(n.) A wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fifteen had a clinical diagnosis of kwashiorkor, 36 were diagnosed with marasmus, and 18 were controls.
(2) We conclude that malnourished children with marasmus have a disordered early phase of gastric emptying of a liquid meal, but the abnormality is reversible following recovery of nutritional status.
(3) Plasma growth hormone (GH) levels were raised in kwashiorkor but were in the normal range in marasmus.
(4) It was inferred that (a) tyrosyluria in marasmus is due to the reduced activity of the hepatic enzyme 4-hydroxyphenyl pyruvate: oxygen oxidoreductase (hydroxylating, decarboxylating) (PHPAA-oxidase; EC 1.13.11.27) due to the deficiency of ascorbic acid and (b) high excretion of PHPAA is related to age and nutrition of the child and is unaffected by the administration of ascorbic acid.
(5) There was a tendency for considerably reduced acid phosphatase activity in all clinical groups (kwashiorkor, marasmic kwashiorkor and marasmus) of growth-retarded infants.
(6) The mean concentration of serum albumin was similar for children from the 'under-nourished' group and from the group with marasmus, but was significantly reduced in those with kwashiorkor.
(7) Children suffering from kwashiorkor, combined protein-calorie malnutrition or marasmus were studied before and after renutrition.
(8) Isolation rates of enteric agents (Campylobacter, Shigella, Salmonella, Rotavirus) for the 3 groups were not significantly different; however E. coli was isolated with a higher frequency from children who had diarrhea with marasmus.
(9) Developing countries, where scarcity of resources is a daily reality, need uniformly efficient selection procedures in order to tackle their very common problem: marasmus.
(10) The extent of depression in bone turnover was basically the same between children with marasmus, marasmic-kwashiorkor, or kwashiorkor.
(11) This study suggests that patients with acute alcoholic hepatitis require additional nutritional therapy to maintain and improve their nutrition parameters, especially those related to marasmus; and that Hepatic Aid is well tolerated for this purpose.
(12) It improved iron absorption in acute glomerulonephritis and schistosoma haematobium but not in kwashiorkor, marasmus and nephrotic cases.
(13) Acute respiratory infections, malaria, and chronic diarrhea with marasmus are shown to be the major causes of death after the first month of life.
(14) Marasmus and diarrheal disease have come to predominate in the 1st year of life, and mothers who try to bottle feed their infants can only afford inadequate amounts of formula and have very low levels of environmental home hygiene.
(15) The consumption of legumes and oil seeds ward off kwashiorkor and marasmus, but in countries with traditional food practices they are not consumed in adequate amounts.
(16) In marasmus, glycoside-sensitive sodium efflux was reduced compared to recovered values.
(17) The increase in serum ribonuclease was marked in marasmus and marasmic kwashiorkor.
(18) In the marasmus group, we found a positive correlation between cortisol and AST, ALT and Ca(T) and a negative correlation between cortisol and ALP.
(19) Eleven plasma biochemical parameters were estimated in a total of 28 children with protein-energy malnutrition (PEM): 7 children each category of marasmus, kwashiorkor, marasmic-kwashiorkor and undernutrition with ages between 8 and 48 months.
(20) The numbers of patients admitted to the Public Health Service Indian Hospital, in Tuba City, Arizona, with deficits in weight for their chronological ages, marasmus, and kwashiorkor were compared during two 5-year-periods, 1963 to 1967 and 1969 to 1973.
Protein
Definition:
(n.) A body now known as alkali albumin, but originally considered to be the basis of all albuminous substances, whence its name.
Example Sentences:
(1) All mutant proteins could associate with troponin I and troponin T to form a troponin complex.
(2) By electrophoresis and scanning densitometry, actin was found to constitute about 4% to 6% of the total cellular protein in the human corneal epithelium.
(3) Comparison of the S100 alpha-binding protein profiles in fast- and slow-twitch fibers of various species revealed few, if any, species- or fiber type-specific S100 binding proteins.
(4) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
(5) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
(6) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(7) Following central retinal artery ligation, infarction of the retinal ganglion cells was reflected by a 97 per cent reduction in the radioactively labeled protein within the optic nerve.
(8) Increased dietary protein intake led to increased MDA per nephron, increased urinary excretion of MDA, and increased MDA per milligram protein in subtotally nephrectomized animals, and markedly increased the glutathione redox ratio.
(9) The presence of O-glycosidic linkages between carbohydrate and protein in the DF3 antigenic site was further supported by the presence of NaBH4-sensitive sites.
(10) Cyclic AMP stimulated phosphorylation by [gamma-32P]ATP of two proteins of apparent Mr = 20,000 and 7,000 that were concentrated in sarcoplasmic reticulum, but the stimulation was markedly dependent on the presence of added soluble cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase.
(11) The quaternary structure of ribonucleotide reductase of Escherichia coli was investigated, with the use of purified B1 and B2 proteins and bifunctional cross-linking agents.
(12) This induction is sensitive to actinomycin D but not to protein synthesis inhibitor puromycin, indicating an effect of estradiol at the transcriptional level, possibly mediated by the estrogen receptor.
(13) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
(14) This clinical improvement was also associated with a decrease of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (p less than 0.001), decrease of C-reactive protein (p less than 0.0001) and with improvement of anaemia (p less than 0.05).
(15) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(16) We also show that the gene of the main capsid protein is expressed from its own promoter in an Escherichia coli strain.
(17) Western blot analysis of these mitochondria using an antibody against carnitine palmitoyltransferase II purified from beef heart demonstrates a 68-kDa protein, which under ischemic conditions apparently is decreased by 2 kDa.
(18) Fifteen sera ICA-IgG and ICA-protein A positive with high titres remained positive thereafter.
(19) Patient or fetal cord serum is commonly used as a protein supplement to culture media used in in-vitro fertilization (IVF).
(20) Using the oocyte system to express size-fractionated mRNA, we have also determined that the mRNA coding for this protein is between 1.9-2.4 kilobases in length.