(v. t.) To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.
(v. t. & i.) To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately.
(n.) One who duns; a dunner.
(n.) An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.
(a.) Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
Example Sentences:
(1) These data indicate that the muscarinic receptor in Dunning H tumors is of M3 type.
(2) In order to assess prostatic tissue as a target for receptor-mediated estrogen action, we have examined the regulation of estrogen (ER) and progestin receptors (PgR) by estrogen, antiestrogen, and progesterone in cytosolic and nuclear fractions of the R3327H (Dunning) prostatic adenocarcinoma of the rat.
(3) Transferrin-mRNA, expressed in the male urogenital tract and also in the liver and other tissues, was detected in the mammary gland and Dunning tumor, but not in the dorsolateral prostate.
(4) The Dunning R3327 prostate adenocarcinoma of the Copenhagen rat was developed as a suitable model of human prostate cancer.
(5) A number of chemotherapeutic agents, including L-asparaginase, actinomycin D, chloroethylcyclohexy-nitrosourea, 5-flourouracil, cyclophosphamide, hydroxyurea, cis-platinum, adriamycin and methotrexate, alone and in combination and at variable dose levels, were applied against the Dunning R3327 rat prostatic adenocarcinoma-subline G. We found a continuing parallel between responses of the human and rat tumors and conclude that the usefulness of this animal model as a screening system for agents against the human tumor is further supported.
(6) The R3327H-G8-A1 cell line derived from the Dunning rat prostate adenocarcinoma contains both androgen and glucocorticoid receptors.
(7) Rats bearing Dunning mammary tumors (DMBA 5A) of more than 2 g absorbed 70-100% more of an intragastric copper dose than controls, and a much larger percentage was found in the plasma, with less in liver and kidney.
(8) The Dunning R-3327-H is a well-differentiated transplantable rat prostatic adenocarcinoma that contains both hormone-sensitive and -insensitive cells.
(9) The complete DNA sequence of human papovavirus BKV(Dun), consisting of 5153 nucleotide pairs, is presented.
(10) The proliferation of primary and serially-cultured epithelial cells from androgen-responsive Dunning R3327 rat prostate tumors was also androgen-independent, but exhibited dramatic alterations in response to hormones that stimulated normal cell proliferation.
(11) In our experimental systems, in vivo, pentosan inhibits the growth of the highly metastatic MAT-LyLu (MLL) Dunning R3327 prostate cancer cell line only at toxic doses and has no apparent effect on growth in vitro.
(12) These results indicate that most actin exists in a depolymerized form as a cytosol protein of 41,000 daltons in the Dunning tumor and is composed of at least four isomers.
(13) Dunning hepatoma ribosomes were resistant to 4 mM EDTA.
(14) The growth of a transplantable rat prostatic carcinoma (Dunning R3327H) was studied after castration, testosterone substitution or testosterone substitution in combination with oestradiol treatment.
(15) Table: Countrywide Nick Dunning, group commercial director at Countrywide, said: "2013 saw the focus of demand shift sharply northwards after several years of more stable levels of supply and demand.
(16) The effects of two inhibitors of ornithine decarboxylase activity, alpha-difluoromethylornithine (DMFO) and (2R,5R) 6-heptyne-2,5 diamine (HDA), and an inhibitor of S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase, methylglyoxal bis-guanylhydrazone (MGBG), were tested on casein kinase activity and endogenous phosphorylation in the cytosol fractions of mouse thyroid and a rat prostate tumor model, Dunning R 3327 MAT LyLu subline.
(17) Using the Dunning R-3327 rat prostate animal tumor model we have previously shown that an increase in cell surface charge, as measured by individual cell electrophoresis, is associated with an increase in metastatic ability.
(18) She had learned by then not to back off from unpleasant facts - such as that, in her view, she was fat and ugly, something that her not very clever family had dunned into her.
(19) Cytogenetic analysis of the two least progressionally advanced Dunning cancers (i.e., histologically well-differentiated, slow-growing, nonmetastatic variants) demonstrated no structural or numerical chromosomal aberration, suggesting that the initial development of prostatic cancer may not require detectable cytogenetic changes.
(20) In a preliminary study, the effect of transfer factor (TF), one form of passive immunotherapy, on tumor-associated immunity (TAI) and tumour growth and histology of the G subline (a poorly differentiated, fast-growing, androgen sensitive, and poorly metastatic tumour of the Dunning R-3327 rat PCa) has been evaluated.
Fallow
Definition:
(a.) Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
(n.) Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.
(n.) Plowed land.
(n.) Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.
(n.) The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds.
(n.) To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dytiscidae, Anisoptera, and Zygoptera were more abundant in fallow or mature fields.
(2) The fallow-deer is less discussed because the low number of investigations.
(3) Repeat examination of blood from the three fallow deer for 30 days postexposure failed to reveal observable piro-plasms.
(4) The commission is also proposing that 30% of direct payments to farmers be "green" or reward those growing a greater variety of crops, leaving land fallow or extending hedgerows.
(5) ZTJ 151, S. saprophyticus SS 877, Enterococcus faecium EF1 and E. faecalis EFG2 were isolated from the rumen wall and contents of lambs, calves and fallow deer, Enterococcus gallinarum EG10 and E. avium EA12 were isolated from the caecum of Japanese quail.
(6) For example, improved farming practices, such as the use of cover crops on fallowed fields or wetland construction near streams and rivers, have the potential of reducing sediment and phosphorus concentration from fertilizer runoff.
(7) Similar inclusion bodies were also found in the ruminal epithelium of fallow deer subjected to overfeeding by supplementary food.
(8) There are queues at communal water tanks and the irrigated fields plump with crops abruptly give way to hard-baked soil forced to sit fallow.
(9) The HIT method was used to examine blood serums of the game in Moravia (roebuck, red deer, fallow deer, mouflon, wild boar, brown hare) for the presence of antibodies to arboviruses of these groups: alphavirus (Sindbis-SIN), flavivirus (West Nile-WN), tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) and Bunyamwera (Tahyna-TAH, Calovo-CVO).
(10) The humus synthesis processes were most active in the wheat and lucerne plots, they were less effective in the fallow and virgin soils.
(11) Four adult male fallow deer were investigated for 1-4 consecutive years to study the relationships between annual changes in testis volume, sperm quality and antler status.
(12) Weinstein knows how to push a movie all the way to the top and after a few fallow years he's rediscovered his magic touch and found the funds to put his money where his mouth is.
(13) Animal species included black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), sika deer (Cervus nippon nippon), fallow deer (Dama dama), and pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana).
(14) An adult, captive European spotted fallow deer (Cervus dama) was submitted for necropsy due to sudden death.
(15) Some lukewarm romances and underperforming comedies – Four Christmases, How Do You Know, Water for Elephants, This Means War – as well as the well-intentioned but flawed political thriller Rendition meant that the second half of the 2000s and early 2010s was a largely fallow period.
(16) The patient presented a polyvalent IgE sensitization in prick skin tests and RAST to several animals' dander and epithelia, but RAST inhibition experiments showed a cross-reactivity only between fallow deer and horse allergen extracts.
(17) A policy of "set aside", where farmers are paid to leave land fallow, has attempted to remedy this, but overproduction persists.
(18) Though fallow deer is considered very resistant to infectious diseases and parasites, diseases of different kind occur in enclosed pastures.
(19) These results provide good evidence of the correlation between low birthweight and perinatal mortality in fallow deer on Australian deer farms.
(20) The allele frequencies allow a clear discrimination between the hybrid population and the red deer population, whereas the fallow deer are fixed for the allele which is most common in red deer.