(v. t.) To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, homozygous deletion of the FMS gene may be an important event in the genesis of the MDS variant 5q- syndrome.
(2) None of the 4NQO- or 4HAQO-induced mutants is a multilocus deletion mutant.
(3) In strains completely deleted for galR, the gene which encodes the Gal repressor, the operon is derepressed by only 10-fold without an inducer.
(4) Delta roc, which extends from base pairs 41883 to 43825, overlaps the nin5 deletion, which extend from base pairs 40501 to 43306.
(5) The deletions and substitutions appear to occur in separate molecules.
(6) By external deletion, we have identified RXE composed of 205 nucleotides.
(7) A 6.4 kilobase C4B-5'-specific Taq I fragment usually provided a reliable guide to the presence of a C4A deletion but unusually in one instance this fragment was found to be a marker of a functioning C4A gene.
(8) Three distinct antigenic regions of bovine somatotropin (bST) were identified on the basis of the ability of a set of monoclonal antibodies to bind to proteolytic fragments and deletion variants of recombinant bST (rbST) in Western blot analyses.
(9) Analysis of glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) expression by enzyme assay and immunoblots, as well as Northern and dot blots of poly (A)+ RNA, in the deletion strains indicates that there are two upstream regulatory sequences that control the level of gene expression.
(10) Analysis of genetic markers associated with the deleted haplotypes pointed to the independent origin of similar deletions and the involvement of intergenic sequences in the mispairing-recombination process.
(11) Cells transfected with either the first or second construct and selected for the TK+ phenotype were then tested for TK induction after superinfection with HSV-1(F) delta 305, containing a deletion in the coding sequences of the TK gene, and viruses containing, in addition, a ts lesion in the alpha 4 regulatory protein (ts502 delta 305) or in the beta 8 major DNA-binding protein (tsHA1 delta 305).
(12) No 7 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity and only a trace of 7 alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity could be demonstrated when bile acid was deleted from the growth medium.
(13) All four human MBP variants were identical except for the insertion of deletion of two peptide fragments corresponding to those encoded by exons 2 and 5 of the MBP gene.
(14) Molecular analysis of HPRT- mutant DNAs showed a high frequency (69%) of clones with partial or full deletions of the hprt gene among radiation-induced mutants compared with spontaneous mutants (31%).
(15) Reciprocal translocations involving the short arm of acrocentric chromosomes can segregate to produce partial duplications without associated deletions.
(16) Considering those portions of the molecule that can be deleted without a loss of catalytic activity, one is left with a catalytic center of approximately 130 nucleotides that is solely responsible for the molecule's activity.
(17) Twenty-nine deletion breakpoints were mapped in 220 kb of the DXS164 locus relative to potential exons of the Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy gene.
(18) Then these two repeats were separated and deleted systematically to obtain various deletions.
(19) Although T cell tolerance to self antigens is primarily a reflection of clonal deletion in the thymus, recent evidence suggests that mature T cells are subject to negative regulation in the post-thymic environment: Extrathymic tolerance is the result of clonal anergy in some studies and T cell deletion in others.
(20) We report two cases of leiomyomas of the uterus with a deletion of the long arm of chromosome 13.
Strick
Definition:
(n.) A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers.
Example Sentences:
(1) "There would not have been too much negotiating to be done, even, in 2001 or 2002, because the Taliban's senior leadership made their approaches in a conciliatory manner, acknowledging the new order in the country," said Alex Strick von Linschoten, author of An Enemy We Created.
(2) Alex Strick van Linschoten, a leading analyst of the Taliban, said an announcement was unlikely in the near future.
(3) Using cDNA 48-1 in a simplified version of the protocol with which we had previously characterized the LR gene as a member of a retrogene family in mammals, we show in the present paper that the gene of this new transcript exhibits phylogenic, expression and amplification features that strickingly recall those of the LR gene.
(4) by falling sick of an uncomplicated irritation erythema, strickly localized.
(5) The most stricking finding of this study was the high percentage of additional psychopathological syndromes associated to alcoholism.
(6) Strick protein-sparing modified fasting is not without risk of sudden death even with close medical supervision.
(7) In this paper, it is demonstrated that superficial d. c. potentials detected on the skin of an amphibian are strickly correlated to the well-known skin ionic active transport mechanism and are quite independent of deep innervation.
(8) By strick adherence to indication, adequate preoperative preparations and very careful performance of the procedure, the complications of TBLB could be reduced to minimum.
(9) Taliban leaders have already rethought many of their notorious policies of the 1990s, Strick van Linschoten said.
(10) "In addition to this, their rethink of the official relationship between the Taliban and al-Qaida has been among the more significant developments," Strick van Linschoten said.
(11) Alone or with visceral involvement, cutaneous lesions frequently simulate periarteritis nodosa: circumscribed to abdomen, thighs, legs, dorsum of the feet, the livedo reticularis is the most stricking feature associated or not with cutaneous nodes, purple toes, ulcers and gangrene.
(12) This effect is strickly caused by diet used during pregnancy and is quickly reversible from one pregnancy to the following one in the same females.
(13) The histological examination of the lymph nodes shows a stricking relation between the T. and the N. This confirms the clinical conclusions.
(14) A stricking diminution of nocturnal desaturation and of the disorganisation of sleep was seen in responders to UPPP.
(15) Stricking differences were observed in the mechanism of interaction between staphylococcal serine proteinase and surface of human granulocytes or lymphocytes despite the fact that incubation of this enzyme with both types of cells leads to analogical decrease of proteinase activity.
(16) At present the tuberculosis sanatoria for children are not considered any more to be strickly uniprofile.
(17) Thus, our observations support the concept proposed by Schell and Strick (J. Neurosci.
(18) This protection was found to be strickly confined to the homologous sequences potentially implicated in recombination.
(19) Whereas the motor cortex is the primary target of cerebellar output (Asanuma et al., '83b), and the premotor cortex is the target of pallidal output (Schell and Strick, '84), the SN output appears to be directed more anteriorally--to the prefrontal cortex.
(20) Alex Strick van Linschoten, a Dutch academic who lives in Kandahar, said turnout in the city had been "extremely low".