(v. t.) To make aghast; to frighten; to terrify. See Aghast.
Example Sentences:
(1) 69: 1709-1717, 1990) we reported that gastrocnemius (GAST) muscle enlargement failed to occur after 10 wk of 192 contractions performed every 3rd or 4th day.
(2) Hist and Gast caused an increase of PGE2 contents in gastric mucosa.
(3) As in the GAST, results showed that TA protein synthesis rates are increased by acute exercise and principally regulated by translational and possibly posttranslational mechanisms.
(4) Not everyone is convinced... Darius Tahir (@dariustahir) @KidWeil My gast is properly flabbered that Brad Evans is starting.
(5) This indicated that the regulation of protein expression may be different between the GAST and TA muscles.
(6) According to the clinical signs and the result of gastric acid secretion test, (GAST) parietal cell vagotomy (PCV) and selective vagotomy plus antrectomy (SV+A) were performed in 100 and 138 cases respectively.
(7) The gastric protective effects of Hist and Gast were inhibited by pretreatment with cimetidine, timoprazole and indomethacin.
(8) These results suggest that the gastric protective effect of Hist and Gast, induced by the increase of acidity in gastric juice, is due to the endogenous PGE2 synthesized by the stimulation of acid in the gastric mucosa.
(9) Biopsies were taken from the gastrocnemius (gast) and vastus lateralis (vl) muscles as representatives of muscles recruited during Tr and Cy exercise, respectively.
(10) • 5 rue Crespin du Gast, 75011, must phone to arrange visit on +33 1 43 55 52 72, no website Père Lachaise Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Piaf family plot at Père Lachaise cemetery.
(11) GAST obtained its peak EMG activity at 104 degrees at a point when it was still lengthening.
(12) Recently, de Gast and colleagues reviewed the role of environmental antigens in the pathogenesis of GVHD and suggested that immunological responses to environmental antigens by the transplanted donor cells might contribute to an increased donor anti-recipient response.
(13) After confirmation with complementary tests made with manually GAST, RPR with microscopic reading, haemagglutination, and lastly fluorescent method, it appears that the rate of positive reactions is 1,7%.
(14) The follow-up data showed that recurrence rate could be greatly reduced if the mode of vagotomy was selected according to results of GAST.
(15) Daly was the intermediary who pulled many of the interested parties together – and, as a prize, he got to commentate on the fight for Leon Gast’s celebrated film, When We Were Kings.
(16) In cells from gasted rats, where lactate production is greatly reduced and the rate of glucose synthesis is elevated, glucagon did not stimulate gluconeogenesis from dihydroxyacetone.
(17) The differential response in muscle mass between the GAST and TA muscles after training may be due, in part, to greater relative resistances imposed on the TA than on the GAST that result in a more-prolonged effect on protein synthesis rates, with lower numbers of stimulated contractions required to stimulate increases in protein synthesis.
(18) Maxi and Gast compressors increased the quantity of "respirable" (less than 5 micron diameter) carbenicillin aerosol, and reduced nebulisation times; with the weaker compressors, nebulisation times (up to 50 min) were unacceptably long.
(19) The amount of G4 was increased by more than 50% in the ankle extensors GAST and PL, which play a dynamic role, and reduced by about 40% in the ankle flexors TA and EDL, which exhibit a predominant tonic activity during running.
(20) The apparition of Groupamatic has incitated M. GARRETTA to adapt on this material the K. Antigen reagent manufactured by the Blood Transfusion Center in Lille and has led to the definition of GAST reagent (Groupamatic automated syphilis test).
Mast
Definition:
(n.) The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns.
(n.) A pole, or long, strong, round piece of timber, or spar, set upright in a boat or vessel, to sustain the sails, yards, rigging, etc. A mast may also consist of several pieces of timber united by iron bands, or of a hollow pillar of iron or steel.
(n.) The vertical post of a derrick or crane.
(v. t.) To furnish with a mast or masts; to put the masts of in position; as, to mast a ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) of PLA2 caused marked degranulation of mast cells in the rat mesentery which was facilitated by addition of calcium ion (10 mM) but antagonized by pretreating with three antiinflammatory agents.
(2) In later phases, mast cells appeared in the newly formed marrow in the external callus.
(3) Our prospective study has defined a number of important variables in patients with clinical evidence of mast cell proliferation that can predict both the presence of SMCD and the likelihood of fatal disease.
(4) In the dark cortical zone of the nodes (III group) there occur tissue basophils (mast cells), that, together with increasing number of acidophilic granulocytes and appearance of neutrophilic cells, demonstrates that there is an inflammatory reaction in the organ studied as a response to the lymphocytic suspension injected.
(5) Type I and Type II mast-cell degranulation was noted but was not universal.
(6) They clearly demonstrate the phenomenon of mast cells degranulation.
(7) The early absolute but transient dependence of these A-MuLV mast cell transformants on a fibroblast feeder suggests a multistep process in their evolution, in which the acquisition of autonomy from factors of mesenchymal cell origin may play an important role.
(8) The findings suggest that mast cell prostaglandins are an important factor in the pathogenesis of pruritus and that local vascular responses may trigger mast cell degranulation.
(9) 18 patients with typical sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) were investigated by the Motor Accuracy and Speed Test (MAST) and 18 healthy age- and-sex-matched volunteers, acted as controls.
(10) When PMC purified to greater than 99% purity were cultured in methylcellulose with IL-3 and IL-4, approximately 25% of the PMC formed colonies, all of which contained both berberine sulfate-positive and berberine sulfate-negative mast cells.
(11) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(12) Mice homozygous for mutations at either locus exhibit several phenotypic abnormalities including a virtual absence of mast cells.
(13) This initial observation of release of eosinophil chemotactic factor of anaphylaxis in vivo along with histamine assigns the mast cell a central role in cold urticaria.
(14) Their presence was established both by staining for mast cells at light microscopic level and by electron microscopy.
(15) Pretreatment of rat peritoneal mast cells with either Staurosporine or an analog K-252a, lead to a dose-related inhibition of histamine release when stimulated with Anti-IgE (IC50: Staurosporine = 110 nM; K-252a = 100 nM).
(16) The ammoniacal silver method, which identifies basic proteins, gives a positive reaction in cytoplasmic granules of rat peritoneal mast cells.
(17) Cytokine secretion by activated lymphocytes or mast cells is preceded by dramatic stabilization of the normally labile GM-CSF mRNA.
(18) Forty-seven patients were brought to the Emergency Department with a good blood pressure which probably would not have existed without the use of MAST Trousers.
(19) Furthermore, using rat mast cells, the binding assay in conjunction with histamine releasing assay may be utilized to predict the in vivo histamine releasing potential of new LHRH peptides which are of clinical importance.
(20) Six dogs had increased numbers of mast cells in peripheral blood or buffy coat smears.