(1) A variety of homobifunctional crosslinking agents have been used to gain insight into the nature of the murine interleukin 3 (mIL-3) receptor.
(2) We have previously shown that a spontaneous mutant of MH2 (PA200-MH2), expressing only the v-mil oncogene, is able to induce proliferation of quiescent neuroretina cells.
(3) Recombinant mIL 1 beta, administered as a single i.v.
(4) In contrast, after induction of tumors in quail with mil-deficient MH2 viral stocks, a majority of the tumor DNAs contained mil+ proviruses, suggesting that there is selection for retention of the v-mil gene in vivo and that the mil protein may play a role in the oncogenicity of MH2 virus.
(5) The prevalence of myasthenia gravis (MG) in Finland was 264 patients per 4.7 mil.
(6) By phase separation and analysis, tie-lines for the constituent phase in the two-phase zone demonstrated that the mixed micelles were saturated with MIL and Ch and the coexisting vesicles were saturated with MBS, but not with Ch.
(7) Both rheologically effective substances show side effects, but they lie in the per-mil-range.
(8) There are differences, however, between MIL and MIB in the sequence organization of their unconventional C-terminal domains.
(9) TA-2 also inhibited adhesion to EC activated with mIL-1 alpha, TNF-alpha, and LPS, and the adhesion of spleen T cells to activated EC.
(10) Single subcutaneous injections of a mineral oil adjuvant vaccine containing 20 mg dry weight of Campylobacter fetus subsp fetus biotype venerealis cells and 20 mg dry weight of C. fetus subsp fetus biotype intermedius cells per 5 mil dose protected 2- and 3-year-old heifers and 3- and 4-year-old cows against genital infection with either organism.
(11) The inhibition of mIL-1 expression was noted in response to both autoreactive T-cell lines specific for class I or class II MHC determinants as well as bacterial endotoxin.
(12) Intracellular processing studies carried out in the presence and absence of methylamine suggested that mIL-3 is cleaved at two specific sites before its complete digestion within lysosomes.
(13) Ternary lipid systems were composed of a physiological mixture of bile salts (BS), mixed intestinal lipids (MIL), principally partially ionized fatty (oleic) acid (FA) plus racemic monooleylglycerol (MG), and cholesterol (Ch), all at fixed aqueous-electrolyte concentrations, pH, temperature, and pressure.
(14) Murine interleukin-3 (mIL-3) is a lymphokine that stimulates the proliferation and differentiation of both pluripotent hemopoietic stem cells and their committed progeny.
(15) In dogs pretreated with total spinal anesthesia or phenoxybenzamine, MIL significantly decreased both MCP and TPR.
(16) MIL shifted the right ventricular output curve to the left and upward and shifted the venous return curve to the left and rotated it clockwise.
(17) In a totally serum-free culture condition, mIL-7 produced a similar cellular proliferation, whereas hIL-7 was much less effective.
(18) The hemodynamic response to Mil was also examined in rats treated with the ACE inhibitor.
(19) Using albumin as a molecular clock, we estimated B. bombina and B. variegata diverged within the last million years, whereas the B. orientalis lineage diverged roughly 10-12 mil yr ago.
(20) Two distinct c-mil-related cDNA clones have been isolated from a chicken embryo cDNA library.
Mir
Definition:
(n.) A Russian village community.
(n.) Same as Emir.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most anti-nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) antibodies in myasthenia gravis are directed against an immunodominant epitope or epitopes [main immunogenic region (MIR)] on the AChR alpha-subunit.
(2) The data challenge the concept that a MIR of the AChR is the principal stimulus for antibody production in MG and emphasize a potential pitfall in assuming seronegativity in MG on the basis of a single assay system.
(3) The likelihood of performing a surgical procedure in space will increase as the Soviet Mir space station is expanded and the Space Station Freedom becomes operational.
(4) Mir M7 is a spontaneous morphologically conditional mutant of Klebsiella pneumoniae which grows as round cells (cocci) at pH 7 and as normal rods at pH 5.8.
(5) The beta-subunits of insulin receptor in CHO, CIR-0, Monr-31, and MIR-2 were similarly phosphorylated.
(6) Amino acid composition was qualitatively similar in both strains, but Mir M7 cocci contained a higher amount of alanine and glucosamine.
(7) Eldar Mustafayev, a former Turkish Airlines representative who returned to farming when his employer left Crimea after the referendum, said the canal bringing drinking and irrigation water from Ukraine's Dnieper river into Crimea was dry near their village of Novy Mir.
(8) The mAb inhibition was not explainable by epitope competition because (1) the mAb was reactive with both Torpedo and human AChR, but antibodies in 85 of the MG sera did not bind to Torpedo AChR, and (2) the mAb blocked binding of rat anti-peptide antibodies to an alpha subunit region of the human AChR unrelated antigenically to the designated MIR region.
(9) This suggest that the majority of the human MG antibodies are also directed against the MIR.
(10) The three-dimensional and clavulanate double-disk potentiation tests were compared as procedures for the detection of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase production in 32 strains of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae, 31 of which produced TEM-1, TEM-2, TEM-3, TEM-4, TEM-5, TEM-7, TEM-8, TEM-9, TEM-10, TEM-12, TEM-101, SHV-1, SHV-2, SHV-3, SHV-4, SHV-5, CAZ-2, MIR-1, or an unidentified extended-spectrum beta-lactamase with a pI of 5.95, with some strains producing multiple beta-lactamases.
(11) Mir Ali is a hotbed of al-Qaida and Taliban militancy that has borne the brunt of a sharp escalation in US attacks this year.
(12) Two-dimensional NMR experiments [correlated spectroscopy (COSY) and two-dimensional transferred nuclear Overhauser enhancement spectroscopy (TR-NOESY)] have been applied to study the interactions of a monoclonal antibody (mAb) directed to the main immunogenic region (MIR) of the acetylcholine receptor (AChR), and four synthetic decapeptides from the MIR.
(13) Nick Kanas, a psychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco, who has studied astronauts on the international space station and the Russian Mir station, said the crew face a tough time.
(14) The computer program MIR previously described (R. Bianchi, G.M.
(15) Fab fragments of an anti-MIR monoclonal antibody (mAb) or a mAb to the beta-subunit (neither of which causes antigenic modulation) were allowed to shield their corresponding regions on the AChR on the mouse muscle cell line BC3H1.
(16) Indices of JE transmission activity (vector abundance, pig seroconversions, and MIRs) increased proportionately with rainfall.
(17) We report the isolation and characterization of a strain of Bacillus, designed MIR 15, which appears to produce and excrete antimicrobials active against Gram-negative bacteria, but not against fungi.
(18) Chick dorsal root ganglion neurons thought to lack nicotinic acetylcholine receptors were not labeled by the anti-MIR mAb.
(19) The patient underwent a CT scan and MIR which showed a diffuse involvement of the ilium and sacrum along with the presence of two cysts (anterior and posterior).
(20) This is interpreted as the contribution to antigenic modulation of the anti-MIR antibody fraction in the human sera.