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Ern


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Erne
  • (v. i.) To stir with strong emotion; to grieve; to mourn. [Corrupted into yearn in modern editions of Shakespeare.]

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The synthetic ester cyclopentylpropionate, like E2, produced a rapid ERn response and a significantly shorter uterotropic response than the stearate ester.
  • (2) The leaders of the world's eight wealthiest countries, including Russian president Vladimir Putin and German chancellor Angela Merkel, are due to meet at the luxury Lough Erne resort in Co Fermanagh for the conference on 17-18 June.
  • (3) Gerald Grosvenor came into the line of succession only because the 3rd Duke was childless and the title passed to a cousin, who became 4th Duke in 1963 and then, when he died four years later, to his younger brother, Gerald’s father, Robert Grosvenor, who farmed in Northern Ireland and lived on an island in Lough Erne.
  • (4) The oligomeric ERc eluted as a single, sharp peak near the exclusion volume of the gel column; ERn eluted as a broad peak.
  • (5) Reductions in total ER (ERn + ERc) were sufficient to account for all reductions and altered dynamics of ERn, except for the delayed attainment of peak ERn in UT.
  • (6) The correlation coefficients for ERc, ERn and ERc+n were 0.960, 0.980 and 0.950, respectively.
  • (7) We must work together to keep this hope alive, as we agreed to at the Group of 8 meeting in Lough Erne in Northern Ireland in June, and steer the discussion back toward negotiations.
  • (8) This unoccupied nuclear ER (ERn) whose hormone binding ability was extremely thermostable could be extracted with 0.4 M KCl.
  • (9) "One of highlights, says Starks, was launching the institute's open data certificate at June's G8 meeting in Lough Erne, where the themes were tax, transparency and trade.
  • (10) We measured the uterotropic response and the formation of uterine nuclear estrogen receptors (ERn) produced by iv administration of a representative ester, E2-17-stearate, in comparison to E2, other natural C-17 conjugates of E2, E2-17-glucuronide, and E2-17-sulfate, and the pharmacological ester E2-17-cyclopentylpropionate.
  • (11) [Erne, D., Sargent, D. F., & Schwyzer, R. (1985) Biochemistry 24, 4261-4263].
  • (12) In the tumours of postmenopausal women an inverse significant correlation was demonstrated between the concentrations of EGFR vs. ERc, ERn, and PRc while no such correlation was noted in the tumours of premenopausal women.
  • (13) 2,3,7,8-TCDD causes a dose-dependent decrease in uterine ERc, ERn, PRc, and PRn levels which persist up to 7 days.
  • (14) Using a hydroxylapatite exchange method for ER, little or no nuclear ER (ERN) could be detected, but with the EIA both cytosolic (ERC) and ERN were detected in almost all specimens, although in meager concentrations.
  • (15) Nuclear estrogen receptors (ERn) can now be reliably analyzed using the monoclonal estrogen receptor enzyme immunoassay.
  • (16) In these studies we also examined the changes which occur in estrogen nuclear (ERn) and progestin cytosol (PRc) receptor concentrations in the preoptic area (POA), medial basal hypothalamus (MBH), corticomedial amygdala (CMA) and pituitary gland (PIT) associated with these physiological responses.
  • (17) In the control pituitary nuclei, 70% of ERn were in the salt-soluble fraction, of which the great majority were occupied by endogenous steroid.
  • (18) Both the heat-transformed cytosolic estrogen receptor, ERC*, and a major fraction of the estrogen receptor extracted from nuclei, ERN, contained two sites for H165, but only one for H222.
  • (19) The oestradiol nuclear receptors (ERn) followed the same pattern in the 3 sampling areas.
  • (20) In the untreated BPH group, ER were higher in the n than in the c fraction: ERn were positive in 14 cases and ERc in 12 of 17 cases.

Fern


Definition:

  • (adv.) Long ago.
  • (a.) Ancient; old. [Obs.] "Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes." [saints].
  • (n.) An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After being thawed at room temperature, the two CM samples were compared as to their pH, spinnbarkeit and ferning patterns, and it was found that they are quite similar.
  • (2) Crude ferredoxin preparations were obtained from blue-green algae, green algae, ferns, and higher plants.
  • (3) A typical fern-like pattern was demonstrated by the crystallized mucus of the healthy individuals.
  • (4) Water ferns (Salviniaceae) and seed ferns (Pteridospermae) are known as the arbitrary type of Lycopsida which did not reach the state of shot structure of the body.
  • (5) Astrocyte endfeet of the GLM became irregular in contour, protruding in a fern-leaf fashion into the pial connective tissue.
  • (6) Thus, the fern bioassay may be an inexpensive means of detecting both chronic low dose and episodic high dose inputs of mutagenic pollutants into aquatic ecosystems.
  • (7) Cervical mucus from 6 demonstrated a 3 to 4+ fern phenomena, indicating significant endogenous estrogen production.
  • (8) Two of the epitopes (I and III) are widely conserved in 34 kDa proteins (presumably B-36 homologues) from the various species tested (Chlamydomonas, moss, fern, oat, onion, carrot, and bean).
  • (9) Words included in this title include mistletoe, gerbil, acorn, goldfish, guinea pig, dandelion, starling, fern, willow, conifer, heather, buttercup, sycamore, holly, ivy, and conker.
  • (10) Parameters studied were Schirmer's test, lacrimal meniscus height, break-up time, fluorescein and rose Bengal stains, conjunctival impression cytology, mucus staining, and the ferning test.
  • (11) The only parameter that correlated with sperm migration into post-partum mucus was ferning formation.
  • (12) ), Fern Probstmeyer, Robert McCombs, Jean P. Brunschwig, and Vladimir Vonka.
  • (13) Two glucosides to enhance histamine release from rat peritoneal mast cells were isolated from rhizomes of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn) by column chromatography on Sephadex LH-20 and droplet counter-current chromatography, and named braxin A1 and A2.
  • (14) I picked the strawberries growing up the side of my compost loo for breakfast; physalis and ferns were growing inside my shower; I snacked on pitanga, a delicious sweet-sour berry.
  • (15) Ferning was present in 29% of pipette samples, averaging 0.41 mm2 in the form of FR in the total series.
  • (16) The anisotropic period, 7 days long, is inscribed within the ferning period.
  • (17) Axonemes from the heterosporous water fern Marsilea vestita were fixed in the presence of tannic acid and examined by thin-section electron microscopy.
  • (18) Powdered bracken fern mixed with a basic commercial diet (1:4 by weight) was fed to a group of 40 ICR strain mice for 20 weeks after the implantation of a glass bead into the bladder.
  • (19) I’m obviously a big supporter of the change, I think there are a lot of strong arguments in favour of the change.” Key has previously said he would prefer a new flag featuring the silver fern on a black background.
  • (20) For all the memorable showdowns between Paxman and Tony Blair, it was Fern Britton who extracted the critical admission from Blair that he would have wanted to remove Saddam whether or not Iraq had WMD.

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