(n.) A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
(n.) A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.
(n.) A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, genera, etc.
(n.) A set; a kind or description, species or variety.
(n.) One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.
(n.) To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.
(n.) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
(v. i.) To grouped or classed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The interaction of the antibody with both the bacterial and the tissue derived polysialic acids suggests that the conformational epitope critical for the interaction is formed by both classes of compounds.
(2) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
(3) The populations of Asia-Oceania have some features of the class II RFLPs in common, which are distinctly different from Caucasoids.
(4) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
(5) This modulation results from repetitive, alternating bursts of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, which are caused at least in part by synaptic feedback to the command neurons from identified classes of neurons in the feeding network.
(6) Radioligand binding studies revealed the presence of a single class of high-affinity (Kd = 2-6 X 10(-10) M) binding sites for ET-1 in both cells, although the maximal binding capacity of cardiac receptor was about 6- to 12-fold greater than that of vascular receptor.
(7) Their contour lengths varied from 0.28 to 51 micron, but unlike in the case of maize, a large difference was not observed in the distribution of molecular classes greater than 1.0 micron between N and S cytoplasms of sugar beet.
(8) These sequences are also conserved in the same arrangement in minor sequence classes of minicircles from this strain.
(9) This suggests that Mg2+ accelerated both reactions from a single class of site.
(10) The sensitivity of an indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) test (screening test) for the detection of antibodies to cytomegalovirus (CMV) was examined by using 128 serum specimens and quaternary aminoethyl (QAE)-Sephadex A50 column chromatography to separate IgM from IgG class antibodies.
(11) The purpose of the present study was to analyze the effects of cromakalim (BRL 34915), a potent drug from a new class of drugs characterized as "K+ channel openers", on the electrical activity of human skeletal muscle.
(12) Antibiotics and anticonvulsants were the two most commonly used drug classes.
(13) The individual classes of drugs are first treated separately to highlight specific aspects of their quantification, and this is followed by an overview of those methods permitting the concomitant analysis of two or more antiepileptic compounds.
(14) the class- and specificity-restricted antigen-sensitive units.
(15) A NYHA-class greater than II was observed in 18% of patients with type-I hypertrophy, in 29% with type II, but in 61% with type III (p less than or equal to 0.05).
(16) Cell lines specific for class I or class II loci of the MHC produced interferon and colony-stimulating factors.
(17) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
(18) Enough with Clintonism and its prideful air of professional-class virtue.
(19) Participants were selected from existing classes forming a weight training, aerobic exercise and activity control group.
(20) This unusual insertion could affect the interaction of cat CD4 with class II molecules, or with FIV, a feline homolog of HIV.
Cyclostome
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Cyclostomous
Example Sentences:
(1) The data obtained imply that Henle's loop is present in the kidneys not only of higher Vertebrates, but of Cyclostomes as well.
(2) The histochemical localization of some enzymatic activities is surveyed in the optic tectum of vertebrates from cyclostomes to birds.
(3) Insulin has been isolated and purified from the islet organs of the cyclostome, Myxine glutinosa, by means of acid-ethanol extraction, fractional precipitation, and gel filtration.
(4) Phylogenetic comparisons of 18S ribosomal RNA sequences from two hagfishes, two lampreys, a tunicate, a lancelet, and a number of gnathostomes support the monophyly of the cyclostomes.
(5) Type I-like collagens were isolated by limited pepsin digestion from various tissues of lamprey, a member of the cyclostomes.
(6) Visual projections in the telencephalon of cyclostomes (lampreys) and retinothalamo-telencephalic channel in elasmobranches (skates) are shown.
(7) M. glutinosa is a cyclostome, living in the mud in seawater of high salinity.
(8) Lampreys and hagfishes (cyclostomes) traditionally were considered to be a natural (monophyletic) group.
(9) Cyclostomes and Teleosts are myopic and move the lens backward to accommodate for distance.
(10) Comparative anatomical studies show that the spleen appears as a condensation of the lymphomyeloid complex in the spiral fold of the gut in cyclostomes.
(11) No evidence for divergence of cyclostome lymphocytes into separate T- and B-cell systems has yet been discerned.
(12) The concentration and distribution of this tissue in chondrosteans appear to be a condition intermediate between that of cyclostomes and teleosts.
(13) Antisera were then tested immunocytochemically in order (i) to identify amino acids essential for the binding of each antiserum, and (ii) to evaluate the specificity of the immunocytochemical reaction in brain sections from various species of cyclostomes, amphibians, reptiles, and birds.
(14) With the exception of cyclostomes, glial filaments appeared remarkably conserved in vertebrate phylogeny, both with respect to the molecular weight and immunoreactivity of their protein subunit.
(15) Central projections of the nervus terminalis were investigated in a cyclostome (Lampetra planeri), in a sarcopterygian (Protopterus dolloi), and in an actinopterygian fish (Polypterus palmas), following the injection of horseradish peroxidase into the olfactory epithelium.
(16) We have recently found that two different NPY-related molecules are present in the CNS of a cyclostome, the river lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis) (Söderberg et al., 1991).
(17) Cytoplasmic annylate lamellae were found in the islet organ of a cyclostome, the hagfish (Myxine glutinosa), predominantly in cells interpreted as young proliferating beta-cells, and also in endocrine cells and enterocytes of the bile duct and gut and in the endothelial cells of small blood vessels.
(18) Production of definitive generation erythrocytes is centered in evolutionary "pre-splenic" tissue of the gastrointestinal tract or in the spleen in cyclostomes, dipnoi, and chondrichthyes while in teleosts it is typically located in the kidneys with or without splenic participation.
(19) Collectively these observations indicate that pro-enkephalin-related opioid peptides are present in the brain of cyclostomes.
(20) Elastin was found in all vertebrates examined (42 species) with the exception of cyclostomes (3 species).