(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.
Sampling
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Samples are hydrolyzed with Ba (OH)2, and the hydrolysate is passed through a Dowex-50 column to remove the salts and soluble carbohydrates.
(2) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
(3) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
(4) The proportion of motile spermatozoa decreased with time at the same rate when samples were prepared in either HEPES or phosphate buffers.
(5) However, this deficit was observed only when the sample-place preceded but not when it followed the interpolated visits (second experiment).
(6) Blood samples were analysed by mass spectroscopy and gas chromatography.
(7) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(8) The main clinical features pertaining to the concept of the "psycho-organic syndrome" (POS) were investigated in a sample of children who suffered from severe craniocerebral trauma.
(9) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
(10) Confined placental chorionic mosaicism is reported in 2% of viable pregnancies cytogenetically analyzed on chorionic villi samplings (CVS) at 9-12 weeks of gestation.
(11) Sample processing appears effective in avoiding spontaneous oxalogenesis.
(12) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
(13) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
(14) Analysis revealed some significant differences in the false-positive rate, depending on the test method used or virus samples evaluated.
(15) Just after blood sampling, FEV1 measurements were performed.
(16) The study examined the sustained effects of methylphenidate on reading performance in a sample of 42 boys, aged 8 to 11, with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
(17) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
(18) Estimates of the risk probability for each dose level and sacrifice time are found utilizing the sample likelihood as the posterior density.
(19) Flow cytometric DNA analysis was performed on both fresh and on paraffin embedded samples obtained by gastroscopic biopsies in 5 patients with histologically normal gastric mucosa (20 specimens) and by radical gastrectomies in 9 cases of human gastric cancer (36 specimens).
(20) The measurement of the intestinal metabolism of the nitrogen moiety of glutamic acid has been investigated by oral ingestion of l-[15N]glutamic acid and sampling of arterialized blood.