(n.) Any grass of the genus Lolium, esp. the Lolium temulentum (bearded darnel), the grains of which have been reputed poisonous. Other species, as Lolium perenne (rye grass or ray grass), and its variety L. Italicum (Italian rye grass), are highly esteemed for pasture and for making hay.
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(1) It lacks introns, it contains a short poly(A) tract at its 3' end; it is flanked by 10-base pair (bp) direct repeats; and it corresponds closely at its 5' end to the transcription start site of the intron-containing GS gene (GSi) (Kuo, C. F. & Darnell, J. E., Jr. (1989) J. Mol.
(2) Ward ignored a weak challenge from young Darnell Furlong as two more experienced Rangers’ players loitered in the vicinity with little intent, then Ward made his way into the box and struck a shot that deflected off Sandro into the net.
(3) (2) Electron microscopic visualization of enzyme bound to Ad 2 DNA reveals the location of eight strong binding sites, at least five of which appear to correspond to promoters that have been identified in studies of Ad 2 transcription in vivo [Evans, R. M., Fraser, N., Ziff, E., Weber, J., Wilson, M., & Darnell, J.E.
(4) Darnell Hunt, director of the UCLA Bunche Centre for African American Studies, told al-Jazeera: "People have been talking about the issue of the lack of diversity in Hollywood … I think that certainly in terms of visibility and notoriety, this year has been quite remarkable."
(5) This complex sugar, which was purified from rat liver and which is a putative second messenger for insulin in nonneural vertebrate cells (Saltiel and Cuatrecasas, 1986; Saltiel, Osterman, and Darnell, 1988), causes hyperpolarization with decreased membrane conductance in L14 and L10 similar to the effects of insulin.
(6) (R. S. Herbst, N. Friedman, J. E. Darnell, Jr., and L. E. Babiss, Proc.
(7) For this match he tried another, making four changes to the side that flopped so meekly at Crystal Palace last week , omitting Darnell Furlong, dropping Adel Taarabt to the bench and sending Shaun Wright-Phillips back to cold storage.
(8) Based on the published nucleotide sequence for rat hepatocyte nuclear factor 4 (HNF-4; Sladek, F.M., Zhong, W., Lai, E. and Darnell, J.E., Jr. (1990) Genes Dev.
(9) Cole, television sources in Los Angeles indicated, was an unexpectedly nervous performer in auditions, and, they added, could not win over Mike Darnell, the influential reality show chief even in an Anglophile Fox network.
(10) RNA was extracted from the homogenate of the ovaries according to the hot phenol method after Scherrer and Darnell.
(11) The virion RNA molecules, as we have shown previously for thenonencapsidated 35S viral RNA (Fernandez-Muñoz and Darnell, 1976), is not labeled with [methyl-3H]methionine.
(12) In a variety of systems, histone mRNA has been shown to lack poly(A) (Adesnik and Darnell, 1972; Grunstein et al., 1973).
(13) Darnell helped bring Cowell to the US and launch American Idol 10 years ago, and the programme rapidly became the top-rated TV show on American US television, making Cowell one of the biggest stars in the country.
(14) Here we describe the embryonic expression of a chicken gene, ChickEn (Darnell et al.
(15) His recently departed boss at Fox, a post-moral humanoid named Mike Darnell, once said that the only thing he regretted about the controversy surrounding a show called Who's Your Daddy?
(16) The GAS binds a protein that is activated by IFN-gamma, which we have termed GAF (IFN-gamma activation factor; T. Decker, D. J. Lew, J. Mirkovitch, and J. E. Darnell, Jr., EMBO J., in press; D. J. Lew, T. Decker, I. Strehlow, and J. E. Darnell, Jr., Mol.
(17) When the liver is disaggregated and hepatocytes are cultured as a cellular monolayer for 24 h, a sharp decline (80 to 99% decrease) in the transcription of most liver-specific mRNAs, but not common mRNAs, occurs (Clayton and Darnell, Mol.
(18) We previously defined two distinct cell-specific DNA elements controlling the transient expression of the transthyretin gene in Hep G2 (human hepatoma) cells: a proximal promoter region (-202 base pairs [bp] to the cap site), and a far-upstream cell-specific enhancer located between 1.6 and 2.15 kilobases (kb) 5' of the cap site (R. H. Costa, E. Lai, and J. E. Darnell, Jr., Mol.
(19) Its inaugural project in Ferguson, a national call for organizers from around the country to ride down and quite literally show up in solidarity with residents, was organized by queer black leaders Patrisse Cullors and Darnell Moore.
(20) The Fox president of alternative entertainment, Mike Darnell, said: "Cheryl Cole has the whole X Factor package: She's an incredibly talented artist and performer, as well as a style icon, and she has that special charisma that draws in fans around the world."