(n.) A rounded, nipplelike hill or peak; anything resembling a nipple in shape; a mamelon.
(n.) A soft food for infants, made of bread boiled or softtened in milk or water.
(n.) Nourishment or support from official patronage; as, treasury pap.
(n.) The pulp of fruit.
(v. t.) To feed with pap.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the second comparison, HSV was isolated from 225 of 1,026 (21.9%) specimens and duplicate human foreskin fibroblast cell wells stained at 24 and 72 h were PAP positive in 241 of 1,026 (23.5%).
(2) At 1 month after the start of the treatment, normalization of PAP or gamma-Sm was not reflected in the following course.
(3) The activity of GP sulfotransferase was mainly distributed in the microsomal fraction, and was proportional to the incubation time, substrate (mucous GP) concentration and [35S]-PAPS concentration.
(4) The K5 polysaccharide was N-deacetylated (by hydrazinolysis) and N-sulphated, and was then incubated with detergent-solubilized enzymes from a heparin-producing mouse mastocytoma, in the presence of adenosine 3'-phosphate 5'-phospho[35S] sulphate ([35S]PAPS).
(5) We propose to call the pokeweed antiviral protein isolated from pokeweed cells PAP-C. 3.
(6) ATP sulfurylases from Penicillium chrysogenum, Penicillium duponti, Aspergillus nidulans, and Neurospora crassa are strongly inhibited by 3'-phosphoadenosine-5'-phosphosulfate (PAPS), the product of the second (adenosine-5'-phosphosulfate kinase-catalyzed) reaction in the two-step activation of inorganic sulfate.
(7) The relationship between mean pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) and alveolar pressures, at varying tidal volumes and opposing variable pressure to expiratory flow, was studied in 14 healthy dogs at the end of inspiration and at the end of expiration.
(8) There was significant correlation between PAP and PRA (r = 0.5643 P less than 0.01).
(9) A large number of immunogold stained GABAergic axon terminals were found to be presynaptic to strongly PAP immunostained serotonergic perikarya and dendrites.
(10) BPH alone leads to significant rises in PAP concentrations.
(11) Fourteen (9.6 percent) had a positive Pap test and 13 (9 percent) carried a cervical HPV infection as determined by the commercially available ViraPap and ViraType nucleic acid tests.
(12) We assayed prostatic specific antigen (PSA) and prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP) serum levels in 1305 subjects without malignant prostatic pathology by double antibody RIA I125 to evaluate their specificity.
(13) This study showed that B43-PAP can effectively eradicate leukemic progenitor cells freshly obtained from patients with common B-lineage ALL.
(14) Despite its dominance, the PAP continues to fiercely restrict freedom of assembly and speech.
(15) During the acute phase, it decreased more for trypsinogen I and chymotrypsinogen B than for amylase and lipase, whereas synthesis of the PAP increased dramatically.
(16) However, with severe hypovolemia, marked reductions in PAP may occur with discontinuance of mechanical ventilation.
(17) Ultrastructural investigations involved a novel method whereby thick sections of gluteraldehyde-fixed material were cut on a vibratome and then labelled using slight modifications of a standard unlabelled antibody-enzyme (PAP) technique, before further processing.
(18) The true Km and Kia values for PAPS were both 0.35 microM, while the true Km value for phenol was 2.8 microM.
(19) Short and long term administration of vasodilator drugs to patients with pulmonary artery hypertension (PAP) effects small falls of PAP and larger reductions of pulmonary vascular resistance due to increases of cardiac output.
(20) The distribution of Pap smears during the year shows that the numbers diminished during the summer and rose during autumn.
Paw
Definition:
(n.) The foot of a quadruped having claws, as the lion, dog, cat, etc.
(n.) The hand.
(v. i.) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.
(v. t.) To pass the paw over; to stroke or handle with the paws; hence, to handle fondly or rudely.
(v. t.) To scrape or beat with the forefoot.
Example Sentences:
(1) In pentobarbital-anesthetized rats or in perfused hind paw of rats, the potentiation induced by cocaine and tripelennamine was more marked to norepinephrine than to epinephrine, but an inverse relation between norepinephrine and epinephrine was observed in the potentiation by I and II.
(2) Both face and paw receptive fields are unions of a certain set of skin areas called compartments.
(3) At both 24 h and 1 week, the inflamed paw showed pronounced supersensitivity to the antinociceptive action of morphine against noxious pressure.
(4) An actor dressed like one of the polar bears that figure in Coke ads limped up, wearing a prosthesis on one paw, a dialysis bag and tubing.
(5) His shot, though, was pawed on to the inside of the post by David Marshall and it was left to Victor Wanyama to lash the loose ball into the empty net.
(6) In the spinalized preparation, steady-state and nonsteady-state responses have an equal likelihood of emerging from the initial cycles of a paw-shake response, suggesting that regular coupling of joint oscillations is not planned by pattern-generating networks within lumbosacral segments.
(7) The spinal ascending pathways responsible for neuronal ventrobasal (VB) thalamic responses elicited by joint stimulation of the posterior paw were determined in arthritic rats used as a model of experimental pain.
(8) The response was composed of an isometric phase, during which the body weight was shifted from the stimulated limb to the opposite forelimb while the stimulated limb was gently pushed backwards, and a movement phase during which the stimulated paw actually accomplished the placing reaction.
(9) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
(10) Carrageenin-induced inflammatory oedema of the rat paw was considerably inhibited at i.v.
(11) The goalkeeper then had to paw out another Carroll header.
(12) In inflammatory studies, 1-4 showed inhibition of formaldehyde-induced paw swelling (edema).
(13) Hence, Paw was a major determinant of oxygenation, although a PEEP greater than Pflex appeared necessary to optimize oxygenation at a constant Paw.
(14) A comparison has been made between liposome-encapsulated and free indomethacin for their anti-inflammatory activities in the carrageenan paw oedema test in rats, and their inhibitory effect on platelet aggregation induced by adenosine 5-diphosphate (ADP) in-vitro.
(15) Standard 5-member series of weak electro-cutaneous stimulations of the fore-paw were applied in chronic experiments to two dogs with implanted cortical electrodes.
(16) from the 1st to the 3rd day and then each 2nd or 3rd day inhibited paw swelling in adjuvant arthritis of the rat during the time of treatment.
(17) It has been shown that under all types of stimulation the latent periods (LP) of nociceptive reactions of paw licking and tail flick were significantly increased, as compared to baseline level, thus suggesting suppression of the pain sensitivity.
(18) Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) only partially inhibit the hyperalgesia in the inflammation induced by carrageenin in the hind rat paw, one of the most frequently used nociceptive tests.
(19) The models used were (1) carrageenin-induced paw oedema in rats previously depleted of polymorphonuclear cells, (2) carrageenin-induced rat pleurisy and (3) migration of rat peritoneal leucocytes from glass capillary tubes in vitro.
(20) AOA and B-H were markedly effective both in scavenging the reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated and in inhibiting lipid peroxidation; they also significantly reduced both adjuvant- and adriamycin-induced paw oedema in rats.