(n.) A tutelary deity; a deceased ancestor regarded as a protector of the family. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house; household gods. Hence, Eng.: Hearth or dwelling house.
(n.) A species of gibbon (Hylobates lar), found in Burmah. Called also white-handed gibbon.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that both exogenously applied PAF by inhalation and antigen exposure are capable of inducing LAR in sensitized guinea pigs, and thus the priming effect of immunization and PAF may contribute to the development of LAR observed in asthma.
(2) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
(3) Substitutes: Andoni Zubizarreta (Spain), Lajos Detari (Hungary), Dragan Stojkovic (Yugoslavia), Igor Belanov (USSR), Preben Elkjær Larsen (Denmark), Lars Larsson (Sweden), Alexandre Zavarov (USSR).
(4) The concentration of the eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) in their sputum did not change significantly in IAR and LAR compared with that before antigen challenge.
(5) Antonio Conte Vicente del Bosque Lars Lagerbäck Didier Deschamps Conte's Italy lost to Deschamps's France in the Euro 2000 final.
(6) Employing an animal model of the LAR in rabbits developed in our laboratory (Am Rev Respir Dis 1982; 126:493-498), we examined changes in airway reactivity and pulmonary inflammation in rabbits having a late asthmatic response.
(7) The late asthmatic response (LAR) is of special interest because it lasts for hours, is prevented by corticosteroids and not adrenergic agents, and is associated with more severe asthma as well as increases in airways responsiveness.
(8) A study of the effects of monthly administration of bromocriptine LAR is currently under progress to assess the long-term efficacy of this drug.
(9) By including the gamma 1- and gamma 2-globin gene sequences from the common gibbon, Hylobates lar, the present work expands the gamma-globin data set to represent all major groups of hominoid primates.
(10) Another group of investigators assume that non-specific hyperreactivity could contribute to the development of the LAR.
(11) All eight temperature-sensitive mutations are confined within a short segment of the LAR domain I sequence between amino acid positions 1329 and 1407.
(12) Spotify has been courting established artists for some time, with Metallica’s Lars Ulrich famously buddying up with Spotify investor Sean Parker on-stage at the announcement of his band’s exclusive deal in December 2012.
(13) Each individual was pretreated with either placebo or four inhalant anti-asthmatic drugs at random and blind in order to modulate the late asthmatic reaction (LAR).
(14) They adhered to and, when capacitated, penetrated the vestments of the oocyte of an ape--the gibbon, Hylobates lar--both in vivo and in vitro.
(15) In order to investigate the mechanism of late asthmatic response (LAR), inhibitory effects of various drugs for LAR were examined in two wheat flour-sensitive asthmatic subjects who showed immediate and late responses in the allergen provocation test and skin test.
(16) These results suggest that anti-IgE antibody is deeply involved in the elicitation of LAR, stressing the importance of eosinophilic infiltration.
(17) We have now examined whether exogenously applied PAF causes LAR in these models in vivo.
(18) After removal of the rectal lesion [eight abdominoperineal resections (APRs), nine Hartmann's procedures, and one low anterior resection (LAR)] in 18 patients with rectal cancer, this new surgical procedure was performed.
(19) LAR to Parietaria occurred in only one of 12 patients in winter, in six of 11 in summer, and in one of six patients in autumn.
(20) Although these alterations in reactivity have been proposed to be associated with inflammation, no clinical study of the LAR has shown both increased airway reactivity and evidence of pulmonary inflammation.
Lav
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Example Sentences:
(1) Of the 212 retrospective donors, six were repeatedly reactive by LAV EIA and 212 by HTLV-III EIA; only six (the six LAV EIA positive) were positive by Western blot.
(2) In the second approach, lysosomal-autophagic vacuolar (LAV) fractions were isolated from livers pretreated and perfused as above.
(3) Based on the antibody profiles of nonapeptide recognition, peptides LAV-1, RF and SF2 were clustered, as were NY5 and CDC4, and so were Z6, MAL and ELI.
(4) Seropositivity from lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) rose from under 10% in 1978 to 49% in 1984 among homosexual men attending a Colorado clinic for sexually transmitted diseases.
(5) Time-dose relations effective against HTLV-III-LAV are given.
(6) After cocultivation with sensitive CEM cells, HIV-1 LAV was rescued from six infected cell lines and HIV-1 NDK from nine.
(7) In the present study it was demonstrated that transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta), a factor known to be produced by platelets, macrophages, and other cells present at a wound site, can act as a mediator in overcoming the lymphocytotropic restriction of several well-characterized viral isolates of HIV-1 (i.e., LAV, Z84, pLAI, NY5).
(8) Lymphadenopathy, decreased skin hypersensitivity reactions, relative lymphopenia, and altered ratio of T lymphocyte subsets occurred at significantly higher rates in patients positive for LAV antibody, although such abnormalities were also encountered in LAV serologically negative patients.
(9) These cells were infected with LAV at two different input multiplicity of infection (MOI).
(10) PEPTI-LAV 1-2 has proved most useful in the diagnosis orientation in the cases of crossed reactivity between HIV-1 and HIV-2.
(11) IL-2 did not increase inhibitory activity by increasing the number of CD8+ cells or the number of CD8 molecules on the LAV cell surface but by altering the activation state of the LAV cell.
(12) Following the effect of LLU on RNA-dependent DNA polymerase, inhibition of the LAV 1 reverse transcriptase by LLU was observed.
(13) Moreover ELAT-CSG is significantly more sensitive than ELAT-LAV (P = 0.03).
(14) All three animals developed a progressively increasing type-specific neutralizing LAV-1 versus HTLV-IIIB antibody titer during the 2-year observation period which broadened in specificity to include HTLV-HIRF, HTLV-IIIMN, and HTLV-IIICC after 6 to 12 months.
(15) Several lines of evidence have indicated that the aetiological agent of AIDS is a group of T-lymphotropic retroviruses, variously known as lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV), human T-lymphotropic virus type III (HTLV-III) and AIDS-associated retrovirus (ARV).
(16) Only HIV1-NDK, and not HIV1-LAV, induced ultrastructural alterations in BDM.
(17) The discovery that the aetiological agent of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a retrovirus, referred to as human T-lymphotropic virus type III (HTLV-III) or lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) (for review see ref.
(18) An HeLa-LAV cell line was established by infecting and subcloning previously described CD4-expressing HeLa cells with HIV-1.
(19) Fragments of the transmembrane proteins gp41 of HIV-1 (HTLV-IIIB) and gp38 of HIV-2 (LAV-2 ROD) proved to be highly antigenic in the immunoblot test system.
(20) Compound 8 was also evaluated against another HIV-1 strain (HTLV-IIIRF) and HIV-2 strains (LAV-2ROD and LAV-2EHO).