(adv.) Gladly; willingly; freely; -- now used only in the phrases, had as lief, and would as lief; as, I had, or would, as lief go as not.
Example Sentences:
(1) Radio 2 listeners recently voted Liege and Lief the most influential folk album ever.
(2) Liege and Lief, released in 1969, had such an air of confidence that it actually made English folk music vaguely hip for a while - no mean feat given the English loathing for their own folk traditions.
(3) Lief motif of this paper is the search for deficits in psychomotor growth in propositi of four and six years old, finding an important relation between neonatal bacterial meningitis and neuropsychological deficits (hyperkinesia, perceptive area impairment, reading-writing disorders, etc.)
(4) The instrument used was the Sexual Knowledge and Attitude Test (SKAT; Lief & Reed, 1972).
(5) The test was originally designed in 1967 by Harold I. Lief, MD and David Reed, PhD, at the Center for the Study of Sex Education in Medicine, Marriage Council of Philadelphia.
Lif
Definition:
(n.) The fiber by which the petioles of the date palm are bound together, from which various kinds of cordage are made.
Example Sentences:
(1) Removal of T cells with anti-T-cell serum eliminated LIF activity, indicating that in humans it is probably the T cell that produces LIF.
(2) Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) are multifunctional cytokines with many similar activities.
(3) Similarities between the LIF spectra of atherosclerotic plaque and collagen and normal aorta and elastin were noted.
(4) LIF inhibits differentiation under several conditions which lead to endodermal and mesodermal cell lineages including skeletal and cardiac muscle.
(5) In both actively growing and growth-arrested rat osteoblasts, LIF stimulated [3H]thymidine incorporation in a dose-dependent manner.
(6) Binding of activation protein (AP)-1 and NF-IL-6, also known to transcriptionally activate the IL-6 promoter, was not inducible by LIF.
(7) The 4.0-kb LIF transcript from TE cell-derived total RNA corresponded in size to the LIF transcripts in PMA-activated T lymphocytes.
(8) A hypothesis is formulated that Concanavalin A-induced release of LIF may reflect the competence of suppressor T-lymphocytes in man.
(9) alpha-N-benzoyl-L-arginine ethylester (BAEE), a typical trypsin substrate, and bis-p-nitrophenyl phosphate (BNPP), a phosphodiester, were the only esters capable of retaining LIF activity in the presence of PMSF.
(10) The site of the most abundant LIF expression is the uterine endometrial glands, specifically on day 4 of pregnancy.
(11) The variation of the sensitivity of radiochromic film with photon energy is considerably less than that for silver halide film and similar to that for LiF TLDs, but in the opposite direction.
(12) Both T and B lymphocytes are known to produce leukocyte migration inhibitory factor (LIF) after appropriate activation.
(13) Preliminary characterization of these mediators by Sephadex G-100 gel filtration suggests that they are similar to antigen- and concanavalin A-induced MIF and LIF, eluting in the 25000 m.w.
(14) -- Cord blood lymphocytes show a normal capacity to elaborate the two lymphocytes LIF and LMF.
(15) Recombinant LIF improves the development of murine and ovine blastocysts in culture although there is some species specificity with respect to the type of LIF that is bioactive.
(16) Only one, the thrombin- and trypsin-specific benzoyl-phenylalanyl-valyl-agarine-p-nitroanilide, possessed high affinity for the LIF molecule and may therefore prove to be a potent substrate for this lymphokine.
(17) B cells might store presynthetized LIF in lysosomic granulae which will be degranulated very early after activation.
(18) The ovine and porcine LIF genes were cloned, sequenced and compared to the previously published murine and human LIF gene sequences.
(19) Leukemia inhibitory factor, LIF, is a glycoprotein with multiple activities in both the adult and the embryo.
(20) Biologically active LIF is present in synovial fluids from patients with osteoarthritis and at higher titers in samples from patients with rheumatoid arthritis.