(1) CNS excitation and seizures, manifestations of organochlorine intoxication, can occur following ingestion or inappropriate application of the 1 per cent topical formulation of lindane used to treat scabies and lice.
(2) Twelve days after the first treatment the second treatment was carried out and the presence of head lice was examined for the evaluation of treatment effect.
(3) Subjects were inspected for evidence of live lice and eggs at 24 hours and 3 to 4 weeks after application of treatment.
(4) Over 60 forms of parasites were found out as follows: three species of blood parasites, 12 species of Coccidia, 8 species of cestodes, 12 species of nematodes, one species of Acanthocephalus, three species of chigger mites, 15 species of gamasid mites, 6 species of ixodid ticks, fleas and lice.
(5) Each group was exposed to 6 sheep with moderate to heavy infestations of lice.
(6) As these subjects were free of live lice infestation at previous follow-up visits it was highly probable that these were cases of re-infestation from another source.
(7) After postcuing, subjects sometimes report lane or lice, instead of the requested word line.
(8) Mortality with control solutions varied between 4 and 16% for both lice and eggs.
(9) Boys with medium length hair and girls with short hair showed the highest incidence of lice infestation.
(10) While we know today that lice do not discriminate between clean and dirty hair, parents and professionals react very negatively to the condition, and this feeling is transferred to children as indicated by their drawings.
(11) In summary, head lice can be readily infected with R. prowazeki and disseminate virulent R. prowazeki organisms in their feces.
(12) Groups of sheep infested with strains of Bovicola (Damalinia) ovis were obtained from flocks either with a history of failure to control lice with synthetic pyrethroid (SP) pour-on insecticides, or from farms where SP compounds were not used.
(13) The results indicate that both products are effective in the treatment of head lice infection and that the phenothrin shampoo would be a useful addition to the insecticides currently employed.
(14) The host specificity of the group is reviewed, including features of the natural history of lice and their hosts that may have influenced the evolution of host-parasite associations.
(15) If a practical method of applying the insecticide to the tip of wool can be developed, then this technique should provide an effective means of eradicating lice in sheep with long wool.
(16) They included the analyses of two nursing cows and their two newborn pups, three 2-month-old pups, and the sucking lice inhabiting these animals, Antarctophthirus callorhini and Proechinophthirus fluctus.
(17) Evaluation of the intervention program revealed a significant success in reducing head lice infestation that was not influenced by variation in socioeconomic status or place of residence.
(18) Between Days 5 and 9, 13 head lice were dead or moribund and all of them were positive by IF for R. prowazeki.
(19) of whom 2 patients (16.7%) gave positive skin reactions to lice extracts.
(20) Living lice and eggs were found in 19% of 2643 children examined in Israel.
Slice
Definition:
(v. t.) A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.
(v. t.) That which is thin and broad, like a slice.
(v. t.) A broad, thin piece of plaster.
(v. t.) A salver, platter, or tray.
(v. t.) A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
(v. t.) A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
(v. t.) One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
(v. t.) A removable sliding bottom to galley.
(v. t.) To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.
(v. t.) To cut into parts; to divide.
(v. t.) To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace.
Example Sentences:
(1) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
(2) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(3) This difference was abolished by exposure of the slices to propranolol, a beta-adrenergic receptor antagonist.
(4) All three compounds were also very similar in their effects on [3H]5HT release from superfused rat striatal slices.
(5) Intoxicating concentrations of ethanol also inhibit excitatory synaptic transmission mediated by N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in hippocampal slices from adult rodents.
(6) The present in vitro studies show that it is found as beta-endorphin in bovine pituitary slices incubated with radioactive amino acid precursor [35S]methionine.
(7) This provides a direct display, in the viewing plane, of the slice profile.
(8) In the longitudinal direction, however, spatial resolution of under slice thickness could not be obtained.
(9) Tubules and cells were released from slices of kidney cortex by collagenase.
(10) To determine the severity of regurgitation by dynamic MRI, several parameters were analyzed, including the number of slices with visible signal loss, the time course of the signal loss, and its maximal area and maximal volume.
(11) This study evaluated the in vitro renin release, tissue cyclic AMP content (TcAMPc), and tissue renin content (TRC) changes with time, in response to administration of dopamine (DOP) and of the dopamine-receptor blocking agent pimozide (PIM) to renal cortical slices from sodium deficient (SD) rats.
(12) The Press Association tots up a total of £26bn in asset sales last year – including the state’s Eurostar stake, 30% of the Royal Mail and a slice of Lloyds.
(13) The effect of p-nitrophenylphosphate (p-NPP) on the release of acetylcholine evoked by drugs and ionic environments known to inhibit Na+, K+-ATPase was studied in isolated cortical slices of rat brain and longitudinal muscle strip of guinea-pig ileum.
(14) Prostate slices were perfused with a medium containing [(3)H]testosterone and [(14)C]androstenedione, or 5alpha-dihydro-[(3)H]testosterone and [(14)C]testosterone.
(15) The adenylate cyclase activator forskolin as well as 8-bromo-cyclic AMP enhanced the electrically evoked release of 3H-noradrenaline and 3H-5-hydroxytryptamine from superfused rat neocortical slices and that of 3H-dopamine from neostriatal slices with comparable EC50's of about 0.5 and 50 microM, respectively, without affecting spontaneous tritium efflux.
(16) Aspartate levels and release from rat striatal slices following the inhibition of glutamine synthetase (GS) by methionine sulfoximine (MSO) were studied.
(17) The effects of stimulus-evoked potassium release on the excitability of presynaptic axons were studied in the rat hippocampal slice preparation.
(18) The A1-selective agonist R-(-)N6-(2-phenylisopropyl)adenosine (10 microM) decreased 100 microM NMDA-evoked [3H]norepinephrine release by 27%; this was reversed by the P1 antagonist 8-phenyltheophylline (8-PT, 10 microM), indicating that NMDA-evoked norepinephrine release from cortical slices is susceptible to purinergic modulation.
(19) In vitro addition of denbufylline (10(-8)-10(-4) M) produced no significant change in [3H]choline uptake in striatal slices, while denbufylline (10(-4) M) increased high (20 mM) potassium-evoked endogenous ACh release from striatal slices.
(20) Under the electron microscope, slices appeared vacuolated near the cut surfaces, but well preserved internally (greater than 40 micron from the edge).