(1) PFP-MAM is separated by capillary GC and identified mass spectrometrically by selected ion monitoring (SIM).
(2) In this study the morphology of the lateral geniculate nucleus and occipital cortex in rats with methylazoxymethanol acetate (MAM Ac)-induced micrencephaly was examined.
(3) The use of monoclonal antibodies and alpha MAM-6 indicated that the majority of TEC were of medullary origin.
(4) The results suggest that rats exposed to MAM in varying doses would be useful for evaluating the developmental process of neurons and its unification.
(5) Also analogues seem to be the producing of the so-called instinctives as mam(m)a and papa by somewhat older babies which are able to pass over from the babbling into permanent words of the adults' speech in which they persist if used without shifting of sounds since they are produced de novo generation by generation, but they are subordinate to shifting and possible extinction if used in the form of derivatives in the standard language, and some phenomena of the phylogenesis as the survival of less differentiated species contrary to the relatively quick extinction of the highly specialized ones.
(6) Liver microsomes isolated from rats fed the 3 diets metabolized MAM to formic acid and methanol in vitro, but liver microsomes from rats fed the continuous ethanol diet were 12 to 15 times more active than liver microsomes from rats fed the control diet.
(7) Too proud to ask for help, the alarm bells rang in the week before his death when he accepted a tenner from his mam.
(8) A quantitative sandwich radioimmunoassay, using 115D8 as catcher and as tracer antibody, has been developed to detect MAM-6 in serum.
(9) To further analyze the apparent colocalization of ricin and MAM-6 in the perinuclear Golgi region, immunogold cytochemistry on ultracryosections was performed.
(10) The brain weights in the MNU- and MAM-treated pups on postnatal day 22 were significantly less than those in the control pups.
(11) MAM-6 might be considered as a marker of severe (premalignant) dysplasia in adenomas of the large intestine.
(12) Microradiographical and histological investigations showed that the cranial base lordosis was more pronounced in the MAM rats than in the controls, and that the width of the spheno-occipital synchondrosis was reduced mainly due to reduction in the central zone.
(13) These results suggest that working memory disorders of MAM rats on radial maze tasks may be due to the lowering of cholinergic functions in their hippocampus and cerebral cortex.
(14) Cumulative properties indicate that MAM is the guinea pig analogue of human Mo1 and mouse Mac-1.
(15) The controls of a fibroblastic cell culture derived from gill tissue of bluegill sunfish showed spontaneous transformation after 6 months of passage, similar to the transformation observed in the experimental MAM acetate treated gill cultures.
(16) One of the antigens, MAM-6, appeared to be an important epithelial marker, present in all normal and neoplastic breast tissue samples, in about 80% of non-mammary normal tissues and in more than 90% of non-mammary epithelial tumours.
(17) Pretreatment with CCl4 caused not only early death from chemical toxicity of MAM but also an increase in small-bowel tumors.
(18) Unlike paramagnetic material, MAM appears effective as a small-bowel contrast material.
(19) 5HT-immunoreactive neurons in the MAM-rats were reduced in number and irregularly distributed in the dorsal and median raphe nuclei compared with those in the control.
(20) Treatment with MAM, 3 to 6 hr after Con A addition, partially blocks the enhancement.
Ram
Definition:
(n.) The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.
(n.) Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.
(n.) The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name.
(n.) An engine of war used for butting or battering.
(n.) In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram.
(n.) A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak.
(n.) A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.
(n.) The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.
(n.) The plunger of a hydraulic press.
(v. t.) To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc.
(v. t.) To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
Example Sentences:
(1) They broke in with a battering ram: an armoured vehicle known as a Bearcat.
(2) Intact rams exhibited GH secretory episodes of greater (P less than 0.01) amplitude than did castrated lambs.
(3) DES implantation increased the body weight of the ram by 10.4% and caused no significant change in total body water, body ash, or total muscle mass.
(4) The effect of scrotal mange (Chorioptes bovis) on semen quality was assessed in a flock of rams during an outbreak of chorioptic mange and in rams with experimentally induced chorioptic mange.
(5) Castrated rams did not show this increase, with or without supplementary testosterone.
(6) Additional evaluation of the recoverability of H ovis and A seminis from the preputial cavity of rams from birth to 1 year of age indicated that the isolation rate from rams and predominance of the organisms in the preputial cavity differed greatly over this age period.
(7) Four rams each were either hemicastrated (HC) or left intact (INT) and blood samples were collected over a 2-wk period.
(8) The infection probably affected all sex and age classes, but field surveys of live animals and mortality suggested that mature rams died disproportionately.
(9) The ability of melatonin to influence LH pulse frequency in entire and castrated rams indicated that an effect of melatonin on the hypothalamic pulse generator is independent of testicular steroids.
(10) In addition, there was a marginally significant (P less than 0.1) relationship between prolactin secretion in the castrate ram and the stage of testicular activity in the entire rams with elevated levels associated with regressed activity.
(11) The effect of alpha-chlorohydrin on the metabolism of glycolytic and tricarboxylate-cycle substrates by ram spermatozoa was investigated.
(12) In the present study the influence of the period of the light cycle on variation in testicular weight in the ram was investigated.
(13) The androgenized ewes showed poorer oestrous responses to each hormone although rams showed interest in the ewes.
(14) Ram biceps femoris weights at market were greater than those of wethers (P less than .05).
(15) The effect of naloxone administration on the LH-RH secretion in hypophyseal portal blood and LH secretion in peripheral blood was studied in four short term castrated rams (between 2 to 4 days after castration).
(16) In a trial with rams, application of polyethylene powder (PE) as a marker for determination of feed passage rate through the digestive tract and three methods of its determination in feed and feces were tested.
(17) Macrophages and various subtypes of lymphocytes were identified in the ram and the rat testis by using cytochemical and immunocytochemical techniques.
(18) The tail(s) of the epididymis was the most frequent site of lesion development in the mature rams (86.4%).
(19) The interactions of ram spermatozoa with exogenous liposomes of varying composition were studied, with the aim of examining the mechanisms by which some lipids protect against cold-induced damage during cryostorage.
(20) Who hasn’t moved house and chucked a load of old stuff just because they can’t face ramming it back into the Ikea chest of drawers?