(1) Pecularities attending the fixation of antibodies from the sera of patients with arterial hypertension, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, hepato-cerebral disease, and myoclonus-epilepsy were studied by the indirect Coons' method.
(2) The principles of immunocytochemistry were outlined in 1942 by Coons et al.
(3) Murine squamous carcinoma cells (KLN205) grown in a medium supplemented with the retinoid, 13-cis retinoic acid (RA), had dose-dependent, selective increases in the expression of certain lectin receptors, which correlated with a dramatic decrease in the ability to form pulmonary colonies (P = .0003) (Couch MJ, Pauli BU, Weinstein RS, Coon JS: JNCI, 78:971-977, 1987).
(4) As expected, when added to cells maintained in Coon's modified Ham's F-12 medium containing 0.1% BSA, but devoid of insulin, transferrin, TSH, or calf serum, normal serum produced a dose-dependent stimulation of [3H]thymidine incorporation into DNA.
(5) It featured an editorial about these youth convulsions and along with Oz editor Richard Neville, John Peel, Arthur Brown and Caroline Coon, founder of Release.
(6) This year we set the tone for what Iran expects of our behavior and we need to demonstrate that we are watching them like a hawk and that when they take steps that violate our sense of priorities and values in the region that we will take action against them,” Senator Christopher Coons, a Delaware Democrat, said Tuesday.
(7) Immunological studies on clinical cases of uveitis and later experimental uveitis in rabbits using the fluorescent antibody technique of COONS are shortly discussed.
(8) Fluorescence staining of cryostat sections from stellate sturgeon with the use of At5 (indirect Coons' method) has revealed a positive reaction with notochord cells and sheath and with the spinal cord.
(9) So you will forgive me if I refer to niggers, wogs and coons.
(10) Use was made of the indirect variant of Coons' method involving application of antisera to the mouse fibrinogen and to serum protein of rats.
(11) Primary cultures of bovine parathyroid cells were developed using Coon's modified Ham's F-12 medium containing low (0.3 mM) concentrations of calcium and supplements of bovine hypothalamic extract, bovine pituitary extract, epidermal growth factor, insulin, transferrin, selenous acid, hydrocortisone, triiodothyronine, retinoic acid, and galactose.
(12) Carr and Coons (1982a, 1982b) found that lateral hypothalamic (LH) stimulation ameliorates the aversiveness of stimulation of pain-implicated nucleus gigantocellularis (NGC), but this finding disagrees with other findings.
(13) The plasmids are coding for the hybrid protein which consists of the immunoglobulin binding A-protein domain at its NH2-terminus and the catalytically active fragment of exotoxin-A at its COON-terminus.
(14) With the indirect immunofluorescence technique of Coons and collaborators the occurrence of substance P (SP)-like immunoreactivity was studied in spinal ganglia (L6-S1), the spinal cord (L6-S1) and the pad skin of the hind paw of the cat.
(15) The human osteosarcoma cell line (OST-1-PF) can grow in protein-free Coon's modified Ham's F12 medium.
(16) Eighty-seven patients with malignant obstruction of the biliary tract from three centres and deemed unsuitable for surgery underwent insertion of the 'Carey-Coons' transhepatic endoprosthesis.
(17) By using the Coons indirect immunofluorescence technique, enkephalin-like immunoreactivity with a granular localization was observed in human adrenal medullary gland cells and pheochromocytomas.
(18) At least one – Delaware senator Chris Coons – has already said he is in favour of the deal but also wants to see a formal vote on it rather than have it be killed by these procedural means.
(19) The localization of the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) in the colon tumours was studied with the indirect Coons test.
(20) The immunomorphological analysis by the non-direct Coons test and the PAP-test permits to identify cells with the positive reaction as granular cells.
Raccoon
Definition:
(n.) A North American nocturnal carnivore (Procyon lotor) allied to the bears, but much smaller, and having a long, full tail, banded with black and gray. Its body is gray, varied with black and white. Called also coon, and mapach.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparing the data for raccoon MsI with information from the literature for cats and monkeys suggests that the type and amount of somesthetic afferent input to forelimb MsI is related to the behavioral uses to which each animal puts the forelimb.
(2) Coonhound paralysis (CHP), a polyradiculoneuritis of dogs that resembles the human Guillain-Barré syndrome, was experimentally reproduced by inoculating a dog with raccoon saliva.
(3) In 2000 the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm showed an owl in a tree calling "Whom" and a raccoon on the ground replying "Show-off!"
(4) During 1982 and 1983, the Centers for Disease Control and cooperating Middle Atlantic States and local health departments collected data on 1,610 raccoons that were submitted for rabies testing and on 133 persons who received rabies postexposure prophylaxis as a result of exposure to wild animals.
(5) The raccoon may be an intermediate host for a Sarcocystis sp.
(6) To our knowledge, this is the first documentation of the successful seroconversion of skunks and raccoons vaccinated against rabies in the field.
(7) Nematodes were not recovered from either raccoon when examined at necropsy 223 and 254 days postexposure.
(8) In three cases (fox, raccoon, skunk) SAFA titers were greater than mouse SN titers.
(9) Vaccinated raccoons demonstrated a prominent anamnestic response within 1 wk following challenge.
(10) No immediate ancestor of CPV was observed amongst the mink, cat, or raccoon viruses examined.
(11) Leads I, aVF, V3, and V10 ECG were obtained from 12 healthy raccoons anesthetized with xylazine and ketamine.
(12) The causative agent was demonstrated through direct examination of stained paraffin sections, isolation in pure culture, or examination of stained smears from lesions induced experimentally in rabbits with material from the affected raccoons.
(13) Raccoons on Area 1 were vaccinated with a commercial inactivated rabies virus vaccine administered intramuscularly, whereas on Area 2 raccoons were not vaccinated.
(14) In this investigation, raccoons fed a vaccinia-rabies glycoprotein recombinant virus in a sponge bait developed rabies virus-neutralizing antibody (0.6-54.0 units) and resisted street rabies virus infection 28 and 205 days after feeding.
(15) SA hair-associated afferent fibers, which have been reported previously only in primate hairy skin, were also found in large numbers in the raccoon.
(16) Multiple penetrations in the somatosensory cortex of three anesthetized raccoons 1 week following amputation of the fourth digit provided detailed information about somatotopy and neuronal responsiveness in the deafferented cortex.
(17) Lesions in infected raccoons were associated only with H procyonis.
(18) The pathology of dracunculiasis in the raccoon is described and the transmission of the parasite in the wild is discussed with respect to seasonality and local agricultural practices.
(19) Furthermore, animals developing SNA under such circumstances were capable of withstanding challenge with rabies virus that was fatal for seronegative raccoons.
(20) Raccoons have been used as serologic sentinels for St Louis encephalitis and Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis.