(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.
Lax
Definition:
(v. t.) Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber.
(v. t.) Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal.
(v. t.) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
(n.) A looseness; diarrhea.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
(2) These blood flow and temperature changes also occurred when ELV animals were subjected to simultaneous LAX.
(3) The universal credit scheme has been overseen by "alarmingly weak" management, with systems so lax that a secretary was allowed to authorise purchase orders worth £23m , according to the public accounts committee.
(4) Approximately 27% of the individuals had 1 lax joint, whereas only 3% possessed all 5 features.
(5) Traders, enabled by lax futures regulations, are perhaps the only people to see the bright side of the beating sun.
(6) The retracted lower eyelid is tight in contrast to the lax lower eyelid of the common involutional ectropion.
(7) Roundish cells, appearing to be myofibroblasts surrounded by a more lax connective tissue and elastic fibers, were found close to the Dacron threads.
(8) Although only flights to Sharm have been suspended, there is worry about Egyptian airports in general over alleged lax screening amid heightened fears over terrorism, a security source said.
(9) The coroner cited "inadequate" training and "lax" supervision as factors in the tragedies.
(10) These include eyelid laxity with or without atrophic orbicularis muscle tone, lax canthal tendons, hypoplastic malar eminences, unrecognized Graves' ophthalmopathy, unilateral high myopia, or the secondary blepharoplasty.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump comments on death of Dwyane Wade’s cousin – video Welcome to Iowa, where Trump's purple patch could turn a blue state red Read more Pence rejected a suggestion by CNN host Jake Tapper that lax gun safety laws in his own state, Indiana, may be stoking violence in Chicago.
(12) Obama administration officials had promised to toughen the lax environmental regulations of the George Bush era.
(13) This decade, on the other hand, has been relatively lax when it comes to pumping out neuron-destroying musical inanity.
(14) The apparently lax oversight of the company's financial regime by the energy regulator was heavily criticised last week by Tim Yeo, the former chairman of parliament's energy and climate change committee.
(15) The examination of parental attitude in dealing with the possibility of accidents (instructive, lax or repressive) did not allow us to demonstrate in any significant way the influence of these attitudes on accidental morbidity.
(16) To date, they have been too lax, and moved too slowly, allowing racists a free rein.” Cooper called on “companies like Twitter to take stronger action against hate crimes on their platforms”.
(17) All emergency department, LAX first-aid station, and paramedic records were examined.
(18) Why so tough on skilled migrants and so lax on boat arrivals?
(19) Analysts have for years been complaining about what they believe to be lax accounting standards in Britain's travel industry, where one-off write-offs are not uncommon.
(20) In order to address those concerns the two companies gave up gate slots and takeoffs at major US airports including Washington DC’s Reagan national, New York’s LaGuardia, Boston's Logan and LAX in Los Angeles.