(n.) One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera.
Example Sentences:
(1) The simultaneous administration of the yellow fever vaccine did not influence the titre of agglutinins induced by the classic cholera vaccine.
(2) It could be demonstrated by radioimmune precipitation of virus labeled with[35S]methionine that all three polypeptides are specific for hog cholera virions.
(3) The phosphorylation pattern was affected by the addition of cholera toxin or GDP beta S to the isolated nuclei.
(4) Cholera toxin-catalysed ADP-ribosylation identified two forms of Gs alpha-subunits whose labelling was about 4-fold greater in membranes from diabetic animals compared with those from lean animals.
(5) The studies reported here examined physical interactions between V. cholerae O1 and natural plankton populations of a geographical region in Bangladesh where cholera is an endemic disease.
(6) Interestingly, different mechanisms of nucleated and non-nucleated TC directed lysis by CD4+ effectors were implied by distinct patterns of sensitivity to cholera toxin (CT) and cyclosporin A (CsA).
(7) The simultaneous expression of hemolytic and toxinogenic properties by the same V. cholerae strains is discussed.
(8) All these strains produced an enterotoxic principle, antigenically related to cholera coli family of enterotoxins, as detected by latex agglutination and immuno-dot-blot tests.
(9) The binding of radioidinated cholera toxin on its solidified antibody was inhibitable by unlabeled cholera toxin and cholera toxin antibody.
(10) A state of net secretory fluid flux was induced in isolated jejunal loops in weanling pigs by adding theophylline or cholera toxin to the lumen of the isolated loops.
(11) Cholera toxin reduced absorption of water and electrolytes progressively over four hours and induced secretion in a dose dependent fashion.
(12) The results of this study clearly demonstrated that an increase in cAMP levels via cholera toxin treatment causes enhanced growth (in vitro and in vivo) of estrogen-receptor-positive and -negative human breast carcinoma cells and, although estrogen alone was not mitogenic to the estrogen-receptor-positive breast carcinoma cells in vitro, the steroid was mitogenic to these cells in the presence of elevated cellular cAMP levels.
(13) Isolates from patients who failed to clear the organism from their stools or who had cholera soon after tetracycline prophylaxis had increased minimum inhibitory concentrations of the drug.
(14) In the present work by the method of molecular DNA hybridization there was shown a low degree of affinity of the standard museum strains of cholera vibrios to the respresentatives of the sea species V. parahaemolyticus and V. alginolyticus, and also halophilic vibrios identified earlier on the basis of phenotypical characteristics of the nucleotide DNA composition as Marinovibrio.
(15) Our data showed that V. cholerae 01 was the most frequently (40%) isolated enteropathogen during the epidemics.
(16) Nitrogen mustard (N2M) treatment of rabbits induced neutropenia, and, in ligated ileal loops, it inhibited fluid secretion induced by salmonella or by cholera toxin (CT).
(17) An oral glucose electrolyte solution is often used in place of intravenous therapy in diarrheal diseases caused by Vibrio cholerae, enterotoxigenic E. coli, and undiagnosed watery diarrheal diseases.
(18) IFN-beta induced more enhanced NK cytotoxicity of normal lymphocytes when frozen tumor target cells were cultured for 4-5 days in the medium, or when these cells were treated with Vibrio cholerae neuraminidase (VCN).
(19) V cholerae O1, biotype El Tor, serotype Inaba, was isolated from three city water samples.
(20) The gene clusters that determine the biosynthesis of both the Inaba and Ogawa serotypes of the O antigen of the lipopolysaccharide of Vibrio cholerae were cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli K-12.
Dehydration
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Compliance during dehydration was 7.6 and 12.5% change in IFV per millimeter Hg fall in IFP (micropipettes) in skin and muscle, respectively, whereas compliance in subcutis based on perforated capsule pressure was 2.0% change in IFV per millimeter Hg.
(2) Malnutrition and dehydration are the immediate consequences of diarrheal diseases.
(3) It appears impossible to define a "positive" tilt test that would adequately identify patients with clinically significant dehydration or blood loss; this is due to the large variance in patients' orthostatic measurements both in a healthy and in an ill state and the lack of a significant correlation of orthostatic measurements to a level of dehydration.
(4) The structural region contains serines, threonines, and cysteines at exactly the positions required to give mature nisin by a series of post-translational modifications involving dehydration of serines and threonines to dehydro forms, and cross-linking with cysteine residues.
(5) Acutely ill dehydrated patients were female (OR, 3.3); over 85 years old (OR, 2.2); had more than four chronic conditions (OR, 4.0); took more than four medications (OR, 2.8); and were bedridden (OR, 2.9).
(6) The effect of rat brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) on drinking behaviour was examined in dehydrated and well-hydrated rats.
(7) Progressive water deprivation increased plasma osmolality, plasma Na+ concentration, and hematocrit in proportion to the severity of dehydration.
(8) Draining of thin films has thus a dehydrating effect as well as a sorting and ordering effect.
(9) Dehydration and diarrhoea – these are very common here and in the rest of Brazil.
(10) Respiration frequency increased during exposure to 35 (four birds) and 40 degrees C (six birds) in the normally hydrated quail, while in the dehydrated quail, respiration frequency increased only in three birds during exposure to 35 degrees C, and four birds during exposure to 40 degrees C, the frequencies were lower during dehydration.
(11) The coverslips were dehydrated in ethanol, critical point dried with CO2, and coated with gold-palladium.
(12) Although there was an increased concentration of angiotensin II binding sites in the organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis, the median preoptic nucleus, and the paraventricular nucleus after dehydration, these changes did not reach statistical significance.
(13) A 68-year-old man with known villous adenoma of the rectum had recurrent severe episodes of dehydration and electrolyte loss, misinterpreted as being due to "chronic pyelonephritic".
(14) We concluded that isoxsuprine is able to dehydrate the fetal lung and cause a release of surfactant stored in type II pneumocytes.
(15) The interstitial volume-pressure curve was linear in dehydration and the initial part of overhydration but gradually levelled off, and the maximal rise in IFP was 1-1.5 mmHg in skin and muscle.
(16) "It could be the difference between really struggling over the last three or four miles and getting over the finishing line before you dehydrate.
(17) No evidence could be found supporting a two-stage mechanism of desaturation via hydroxylation and dehydration.
(18) Specifically, such factors include the ionic strength, the presence of particular dehydrating agents and polyamines, as well as the pH values.
(19) The epitopes recognized by these mAbs were adversely affected by these fixatives; therefore, pre-embedding immunogold staining was employed, prior to fixation, osmication, dehydration and embedding.
(20) Control may be achieved with even fewer side effects and without hypokalemia and chronic dehydration with its possibly adverse consequences (hyperuricemia, azotemia, hyperlipidemia, hyperreninemia, increased blood viscosity).