(n.) A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, control experiments with naloxone, ethanol, or cigarette smoking alone were performed.
(2) Do [MPs] remember the madness of those advertisements that talked of the cool fresh mountain air of menthol cigarettes?
(3) The results indicated that smoke, as opposed to sham puffs, significantly reduced reports of cigarette craving, and local anesthesia significantly blocked this immediate reduction in craving produced by smoke inhalation.
(4) Cigarette consumption has also been greater in urban areas, but it is difficult to estimate how much of the excess it can account for.
(5) It has been speculated that these cigarette smoke-induced alterations contribute to the depressed pulmonary defense mechanisms commonly demonstrated in smokers.
(6) Exposure to whole cigarette smoke from reference cigarettes results in the prompt (peak activity is 6 hrs), but fairly weak (similar to 2 fold), induction of murine pulmonary microsomal monooxygenase activity.
(7) Chemical data are presented from a comparison study of the smoke of cigarettes and little cigars.
(8) Further significantly positive associations to the incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) were found for the following parameters: Systolic and diastolic blood pressure, family history of premature MI, cigarette smoking, plasma levels of triglycerides, VLDL-cholesterol and blood glucose.
(9) In contrast to many other studies, cigarette smokers were at elevated risk (OR = 1.7, 95% CI = 0.9-3.0).
(10) CSCs from the 1R4F, ULT, and ULT-menthol cigarettes were cytotoxic in the CHO-HGPRT assay, both with and without metabolic activation, while TEST and TEST-menthol CSCs were not cytotoxic under either condition.
(11) We conclude that cigarette smoking does interfere with the treatment of hypertension in general, and especially with reduction of blood pressure by propranolol in black patients.
(12) After controlling for age and cigarette smoking status, BMI was significantly related to education, income, occupation, and marital status in both men and women.
(13) Previous studies in the rat, mouse and duck had suggested that agents present in cigarette smoke might induce a cytochrome P450-mediated detoxication pathway, leading to protection against aflatoxin-induced primary liver cancer.
(14) As was true of cigarette smoking, the eventual public health consequences of marihuana use may become apparent only after large numbers of individuals have smoked marihuana for two or three decades.
(15) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.
(16) Cigarette smokers did not differ significantly from users of smokeless tobacco regarding hypercholesterolemia.
(17) It was shown, that the rate of disaccustoming was higher for light smokers than for smokers with a high consumption of cigarettes.
(18) From these results, we conclude that Apo A-II may be effective as a biological marker for alcohol drinking independent of Apo A-I and HDLC, while cigarette smoking may affect Apo B through a certain direct mechanical effect.
(19) Mineral fibers represent the greatest cause--after cigarette smoke--of respiratory cancer due to air pollutants.
(20) The urinary HOP ratio immediately after abstinence from smoking was proportional to the mean daily number of cigarettes smoked in the past.
Gaf
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) HPLC was used to investigate this reaction and included the assignment of an HPLC peak to be due to N-OAc-GAF.
(2) The microsomal fraction catalyzed the binding of N-OH-GAF to DNA at a rate that was about twice that observed for N-OH-AAF.
(3) The level of Ca2+ in liver cytosol fraction in cortisone-treated mice was higher 2 hr after GAF injection than that in the cortisone alone-treated one.
(4) Endotoxin-tolerant mice were also nonresponsive to endotoxin-stimulated GAF production.
(5) Through the use of inhibitors of protein synthesis and inhibitors of protein kinases, the activation conditions of AAF, GAF, and ISGF-3 could be distinguished.
(6) Based on these assays, this represents a purification of GAF synthase of approximately 10,076- and 8925-fold with recoveries of 16% and 19%, respectively.
(7) This facile rearrangement reaction was studied for the case of N-acetoxy-N-glycolyl-2-aminofluorene (N-OAc-GAF), which gave N-hydroxy-N-(acetoxyacetyl)-2-aminofluorene (N-OH-AcAAF) as the sole product of this rearrangement.
(8) Patients were further randomized to receive on the first 4 postoperative days a) a standard dextrose-saline regimen (DS), b) an amino acid regimen (AA), or c) a glucose-amino acid-fat regimen (GAF) via a peripheral vein.
(9) GAF elutes from Sephadex G-200 along with markers of known molecular weight in the region of 100,000 to 200,000.
(10) after an intravenous injection of phenol-water lipopolysaccharide, but they react normally (produce GAF?)
(11) A five-day, double-blind parallel clinical study was conducted to determine the effect on plaque removal of a pre-brush rinse containing 0.03 triclosan (Irgacare MP, Ciba-Geigy Corp.) and 0.125% of a copolymer of methoxyethylene and maleic acid (Gantrez, GAF Corp.), as compared to a matching placebo pre-brush rinse.
(12) Covalent binding of N-OH-GAF to DNA was minimal through the action of cytosolic N,O-acyltransferase, which confirms our earlier observation that N-OH-GAF is a potent suicide inhibitor of this enzyme.
(13) It efficiently competed for the association of the GAF with the GBP promoter but this competition was due to the presence of two low affinity sites, the ISRE and an ISRE-like sequence, suggesting that the GAS and ISRE, though both having clear preferences for specific proteins, may nevertheless share a certain degree of structural homology.
(14) The liver glycogen level in 2 hr after injection with GAF plus cortisone-treated mice was markedly lower than that in cortisone alone-treated mice.
(15) The resistance inducing activity was retained after treatment of the extract with detergent (GAF Emulphogene BC 720) to remove lipopolysaccharide and adsorption to alum gel.
(16) Scott Walker says that women don’t really ever need abortions to save their lives , and Mike Huckabee – the gift who keeps on gaffing – is out there actually arguing that 10-year-old rape victims should be forced to give birth.
(17) With calmodulin and NADPH as cofactors, purified soluble GAF synthase induced an increase of 1.05 mumol of cGMP per 10(6) RFL-6 cells per 3 min per mg of protein.
(18) The activity of TO in cortisone treated mice after injection of purified GAF was markedly lower than that in cortisone alone treated mice.
(19) Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) induces the transcription of the gene encoding a guanylate binding protein by activating a latent cytoplasmic factor, GAF (gamma-activated factor).
(20) The AAF has characteristics very similar to those of the previously described GAF.