(n.) A place of deposit for the storing of goods; a warehouse; a storehouse.
(n.) A military station where stores and provisions are kept, or where recruits are assembled and drilled.
(n.) The headquarters of a regiment, where all supplies are received and distributed, recruits are assembled and instructed, infirm or disabled soldiers are taken care of, and all the wants of the regiment are provided for.
(n.) A railway station; a building for the accommodation and protection of railway passengers or freight.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is suggested that the rapid phase is due to clearance of peptides in the circulation which results in a fall to lower blood concentrations which are sustained by slow release of peptide from binding sites which act as a depot.
(2) The ACTH deficiency recovered spontaneously, with normal cortisol responses to depot Synacthen (greater than 1380 at 6 h) and hypoglycemia (peak, 590) 14 and 18 months postpartum, respectively.
(3) There was also a significant increase in the mitochondrial proton conductance pathway of brown adipose tissue, assessed from the binding of guanosine diphosphate (GDP) to mitochondria isolated from the interscapular (89% above control) and perirenal and para-aortic depots (130%).
(4) Chromatographic analysis of this radioactivity reveals that the octadecapeptide gives rise to much higher tissue levels of intact peptide and we believe that this acts as a depot and gives rise to the sustained blood concentrations and prolonged biological effects observed with this peptide.
(5) The histological findings show especially that the iron depots of the spleen were empty in all three groups and thereby in this collective no connection exists between the color of the veal and the tested dosage of iron dextran 20%.
(6) Circulating lipid levels, when elevated, can alter the pharmacodynamics of lipophilic drugs presumably by acting as an additional storage depot for such drugs.
(7) injection of 1 mg hydroxocobalamin every three months as maintenance therapy for eight to 20 years after an initial depot treatment of one or two series of five i.m.
(8) Exocrine secretory granules constitute an extension of the post-Golgi sorting system and are not merely terminal depots for proximally targeted polypeptides.
(9) Thus, contractile responsiveness in peripheral arteries may depend upon depots of superficially bound Ca++ to a greater degree than in the more centrally located aorta.
(10) A technique for the radioautographic identification, localization, and study of the turnover of cellular depots of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) has been evaluated.
(11) Liver depot iron can be divided into two fractions: ferritin iron and non-ferritin depot iron.
(12) This article reviews the role of a new depot antipsychotic dosage form, haloperidol decanoate (HD), in relationship to other comparable pharmacotherapies (oral and injectable).
(13) It has no special barriere - or depot - function in lead metabolism.
(14) In 14 schizophrenic patients, prolactin levels are studied in relation to dosage of depot fluphenazine and gender of patient.
(15) The influence of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug Acemetacin in depot form on the course of the pepsinogen levels in serum was examined during 14 day therapy.
(16) After a glucose load, lipogenesis in the lean epididymal fat pad was not inhibited but that in the inguinal depot was.
(17) Oral fluphenazine, haloperidol, and depot fluphenazine are used to higher maximum levels than chlorpromazine and other neuroleptics, when maximum dose is reached after one week or longer.
(18) After 7 injections of Zoladex Depot (ICI Pharma, Heidelberg, Germany), the uterus was reduced to normal size carrying dorsally a myoma of the same size.
(19) Intensified insulin treatment, using multiple injections or insulin pumps, probably results in an increased risk of insulin deficiency owing to the smaller insulin depots.
(20) It seems possible that the formation of new fat cells is dependent on the average cell weight in a given adipose tissue depot, but there may also be other regional, local regulatory factors.
Repository
Definition:
(n.) A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two patients who developed marked intraocular pressure elevations after repository corticosteroid injection did not manifest a positive response on subsequent topical corticosteroid testing.
(2) Three important elements of the pesticide quality assurance program in the Health Protection Branch of Canada are described--the sampling protocol, the repository of pesticide standards, and the check sample program of the Federal Interdepartmental Committee on Pesticides.
(3) These data are in agreement with the predictions derived from a mechanism of phosphorylation by which [gamma-32P]GTP does not act as a phosphoryl donor for the protein kinase activity but, instead, only as a repository of high group transfer potential phosphoryl groups used to make [gamma-32P]ATP, from contaminating ADP, by means of the nucleoside diphosphate kinase activity.
(4) The model has been used to evaluate certain assumptions underlying the environmental standard for high-level waste repositories recently issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
(5) In the glycerol model of this syndrome, we demonstrate that the kidney responds to such inordinate amounts of heme proteins by inducing the heme-degradative enzyme, heme oxygenase, as well as increasing the synthesis of ferritin, the major cellular repository for iron.
(6) It is a finely-tuned sequence of level changes and alluring glimpses, more familiar to the world of shopping malls and airport terminals than a repository of knowledge.
(7) Stored plasma from 3 Victorian dairy herds with a history of JD, sera from specimens submitted from animals showing clinical signs of JD and sera from the US National Repository for Paratuberculosis Specimens were used to determine the sensitivity of each test.
(8) However, one must consider the attitudes that prevailed at the time, the high rate of fetal and infant mortality, and the blossoming role of museums as repositories of knowledge.
(9) This paper discusses the value of an International Repository of Chromosomal Abnormalities and Variants as a means of communication and case finding.
(10) Dawn Powell: A Time to Be Born (1942) Joseph Heller: Catch-22 (1961) Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions (1973) David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest (1996) The American comedy, generally speaking, is a scatological thing, or a repository of racial prejudice or gender stereotypes.
(11) The U.S. Department of Energy has selected three sites, from five nominated, to characterize for a nuclear repository to permanently dispose of nuclear waste.
(12) The mast cell must also be considered since it is the repository for mediators which cause increased vascular permeability and has the potential for eliciting, and possibly sustaining, some of the white cell mediated events associated with the inflammatory process.
(13) An example of applying this monitoring technique at a radwaste repository is given.
(14) The National Neurological Research Bank (Los Angeles), the Brain Tissue Bank (Belmont, Mass), and the Department of Neuropathology at Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore) have agreed to serve as repositories for tissues.
(15) Professor Gordon MacKerron, an energy expert at Sussex University and a former chairman of the CoRWM, said building two repositories could have major political advantages because the government could face opposition from local communities to hosting an unlimited amount of waste from new power stations rather than a finite amount of legacy waste from existing sites.
(16) Unlike most previous sites censored by the state, Github is not just a news site or a social network: it is crucial to the working lives of a significant proportion of the programming community, as well as being a host for a number of important repositories required to make the internet work.
(17) These GCT granules probably are the repositories of nerve growth factor, which is particularly abundant in Praomys.
(18) This cramped, multi-storey shop is packed with them, like some great gaming repository.
(19) In this application of obtaining a diverse sample from the 230,000 compounds in the National Cancer Institute Repository, we cluster to select compounds that are different from the rest, to optimize screening for new leads.
(20) In addition, these healers were repositories of many potentially harmful beliefs, e.g., that having sex with a virgin will rid a man of AIDS.