(1) Former Regional director for Latin American Caribbean and Middle East, Save the Children.
(2) Latin America has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world – 95% of abortions carried out there are performed in unsafe conditions.
(3) In an anthropologic study of illness referral among Latin-American immigrants three phases were ascertained: First, there was extended use of self-treatment.
(4) The 128 children arrived from one of eight countries in Asia or Latin America at ages ranging from 1 month to 10 years; 57% were female.
(5) Massive protests in the 1990s by Indian, Latin American and south-east Asian peasant farmers, indigenous groups and their supporters put the companies on the back foot, and they were reluctantly forced to shelve the technology after the UN called for a de-facto moratorium in 2000.
(6) In most developing countries abortion is illegal, and scrutiny of hospital records on complication (a 49% rate in a study in Latin America and 46% hospitalization) is a source.
(7) We propose to name these regulatory peptides 'deprimerones' (from Latin 'deprimere') and describe various fractions of them as chromatin deprimerones, messenger deprimerones, gene deprimerones (for specific genes).
(8) We conducted a cross-sectional survey simultaneously in six Latin American nations among people living near a river known to be polluted in each country.
(9) Other onlookers shivered, recalling Iglesias’s praise for Venezuela’s late president Hugo Chávez and fearing an eruption of Latin American-style populism in a country gripped by debt, austerity and unemployment.
(10) Löw’s side became the first from Europe to claim the trophy on Latin American soil courtesy of Götze’s fine 113th-minute finish from André Schürrle’s delivery.
(11) The following three corresponding arguments are put forward in support of the upgraded placebo-concept of "aura curae" (Latin: "air of care"; "unspecific healing context").
(12) This list gives the Latin first names of all 115 cardinals.
(13) Fifty per cent of the U.S. students with diarrhea had "severe" illness (greater than or equal to 10 unformed stools in first 48 hours) compared to 23% of the Latin Americans.
(14) The methodology of the first comprehensive multicenter study into risk factors of non-communicable chronic diseases carried out in Latin America is explained.
(15) Four to six groups of 4 x 4 Latin squares were used to estimate 80%, 100% and 120% standard preparations and the recovery rates were 95-106%.
(16) His eclectic approach to songwriting means he may not produce music that is typically Bahian or even Brazilian, but alongside the likes of Argentina's Juana Molina and Colombia's Bomba Estereo , he's redefining 21st-century Latin music.
(17) Most cephalometric analysis published to date are based on studies performed by orthodontists, focused on individuals in the growth and development stages, and based mainly on individuals with morphogenetic patterns different from those of the Latin prototype.
(18) Effects of dietary fat on milk composition, particularly milk N, were evaluated using 12 lactating Holstein cows in a replicated 4 X 4 Latin-square design.
(19) Further studies are needed to know whether these results could be extrapolated to studies on past diet and to non-Latin populations.
(20) Blacks made up 46% of the population; non-Latin whites, 40.1%; and Latin-Americans, 13.9%.
Platinizing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Platinize
Example Sentences:
(1) These facts support that cis-platin was effectively transferred into the cells through Tf-R, when apotransferrin coexisted with cis-platin.
(2) The high response rate obtained is attributed to a synergistic effect of cis-platin and bleomycin administered for prolonged periods.
(3) Km values and competition experiments indicated that the enzyme bound equally well to platinated and unplatinated substrates.
(4) To enhance the efficiency and specificity of diamine methods in light microscopy, these methods were sensitized by silver enhancement in combination with trichloro(ethylene) platinate (KTP).
(5) The majority of 5-year survivors (69%) received cis-platin-containing combination chemotherapy.
(6) The cis-[Pt(NH3)2(d(GpG]] cross-link completely inhibited StuI cleavage, which was fully restored following incubation of the platinated genome with cyanide to remove platinum as [Pt(CN)4]2-.
(7) Cis-platin (DDP) has proved to be highly active in the treatment of ovarian adenocarcinoma.
(8) CHIP and carboplatin gave similar dose-response curves, both being much less toxic than cis-platin.
(9) After selective platination of d(T-C-T-C-G-G-T-C-T-C) (I) at the central d(-GpG-) site (resulting in I-Pt), several non-exchangeable base protons as well as H1', H2', H2" and H3' protons could be assigned by means of conventional NMR double-resonance techniques.
(10) Thirty-three evaluable patients with metastatic breast cancer (12 previously treated with adjuvant chemotherapy) were treated with a combination of cis-platin, doxorubicin, and cyclophosphamide (CAP).
(11) The efficiency of cis Platin (DDP) alone and in combination with Adriamycine (ADM) and Cyclophosphamid (CTX) were evaluated in a prospective randomized trial containing 173 pat.
(12) Skeletal muscle oxygenation was studied by means of a multiwire platin electrode.
(13) Adverse reactions and toxicity often associated with administration of platin were very mild, so that even patients in rather poor physical condition could have been treated.
(14) By serendipity we have had the opportunity to evaluate cis-platin-based chemotherapy in ovarian tumors of low malignant potential (LMP).
(15) We report alternative conformations that may be important in platination of duplex DNA.
(16) Under anaerobic conditions, recombinant pig liver thioltransferase (glutaredoxin)(TT, GRX) (EC 1.8.4.1) was strongly inhibited by cis and carbo-platin and somewhat less sensitive to trans-platin, in vitro.
(17) Normal healthy mice were immunized with cis-platin incubated cells and challenged to check the immunity developed.
(18) Furthermore, the kinetic data indicate that single-step addition reactions are much more impeded at the platinated d(GpG) than at the platinated d(ApG) site and that the mechanisms of inhibition of RNA polymerase activity are different at the two platinated sites.
(19) The platinated plasmids were used as templates for DNA synthesis by the DNA polymerases present in cytosolic extracts prepared from human cell lines HeLa and 293.
(20) The following compounds were investigated: 18-crown-6-tetracarboxybis-diammineplatinum(II) (CTDP), cis-aminotrismethylenephosphonato-diammine-platinum(II) (ADP), cis-diamminecyclohexano-aminotrismethylenephosphonato-platin um(II) (DAP), diethoxybis(1-phenylbutane-1,3-dionato)titanium(IV) (DBT, budotitane), trans-imidazolium-bisimidazoletetrachlororuthenate(III) (ICR), trans-indazolium-tetrachlorobisindazoleruthenate(III) (IndCR), cis-triazolium-tetrachlorobis-triazoleruthenate(III) (TCR) and trans-pyrazolium-tetrachlorobispyrazoleruthenate(III) (PCR).