(1) Several other factors known to activate neutrophils also caused down-regulation of LAM-1 and up-regulation of CD11b, including TNF, FMLP, and leukotriene B4.
(2) The serum levels of aminoterminal type III procollagen peptide (S-PIIINP), immunoreactive prolyl 4-hydroxylase protein (S-IRPH), 7S domain of collagen type IV (S-Col IV, 7S), and fragment P1 of laminin (S-Lam), which are associated with the metabolism of extracellular interstitial collagens and basement membranes, were measured sequentially for two years in 14 rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients undergoing disease modifying antirheumatic drug treatment.
(3) C-I was superior to LAM in supporting the attachment of the cells, especially of HuH-6, to plastic surfaces.
(4) Although further evaluations are required, this study suggests that the monoclonal antibodies to LAM-B may be useful in detecting mycobacteria from clinical specimens.
(5) Astragalus lusitanicus Lam lusitanicus has been reported to be toxic for mammals.
(6) As LAM was composed of Kidney-tonifying herbs, all the subjects chosen fell into the pattern of Kidney-deficiency in TCM.
(7) MAbs specific to other adherence molecules such as ICAM-1, CD2, CD58, CD4, CD8, CD11b and LAM-1 did not affect leukocyte adherence in this model.
(8) et Zucc., Z. armatum DC., Z. simulans Hance, Z. avicennae (Lam.)
(9) The authors report a case of lymphangiomatosis (LAM) proven histologically in a 49 year old female.
(10) That report said Lam, Lui and Cheung might be allowed to return to Hong Kong this week, citing unspecified sources.
(11) Some lambdoid phages and lambda mutants that overcome the interference by the lam mutations have been obtained, and were used as tools for characterizing the host mutations.
(12) Only a slight increase of LAM immunoreactivity was observed in rough endoplasmic reticulum after a long weaning period.
(13) Interestingly, granulocyte-CSF and IFN-gamma had minimal effects on neutrophil LAM-1 expression.
(14) Epstein-Barr-virus- (EBV-) positive lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) spontaneously arising in vitro were obtained from the peripheral blood of six HIV-seropositive patients and from the peripheral blood and the bone marrow of one patient (LAM) with AIDS and lymphoma.
(15) The physiologic states of Mycobacterium leprae isolated from patient biopsies were studied using single cell mass spectrometry by laser microprobe mass analysis (LAM-MA) and ATP bioluminescence assay.
(16) Pyknotic profiles are present in the ganglion cell layer during the first 2 postnatal weeks, reaching peak numbers during the first 4 postnatal days (corresponding to the time of greatest loss of ganglion cells and their axons: Potts et al., '82; Lam et al., '82; Perry et al., '83).
(17) Gui Minhai: the strange disappearance of a publisher who riled China's elite Read more Five Hong Kong booksellers – Gui Minhai, Lee Bo, Lui Bo, Cheung Ji-ping and Lam Wing-kei – who specialised in books criticising China’s Communist party elite have vanished since October.
(18) The expression and regulation of LAM-1 on granulocytes, monocytes, and their precursors was investigated using flow cytometry and the anti-LAM-1.1 mAb.
(19) We have found that laminin and a pepsin fragment of laminin (P-lam) contain distinct sites for HT-1080 human fibrosarcoma cell attachment and for neurite outgrowth activity of PC12 and NG108-15 cell lines.
(20) A sequence was identified that is sufficient for amdR regulation and that shows identity with sequences involved in amdR regulation of the gatA and lam genes.
Thresh
Definition:
(v. t.) To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw.
(v. t.) To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.
(v. t.) To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.
(v. t.) Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.
(v. t. & i.) Same as Thrash.
Example Sentences:
(1) In late July and early August 1990, an outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred among persons who had eaten a meal while attending an agricultural threshing show in North Dakota on July 28-29.
(2) In Nepal, the traditional way to process rice is to use the same cows that plow the field – they thresh rice by walking over the stalks.
(3) I don’t think I can continue with something that is no longer moving forward.” If he does, it will spell the end for a collection that spans the 93 years since paper discs were introduced in 1921 and includes samples from fire engines, ambulances and threshing machines.
(4) Farmer's lung, caused by the inhalation of microspores--particularly of the genus, Thermoactinomyces--has been recognised for the past 30-40 years as a condition affecting adult farm workers, especially up to the mid-sixties when undried crops were still threshed indoors.
(5) 50 patients acquired the infection during common farming activities, such as making fresh hay with a hay-cutter, handling dry hay, threshing, etc.
(6) The following substances were found to play a causal role in the development of asthma in exposed persons: penicillin dust, dust inhaled during the threshing of grain, persulfate, formalin, inorganic cooling agents.
(7) At the onset of sweating, the tympanic threshold temperature (Tty,thresh) was higher in the L phase [37.18 (SEM 0.08) degrees C] than in the F phase [36.95 (SEM 0.07) degrees C; P less than 0.01].
(8) Women and children play behind the high mud walls of the old houses, the men thresh the wheat, teenagers pick walnuts and the water coming straight off the snowy mountains high above the village gurgles through the irrigation canals.
(9) Three neat rows of long grass in his garden are purple free-threshing spelt, grown from the "one handful of the seed in the world".
(10) A 5% level of significance was statistically recognized in the thresh old at 35 min after light adaptation between the stages IIIa and IIIb of retinopathy.
(11) Heydi had fallen in a rice-threshing machine as a baby and suffered permanent brain damage.
(12) The magnitude of the shift in Tty,thresh [0.23 (SEM 0.07) degrees C] was similar to the L-F difference in Tty observed at the end of the N exposure.
(13) The chef spent several hours studying Forbes's Heath Robinson set-up – including a threshing machine made out of BMX bike rims, scooter wheels, a Chinese sewing machine, and a rubber mat used for wiping shoes outside hospitals – and announced he would buy as much bread as Forbes was willing to sell.
(14) There are small businesses that provide a mobile threshing service, reducing post-harvest losses to less than 20%.