(1) Because many wnt genes are also expressed in the lung, we have examined whether the wnt family member wnt-2 (irp) plays a role in lung development.
(2) The clinical course of a 50-year-old woman with oral lichen ruber planus (Irp) and prolonged dysphagia is described.
(3) Affinity-purified alpha-IRP was made up of a single polypeptide with an Mr of 85,000.
(4) Recovery of hCG in a preparation of second IRP-hCG gave an accuracy of 93.2%.
(5) In these four children IRP was not significantly different from normal; however, in the remaining children with chemical diabetes, those with elevated TIRI, the IRP was elevated following glucose administration.
(6) The following significant (P less than .01) regression equations resulted: IRPE equals (.97) IRPH plus 30 (sem plus or minus 8 msec) r equals .89; QCIE equals (.68) QCIH plus 37 (sem plus or minus 7 msec) r equals .71; DEPE equals (.98) DFPH plus 10 (sem plus or minus 18 msec) r equals .98.
(7) Filling pattern of the LV shows in A a prolongation of the isovolumic relaxation period (IRP) (p less than 0.001), an increase of the percentage dimension change of LV during IRP (p less than 0.001) and a reduction of the percentage dimension change during the rapid filling period (p less than 0.01).
(8) It is thus stressed the opportunity of echocardiography approach for the identification of the incoordinate ventricular contraction and for the determination of IRP duration which may be exposed to serious mistakes using the traditional phono-apexcardiographic method.
(9) We conclude that patients undergoing repair of aortic pathology with IRP have an important risk of early phase events, as technical problems can occur due to malposition and slippage of the securing rings.
(10) We compared our in-house reference extract (RE) and a production extract (PE) with the international reference preparation (IRP) of International Union of Immunological Societies of timothy-grass pollen, using various biochemical and immunochemical methods.
(11) A small group of patients in whom an etiological association is not obvious is characterized as idiopathic recurrent pancreatitis (IRP).
(12) An IRP substructure has been defined by release in response to potassium ion (K+), prostaglandin E1 (PGE1), and Bu2cAMP.
(13) Adult and fetal expression of m-irp was examined by RNA blot analysis.
(14) Eleven IRP were placed in the ascending aorta, two in the transverse arch, and 11 in the descending aorta.
(15) From simultaneous echo-polygraphic recordings, obtained in 30 young subjects at rest, during submaximal DSBE, during one minute of HGP (75% of maximal heart rate) and in the recovery period, the true isovolumic relaxation period (IRP) was determined.
(16) A cosmid library of recombinants containing nonmethylated CpG sites for rare-cutter restriction enzymes was used previously to isolate the gene IRP and four polymorphic DNA markers (pPT-3, pXV-2c, pCS.7, and pKM.19) which are close to and in linkage disequilibrium with the cystic fibrosis (CF) mutation.
(17) The results do not support an enhanced IRP secretion as the cause of carbohydrate intolerance.
(18) The analysis of the tracings established criteria for determining the duration of isometric relaxation phase (IRP) from the 1st IPG derivative.
(19) Discrepancies among three commercially available luteinising hormone (LH) radioimmunoassay RIA kits, all calibrated against the second-IRP-HMG (World Health Organisation International Laboratory for Biological Standards), were observed.
(20) Additional criteria for this are: (1) the expression of assay results in terms of 1st IRP-hCG instead of the unstructured use of the 2nd IS or the 1st IRP-hCG-beta; (2) documentation of cross-reactivities especially for the free beta-subunits of hCG and hLH which are almost completely lacking; (3) establishment of the minimum detectable dose in the presence of normo-to-hypergonadotrophic hLH levels in serum (the 'clinical sensitivity') to allow the follow-up of tumour regression especially in the low-dose region.
Rip
Definition:
(n.) A wicker fish basket.
(v. t.) To divide or separate the parts of, by cutting or tearing; to tear or cut open or off; to tear off or out by violence; as, to rip a garment by cutting the stitches; to rip off the skin of a beast; to rip up a floor; -- commonly used with up, open, off.
(v. t.) To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing.
(v. t.) To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up.
(v. t.) To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.
(n.) A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration.
(n.) A term applied to a mean, worthless thing or person, as to a scamp, a debauchee, or a prostitute, or a worn-out horse.
(n.) A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.
Example Sentences:
(1) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
(2) Tottenham MP David Lammy said the community "had the heart ripped out of it" by "mindless, mindless people", many of whom had come from outside Tottenham.
(3) Besides tolerating commercial espionage via hacking, it also allows the hosting of thousands of sites that help spammers rip people off around the world.
(4) Instead he ripped out the phone, left the couple and fled empty-handed with his accomplices.
(5) He argues that whenever you have periods of crazy expansion of virtual credit, like today, you either have to have a safety valve of forgiveness, like in Mesopotamia where you wiped the tablets clean every seven years, or you have an outbreak of social violence so intense you rip society apart.
(6) The distribution of derepression among castrated recombinant inbred strains (9 X A) indicated a close link of a locus repressing I-P-450(16 alpha) in male mice to the Rip locus on chromosome 7.
(7) It rips at our souls every single time we look the results,” said Winters, who was paid $12.8m, including a $10m buy-out award .
(8) Conformation of the renin inhibitor peptide, Pro-His-Pro-Phe-His-Phe-Phe-Val-Tyr-Lys (RIP) has been studied in aqueous solution and in lipid bilayers using 500 MHz 1H NMR spectroscopy.
(9) In chronic liver disease the frequency of HBAg with the RIP method was 83.3% in chronic persistent hepatitis, 42.8% in chronic aggressive hepatitis, 23% in cryptogenic cirrhosis and 16.6% in alcoholic cirrhosis.
(10) The former is an RNAase, whereas RIPs are N-glycosidases.
(11) Using interferon in the pretreatment sample as a measure of RIP concentration, a semilog plot of the pretreatment interferon titer and interferon subsequently produced, resulted in an approximately linear relationship between 10 and 100 units of interferon in the pretreatment sample.
(12) Clubs got into a mess partly because rich people, who knew nothing about football, put money in - and they got ripped off."
(13) Ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) are a group of proteins that inhibit protein synthesis in eucaryotic cells.
(14) Response The DfE ripped up the first draft, replacing it with technology-based programme that includes 3-D printers in secondary classrooms, while primary school pupils will design and test structures and circuits.
(15) These results demonstrate that the RIP phenomenon can be a source of new functional alleles.
(16) "Around 2009, when Twilight was huge and Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were wearing ripped jeans, that look was big, though it wasn't really from the catwalk," he said.
(17) Toward this goal performance in two 30-min rapid information processing (RIP) trials separated by a 10-min smoking period was compared among preselected high and low CO absorbing smokers, nonsmokers, and smokers not allowed to smoke (n = 12 per group).
(18) Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, said: "The Lords today have ripped the heart out of this deeply flawed flagship bill.
(19) In 10 patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome, we studied the effects on respiratory system mechanics of two levels of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP), best PEEP (BP) and half of this value (HBP), using a respiratory inductive plethysmograph (RIP) combined with a super syringe.
(20) The regulator, Monitor, is partly constrained from letting competition rip.