(1) Blood acid-base status, serum electrolytes, and urine pH were examined in 64 infants and children with phenylketonuria (PKU) treated with three different low phenylalanine protein hydrolyzates (Aponti, Cymogran, AlbumaidXP) and two synthetic amino acid mixtures (Aminogran, PAM).
(2) This resulted in PAM and peritoneal macrophage lysosomal enzyme activity similar to control activity.
(3) [Tyr22] glucagon and [desHis1, Tyr22] glucagon were synthesized by an improved solid phase procedure on a Pam-resin.
(4) The role of IL-3 in the regulation of pulmonary alveolar macrophage (PAM) production was investigated.
(5) The mean size of human PAM was statistically greater than that for all other species evaluated, including nonhuman primates.
(6) Unlike bone marrow stem cells, PAM are unipotential and in vitro gave rise to only mononuclear phagocytes under the influence of IL-3.
(7) She really should have kept a dream journal, that Pam.
(8) The Lyt-2+ T-cells, and not the L3T4+ T-cells, were also found to be important for the ability of the intact L-PAM-cured MOPC-315 tumor bearers to reject a challenge with MOPC-315 tumor cells.
(9) The characteristics of the PAM hydroxylation process in vitro appear to reflect the efficiency of the extrarenal production of 1,25-(OH)2-D3 and the therapeutic efficacy of glucocorticoids in patients with sarcoidosis and disordered calcium metabolism.
(10) Similarly, PAM recovered from patients suffering from nonneoplastic interstitial lung disorders, i.e., sarcoidosis and hypersensitivity pneumonitis, were shown to be susceptible to the cytotoxic function provided by LAK cells.
(11) Routine electron microscopic examination on the same portion where SPLS were confirmed by PAM electron microscopy revealed amorphous, partially fibrous structures.
(12) Single-drug therapy did not significantly decrease numbers of PAM in lavage fluids, but combined therapy led to a 60 per cent (P less than 0.01) decrease in numbers of PAM.
(13) Similar dramatic cytotoxicity of L-PAM was apparent in time-dependent SCE response studies.
(14) The results demonstrate that a PAM is present in secretory granules of anglerfish islet tissue.
(15) We found that the chemotactic activity of the culture media supernatants from PAM recovered from oxygen-pretreated rats given E was 80% higher than that of media from PAM recovered from air-exposed rats given E. Neither PAM from air-exposed rats nor those from oxygen-exposed rats spontaneously released chemotaxins selective for other PAM.
(16) Insertion of either the entire 2.13-kb EcoRI-HindIII fragment or a 0.73-kb EcoRI-DraI subfragment encoding only the resolvase into the pAM beta 1-based cloning vector pMTL500E causes a significant enhancement of segregational stability (from 6.5 X 10(-2) to 3.0-4.0 X 10(-3) plasmid loss per cell per generation).
(17) The KFr cell line proved to be 3.1-fold resistant to L-phenylalanine mustard (L-PAM).
(18) The effects of 5-(3,3-Dimethyl-1-triazeno)imidazole-4-carboxamide (DTIC), 1-(2-chloroethyl)-3-(4-methylcyclohexyl)-1-nitrosourea (MeCCNU), and L-phenylalanine mustard (L-PAM) have been compared by using three i.p.
(19) In the present studies, high levels of peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase (PAM), which catalyzes the formation of bioactive alpha-amidated peptides from their glycine-extended precursors, have been found in particulate fractions from bovine and rat heart atrium; only low levels of PAM activity were present in soluble fractions.
(20) PAM-A was still heterogeneous based on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
Yam
Definition:
(n.) A large, esculent, farinaceous tuber of various climbing plants of the genus Dioscorea; also, the plants themselves. Mostly natives of warm climates. The plants have netted-veined, petioled leaves, and pods with three broad wings. The commonest species is D. sativa, but several others are cultivated.
Example Sentences:
(1) The staples of the poor consisted of one or two bulky carbohydrate meals (derivatives of different species of cocoyam, cassava, yam and maize) eaten with vegetable soup in palm oil, melon seeds, snail, occasional meat and fish.
(2) Yam 1B SN also inhibited DNA synthesis by human T and B lymphocytes and immunoglobulin generation by normal B cells as well as by Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B lymphoblastoid cell lines.
(3) The inhibitory activity of Yam 1B SN was inactivated at 56 degrees C and at pH 10 but was relatively stable at pH 2.
(4) TBTA exhibited a significant effect in vitro and in vivo on four yam rot fungal isolates tested.
(5) Fake meat diet Facebook Twitter Pinterest Impossible Foods’ plant-based mixture of potato and wheat, coconut fat, Japanese yam, vegetable broth, xanthan gum, sugars and amino acids is a dead ringer for the real thing.
(6) Yam, the staple food in several tropical countries, is a good source of the steroid used in the manufacture of the pill and other sex hormone preparations -- saponin diosgenin.
(7) In the early days of production of oral contraceptives (OCs), most yams were gathered from the wild in Mexico.
(8) In China, where Western corticosteroids are regarded as too expensive for the barefoot doctors, several species of yam are used.
(9) The classification of the YaM-55 strain with HAV was verified by specific serological studies and by molecular hybridization with cloned cDNA of HAV.
(10) To our knowledge only five cases have been reported (Chang-Lo, Yam & Rubenstone 1967; Chang-Lo et al.
(11) The complete amino acid sequence of acidic chitinase from yam (Dioscorea japonica) aerial tubers was determined.
(12) On July 25, the Jamaican Ministry of Health (JMH) contacted CDC for assistance in investigating the continued occurrence of THS; the collaborative JMH and CDC epidemiologic investigation focused on characterizing the epidemiology of THS in Jamaica and assessing the role of ackee fruit, renta yams, and other factors.
(13) A staphylolytic F2 enzyme from S. griseus S-35 and a chitinase [EC 3.2.1.14] from yam, both of which were completely inert toward M. lysodeikticus cell wall, passed through the adsorbent column.
(14) Zinc protoporphyrin levels, low in non-anemic infants, were slightly higher in 1st graders from all three neighborhoods; higher levels were found in both 3rd and 6th graders from Kiryat Yam, but only in 6th graders from Neve Shaanan.
(15) At the conclusion of mortuary ceremonies, the two sectors engage in competitive feasts in which the successful control of fertility is symbolized by the presentation of finished products of male vitality: yams and children, especially boys.
(16) The difference between London and a lot of other places is that London has been through it.” Neighbouring the Olympic stadium is Stratford indoor market, where West Indian yams sell alongside Polish sausages, cockles and whelks.
(17) The buffering capacity of some Nigerian local food substances was investigated using a modification of Toveys method (1974), Beans (red, and white), maize, rice (unprocessed with hull) and rice (unpolished) appeared to have high buffering capacity while yam, cassava and polished rice all showed weak buffering capacity.
(18) The First Section is a review of available data on molecular properties of the purified inhibitors from cereals, legumes, colocasia and yam.
(19) Yam glue was applied on the subjects' dorsal forearm.
(20) In Kiryat Yam, Pb(B) was higher in 31 children with ZPP greater than or equal to 40 micrograms dl-1 compared with 13 with ZPP less than 40 micrograms dl-1.