(1) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
(2) During both influx and efflux experiments the lenses of both groups released a small of proteins, but no difference found between the two groups.
(3) The contra-indications for them are: 1. a better visual acuity with spectacles than with contact lenses, 2. advanced cases (4th degree of Amsler) whose fitting is impossible, 3. unilateral keratoconus, 4. associated diseases such as trachomatous pannus, allergic kerato-conjunctivitis.
(4) Eyes exposed to ultraviolet radiation with their lenses intact were devoid of significant retinal lesions.
(5) The strong magnetic field of the super-conducting MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) apparatus could cause problems in the presence of metallic foreign material, such as the metal clips and loops of intraocular lenses and steel as suturing material.
(6) The general efficacy of this intraocular lens compared with other anterior chamber lenses was not addressed in this study.
(7) Fifty-five myopic naval personnel with no previous contact lens experience were put through a three-week study using these contact lenses.
(8) The results showed that dogfish lenses developed superficial opacities due to near-UV exposure.
(9) Lenses with inserted flexible open loops (e.g., Dubroff) have only been implanted in small series, but the results have been quite good.
(10) Gas trapping and corneal edema were not observed in uncovered corneas or corneas covered with membrane lenses.
(11) Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) levels and subunit isozyme patterns in cornea were monitored in 36 albino rabbits wearing thick, rigid, gas-permeable contact lenses for periods of 24 h, 2 and 7 days, and 1 and 3 months.
(12) The two most common complications have been poor centering of the lenses and deposits on the lenses.
(13) Developmental regulation of crystallin protein synthesis was observed in rat lenses between embryonic day 19 and postnatal day 21.
(14) Because contact lenses present a management problem, this method of dispensation will be used only for selected cases.
(15) Soft lenses also provide the options of disposability and of iris color change.
(16) Recent reports incriminating Acanthamoeba, a small free-living amoeba, wide-spread in environmental soils and waters, in acanthamoebic keratitis cases wearing soft contact lenses, drew attention to cleaning solutions for contact lenses.
(17) The vacuum flask method of using boiling water to decontaminate soft contact lenses is better and less expensive than other ways of using moist heat and can be safely and effectively applied under most domestic circumstances.
(18) They must also instruct patients not to wear extended wear lenses longer than 7 days at a time and to allow for an overnight respite from lens wear after this period of use.
(19) With the help of yellow contact lenses, a false beard, nose and teeth, he has taken on the demeanour of a feral animal.
(20) After doing, over the past two years, 55 Copeland iris plane lenses combined with intracapsular cataract extraction, I find it to be a relatively simple procedure.
Lentil
Definition:
(n.) A leguminous plant of the genus Ervum (Ervum Lens), of small size, common in the fields in Europe. Also, its seed, which is used for food on the continent.
Example Sentences:
(1) The purification entails cell lysis and solubilization of gpL115 with the detergent Nonidet P-40, sequential affinity chromatography on lentil lectin-Sepharose, wheat germ lectin-Sepharose, and, after treatment with sialidase, on peanut lectin-Sepharose.
(2) The AFP of this case was characterized by relative increases of concanavalin A-nonreactive AFP-C1 (60.4%), erythroagglutinating phytohemagglutinin-reactive AFP-P4 (37.8%) and AFP-P5 (46.3%) and Allomyrina dichotoma lectin-nonreactive AFP-A1s (66.7%), and by the total absence of lentil lectin-reactive components, AFP-L2 and AFP-L3.
(3) From Pakistan to Bangladesh, from Sri Lanka to the West Indies, red lentils, green lentils, split peas, mung beans, kidney beans, chick peas and others are being turned into dhals.
(4) With regard to Net Protein Ratio (NPR), chick peas had a value of 4.03, followed by Tórtola beans (3.29), Coscorrón (3.09) and lentils (2.61).
(5) When parent T cells were propagated with crude IL 2, which contained glycosylation enhancing factor (GEF), IgE binding factors formed by all of the five hybridomas had affinity for Con A, but only a fraction of the factors bound to lentil lectin.
(6) The plasma membrane components of five human B-cell lines and three human T-cell lines were separated by dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, incubated with the radioactive labeled lectins from lentil, castor bean, wheat germ, Phaseolus bean, peanut, gorse and the Roman snail and the molecular weights of the binding sites determined.
(7) Serum AFP did not bind to Con A or Lentil-lectin by affinity chromatography.
(8) Modi Mwatsama, UK Health Forum Rather than upping our chicken consumption, Mwatsama advises people to switch to healthier sources of protein with low or no saturated fats, such as pulses, beans, lentils, chickpeas and buckwheat, which also provide a good source of fibre.
(9) Three differently glycosylated forms of renin (renin A, B-1, and B-2) were highly purified from rat kidneys by pepstatin-aminohexyl-Sepharose affinity chromatography and by serial lectin affinity chromatography on concanavalin A (con A) and lentil lectin-Sepharose, and the role of glycosylation of renin was investigated.
(10) Growth factors contained in Con A(concanavalin A)-conditioned media (CM) maintain exponential growth in T cell blasts derived from mitogen stimulation of spleen cells with Con A, phytohemagglutinin, lentil lectin and pokeweed mitogen (PWM), as well as from mixed lymphocyte reactions to H-2D or I-C-encoded determinants and from non-H-2 Mls locus-controlled reactions.
(11) Conformation and conformational transitions of phytohemagglutinins (lectins) from Arachis hypogaea (peanut), Lens culinaris (lentil), Glycine max (soybean), and Ricinus communis (castor bean) were studied by the circular dichroism probe.
(12) While Auden and Britten are much grander characters than, say, Maggie Smith's nervy vicar's wife in Bed Among the Lentils or Thora Hird's Doris in A Cream Cracker Under the Settee trying to stave off the care home, they share the same disappointments – loneliness, self-doubt, age.
(13) Lentil lectins had a greater inhibitory effect than pea lectins.
(14) Synergism was also observed between PMA and suboptimum concentrations of phytohaemagglutinin (PHA), wheat germ agglutinin (WGA), pokeweed mitogen (PWM) and Bandeiraea simplicifolia seed extract (BSS), but not with concanavalin A (Con A), lentil lectin (LL) or Helix pomatia lectin (HP).
(15) Wheat germ, alfalfa seeds and plant protein mixture resulted in an intermediate incidence of diabetes of 33%; the incidence was lower for Brewer's yeast and lentils (20% and 13%).
(16) We report a technique for the isolation of plasma membranes from gel-filtered platelets exposed to thrombin, using 125I-labeled lentil lectin as an external marker.
(17) The net protein utilization of whole lentils and chick peas were 38 and 53, respectively.
(18) A statistically significant inverse relationship was found between the risk of skin cancer and a high intake of fish (p = 0.05); vegetables in general (p < 0.001); beans, lentils, or peas (p < 0.001), carrots, silverbeet (Swiss chard), or pumpkin (p < 0.001); cruciferous vegetables (cabbage, brussel sprouts, or broccoli) (p < 0.001); and beta-carotene- and vitamin C-containing foods (p = 0.004).
(19) The protein can be radioiodinated, however, it does not appear to blind to lentil lectin.
(20) The rEC-SOD produced is type C, since its affinity for heparin-Sepharose was identical to that of nEC-SOD type C. Both enzymes bound to concanavalin A, lentil lectin, and wheat germ lectin and are thus glycoproteins.