(n.) A short ridge connecting two higher elevations or mountains; the pass over such a ridge.
Example Sentences:
(1) The serum levels of aminoterminal type III procollagen peptide (S-PIIINP), immunoreactive prolyl 4-hydroxylase protein (S-IRPH), 7S domain of collagen type IV (S-Col IV, 7S), and fragment P1 of laminin (S-Lam), which are associated with the metabolism of extracellular interstitial collagens and basement membranes, were measured sequentially for two years in 14 rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients undergoing disease modifying antirheumatic drug treatment.
(2) Although plasmids Col E1 and RSF1030 have no extensive sequence homology, the RNA synthesized during RSF1030 replication has almost the same mobility as the Col E1 RNA on polyacrylamide gels and hybridizes to the Col E1 origin region.
(3) Strikingly similar findings were found by Fu and cols.
(4) Two of the targets we tested (SV-COL and SV-COL-E8) both highly sensitive to lysis, stimulated macrophage movement, inducing an "agitated" response.
(5) The adherent phenotype (COL-) is recessive, and all mutants analyzed belong to one complementation group.
(6) The ColE6 gene organisation, in the order col-imm-E8imm-lys, is identical to that found in the previously described double-immunity gene system of ColE3-CA38 (an RNase producer).
(7) On Monday, prosecutors told the judge, Col Jeffery Nance, that they hope to play a recording of the phone call, among others, to show a lack of remorse on Bales's part.
(8) A23187 increased SCC when applied to HCA-7 and HCA-7-Col 3 monolayers with little effect on HCA-7-Col 1.
(9) Fragments of Col light chain lacking constant region determinants but still capable of inhibiting anti-idiotype were produced by limited pepsin digestion of the light chains.
(10) In order to characterize further the ECM in the most commonly observed variant, the large light colony, specific antibodies to fibronectin (FN) and collagen types IV and V (COLs IV and V) were applied and observed with immunofluorescence microscopy and immunoperoxidase.
(11) Specific radioimmunoassays are available for Col 1-3 (P-III-P) and the Col 1 and Col 1-3 (P-III-P-Fab) peptides of type III procollagen and for laminin P1 fragment.
(12) The neutral lipid levels in both wild type and col-2 were decreased to identical levels when grown on glutamate as a carbon source.
(13) We investigated the role of the cytoskeleton in the germinal vesicle (GV) behavior of oocytes prevented from resuming meiosis by either activators of protein kinase A or activators of protein kinase C. A time-lapse microcinematography study demonstrates that GV immobilization by isobutylmethylxanthine (IBMX) is overcome by colcemid (COL), nocodazole (NOC), and taxol and that cytochalasin D (CCD) reversibly immobilizes the GV of oocytes treated with either IBMX + COL (or NOC) or 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA), an activator of protein kinase C, known to allow a programmed GV cortical translocation.
(14) SDS had no effect on infected cells that did not contain the Col Ib factor or on uninfected cells with or without the Col Ib factor.
(15) Pulse-labeled colicin E1 plasmid (Col E1) DNA in minicells was examined to characterize replicating molecules.
(16) These results indicate that some ColV+ strains may be more sensitive to gastric acid and to phagocytic acidity than are Col- strains.
(17) Patients with pathogenic organisms had a 3.88 (odds ratio) or 2.27 (col-2 risk) higher risk of PID than those with negative cultures or exclusively apathogenic organisms.
(18) Segments of the replication control region of bacteriophage lambda (lambda) and lambda mutants defective in replication were attached in vitro to the phi80 phage vector Charon 3 and to the plasmid vector mini Col El (pVH51).
(19) The determination of Col 1-3 peptide of type III procollagen (P-III-P) in serum of patients seems to be a useful parameter of hepatic fibroplasia.
(20) Syn-and anti-benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxides elicit a concentration-dependent nicking of superhelical Col E1 DNA in an in vitro reaction monitored by agarose gel electrophoresis and electron microscopy.
