(n.) One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker.
(n.) A steward or bailiff of an estate.
(n.) One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, from a product.
(n.) One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a constituent.
(v. t.) To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.
Example Sentences:
(1) These factors might account for the lower systemic bioavailability of these compounds.
(2) The effect of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) on growth of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cell lines was studied.
(3) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
(4) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(5) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
(6) Perinatal mortality is strongly associated with obstetrical factors, respiratory distress syndrome, and prematurity.
(7) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(8) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
(9) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(10) The major treatable risk factors in thromboembolic stroke are hypertension and transient ischemic attacks (TIA).
(11) In this study, the role of psychological make-up was assessed as a risk factor in the etiology of vasospasm in variant angina (VA) using the Cornell Medical Index (CMI).
(12) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
(13) The observed relationship between prorenin and renin substrate concentrations might be a consequence of their regulation by common factors.
(14) Under blood preservation conditions the difference of the rates of ATP-production and -consumption is the most important factor for a high ATP-level over long periods.
(15) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.
(16) In addition to their involvement in thrombosis, activated platelets release growth factors, most notably a platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) which may be the principal mediator of smooth muscle cell migration from the media into the intima and of smooth muscle cell proliferation in the intima as well as of vasoconstriction.
(17) It was concluded that the significant factors affecting outcome are tumor cell type and presence or absence or mitoses.
(18) Bradykinin also stimulated arachidonic acid release in decidual fibroblasts, an effect which was potentiated in the presence of epidermal growth factor (EGF), but which was not accompanied by an increase in PGF2 alpha production.
(19) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
(20) Nutritional factors or environmental toxins have important effects on CNS degenerative changes.
Fourfold
Definition:
(a. & adv.) Four times; quadruple; as, a fourfold division.
(n.) Four times as many or as much.
(v. t.) To make four times as much or as many, as an assessment,; to quadruple.
Example Sentences:
(1) The difference in sensitivity between laboratories for end-point titres (if one very sensitive method was excluded) was around fourfold for types 1 and 2, and ninefold for type 3.
(2) HTC.JZ1 cells were stimulated to secrete up to fourfold increased amounts of IL6 over 24 hours by treatment with lipopolysaccharides (LPS).
(3) The objectivity of the items was proved by fourfold examination of the same sample group.
(4) Involved and uninvolved psoriatic epidermal cells showed a fourfold decrease in the number of 12-HETE binding sites as compared with normal healthy individuals and patients with atopic dermatitis, while receptor affinity remained unchanged.
(5) 10% NNDEMT doubled the amount of PFA in the skin, increased fourfold the amount permeated across the skin, and increased the flux fivefold.
(6) Antibody response to group A rotavirus (RV), investigated in paired sera from 72 infants and young children with acute gastroenteritis caused by an RV infection, was diagnosed on the basis of a fourfold or greater rise in group A common RV IgG antibody titer.
(7) Eighty-eight percent of subjects receiving CVD 103-HgR mounted a significant (greater than fourfold) rise in Inaba vibriocidal titre while 68% did so for the heterologous Ogawa serotype.
(8) Paired sera from 20 humans with eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus infections and from 17 humans with western equine encephalitis (WEE) virus infections, all with previously demonstrated fourfold or greater rises or falls in hemagglutination-inhibiting, complement-fixing, or neutralizing antibody titers, were tested for immunoglobulin M (IgM) and IgG antibodies by an enzyme immunoassay.
(9) The Ig levels were within the normal range in patients with malignant astrocytoma and glioblastoma multiforme, whereas a three- and fourfold increase in the IgM level was observed in patients with astrocytoma.
(10) However, in the presence of 4.4, 6.6 or 8.9 x 10(-3) M glucose, the same concentration of acetylcholine stimulated insulin secretion approximately fourfold.
(11) Measurements of absolute transcript abundance show that collagen mRNA is present in blastula primary mesenchyme cells at 600-700 copies per cell and at about fourfold lower amounts in other mesenchyme cells.
(12) Forskolin (10 microM) also increases TH transcription (fourfold in 15 min) by a mechanism that is not blocked by cycloheximide.
(13) The average mitochondrial volume is increased fourfold in the peripheral and midzonal regions with a commensurate decrease in the number of mitochondria per cell.
(14) Transesophageal cardioversion decreased the defibrillation threshold three- to fourfold from that of conventional transthoracic cardioversion.
(15) Such depleted monocytes exhibit a fourfold reduction in their ability to promote both internalization of T3 and production of IL-2.
(16) In other studies, the stereoisomers of tocainide were shown to have a threefold to fourfold difference in IC50 for inhibition of [3H]BTXB binding.
(17) Plasma immunoreactive TNF was increased almost fourfold in tumor-bearing nude mice compared with control nude mice.
(18) Serum gastrin levels significantly (P less than 0.01) increased threefold to fourfold during the first 1-2 months of the study when all patients ingested 40 mg of omeprazole daily.
(19) Forty-nine serum pairs with antibody to cytomegalovirus (CMV) were evaluated for rises in antibody titer (greater than or equal to fourfold) by indirect hemagglutination (IHA) and complement fixation (CF), using a freeze-thaw antigen (FT) and a glycine extract antigen (GE).
(20) Osteocalcin secretion was measured at doses as low as 0.03 nM (fourfold increase, p less than 0.05), and this activity increased further with higher doses of 1,25-(OH)2D3 to reach a plateau at 50 nM.