(n.) Any one of several species of small, slender, marine fishes of the genus Ammedytes. The common European species (A. tobianus) and the American species (A. Americanus) live on sandy shores, buried in the sand, and are caught in large quantities for bait. Called also launce, and sand eel.
(n.) See Lanterloo.
Example Sentences:
(1) • Lant Pritchett is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and professor of the practice of international development at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government
(2) The order of potency was neurotensin-(8-13) greater than neurotensin greater than xenopsin greater than neuromedin N greater than LANT-6.
(3) The present results indicate that LANT-6 is in ganglion cells and that it may play a role in neurotransmission between retinal ganglion cells and their central target areas.
(4) Radioimmunoassay and chromatographic studies confirmed the presence of LANT-6-related peptides in the turtle brain and corroborated the reduction of LANT-6 observed in the contralateral tectum following monocular enucleation.
(5) Furthermore, xenopsin, LANT-6 and neuromedin N each inhibited the specific binding of [3H]neurotensin to intact N1E-115 cells in a dose-related fashion.
(6) Economist Lant Pritchett on Sheryl Sandberg Sheryl was working in Larry Summers 's office at the World Bank, but he was busy most of the time, so I guess I was an intermediary boss.
(7) | Lant Pritchett Read more “I want my daughters to study in segregated classes but I’m compelled to send them to school regardless.
(8) Previous studies have demonstrated that LANT-6-related material is present in cells of the ganglion cell layer in a variety of vertebrates.
(9) Several molecular forms of LANT-6 were observed, some larger than LANT-6.
(10) Immunocytochemical techniques demonstrated that many of the cells in the ganglion cell layer of the turtle retina could be labeled with an antiserum specific for LANT-6.
(11) The order of affinity of the peptides for the neurotensin receptor was neurotensin-(8-13) greater than xenopsin greater than neurotensin greater than neuromedin N greater than LANT-6.
(12) Second, the central projections of LANT-6-positive cells of the ganglion cell layer were examined by studying the effects of monocular enucleation on the distribution of LANT-6-positive fibers in the central projection targets of the turtle retina.
(13) The LANT-6 immunoreactive cell bodies (12-22 microns) were either oval-, round- or pyriform-shaped and were situated in ganglion cell layer.
(14) This study investigated the presence of the neurotensin-related hexapeptide, LANT-6, in retinal ganglion cells and their central projections in the turtle Pseudemys scripta elegans.
(15) The present report concerns the immunocytochemical staining of vertebrate retinas using an antiserum directed against LANT-6.
(16) Immunoblots showed that the antiserum recognized the original antigen as well as the related peptides neuromedin N and lysine 8- arginine 9- neurotensin 10-13 (LANT-6).
(17) Two to 8 weeks after enucleation, a substantial reduction in LANT-6-positive fibers was observed in all retinal target areas contralateral to the enucleated eye.
(18) The vast majority of the pallidal neurons of the hamster, pigeon, caiman and turtle basal telencephalon were positively labeled by an antiserum against LANT-6, a neurotensin-like hexapeptide.
(19) Multiple chromatographic analyses indicated that while the LANT-6-like immunoreactivity in chicken retina was indistinguishable from synthetic LANT-6, LANT-6-like immunoreactivity in turtle and goldfish retinas was primarily associated with large molecular forms.
(20) The present immunocytochemical localization of LLI within cells in the inner nuclear and ganglion cell layers, coupled with the biochemical characterization of LANT-6 in the vertebrate retinas and brains, suggests that neuropeptides such as LANT-6 may play a role in visual processing both within the retina and within the visual pathways to the brain.
Lat
Definition:
(v. t.) To let; to allow.
Example Sentences:
(1) LATS was measured with the double isotope technique in IgG serum concentrates of 23 patients with Graves' disease before treatment and of 18 patients during treatment with carbimazole and triiodothyronine.
(2) More importantly, this study reports the first detection of LAT in RNA extracted from 9% of corneas from latently infected rabbits (n = 22) by the polymerase chain reaction.
(3) Conversely, MS patients, especially those in AF, appear to be at high risk of harboring an LAT.
(4) Out of 50 consecutive untreated patients with diffuse toxic goitre 15 showed long-acting thyroid stimulator (LATS), 30 showed LATS protector only, and five showed neither.
(5) VO2max and lactate threshold workload (LaT) of six subjects were assessed on a Monark ergometer.
(6) The number of herpes simplex virus (HSV) genome equivalents recovered from latently infected mouse spinal ganglia was compared with the proportion of neurons containing latency-associated transcripts (LATs).
(7) The serum levels of LATS and thyroid hormones were high.
(8) latex agglutination test (LAT), two indirect hemagglutination tests (IHAT) (Carter-Wallace, USA and Ismunit, Italy), enzyme immunoassay (EIA) and indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT).
(9) Using herpes simplex viruses deleted and restored for the latency-associated transcripts (LATs), we have quantitatively assessed the role of the transcripts in establishment and maintenance of latent infection.
(10) These results indicate that HSV-1 LAT expression is not an absolute requirement for establishment of the latent state.
(11) The cAMP-PDE activity in the thyroid significantly increased in both the LATS and TSH groups, but the cGMP-PDE activity was unchanged.
(12) Furthermore, LAT effectively inhibits transactivation of gene expression by infected-cell polypeptide 0 in transient transfection assays.
(13) We evaluated two LATs (Accu-Staph; Carr-Scarborough, Decatur, Ga.; Staphaurex; Wellcome, Dartford, England) with particular emphasis on their ability to correctly identify oxacillin-resistant S. aureus.
(14) There is strong evidence in favour of the hypothesis that lat molecules function as components of the T receptor for self Ia proteins in a I-restricted manner.
(15) Actually, positive rate in LAT was higher than that in DP among clinical specimens in which M. pneumoniae was detected by culture method.
(16) When 3-5 volumes of 0.5% Rivanol solution were mixed to serum containing TSH or LATS activity, LATS activity remained mainly with IgG in the supernatant fraction.
(17) All of these features of the LATs in humans are consistent with those reported in rabbits and mice and further validate the animal models of human HSV-1 infection.
(18) The long-acting thyroid stimulator (LATS) has been thought to be responsible for the hyperthyroidism of Graves's disease.
(19) Demonstration of LATS in the serum, slightly increased serum-triiodothyronine-levels, failure of normal response to TRH and an abnormal triiodothyronine-suppression test in euthyroid ophthalmopathy may herald the manifestation of hyperthyroidism at some later time.
(20) Most patients have elevated levels of LATS in their serum; however, this appears to be a marker for the disease, rather than a cause.