(1) In the presence of FBS, 1,25-(OH)2D3 significantly stimulated this response, but RA did not.
(2) Dialysed or heat-inactivated FBS or fatty-acid-free albumin was as effective as FBS in provoking ester hydrolysis and retinol release.
(3) Only cells cultured with Opti-MEM I and Omni Serum grew consistently in tubes and vials and these reagents were compared to FBS for viral isolation and detection.
(4) Their doubling time was 13.8 hours when they were cultured in a medium containing 10% FBS.
(5) These data indicate that an increase of Ca2+ in cytosol is important to PLA2 activation, and also that PLA2 may be activated by PMA, EGF and FBS in thyroid cells.
(6) Adult cells (and possibly fetal cells) also require a "cycle-completion" factor which is found in FBS and adult rat "plasma".
(7) The FBS Control is designed to assist cell culture scientists who have been frustrated with lack of consistency in FBS lots.
(8) IL-6 gene expression was rapidly induced in the "quiescent" mesangial cells by exposure to 20% FBS.
(9) Plasma lipid profiles--total cholesterol (TC), LDL-cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, triglycerides and phospholipids--were studied in relation to two parameters of diabetic control (fasting blood sugar (FBS) for short-term control and glycosylated haemoglobin (HBA1C) for long-term control) in 46 diabetic patients (22 insulin-dependent (IDDM) and 24 non-insulin dependent (NIDDM] and 22 non-diabetic control subjects.
(10) These results suggest that the restricted H10 medium with FBS is suitable to maintain the transparency of the incubated lenses rather than the nutritious DME medium with or without FBS.
(11) In order to examine the effect of increased [CaCl2] on human fibroblasts from donors of varying age, fibroblasts were grown in medium (basal level of 1.8 mM CaCl2) supplemented with fetal bovine serum (FBS) until confluent.
(12) Cells were incubated with [14C]20:3(n-6) in the presence of 1% fetal bovine serum (FBS) or 0.025% bovine serum albumin (BSA), and the distribution and identity of membrane-bound and soluble products were determined.
(13) 350 (5.4%) required fetal scalp blood sampling for pH (FBS), 236 primigravidae (10.4%) and 114 multigravidae (2.7%) (P less than 0.001).
(14) The acidified fetal bovine serum (FBS) produces a factor which inhibits the adipose differentiation of murine fibroblasts 3T3-F442A.
(15) A protein-free culture system in an ideal method for detecting small quantities of substances which originate from cell lines without interference by FBS.
(16) Acidified FBS was similar to chicken serum in that both supported high rates of cell-mediated fibrinolytic activity.
(17) Stabilization of fetal bovine serum (FBS) acetylcholinesterase (acetylcholine acetylhydrolase, EC 3.1.1.7) (AChE) and human butyrylcholinesterase (acylcholine acylhydrolase, EC 3.1.1.8) (BuChE) by ligands and inhibitors was studied as a function of physical and chemical perturbation.
(18) Purified LGL that were maintained and were subcultured at cell densities of 10(6) cells or greater per milliliter of either SF or FBS-containing medium had equivalent levels of cytotoxicity over a 44-day period in either medium compared with cells subcultured at a density of 5 X 10(5) cells per milliliter of medium.
(19) G-CSF mRNA expression was induced by IL-1, and not by FBS.
(20) NK cells produced a cytotoxic factor (NKCF) in SF medium, and its cytotoxic activity was blocked by 10% FBS.
Fetus
Definition:
(n.) The young or embryo of an animal in the womb, or in the egg; often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparous and oviparous animals, embryo being applied to the earlier stages.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 38 control fetuses had normal-appearing posterior fossae.
(2) A review of campylobacter meningitis by Lee et al in 1985 reported nine cases occurring in neonates, of which only one case was caused by C. fetus.
(3) In addition, congenital anemias such as sickle cell disease can impact on the health of the mother and fetus.
(4) There is precedent in Islamic law for saving the life of the mother where there is a clear choice of allowing either the fetus or the mother to survive.
(5) The aim of this study was to plot the course of the transcutaneously measured PCO2 (tcPCO2) in the fetus during oxygenation of the mother.
(6) Instead of later renal failure and, of course, mental retardation, it was the histological features of the fetus eyes which permit to diagnose and exhibit both congenital cataract and irido-corneal angle dysgenesis.
(7) Paired tolbutamide and glucose infusions using a square wave technique demonstrated that although early phase insulin secretion is dimished in the fetus, this is not due to an absolute deficiency of stored insulin.
(8) The combination of an over-distended uterus caused by a multiple-fetus pregnancy with therapeutic bed-rest may cause mechanical ileus.
(9) Only one ewe aborted, 10 days after the first infecting dose, at 94 days of gestation; L monocytogenes was isolated from several sites in both its aborted fetuses.
(10) One thousand singleton low-risk pregnancies were cross-sectionally studied at 36-40 weeks gestation with continuous-wave Doppler ultrasonography in order to assess its usefulness as an antepartum monitoring technique for the identification of fetuses at risk of developing an adverse outcome.
(11) Histological studies with neonatal mice raise the possibility that Müllerian duct tissue may represent a site for the transplacental toxicity of DES in both the male and female fetus.
(12) It is often necessary to estimate the dose of radiation to a fetus from a series of CT scans.
(13) The perinatal development of the levator ani (LA) muscle in male and female rats was investigated by measuring the total number of muscle units (MU) (i.e., mononucleate cells, clustered or independent myotubes, and muscle fibers) in transverse semithin sections of the entire muscle and the MU cross-sectional area in 22-day-old fetuses (F22), 1-day-old (D1 = day of birth), 3-day-old (D3), and 6-day-old (D6) newborns.
(14) Digitalization by direct intramuscular injection of the fetus successfully controlled supraventricular tachycardia at 24 weeks' gestation after more traditional intensive trials of transplacental therapy with digoxin, verapamil, and procainamide, either separately or in combination, had failed.
(15) By contrast, there was a rapid exchange of tracer Leu carbon between placenta and fetus resulting in a significant flux of labeled KIC from placenta to fetus.
(16) Axosomatic and axodendritic contacts were present in the cortices of the fetuses.
(17) A case of mixed congenital abnormalities in a fetus demonstrated ultrasonographically during the second trimester of pregnancy in an uncontrolled insulin-dependent diabetic mother is presented.
(18) Intensive care monitoring of the fetus during labour improves perinatal conditions in 'high-risk" Black women.
(19) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
(20) Evaluation of the roles of prolactin and placental lactogen in pregnancy in primates has revealed mammotropic, fetal osmoregulatory, metabolic, and steroidogenic roles, which appear to protect the uterine contents during late pregnancy and prepare the fetus for the changes in nutrition at the time of delivery.