(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).
Rowan
Definition:
(n.) Rowan tree.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rowan Moore is architecture critic of the Observer Conran retrospective, New Review page 36
(2) Additionally, rather than listing Davis’s name, it says “city of Morehead”, the Rowan County seat.
(3) The trust said records suggested this year had yielded the best crops of autumn fruit and berries – particularly blackberries, rowan berries and elderberries – since it began the "citizen science" project 12 years ago.
(4) Or as Rowan Blanchard , a 13-year-old actress, neatly put it, “the way a black woman experiences sexism and inequality is different from the way a white woman experiences sexism and inequality”.
(5) The campaign, which wants a skyline commission to examine London's future profile, has also obtained the support of the Observer 's architecture critic, Rowan Moore.
(6) Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius's OSS 117 films, Mike Myers's Austin Powers movies and Rowan Atkinson's pair of Johnny English efforts are some of the more recent entries.
(7) The result is the £19m, 115-metre, ArcelorMittal Orbit by Anish Kapoor, "a loop of string arrested in mid-fall", in the words of our architecture critic Rowan Moore.
(8) US federal judge David Bunning, who remanded Davis to US marshals during a high-profile hearing last week, ordered the Rowan County clerk released from jail on the condition she doesn’t interfere with efforts by her deputies to issue marriage licenses.
(9) Read more Speaking about the bill before it was voted on Rowan Williams, the former archbishop of Canterbury, and chair of Christian Aid argued in The Guardian that the the UK had to take a lead in protecting unaccompanied minors in Europe .
(10) The Rowan Learning Trust, a small academy trust that grew out of a single school in Wigan, was brought in to turn the school’s fortunes around.
(11) As the debate reached its conclusion, Stockwood, dressed grandly in a purple cassock and pompously fondling his crucifix in a way that was devastatingly lampooned by Rowan Atkinson a week later on a Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch, delivered his parting shot of, "You'll get your 30 pieces of silver."
(12) How she does it I have no idea.” Karen Kay, events fundraiser at the Rowans hospice, said: “Doris is an amazing lady and a huge inspiration.
(13) BBC sports editor Dan Rowan tweeted: Dan Roan (@danroan) Action of US sponsors also raises issue of whether broadcasters (who bring more £ into FIFA than corporates) should make a stand too... October 3, 2015
(14) In 2008, he stirred controversy when he accused the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, of being "mistaken and naive" for saying that some aspects of sharia law in Britain were unavoidable.
(15) The eventwill include speeches from celebrities, the former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Bill Gates, as well as a flower installation designed to represent the lives that could be saved if funding for nutrition was improved.
(16) Welby's intervention suggests he will not be discouraged from speaking out despite criticism of his predecessor, Rowan Williams, who was accused of meddling in politics .
(17) The Nature's Calendar project invites people across the country to log their first sightings of autumnal tints on ash, beech, field maple, horse chestnut, oak, rowan, silver birch and sycamore trees.
(18) That goal has been achieved.” The ACLU is relying on the representations of Kentucky’s attorney general and Rowan County attorneys that marriage licenses issued henceforth are legal, Sharp said.
(19) Not long after, Carmen and Shannon Wampler-Collins arrived at the Rowan County clerk’s office to obtain a marriage license around 10.45am – but their efforts did not succeed without a hiccup.
(20) Rowan Williams was preaching in the Danish capital as crucial UN climate change talks entered their second and final week.