(n.) A Peruvian name for certain species of Oxalis (O. crenata, and O. tuberosa) which bear edible tubers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Estrogen component of OCA is represented by ethinyl estradiol or mestranol.
(2) There was a consistently higher degree of correlation between serum folate and folate intake among the control women than among the OCA users.
(3) An 8-hour urine collection after a 2-g tryptophan load showed at 6 times increased excretion of xanthurenic acid in those using OCAs as compared with nonusers.
(4) The reduction in the fractional loss of 45Ca, when going from normal Ringer's solution to an ONa--OCa medium, was 60%.
(5) Most cases of OCA are inherited on an autosomal recessive basis.
(6) Mechanism of action, indications, side effects and contraindications of oral contraceptive agents (OCA) are reviewed.
(7) This clinical and biochemical pattern has not been seen in any of the previously described types of OCA.
(8) The biochemical riboflavin status showed no relationship with the duration of OCA use.
(9) Minimal pigment, a new type of oculocutaneous albinism (OCA), is described.
(10) Finally, transient expression assay of mutant tyrosinase is invaluable to conclude that OCA phenotypes are associated with the mutant tyrosinase alleles.
(11) Several types of autosomal recessive oculocutaneous albinism (OCA) are associated with abnormal tyrosinase function and a generalized reduction in or absence of cutaneous and eye melanin.
(12) The preservation of drug sensitivity and resistance under the conditions of our organoid culture assay (OCA) was demonstrated by investigating 3 strains of a human hypopharynx carcinoma which differed by different sensitivity to cisplatin in in vivo conditions.
(13) No significant effect of OCA on serum zinc and on hair concentration of these trace elements was noted.
(14) Fractions OCA and OCD did not share common antigenic determinations as determined by immunodiffusion.
(15) Following SOC ablations, type 4 endings degenerated in the OCA ipsilateral to the lesion.
(16) Among these PASFs, PASFs from the cyst fluids of OCA in benign did not react with Arachis hypogaea anti-T lectin (PNA) and both of the anti-N lectins of Vicia graminea (VGA) and Vicia unijuga (VUA), and PASFs from OCA in borderline reacted with only PNA and PASFs from OCC in malignant reacted with the three lectins, PNA, VGA and VUA.
(17) OCA also occurs in a number of life-threatening conditions, including Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome, Chediak-Higashi syndrome, and Griscelli-Prunieras syndrome.
(18) The OCA reaches cytological maturity at three weeks postnatally, after progression through four stages, defined on the basis of octopus cell cytology (including relative numbers of somatic and dendritic filopodia and spines) and the frequency, ultrastructure and location of previously defined synaptic terminals.
(19) Moreover, we are able to show the presence of additional DNA segments cross-hybridizable to exon 4 or exon 5 of the tyrosinase gene in the genome of three OCA patients and a healthy individual.
(20) Rhesus monkeys were given either high estrogen, low progesterone or low estrogen-high progesterone oral contraceptive agents (OCAs) and maintained on either a 16% protein diet or a 4% protein diet.
Oxalis
Definition:
(n.) A genus of plants, mostly herbs, with acid-tasting trifoliolate or multifoliolate leaves; -- called also wood sorrel.