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.
(n.) A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author.
Example Sentences:
(1) The other chimeras accumulated in the plasma membrane, and truncated LEP100 was secreted.
(2) The bone marrow derivation of dThy-1+EC is now well established: dThy-1+EC carry Ly-5 determinants whose expression is restricted to cells of the hemopoietic differentiation pathway, and studies using Thy-1-disparate radiation bone marrow chimeras have revealed the presence of donor-type Thy-1+ cells within the epidermis; by immunoelectron microscopy, these cells represent dThy-1+EC.
(3) Complex I (19S) consists of gRNA, TUTase, RNA ligase and chimera-forming activity.
(4) Direct immunofluorescence tests for chicken IgG were positive in spinal cords of most SS chimeras but only of some LS chimeras.
(5) Tests on five different blood chimeras showed the T- and B-lymphocyte chimerism to be the same.
(6) The peak of GvH foci response occurred near the end of the 1st week when 70% of 950 R-RSp chimera spleens examined contained an average of 18 to 21 foci per spleen.
(7) In control chimeras, the mean ratio of the unlabeled cells:total chimera cell number (henceforth referred to as "mean ratio") was 0.50 with little or no weekly variation over the 9-week experimental period.
(8) Purified parental strain T cells prepared from unprimed chimeras were exposed to sheep erythrocytes in heavily irradiated mice of each of the two parental strains and recovered from thoracic duct lymph of the recipients at either day 1 or day 5 posttransfer.
(9) The quail-chick chimera method was used to examine whether neural crest cells were associated with the formation of semilunar valves.
(10) For this chimera, no residual [125I] hCG binding was observed in a range of 2 pM to 10 nM.
(11) All the bone marrow chimeras as well as allophenic mice with less than 20% Fv-2ss red cells failed to develop any of the symptoms of Friend disease after infection with the polycythemic strain of Friend virus.
(12) All surviving mice were complete donor-type chimeras.
(13) Highly increased survival was obtained for [B6 lpr----B6 nu, lpr] chimeras, but not for [B6+----B6 nu, lpr] and [B6 nu----B6 nu, lpr] chimeras.
(14) In chimeras the skin grafts of both parental types survive.
(15) The affinities of the anti-chimera antibodies for the B cell epitope were assessed by a fluid-phase double-isotope radioimmunoassay.
(16) The role of stimulated T cells in the induction of B mitoses was shown by (a) the incapacity of T-depleted spleen cells to be stimulated by PHA or in primary or secondary MLC, and (b) the restoration of the mitotic response of B cells to PHA by adding to the T cell-depleted culture either a very small number of T cell (identified by their different karyotype: "in vitro chimeras") or the cell-free supernatant of a 24 hr MLC.
(17) In contrast, chimeras made by reconstituting irradiated A mice with adult spleen cells of (A X B)F1 origin generate virus-specific cytotoxic activity for infected A and B targets, suggesting that mature T cells do not change their self-specificity readily.
(18) The resulting chimera can be expressed at high levels in Escherichia coli and is readily purified.
(19) The Chimera grid was used to avoid a grid with highly skewed cells.
(20) Complicating allogeneic effects were minimized or avoided by the use of helper T cells from normal F1 hybrids, parent leads to F1 chimeras, and F1 leads to parent chimeras.
Chimere
Definition:
(n.) The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are usually attached.
Example Sentences:
(1) When chimeric animals were subjected to a lethal challenge of endotoxin, their response was markedly altered by the transferred lymphoid cells.
(2) The results suggests that abrin B chain of chimeric protein may act as a vector to carry ACTI into the tumor cells.
(3) ch14.18-delta CH2 was localized to the melanoma tumors more rapidly and with better localization ratios than the intact chimeric antibody ch14.18.
(4) Using a cell line as a model, it was found that the CD38 antigen acts as a target for a chimeric antibody prepared from the antibody OKT10.
(5) Chimeric plasmids pCD1 and pCD3 were constructed from site-specific endonuclease digests of bacteriophage phi3T DNA cloned in pMB9 in E. coli.
(6) The chimeric antibodies studied have several advantages over human paraproteins as quality control reagents for clinical assays.
(7) The ability to generate reconstructed antibodies, chimeric antibodies, catalytic antibodies and the use of modelled antibodies for the design of drugs is discussed.
(8) In another transgenic strain, carrying the rat MLC2 gene and a modified rat skeletal muscle actin gene (actin-globin chimeric gene), transcripts of the rat MLC2 gene were detected in skeletal muscle only, whereas the actin-globin transcripts were detected in skeletal muscle as well as in the heart.
(9) Chimeric oligodeoxynucleotides, comprised of internal phosphodiester and terminal methylphosphonodiester sections, possess many beneficial characteristics as antisense effectors.
(10) The chimeric shuttle vector was transformed into strain GS-5, and two transformants (TK15 and TK18) were isolated.
(11) In typical applications like the differentiation of cells derived from chimeric animals or the characterization of chromosomes in somatic cell hybrids, the two DNA probes are differently labeled and detected using label-specific reagents that fluoresce at different wavelengths.
(12) An insulin response element (IRE) has been identified in the prolactin gene using chimeric plasmids in which prolactin promoter DNA directs expression of the bacterial chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene.
(13) Fusion of 90 amino acids of HIV-1 Gag protein to HBcAg still allowed the formation of capsids presenting on their surface epitopes of HIV-1 core protein, whereas fusion of 317, 189, or 100 amino acids of Gag prevented self-assembly of chimeric particles.
(14) K12G0S32 is a 57-kDa recombinant single-chain chimeric plasminogen activator consisting of scFv-K12Go, a single-chain variable-region antigen-binding fragment (Fv) of the monoclonal antibody MA-15C5, which is specific for fragment D-dimer of human cross-linked fibrin, and a low-molecular-mass (33 kDa) urokinase-type plasminogen activator (u-PA-33k) containing amino acids Ala132-Leu411 (Holvoet, P., Laroche, Y., Lijnen, H. R., Van Cauwenberghe, R., Demarsin, E., Brouwers, E., Matthyssens, G. & Collen D. (1991) J. Biol.
(15) The chimeric protein produced by expression of this plasmid has been isolated and then cleaved by the enteropeptidase to give [Leu5]enkephalin with the yield 74%.
(16) Tests on five different blood chimeras showed the T- and B-lymphocyte chimerism to be the same.
(17) To understand the regulation of expression of these two genes, we fused the 5'-flanking region to the CAT gene in inverted orientations to generate two chimeric plasmids, pH3-II-900 and pH3-III-900.
(18) In this study, we describe biochemical, serological, immunohistochemical, and functional properties of the chimeric ING-1 antibody.
(19) Using DNA restriction-fragment-length polymorphisms (RFLPs), we have evaluated the feasibility of developing a single synthetic oligonucleotide probe to study post-BMT chimerism.
(20) Some chimeric genes did not accumulate outer membrane proteins, despite the fact that the fusion of the ompF and ompC genes was in frame.