What's the difference between cobra and mongoos?

Cobra


Definition:

  • (n.) See Copra.
  • (n.) The cobra de capello.

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  • (1) Cobra collapsed into administration in 2009 after which Lord Bilimoria was criticised for using a “pre-pack” deal to buy back a stake in the firm.
  • (2) Phospholipase A2 from cobra venom (Naja naja naja) is a homogeneous, heat-stable enzyme that has a monomer molecular weight of only 11,000 and contains one histidine and one tryptophan residue.
  • (3) Most double-helical segments were reactive to cobra venom ribonuclease to some degree; the exceptions were the five "long-range" helices that are probably compactly folded within the structure.
  • (4) Only the enzyme from Naja naja naja (cobra) venom was found to be activated significantly by phosphorylcholine-containing compounds when hydrolyzing phosphatidylethanolamine.
  • (5) Sera depleted of terminal complement components by treatment with inulin or cobra venom factor and C8-deficient human serum did not support phagocytosis of the test strains.
  • (6) Cobra poly C9 that is resistant to reduction and boiling in SDS could also be demonstrated.
  • (7) (4) Proper vein-to-artery size ratio and "cobra-head" vein tailoring are desirable.
  • (8) Without injection of cobra venom factor, the organisms were eliminated rapidly from the lungs in the majority of mice, accompanied by a significant but transient decrease in the serum C3 level.
  • (9) The absence of chemical reactivities and cobra venom nuclease sensitivity in the terminal loops of helices 6 and 12 indicate a tertiary interaction unique to HeLa 18S rRNA.
  • (10) Water snakes (Natrix natrix), rat snakes (Ptyas korros), cobras (Naja naja), pythons (Python molurus), tortoises (Kachuga sp.
  • (11) Cobra plasma also lysed EAC1423 cells in presence of EDTA but not EAC142 cells (prepared with sheep erythrocytes, rabbit antibody, and human complement proteins) indicating the presence of C5 in cobra plasma that is susceptible to activation by the human C5 convertase.
  • (12) Adrenal gland is studied histologically in the common krait, the cobra and the viper.
  • (13) Venom entered the eyes of 9 patients spat at by the spitting cobra, Naja nigricollis.
  • (14) Enhanced cancer cell retention after cobra venom factor was not seen in mice deficient in complement component C5 and was diminished by pretreatment of animals with antineutrophil antibodies, catalase, inhibitors of lipoxygenase, thromboxane synthetase, and lipid peroxidation (oxygen radical scavenger).
  • (15) Complement depletion by prior treatment with cobra venom factor, caused a significant reduction of the thrombocytopenia, whereas DL-2-mercaptomethyl-3-guanidinoethylthiopropanoic acid, an inhibitor of carboxypeptidase N, potentiated the thrombocytopenia elicited by submaximal doses of either IgG aggregates or a homogeneous preparation of rat anaphylatoxin containing C5a.
  • (16) Cytolytic activity of cytotoxin isolated from the venom of the Indian cobra (Naja naja) on experimental tumor cells was far stronger than that on normal cells such as peritoneal exudate cells, spleen cells, and erythrocytes of the rat.
  • (17) The immunotoxin (IT) was prepared by conjugating cytotoxin from Chinese Cobra (Naja naja Atra) venom with monoclonal antibody (McAb) Wu71 directed to human T-cells.
  • (18) The make-up of the Cobra committee depends entirely on the nature of the issue, as the name refers to the location of the meeting, not a particular set of people.
  • (19) Only by depleting complement with cobra-venom factor could hamster xenograft survival be prolonged, and long-term survival was achieved by combining CsA with COF.
  • (20) We have previously described the irreversible inhibition of cobra venom phospholipase A2 (PLA2) by the marine natural product manoalide (MLD) (Lombardo, D., and Dennis, E. A.

Mongoos


Definition:

  • (n.) A species of ichneumon (Herpestes griseus), native of India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded mongoose (Crossarchus fasciatus).

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