(n.) The line traced by a point which varies its position according to some determinate law; the surface described by a point or line that moves according to a given law.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fine structure of neurofibrillary tangles in the hippocampal gyrus, substantia nigra, pontine nuclei and locus coeruleus of the brain was postmortem studied in a case of progressive supranuclear palsy.
(2) Large gender differences were found in the correlations between the RAS, CR, run frequency, and run duration with the personality, mood, and locus of control scores.
(3) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
(4) The Notch locus in Drosophila encodes a transmembrane protein required for the determination of cell fate in ectodermal cells.
(5) The second protein could represent either an allozymic form of the enzyme or the product of a distinct locus.
(6) The availability of locus-specific probes should significantly expand the role of minisatellite markers in population biology.
(7) The effects of clozapine on the spontaneous firing rate of noradrenergic (NE, locus coeruleus), dopaminergic (DA, zona compacta, ventral tegmental area) and non-dopaminergic (zona reticulata) neurons was studied in chloral hydrate anesthetized rats.
(8) Twenty-nine deletion breakpoints were mapped in 220 kb of the DXS164 locus relative to potential exons of the Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy gene.
(9) Mice homozygous for mutations at either locus exhibit several phenotypic abnormalities including a virtual absence of mast cells.
(10) These data suggest that increased TNF production may be responsible for endotoxin hypersensitivity in TCDD-treated mice and that the Ah locus mediates this response.
(11) (3) Two RFLP defined patterns of the DQA1 locus, DQA1.5 (DQA1*0501) and DQA1.8 (DQA1*0401, *0601) are strongly associated with the disease.
(12) Interspecific hybridization between sexual species carrying different b-alleles and producing different B subunits may be responsible for the heterozygosity at the lactate dehydrogenase b-locus in diploid parthenogenetic Cnemidophours.
(13) These findings are consistent with reports that implicate the PYK locus in yeast cell cycle control and suggest that it may be challenging to model relations between fitness and activity for multifunctional proteins.
(14) Evidence for a third locus, ENO3, is supplied by the electrophoretic pattern of muscle extracts.
(15) The data indicate that the locus for the alpha chain of the T-cell receptor is split by the chromosomal breakpoint between the V alpha and the C alpha gene segments, and that the V alpha segments are proximal to the C alpha segment within chromosome band 14q11.2.
(16) The new scale appears to be a more sensitive measure of locus of control than Rotter's scale.
(17) Incomplete penetrance of the simpler pattern suggests that this genetic locus interacts in a probabilistic manner with epigenetic mechanisms involved in morphogenesis of the cerebellum.
(18) Proposed models for the inheritance of locus-specific methylation phenotypes in somatic cells include those in which there is stable inheritance of a methylation pattern such that all cells contain a similarly methylated locus, as well as models in which the inheritance of methylation can be variable.
(19) Extensive LSR data were obtained as a by-product of specific-locus experiments.
(20) The deficits noted in the granule cells of the dentate gyrus in this study were more severe than those found in our previous studies on the effect of the low protein diet in these same rats on visual cortical pyramidal cells and on the 3 cell types in the nucleus raphe dorsalis and nucleus locus coeruleus.
Lotus
Definition:
(n.) A name of several kinds of water lilies; as Nelumbium speciosum, used in religious ceremonies, anciently in Egypt, and to this day in Asia; Nelumbium luteum, the American lotus; and Nymphaea Lotus and N. caerulea, the respectively white-flowered and blue-flowered lotus of modern Egypt, which, with Nelumbium speciosum, are figured on its ancient monuments.
(n.) The lotus of the lotuseaters, probably a tree found in Northern Africa, Sicily, Portugal, and Spain (Zizyphus Lotus), the fruit of which is mildly sweet. It was fabled by the ancients to make strangers who ate of it forget their native country, or lose all desire to return to it.
(n.) The lote, or nettle tree. See Lote.
(n.) A genus (Lotus) of leguminous plants much resembling clover.
(n.) An ornament much used in Egyptian architecture, generally asserted to have been suggested by the Egyptian water lily.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paraffin sections were stained both chemically and with the following horseradish-peroxidase conjugated lectins: Canavalia ensiformis (Con-A), Limulus polyphemus (LPA), Lotus tetragonolobus (LTA), Arachis hypogaea (PNA), Ricinus communis (RCA1), Glycine max (SBA) and Triticum vulgaris (WGA).
(2) There was another accident on the first lap when Pastor Maldonado’s Lotus got squeezed into the barriers following a minor collision between the Ferraris of Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen.
(3) The lectins were derived from Lotus tetragonolobus, Glycine max, Dolichos biflorus, and Arachis hypogaea.
(4) He was given the Soviet Union's Lotus prize in 1969, and the Lenin peace prize in 1983.
(5) These experiments therefore conclusively show that high concentrations of condensed tannin induced by growing Lotus pedunculatus under low soil fertility conditions prevent maximum expression of LWG and wool growth in grazing sheep.
(6) · In the early 1990s, television news programmes featured clips of advanced TM practitioners, known as yogic flyers, apparently hovering off the ground while sitting in the lotus position.
(7) Apical membrane fraction could be also evidenced by autofluorescence or by labeling with Lotus tetragonolobus lectin.
(8) The translation of mainframe-stored information in ASCII into spreadsheet format for use in Lotus 1-2-3 is explained.
(9) The lectins Laburnum alpinum and Lotus tetragonolobus were not inhibited by either the aqueous or butanol phase extracts.
(10) Rhizobium loti NZP2037 and NZP2213, each cured of its single large indigenous plasmid, formed effective nodules on Lotus spp., suggesting that the symbiotic genes are carried on the chromosome of these strains.
(11) Another glycoprotein with a molecular weight of 175 kD was recognized by Lotus in the normal membrane preparation but not in the dystrophic RPE membrane preparation.
(12) But I'm sure I could get someone to cover them up with the psychiatric equivalent of even bigger tattoos, perhaps in the shape of lotus flowers or a mosaic of beatific smiles.
(13) Furthermore, increases in lotus-extractable API in the pretreated sera are also associated with a poor response to chemotherapy.
(14) When he added his Lotus to the policy he used the same provider.
(15) Histochemical techniques utilizing Tetragonolobus lotus (proximal tubules), Arachis hypogaea (distal nephron, i.e., distal convoluted tubules and collecting ducts), and antibodies against Tamm-Horsfall protein (thick ascending limbs of Henle) were used to determine the site of origin of renal cysts in five children with autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) and three patients with glomerulocystic disease (GCD) presenting in the 1st year of life.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lotus root stir-fry Arugam Bay on the east coast is known for its world-class waves – but I love it for the lotus stir-fry, which I first tried many years ago at family-run Samanthi’s Restaurant (077 175 9620) a stone’s throw from the beach in Main Point Road.
(17) Lotus fed to two of the groups was sprayed with low and high rates of polyethylene glycol (PEG; molecular weight 3350), which specifically binds the condensed tannins (CT).
(18) Thus they may be classified with the Cytisus sessilifolius, Lotus tetragonolobus and Laburnum alpinum lectins which are inhibited by lactose but not by H blood group substances in secretions.
(19) Expression of binding sites for fucose binding proteins (FBP) of Lotus tetragonolobus were immunohistochemically analyzed in surgically extirpated specimens from patients with transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder.
(20) Click here to view In the film, Bond drives his Lotus off a pier into the ocean as he tries to evade a pursuing helicopter.