(n.) The nose; the snout; the mouth; the beak of a bird; a nib, as of a pen.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maternal smoking during pregnancy appears to alter the size and cellular composition of fetal NEB.
(2) Intra-epithelial beaded nerve fibers, subepithelial fibers, and large-caliber nerves in the hilus region and tracheal wall were also CGRP-IR, and immunoreactive nerves were occasionally found in close association with NEB at the basal pole.
(3) Air-sac lesions resulting from exposure to variants of strain Neb-3S were marked, whereas those resulting from exposure to variants of WVU-1853 were slight.
(4) We conclude that established NEBs promote growth of the developing airway by stimulating proliferation of local endoderm.
(5) Light microscopically, NEC and NEB were first observed at 8 and 9 weeks of gestation, respectively.
(6) These latter data indicate that cyclin synthesis and phosphorylation is not a sufficient condition for calcium-induced NEB in sea urchin embryos.
(7) The double injected cells resumed cycling, NEB, and mitosis after a delay of one cell cycle period, and remained one cell cycle out of phase with the sister (control) cell.
(8) Left infranodosal vagotomy decreased the NEB innervation index in the left lung to 0.1 by 24 h postoperatively.
(9) The modified Clara cells covered most of the surface of the NEB leaving only small oval areas for the exposed surfaces of the specialized cells which contained numerous cytoplasmic granules.
(10) From 2 days in culture to a time equivalent to term, NEB formation parallels that in vivo, indicating that developmental requirements are met in in vitro.
(11) After long-term (3 days) infranodose vagotomy, the ipsilateral NEB nerve endings have degenerated.
(12) In both control and DEN-treated animals, serotonin-immunoreactive cells organized into neuroepithelial bodies (NEBs).
(13) The strain distribution pattern of Neb-specific RFLPs segregating in the RI strains showed significant concordance with those of Pmv-7 and Hc, two loci previously located to proximal mouse Chromosome 2.
(14) High resistance to mastitis was determined in the progeny of AO-4, EM-01, NC-17, NB-10, NEB-15, NUN-3, Nx-33 bulls, while opposite results were recorded in the progeny of NAR-45, NAR-47, NER-01, NOM-19 and REN-100 bulls.
(15) However increase of morbidity was related to the duration of settlement in NEB (18% after 1 year vs 34% after 5 years, p less than 0.01).
(16) A few very heavily labeled small-granule cells (0.9%) occurred singly in the periphery of large, otherwise lightly labeled NEBs.
(17) The nodules appeared to arise from inconspicuous cell nests, which were rudiments of neonatal NEBs.
(18) In some animals the apical pole is in direct contact with the lumen of the duct, whereas in others the NEB is isolated from the lumen by either ciliated epithelial or Clara-like cells.
(19) Hence, transduction of stimuli in the NEB implies concomitant efferent modulation of the NEB corpuscular cells.
(20) Excipient-treated PIC barrows exhibited faster and more efficient growth (P less than .001) and a higher capacity for carcass protein accretion (P less than .001) but similar rates of lipid deposition compared to excipient-treated NEB barrows.
Nib
Definition:
(n.) A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
(n.) The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.
(n.) The points of a pen; also, the pointed part of a pen; a short pen adapted for insertion in a holder.
(n.) One of the handles which project from a scythe snath; also, [Prov. Eng.], the shaft of a wagon.
(v. t.) To furnish with a nib; to point; to mend the point of; as, to nib a pen.
Example Sentences:
(1) GL-AIa reacted strongly with beta-glucosyl-Yariv antigen, GL-NIa reacted weakly, whereas GL-NIb and GL-AIb showed no reaction with the antigen.
(2) Barbitone and NIB raised the concentration of noradrenaline in two of the regions examined whereas the O2-substituted derivative had a smaller effect; the dopamine concentration was slightly raised by NIB and O2IB.
(3) One of the best staining methods to demonstrate NIB, for example, is to exhibit it as a reddish body stained by Luna, with a contrast of HBsAg counterstained purple in color by aldehyde fuchsin after thiosulfation.
(4) Earlier manuscripts are written with different ink and wooden nibs.
(5) Recall antigen skin testing indicated anergy in the IB group, while the NIB group showed moderately diminished reaction (p less than 0.001).
(6) There were 40 nucleotides different in the coding region, which resulted in four amino acid changes in the NIb gene and six in the CP gene, and seven nucleotides different in the 3'-untranslated region.
(7) In contrast with the high efficiency of proteolytic processing at the NIb-capsid protein cleavage site, processing at the ends of the PPV protease was not complete, suggesting that the PPV polyprotein, like that of other potyviruses, contains cleavage sites with different properties.
(8) The nib 1 allele of yeast confers a sensitivity to an endogenous plasmid, 2 mu DNA, in that nib 1 strains bearing 2 mu DNA (cir+) exhibit a reduction in division potential.
(9) Experimental solubilities are reported for anthracene and carbazole in binary dibutyl ether plus n-hexadecane and dibutyl ether plus squalane solvent mixtures at 25 degrees C. Results of these measurements, used in conjunction with the extended nearly ideal binary solvent (NIBS) model, enabled calculation of the carbazole-dibutyl ether association constant.
(10) Amino acid sequences of the cytoplasmic cylindrical inclusion protein (CIP), large nuclear inclusion protein (NIb), and coat protein (CP) of potyviruses were re-examined in light of reported serological relationships, and correlated with known and deduced biological functions.
(11) Two napins (nIa and nIb), isolated from Brassica napus (rapeseed) seeds, have been sequenced.
(12) Furthermore, in nib 1 strains, an uncharacterized extrachromosomal element can cause a less severe reduction of division potential in the absence of intact 2 mu DNA.
(13) The genetic organization of PRSV RNA is tentatively proposed to be VPg-5' leader-63K NT-52K HC-Pro-46K-72K CI-6K-48K NIa-59K NIb-35K coat protein-3' non-coding region-poly(A) tract.
(14) 2-Phenylethylamine was extracted from cocoa nibs and chocolates and analysed by coupled gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy.
(15) A close relation between NIB and NANBV is highly suspected because of much similarities in histology, histochemistry, age distribution, and electron microscopy.
(16) The sequences of cDNA clones encoding most of the NIb protein, the coat protein and the 3' untranslated region of papaya ringspot virus (PRV) strains W and P have been determined.
(17) During the finishing period, there were no differences in C concentrations between NIB and IB; however, IS had lower levels (P less than .05) than both bull treatments.
(18) NWY-NIBS: Origin: A strain III of New zealand white rabbits imported from the Jakson Laboratory in USA.
(19) These results are consistent with the view that NIB are a good marker for type II pneumocytes in so-called sclerosing hemangioma, and that the two characteristic types of spaces were formed in different ways, thus favoring the theory that S cells are an immature form of type II pneumocytes.
(20) Four anti-complementary neutral (GL-NIa and GL-NIb) and acidic (GL-AIa and GL-AIb) polysaccharides were purified from the leaves of Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer.