(n.) One who works as a mason without having served a regular apprenticeship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three wk after in vivo immunization with PRP and TT, in vitro stimulation with pokeweed mitogen, Staphylococcus aureus Cowan 1 bacteria, or antigen induced anti-TT but not anti-PRP in vitro antibody secretion, although Epstein-Barr virus induced both.
(2) However, the responses of adenoidal and tonsillar lymphocytes to Staphylococcus aureus Cowan strain A were not potentiated by retinoids.
(3) Human monocytes show a dose-dependent decrease of the MHC-class II antigen expression (HLA-DR and HLA-DQ) after addition of zymosan or Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I particles.
(4) In the present study, we have analyzed the effect of several recombinant cytokines (rIL2, rIFN-alpha, rIFN-gamma) on the terminal differentiation of B cells from 10 patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) stimulated with three different B cell activators (phorbolester TPA, staphylococcus aureus Cowan I bacteria, or pokeweed mitogen).
(5) IL-2, at high concentrations induced higher levels of Ig secretion in Staphylococcus aureus strain Cowan I (SAC)-activated B cells than at low concentrations.
(6) Stimulation of monocytes by the potent activation inducer Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I (SAC) for 3-5 h caused the disappearance of p53 mRNA.
(7) Mononuclear cells, freshly derived from peripheral blood or following stimulation in vitro with pokeweed mitogen or Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I, are partially depleted of T cells and monocytes using immunomagnetic beads (Dynabeads) coated with anti-CD2.
(8) The Cowan I strain of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus has been used as an adsorbent for antibodies complexed with radiolabeled antigens from cell lysates.
(9) The proliferation of human peripheral blood lymphocytes induced by concanavalin A, phytohemagglutinin-P, pokeweed mitogen, protein A or Cowan I was not suppressed by WP-833.
(10) Inasmuch as B cell function is in large part determined by lymphokine-derived accessory signals, we studied the effects of recombinant IL-2 and low-molecular-weight B cell growth factor (BCGF) on peripheral blood B cells activated with Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I to explain the B cell hyperfunction in patients with SLE.
(11) Extracorporeal immunoadsorption with protein A (SpA) containing Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I (SAC) has previously been shown to induce an antitumor and antiviral response in some feline leukemia virus (FeLV)-infected, lymphosarcoma (LSA) cats.
(12) Pretreatment of HeLa cells with the mixture of staphylococcal extracellular antigens and antibodies to them also enhanced the adhesion of Cowan I.
(13) This effect was more marked when the animals were also given injections of Staphylococcus aureus Cowan A.
(14) We have described a clinically feasible method capable of rapidly and repeatedly removing mammalian IgG extracorporeally by adsorption onto heat-killed, formalin-stabilized Staphylococcus aureus Cowan-I.
(15) Significantly increased binding of Cowan I bacteria was detected at antiinfluenzal serum dilutions as high as 1:40,960.
(16) The method is based on the sensitization of formalin-treated Cowan-1 S. aureus cells with immunoglobulins to TSE.
(17) The patient B cells showed a significantly lower proliferative response to Staphylococcus aureus Cowan strain I (SAC) than control B cells and did not produce a significant amount of IgM when co-cultured with control T cells.
(18) Cholera toxin enhanced thymidine incorporation of anti-mu antibody-preactivated but not of Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I or PMA + ionomycin-preactivated B cells.
(19) NGF augmented the mitogenic effect of the T-independent B cell mitogen, Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I strain, and provided a progression signal to competent B cells.
(20) However, cytoplasmic phosphoinositides in the B cells from all four patients with CVI were already increased above what is observed in normal B cells before stimulation with HMW BCGF (either freshly isolated or Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I-activated B cell).
Gowan
Definition:
(n.) The daisy, or mountain daisy.
(n.) Decomposed granite.
Example Sentences:
(1) Or maybe John of Gaunt had it right: “That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.” Main illustration by Christophe Gowans • Follow the Long Read on Twitter at @gdnlongread , or sign up to the long read weekly email here This article was amended on 21 June 2016.
(2) Ms Hunt is thought to have secured the job ahead of competitors including the Five controller of factual entertainment, Steve Gowans, and the Five children's controller, Nick Wilson.
(3) The picture closely resembles that produced experimentally in animals by occlusion of the incoming lymphatics and is interpreted as indicating delay in, or absence of, transport of the lymphocytes through the node into the central circulation (Gowans cycle).
(4) The average follow-up is 28 months and the results take into account the clinical preoperative grading according Mac Gowan's classification: grade I subjective symptoms combined with hypoesthesia in ulnar fingers grade II: weakness and wasting of the interossei combined with subjective symptoms, grade III: marked weakness and wasting of the interossei, adductor pollicis, and hypothenar muscles combined with anesthesia in ulnar fingers.
(5) Illustration by Christophe Gowans Robert F Worth’s book A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil from Tahrir Square to Isis is published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Picador • Follow the Long Read on Twitter at @gdnlongread , or sign up to the long read weekly email here .
(6) "I think there is a high risk of another car crash at the security council," said Richard Gowan of the centre for international co-operation at New York University.
(7) Australia, Luxembourg and Jordan deserve a lot of credit for pursuing the humanitarian track despite the obvious difficulties of working with Russia at the UN," said Richard Gowan, an expert on the UN from the Centre on International Cooperation at New York University.