(n.) A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(2) Because cystine in medium was converted rapidly to cysteine and cysteinyl-NAC in the presence of NAC and given that cysteine has a higher affinity for uptake by EC than cystine, we conclude that the enhanced uptake of radioactivity was in the form of cysteine and at least part of the stimulatory effect of NAC on EC glutathione was due to a formation of cysteine by a mixed disulfide reaction of NAC with cystine similar to that previously reported for Chinese hamster ovarian cells (R. D. Issels et al.
(3) The small units described here could be inhibitory interneurons which convert the excitatory response of large units into inhibition.
(4) Only small amounts of 3H oleic acid were converted.
(5) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
(6) The enzyme was quantitated by incubation of 16-micron-thick brain sections with 0.07-2 nM of the converting enzyme inhibitor 125I-351A and comparison to 125I-standards.
(7) DR was not demonstrably converted to R in these studies.
(8) Combined hypertension treatment with inhibitors of the converting enzyme (ICE) and diuretocs gives manifold advantages, the most important of them is a synergistic action of both drugs resulting in blood pressure decrease and prevention of hypokaliaemia.
(9) The hemodynamic effects of captopril and other angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors may be mediated by the endogenous opioid system.
(10) The 1-0-methylalduronic-acidmethylesters, obtained by the methanolysis of the polysaccharides, are reduced with boronhydrid to the corresponding methyl glycosides; there are split with acid to the aldoses, which are converted in pyridine with hydroxylamine to the aldoximes and than with acetic anhydride to the aldonitrilacetates, which can be separated by gaschromatography without difficulty.
(11) Moreover, the ribosylation inhibitors converted the glucocorticoid antagonist RU-486 into a potent agonist for cytolysis of L1210 cells.
(12) Two EGZ-derived proteins were engineered in which either His98 or Glu133 amino acid was converted to an Ala residue.
(13) The rate of indole production is increased about 4-fold when the aminoacrylate produced is converted to S-(hydroxyethyl)-L-cysteine by a coupled beta-replacement reaction with beta-mercaptoethanol.
(14) Sorbitol, by itself or in combination with mannitol is slowly converted to acids by the plaque microorganisms.
(15) The fucose-labeled glycoproteins were converted to glycopeptides by pronase digestion and separated into two major classes by gel filtration on Sephadex-G-50.
(16) We conclude that systemic converting enzyme activity, assessed by in vivo measurement and correlation of PRA and AII, is not inhibited by severe hypoxia.
(17) 17-Isoaldosterone was not secreted or converted to aldosterone to any significant extent in the normal subjects investigated.
(18) Allyl 4-O-benzyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranoside was converted into allyl 4-O-benzyl-3-O-methyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranoside and this was condensed with 2,3,4-tri-O-acetyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl chloride to give a disaccharide derivative which was converted into allyl 4-O-benzyl-2-O-(2,3-O-isopropylidene-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)-3-O-methyl -alpha- L-rhamnopyranoside.
(19) In order to increase the efficiency of androgen blockade, we have used 4-MA, an inhibitor of 5 alpha-reductase, the enzyme which converts testosterone into DHT, to reduce intracellular DHT concentrations and thus facilitate the action of the antiandrogen Flutamide.
(20) In addition, we have demonstrated that the recombinant 17-kD precursor protein can be converted to the 15-kD protein by cytoplasmic extracts of human cells.
Stb
Definition:
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(1) Using PAB-lacZ gene fusions, it was found that the stb operon is autoregulated.
(2) Colony hybridizations with DNA probes for 3 heat-stable (STaP, STaH, and STb) enterotoxins and 1 heat-labile (LT) enterotoxin and for 4 adhesins (K99, F41, K88, 987P) were performed on 870 Escherichia coli isolates to determine pathotypes prevalent among enterotoxigenic E coli (ETEC) isolated from cattle in Belgium.
(3) We also examined adult human ileal mucosa for responses to STb in the Ussing chamber in vitro.
(5) aeruginosa in Sensitivity Test Broth (STB) and human urine.
(6) A two-factor varimax solution yielded a first factor accounting for 49 per cent of total unrotated variance with high (0.70 to 0.91) loadings from Hallucinatory predisposition, Perceptual aberration, Schizophrenism, STA and STB scales, and was interpreted as reflecting a general factor of schizoid personality disorder.
(7) Anti-STb3-27 antibodies were affinity purified on a synthetic peptide-Sepharose 4B column and used in a direct-binding STb ELISA.
(8) Therefore, exposure of swine jejunum to STb induced structural alterations in intestinal mucosa (ie, loss of villous absorptive cells and partial atrophy of villi) that were consistent with those causing compromised absorptive capacity.
(9) Presence of Escherichia coli enterotoxin genes LT (heat-labile enterotoxin), STaP (heat-stable enterotoxin a, porcine genotype), STaH (heat-stable enterotoxin a, human genotype), and STb (heat-stable enterotoxin b) among 874 swine isolates of E coli was determined, using DNA probes and the DNA colony hybridization technique.
(10) Sucrase activity was also lower (about 15%) in STb loops than in control loops (P less than 0.01).
(11) Some 2 microns variants (e.g., 4110-2 microns and 4108-2 microns) had an altered number of 125-bp consensus repeats at STB.
(12) The pig intestinal loop (PIL) assay, inhibition enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and DNA hybridization assay were compared for analysis of Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin b (STb) on 201 porcine E. coli strains.
(13) Two ligated intestinal loops in each of twelve 3-week-old pigs were exposed for 2 hours to sterile E coli culture filtrates from each of the following strains: 431 (STa-producing), 1261 (STa and STb-producing), and 1790 (STb-producing); recombinant strain HB101-pRAS-1 (STb-producing); the nontoxigenic K-12 variant HB101; or trypticase soy broth.
(14) Proteolytic conversion of pre-STB to STB was shown to be inhibited by the proton motive force uncoupler carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone and did not occur in a secA background.
(15) These results suggest that STb-producing E. coli strains are not a major cause of diarrheal illness in humans.
(16) However, the corresponding region of 7754-2 microns has only approximately 70% nucleotide sequence homology with the 125-bp STB consensus repeat.
(17) STb-PhoA was purified from an expressed bacterial lysate by preparative isoelectric focusing.
(18) Structural and functional characteristics indicate that ST peptides are heterogeneous and two major subtypes, STa and STb, have been identified.
(19) Pharmacokinetics of cis-(-)-2,3,4,4a,5,9b-hexahydro-2,8-dimethyl- 1H-pyrido-[4,3-b]indole dihydrochloride (Stobadin; in the following briefly called STB), a pharmacologically active stereoisomer of the gamma-carboline carbidine, was studied using a 3H-labelled product.
(20) Results of initial studies of the expression of Mx-STb in COS-1 cells indicate that the expressed protein displays characteristic Mx-ST and p-nitrophenol sulfotransferase activity, is recognized by rabbit polyclonal antibodies raised against pure rat liver Mx-ST, and migrates at approximately 35,000 Da during sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.