(n.) Originally, a leather flask or vessel for oils or liquids; afterward, an earthenware vase or pitcher without a spout.
Example Sentences:
(1) Therefore it was used as the only substrate to test the presence of anti-epithelial cell antibodies (anti-ECA) in a large group of patients with OLP and other oral mucosal diseases or normal control subjects.
(2) The results suggest a defect in OLP T cell activation disclosed by in vitro PHA stimulation and occurring between IL-2 receptor ligand binding and gamma-interferon secretion.
(3) The results showed that anti-ECA were detected in 54% (34 of 63) of patients with OLP, 71% (15 of 21) of patients with aphthous ulcers, 29% (6 of 21) of patients with oral carcinoma, 20% (2 of 10) of patients with traumatic ulcer, and 7% (1 of 15) of patients with periodontitis but none of the healthy control subjects (n = 41).
(4) The highest correlation coefficients were demonstrated when NET was performed over the marginal and zygomatic branches of the facial nerve and OLP ENoG recorded in the nasolabial region.
(5) The PHA-induced expression of IL-2 receptor and T cell proliferation were similar in both groups whereas gamma-interferon secretion and MHC locus II antigen expression were low in OLP patients compared with controls (p less than 0.01).
(6) Most of the patients had the subjective feeling that the clinical appearance of OLP, including discomfort, became worse during times of mental stress.
(7) These results suggest that OLP patients' lymphocyte and neutrophil functions are impaired, and that cellular immunosuppression is a pathologic characteristic of OLP.
(8) It's confirmed that OLP patients with higher risk of liver disease are those that have erosive lesions with severe symptoms and often diffused in the entire oral cavity; furthermore, it's highlighted that the probability to find liver disease associated with reticular and plaque-like form of OLP is low, but not negligible.
(9) A study of HLA-DR and DQ typing in 44 patients with oral lichen planus (OLP) (28 women and 16 men) and in 107 normal controls of both sexes was performed by using Terasaki's oriental tray.
(10) ABI exhibited the highest IL-6, and the cytokine level was lower in RAS, PMC, HGS and OLP in this order.
(11) The subjects ranged in age from 33 to 80 years and 28 of the cases had OLP changes of atrophic-erosive type.
(12) One (8%) patient showed a positive patch test to two mercury compounds whereas no mercury allergy was found in a reference group of 17 patients suspected of dental restorative material allergy but without OLP lesions.
(13) Immunoelectrophoresis showed an abnormal pattern in 10 OLP cases (29%), the most common change being a polyclonal increase of IgG in 8 persons.
(14) Twelve patients with oral lichen planus (OLP) suspected of dental restorative metal allergy were examined.
(15) The current study evaluated the activation of T-cell mediated cellular immune response in the oral lesions in lichen planus (OLP).
(16) Twenty patients with oral lichen planus (OLP) were divided into two groups.
(17) For assessment of in vitro cell-mediated suppressor activity in OLP, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from ten patients with OLP and from 11 control subjects were activated with the plant mitogen concanavalin A (Con A), followed by co-culture with autologous responder cells.
(18) To investigate the role of systemic factors such as age, diabetes, and hypertension in the formation of subepithelial immune deposits in oral lichen planus (OLP) we performed circulating immune complex CIC determinations by polyethylene glycol precipitation in sera of patients with OLP, diabetes mellitus, and hypertension and in sera of healthy control subjects.
(19) Rat esophagus, monkey esophagus, as well as human oral mucosa and skin were used to detect anti-BCA in sera of OLP patients.
(20) Two-color flow cytometry of lymphocytes revealed no proportional difference in CD3 or CD4 cells between OLP and controls.
Ope
Definition:
(a.) Open.
(v. t. & i.) To open.
Example Sentences:
(1) The anthropological structure of this residence, is characterised by a polar buffer between openess and privacy.
(2) oPES was cleaved after lysyl residues using endoproteinase Lys-C and the hydrolysate was fractionated in 2 steps by reverse-phase HPLC.
(3) The dihedral angle of OPC is shown to be more variable than that of OPE.
(4) The synthesis and high-pressure liquid chromatographic purification of the homogenous nonionic surfactant p-(1,1,3,3-tetramethylbutyl)phenoxynonaoxyethylene glycol (OPE-9) in quantities suitable for membrane solubilization studies is reported.
(5) The OpE sequences were shown to increase gene expression from the Autographa californica MNPV delayed early p39 promoter independently of position or orientation, and were also shown to increase expression from the promoter of the OpMNPV immediate early gene, IE-2.
(6) To mark the occasion, UN Women Executive Director, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka , published an OpEd today titled Women’s Role in the Next 50 Years – the Africa We Want .
(7) The OpMNPV enhancer (OpE) consists of a 66-bp element that is tandemly repeated partially or completely 12 times.
(8) We studied plasma and overnight peritoneal effluent (OPE) from 20 CAPD stable patients.
(10) Keys for that observation were the differential binding affinities of CCK and a phenethyl ester analogue of CCK (OPE), with the high affinity state binding CCK with higher affinity than OPE, and the low affinity state binding OPE with higher affinity than CCK.
(11) However, unlike the wild-type his3 gene, whose transcripts are initiated about equally from two different sites (+1 and +12), transcription due to the ope mutations is initiated only from the +12 site, ope-mediated transcription is regulated in a novel manner; it is observed in minimal medium, but not in rich broth.
(12) Adenylate energy charge (AEC) was slightly decreased in the OPE 3 h + water group and significantly decreased in the OPE 22 h + water group than in the corresponding sham group.
(13) (1) Non-ope group was superior in spinal flexibility to internally spinal fused group.
(14) At a press conference in Oslo, Stoltenberg, pictured, said that those guilty for the atrocities would be brought to justice and that the attacks would bring "more openess and more democracy" to the country.
(15) Micelles of OPE-9 and mixed micelles of OPE-9 with dimyristoyl and dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine as well as phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylethanolamine, lysophosphatidylcholine, sphingomyelin, and palmitic acid were characterized by column chromatography on 6% agarose.
(16) Moreover, considering Murdoch has been frequently credited with knowing what to give the public before they want it, his tweets thus far suggest that he must have special foresight because it's hard to imagine anyone in any imaginable future wanting to read his self-promoting tweets for his own movies ( "Very proud of fox team who made this great film" ), his own TV channels ( "Got to watch Fox news at 5 EST" ), his own newspapers ("Great oped inWSJ today") and the terrible tortures of holidaying in somewhere called "St Barths" ( "Too many people."
(17) Synergistic effects of immune gamma-globulin fraction containing antibodies of OPE, protease and elastase of Pseudomonas aeruginosa on the activities of antibiotic, dibekacin (DKB), in the cornea of mice were examined for the purpose of studying therapy for corneal ulcers due to Pseudomonal infection.
(18) A Work of Fiction As I turned over the last page, after many nights, a wave of sorrow envel- oped me.
(19) Animals in groups OPE and OPR exhibited significantly prolonged gestation, prolonged duration of labor and delivery, and reduced fetal survival compared with controls.
(20) However, the state on membranes had a higher affinity for CCK than for OPE, and that on the solubilized preparation had a higher affinity for OPE than for CCK.