(n.) A doctrine or theory; especially, a wild or visionary theory.
Example Sentences:
(1) Enhancer sequences analysed using the informational spectrum method (ISM) show a characteristic frequency at .0488.
(2) Today, Britain is broke and broken, everyone's on the scam and excessive right on-ism is forcing ordinary Britons into retreat.
(3) "The ISM noted that some of the recent strength is due to the effects of the accelerated investment depreciation tax allowance, which expired at the end of last year.
(4) A single application of ouabain (10 microM) to CA3 by local pressure ejection caused a slow rise in local [K+]o measured with K-ISMs.
(5) In conclusion, a single oral dose of 60 mg of sustained-release ISM-R seems to be an effective drug in the treatment of effort angina, its effectiveness lasting more than 10 hours without side effects.
(6) A retrospective autopsy study of 627 patients with systemic cancer disclosed 153 patients with metastasis to the central nervous system (CNS) and 13 patients with intramedullary spinal cord metastasis (ISM).
(7) The purpose of these studies was to examine metastatic potentials of a human colon tumor xenograft (T6) and three different human tumor cell lines (LS174T, HT29 and A549) using the intrasplenic-nude mouse model system (ISMS model system).
(8) Both the ISM and Markit found that factory growth picked up last month.
(9) Of 104 patients, 10 developed ISM, with a 1-year actuarial risk of 25%.
(10) The case described suggests that this method of radiologic investigation can provide a prompt identification of ISM from other noncompressive complications of systemic cancers.
(11) One system that has proven to be very amenable for the study of PCD is the intersegmental muscle (ISM) of the tobacco hawkmoth Manduca sexta.
(12) This paper reports a study of the recall and precision of the source selection elements in the prototype version of the ISM.
(13) Intramedullary spinal cord metastasis (ISM) is an unusual cause of myelopathy, in comparison to the common problem of extramedullary metastasis.
(14) In the superfusate at 20 microns above the inner limiting membrane (ILM), current-evoked delta[K+] was a function of current polarity and strength; its amplitude decreased as the K-ISM was moved higher above the ILM.
(15) The Irish term for this is 'mé féin-ism', or 'myself-ism', a play on Sinn Féin, or 'we ourselves'.
(16) This is very important for radiation treatment which can be effective in the early stages of ISM.
(17) One of the upregulated presumptive cell-death genes encodes polyubiquitin, which appears to play a critical role in the rapid proteolysis that accompanies ISM death.
(18) Dietrologia” – which translates, roughly, to “behind-ism” – refers to the belief that the official explanation for any set of events is almost invariably the wrong one.
(19) This ISM-based technique also may be useful in measuring K+ turnover in other cell types.
(20) When patients with ISM are diagnosed premorbidly, they usually have a previously known or concurrently diagnosable primary neoplasm.
Osm
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) These preliminary experiments suggest that oSm is similar to IGF-I in its binding characteristics and that primary cultures of skeletal muscle satellite cells possess type I and type II IGF receptors.
(2) IL-6, oncostatin M (OSM) and G-CSF also induce differentiation of M1 cells.
(3) Eggs also hatched readily in 1- to 50-m OsM solutions of urea, sucrose, sodium chloride, and glycerol, but hatching was inhibited at higher concentrations unless the eggs were left in solutions for long periods of time.
(4) We have detected significant similarities in the primary amino acid sequences and predicted secondary structures of OSM, leukemia-inhibitory factor (LIF), granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), and interleukin 6 (IL-6).
(5) Prognostically unfavorable MM and OSM values were found, predicting the possible lethal outcome.
(6) The antibody bound to ovine and bovine submaxillary mucins (OSM and BSM).
(7) We demonstrate that, like LIF, IL-6 and G-CSF, OSM can induce the differentiation of the myeloblastic M1 murine leukemia cells into macrophage-like cells.
(8) In the few hypercalcemic dogs in whom GFR was very low, I believe that injury to, and blockage of medullary tubules could account for most of the reduction in maximum U(Osm).
(9) Carboxymethylated OSM when deglycosylated by this method gives an apomucin with an apparent molecular weight of ca.
(10) The authors compare the efficacies of methods for assessing osmolality (OSM) and analysis of medium molecules (MM) in the prediction of the post-stroke period course in the first 7 days from the stroke onset.
(11) The experimental animals' body weight was significantly lower than that of controls with the same food consumption and their water intake and urine flow were much higher, especially after M. Sodium (and to a lesser extent potassium) excretion was raised at the outset of administration of both the test substances and again after the 5th to 8th dose, but only after M. After three weeks' administration of M. SNa, SK and S(osm) values were within normal limits.
(12) During hypertonic saline infusion plasma AVP levels correlated with P osM (R = .87, P less than .01, n = 8), suggesting some residual osmotic regulation of AVP release.
(13) The respective reflectance photoelectric outputs were used to make an internal calibration curve of the instrument relative to the arterial oxygen saturation values measured with a Co-Oximeter (OSM-3) in five healthy nonsmoking subjects during steady-state hypoxaemia.
(14) A significant change in p-osm caused a significant change in pAVP and vice versa.
(15) The linear viscoelastic and rheological properties of high molecular weight ovine submaxillary mucin (OSM) solution have been investigated in terms of the Newtonian steady-flow viscosity [eta(gamma)], the complex oscillatory viscosity [eta*(omega)], and the storage and loss shear moduli [G'(omega) and G"(omega)].
(16) Operant drinking and lysine vasopressin (LVP) release were investigated in minipigs following intracerebroventricular (ICV) injections of hypertonic equiosmolar (1.4 osM) solutions of NaCl and of sucrose and mannitol dissolved in 0.15 M NaCl or water, and of urea dissolved in 0.15 M NaCl.
(17) The correlation between delta-OsM and serum EtOH was 0.968 in 151 patients in whom EtOH was detected.
(18) MLS 128 bound to mucin glycopeptides from LS 180 cells and their asialo forms to the same extent as well as to ovine submaxillary mucin (OSM) and asialo OSM.
(19) Respiratory compensation of the pH change further increases Osm.
(20) The OSM 3 Hemoximeter gives much more accurate determinations of HbCO than the IL 282 Co-Oximeter in the presence of SHb.