Cox
Definition:
(n.) A coxcomb; a simpleton; a gull.
Example Sentences:
(1) The others were two Britons, Mark Cox and John Barrett (now both BBC commentators) and the US player Jim McManus.
(2) The time to recovery of full consciousness, time to parasite clearance, and mortality were examined with Cox proportional-hazards regression analysis.
(3) Patients with grade 2 carcinoma could be separated into one subgroup with small nuclei (mean nuclear area less than or equal to 95 microns2) having a favorable outcome (5-year survival rate: 100%), and into another subgroup with large nuclei (mean nuclear area greater than 95 microns2) showing a worse prognosis (5-year survival rate: 63.2%) (Mantel-Cox, P = .01).
(4) Partial defects of COX have been shown in muscle of patients with progressive external ophthalmoplegia, either alone (ocular myopathy) or as part of Kearns-Sayre syndrome.
(5) Whenever the univariate analysis achieved statistical significance, a multivariate analysis was performed by means of a multiple correlation and regression study in accordance with the Cox's model, in which the variables were expressed in a binary model.
(6) Based on the adjusted survival-rate curves using Cox's method, there was significant difference in prognosis in favor of these 27 cases that received cervicothoracic-abdominal lymph node dissection over those that did not.
(7) Different outcomes were related to admission characteristics by means of the Cox proportional hazards regression model.
(8) In a multivariate Cox model analysis, the independent correlates of long-term survival were emergent operation with cardiogenic shock (multivariate mortality rate ratio [RR] = 14.0), use of a postoperative intraaortic balloon pump (RR = 3.9), ejection fraction less than 50% (RR = 2.4), preoperative history of congestive heart failure (RR = 2.2), cardiopulmonary bypass time (RR = 1.4 for each 30-minute increment), uncorrected mitral regurgitation (RR = 1.5 for each increment of angiographic gradation), left main coronary artery narrowing (RR = 1.7) and diabetes (RR = 1.6).
(9) This paper addresses the latter assumption by applying a direct and flexible approach, cubic spline functions, to two widely used models: the logistic regression model for binary responses and the Cox proportional hazards regression model for survival time data.
(10) In Golgi-Cox-impregnated coronal sections of albino rat brains at 1, 4, 26, 24, 30, 60 and 90 days it is presented the evolution of the spine-less, bare initial zone ("nude zone", NZ) at the proximal apical main dendrites of the layer V pyramidal neurons in the somatosensory and anterior limbie cortex.
(11) "The cost of moving from a £125,000 flat to a £250,000 house is likely to be around £8,000," says Cox.
(12) Applying Cox regression analysis, ICG intrinsic hepatic clearance, Pugh score, previous variceal bleeding, and HVPG were the only significant prognostic determinants of survival.
(13) The multivariate analysis with Cox's proportional hazad model showed primary tumour size, progesterone receptor concentration, nodal status and log AHH to be the most important independent prognostic factors for survival, while the occurrence of metastases, log AHH and tumour size were the equivalent factors for the disease-free interval in primary breast cancers.
(14) Actuarial cancer-free survival controlling for response to treatment was analysed with the log-rank test, bivariate and multivariate analyses using Cox's stepwise regression model on probable prognostic factors.
(15) Cytokine-stimulated prostaglandin production ceases when cells are also treated with DEX, although control levels of COX activity and mass remain.
(16) The company launched in 1995 with an idea for a range of “colonial-inspired” tapestry bags, designed by Cox and sold by Liberty, Harrods and the General Trading Company.
(17) Juxtapapillary location was not an independent risk factor on Cox multivariate analysis.
(18) Biochemical studies have documented either muscle-specific or generalized defects of COX; COX deficiency is reversible in the benign infantile myopathy.
(19) The annual risk was analyzed by the multivariate Cox model.
(20) When entered in the Cox-proportional hazards model with other potentially useful prognostic factors, soluble IL2R level was found to be an independent predictor of treatment outcome.