(n.) A person in a superior position in life; a nobleman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Interaction of PUFA and 2-NOF or NOB yielded MDA, the amounts of which were significantly greater when 24-h anaerobic preceded 1-6-h aerobic incubation.
(2) The NOB-1 assay is probably more specific with respect to IL-1 measurement, although, with a high intra-assay variance.
(3) Anaerobic incubation of NOB or 2-NOF with linolenic acid at the molar ratio of 1:1 for 24 h yielded approximately 5.5-13% of the PUFA as conjugated diene which appeared stable upon exposure to air.
(4) We examined fasting lipid, lipoprotein, sex hormone and insulin levels in 38 women (21 obese (ob), 17 non-obese (nob] with HA and anovulation (PCO) and 38 normal ovulatory women (21 obese, 17 non-obese), matched for age and weight.
(5) Nitrosobenzene (NOB) formed acid labile conjugates with reduced glutathione (GSH) and hemoglobin within red cells.
(6) To evaluate the efficacy and safety of NOB in ragweed seasonal allergic rhinitis, 250 eligible patients were randomized to one of four parallel, double-blind treatment groups: NOB, 10, 20, and 30 mg, or placebo, each administered once daily for 3 weeks.
(7) On the other hand, glycophorin A had essentially no effect on IL-1-mediated stimulation of the IL-1-sensitive thymocyte cell line EL-4 NOB-1.
(8) NOB-1 is not responsive to tumour necrosis factor alpha, tumour necrosis factor beta, interferon gamma and lipopolysaccharide.
(9) He told me sadly of two youths who had said they did not go to the theatre because: “That’s not for us, it’s for the nobs.” The Labour party and the unions had emancipated the working class economically, but what had they done to show the worker that he ought to take his share of the nation’s cultural life, that everyone was a “nob” in the theatre?
(10) Receptor-bound 125I-IL 1 alpha was displaced with equal efficiency by both unlabelled forms from 3T3 cells, but a 20-fold lower affinity for p1L1 beta was observed using NOB-1.
(11) This reaction was reversible because nearly all NOB could be extracted with ether from the labile intermediate.
(12) NOB treatment did not appear to cause weight gain or sedation.
(13) Daft Punk themselves are in a separate DJ booth twiddling with nobs that surely don't do anything.
(14) As I hob-nobbed with friends, family and the invited guests of the RI at the drinks reception beforehand, my mind kept flitting back to my notes.
(15) The neutralizing capacity and the specificity of the IL-1 antisera were tested by the use of the thymoma EL-4 NOB-1 cell line.
(16) Photograph: The Guardian Before marching, the protesters gathered for a potluck on a warm afternoon in Huntington Park, at the top of the tony Nob Hill neighborhood and the epicenter of old town San Francisco.
(17) rIL-1 beta induced the production of IL-2 and IL-6 from EL-4-NOB-1 cells in a dose-related manner.
(18) Furthermore, the differences in the amounts of MDA resulting from 24- and 0-h anaerobic incubations were significantly greater when the molar ratio of 2-NOF (or NOB) to PUFA was increased (2.0 greater than 1.0 greater than 0.5).
(19) Once-daily NOB, 10, 20, and 30 mg, is equally and highly effective and safe in the symptomatic management of seasonal allergic rhinitis compared to placebo.
(20) Using the murine T-lymphocyte line NOB-1, human thyrocytes and human foreskin fibroblasts, the antibodies competitively inhibited the biological activity of human recombinant IL-1 alpha (rIL-1 alpha).
Nub
Definition:
(v. t.) To push; to nudge; also, to beckon.
(n.) A jag, or snag; a knob; a protuberance; also, the point or gist, as of a story.
Example Sentences:
(1) Out of the latter, NUB congenital defect was in 4, total epispadia in 1, spina bifida in 1 patient.
(2) In the case of S. enteritidis NUB 31, the effect of CPS-K was detectable only when more than 20 mug per mouse was injected.
(3) And that is the nub of the FT report: grim reading for chancellor George Osborne as he puts the finishing touches to his 19 March budget.
(4) The peak CPS-K effect on infection with S. enteritidis NUB 1 was seen when given immediately before bacterial challenge.
(5) Some wore "slave bracelets" made out of boot laces and walked with "Black Power canes", sticks with the nub carved into a clenched fist.
(6) This is the nub of the issue and the foreign secretary's statement seems to mask a much more complex picture.
(7) Four new nuB mutations in the DNA gyrase-binding site between the G and I genes were also sequenced and found to be identical to the nuB103 mutation sequenced previously.
(8) The nub of Zittrain’s concern is that the practice of shaping what stays and what goes from the database is hopelessly individualistic.
(9) The promotion of infection with S. enteritidis NUB 1 by CPS-K depended upon its dose, the effect of CPS-K being demonstrable up to as little as 0.2 mug per mouse.
(10) This is the nub of what I am going to call, because I've always secretly wanted to be a mathematician, the "Birmingham Liberty Paradox".
(11) And I'm hopeful that we're getting closer to the nub of the problem.
(12) The nub of the controversy was his comment that "we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years" if Mr Thurmond, who ran a campaign to keep blacks out of white schools and neighbourhoods, had won the presidency in 1948.
(13) Both have seen very bleak scenarios depicted by either side in attempts to scare the electorate, for example with the idea that a yes vote will usher in a very authoritarian regime.” In his presentations, Baldini, who will vote yes, tries to go to what he sees as the nub of the issue.
(14) Our failing economy needs stimulating and your nub of grey meat and Mars egg are simply not sufficient.
(15) Why does it matter whether other people believe it or not?” I suspect that gets to the nub of it.
(16) As a result of enumeration of bacterial populations in the peritoneal washing, blood, liver and spleen, it was revealed that CPS-K promoted in vivo growth of S. enteritidis NUB 1 and NUB 31.
(17) The NUB-6 cell line consisted of two distinct cell subtypes, small typical neuroblasts and larger spheroid-forming cells, while NUB-7 was homogeneously neuroblastic.
(18) All the children were operated on: NUB reconstruction according to Davis, bilateral uretero-cystostomy according to Coen.
(19) Two new neuroblastoma (NB) cell lines, NUB-6 and NUB-7, were established from recurrent and primary NB tumours respectively and identified conclusively as NB by their phenotypic characteristics, catecholamine production and N-myc amplification.
(20) Urodynamic studies showed the absence of detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia and confirmed organic nature of NUB lesion.