(n.) A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures.
(n.) A spot, mark, or small permanent protuberance on the human body; esp., a spot which is dark-colored, from which commonly issue one or more hairs.
(n.) A mass of fleshy or other more or less solid matter generated in the uterus.
(n.) A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself.
(n.) Any insectivore of the family Talpidae. They have minute eyes and ears, soft fur, and very large and strong fore feet.
(n.) A plow of peculiar construction, for forming underground drains.
(v. t.) To form holes in, as a mole; to burrow; to excavate; as, to mole the earth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(2) The sigmoidal shape of the curve of rate constant vs mole percent anionic lipid is consistent with a positively cooperative effect of the negative surface charge.
(3) In the partial moles there is a slow hydatidiform change that affects only some of the villi, but which seems to follow along the same lines as in complete moles.
(4) Metabolism of DEHT by the rat appears to occur via rapid hydrolysis of both ester linkages to give two moles of 2-ethylhexanol and one mole of terephthalic acid.
(5) A complete hydatidiform mole (CM) had a 92,XXXX karyotype.
(6) The clinical and histological features of these moles have been designated the "B-K mole syndrome."
(7) The enzyme catalyzing d-amino acid oxidation was present in extracts of cells grown on valine, but not on glucose, had a pH optimum of approximately 9.0, consumed 1 atom of oxygen per mole of keto acid produced, and was not stimulated by any of the usual electron transport cofactors.
(8) A peroxidase conjugated-antibody (1.5 mole of enzyme per mole of antibody) was obtained and used for microwell enzyme immunoassay and Immun-Blot assay.
(9) The intrinsic inhibitory potency of this polymer increased with increasing degree of substitution with A35, approaching that of free A35 with substitution of approximately 3 mol of A35 per mole of dextran.
(10) Compared to women of group O or B, women of group A and AB had an elevated relative risk (RR) of benign mole (RR = 1.4 and 2.3, respectively).
(11) Five moles of ATP was consumed for each mole of phosphodiester bonds cleaved.
(12) The maximum effect was obtained with 10(-7) molar gibberellic acid, whereas concentrations greater than 5 x 10(-7) mole per liter were inhibitory.
(13) Yeast tRNAPhe containing a phosphorothioate modified -CS-CS-A terminus binds two moles of chloroterpyridineplatinum(II).
(14) Extracellular polysaccharides contain glucose, mannose, galactose, and xylose; G+C in DNA is 62 mole percent.
(15) The extent of sialylation of oligosaccharides in the three hCG samples used in this study were 88% in normal hCG, 82% in invasive mole hCG and 63% in choriocarcinoma hCG.
(16) A review of the literature revealed that this patient appears to be the first case of nephrotic syndrome associated with a total mole, although there have been two cases of nephrotic syndrome due to preeclamptic nephropathy associated with a partial or transitional mole.
(17) The adaptive value of sound signal characteristics for transmission in the underground tunnel ecotope was tested using tunnels of the solitary territorial subterranean mole rats.
(18) Our estimated rate of 7.5 hydatidiform moles per 10,000 pregnancies was similar to most reported rates for the United States.
(19) The current study was undertaken in an effort to identify the clinical characteristics and natural history of partial moles.
(20) The presence of millimolar concentrations of ATP, phenylalanine and pyrophosphate triggers negative cooperativity and under these conditions only one mole of Phe-tRNAphe is bound per mole of enzyme with a Kd value of 0.15 muM.
Mouse
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Mus and various related genera of the family Muridae. The common house mouse (Mus musculus) is found in nearly all countries. The American white-footed, or deer, mouse (Hesperomys leucopus) sometimes lives in houses. See Dormouse, Meadow mouse, under Meadow, and Harvest mouse, under Harvest.
(n.) A knob made on a rope with spun yarn or parceling to prevent a running eye from slipping.
(n.) Same as 2d Mousing, 2.
(n.) A familiar term of endearment.
(n.) A dark-colored swelling caused by a blow.
(n.) A match used in firing guns or blasting.
(v. i.) To watch for and catch mice.
(v. i.) To watch for or pursue anything in a sly manner; to pry about, on the lookout for something.
(v. t.) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.
(v. t.) To furnish with a mouse; to secure by means of a mousing. See Mouse, n., 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
(2) BL6 mouse melanoma cells lack detectable H-2Kb and had low levels of expression of H-2Db Ag.
(3) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
(4) Serial sections of mouse foetal liver, during the 9th and 16th days of gestation, were studied.
(5) 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).
(6) 10D1 mAb induced a substantial proliferation of peripheral blood T cells when cross-linked with goat anti-mouse Ig antibody.
(7) The effects of in vivo administration of native prostaglandin E2 (PGE) on the cycling status of the granulocyte-monocyte progenitor cell (CFU-GM) were examined in a mouse model.
(8) The increase in red blood cell mass was associated with an elevation in erythropoietic stimulatory activity in serum, pleural fluid, and tumor-cyst fluid as determined by the exhypoxic polycythemic mouse assay.
(9) Implantation of the mouse embryo involves the invasion of the secondary trophoblast giant cells of the ectoplacental cone (EPC) into the uterine decidua.
(10) 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.
(11) The expression of the mRNA for mouse testicular lactate dehydrogenase (LDH-X) was examined by RNA:cDNA hybridization in situ in the testis and by Northern analyses of meiotic and postmeiotic spermatogenic cell populations.
(12) These results provide evidence that trait selection can change gonadotrophin receptor concentration and the dynamics of hormone secretion during the oestrous cycle of the mouse.
(13) In the triploids, the 40 female chromosomes present (mouse, n = 20) were derived from a single diploid pronucleus formed after the extrusion of a first polar body, and following the monospermic fertilization of primary oocytes.
(14) These results do not support the view that in the rat pheromones from adult males enhance puberty in females, contrary to what is known to happen in the mouse.
(15) Stable factor-dependent B-cell hybridomas were used to monitor the purification of the growth factor from the supernatant of a clonotypically stimulated mouse helper T-cell clone.
(16) Human GH did not alter basal cyclic AMP levels in mouse osteoblasts.
(17) DNA from 9% (47 of 529) of the E. coli colonies tested hybridized with the ST probe, whereas only 5% (28 of 529) produced ST as measured by the suckling mouse bioassay.
(18) We previously established that the binding constant (Ka) of this receptor site for the chemically synthesized model AGE, 2-(2-furoyl)-4(5)-(2-furanyl)-1H- imidazole-butyric acid (FFI-BA), on cells of the mouse macrophagelike cell line RAW 264.7 is identical to that for AGE proteins.
(19) The nature, intracellular distribution, and role of proteins synthesized during meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes in vitro have been examined.
(20) The relative contributions of transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression to the increase in constitutively expressed cellular proteins were examined in mouse kidneys undergoing compensatory growth following unilateral nephrectomy (UNI-NX).