(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.
Pup
Definition:
(n.) A young dog; a puppy.
(n.) a young seal.
(v. i.) To bring forth whelps or young, as the female of the canine species.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blood was collected from pups and dams to determine its caffeine concentration.
(2) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(3) These episodes continued for the duration of the suckling test and were enhanced when a second pup was placed on an adjacent nipple.
(4) A considerably greater increase in the peak plasma OT concentration resulted when hungry foster litters of 6 pups were suckled after the mothers' own 6 pups had been suckled.
(5) At 24 days of age, the pups of HP, M and M-F diet groups, only gained 48%, 30% and 18% respectively, in their body weight, whereas the body-length parameters (LNC and LNRC) showed a reduction of 20%, 35%, and 45%, respectively for the same diet groups.
(6) The results also suggest that both alkali metals most probably have been delivered to the suckling pups and some of their toxic effect was retarded.
(7) The PUP leader told the ABC his announcement would have international significance.
(8) The effects of quinpirole and sulpiride on dopamine (DA), dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) and accumulation of dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA) after inhibition of DOPA decarboxylase were determined for the striatum and tegmentum of 11- and 17-day-old rat pups.
(9) These observations indicated a novel mechanism that in the absence of light-dark schedule, mothers taught the circadian rhythm to the pups as they raised them.
(10) Sympathetic nervous system function was blocked in developing male SHR by treating pups from days 0 to 14 with: (1) guanethidine, (2) combined alpha- and beta-receptor antagonists (prazosin and timolol), or (3) vehicle (5% sucrose).
(11) Saline-injected controls started gathering the pups immediately and usually showed all elements of maternal behaviour within 10 min.
(12) Rooting latency showed a significant additive maternal strain effect but little systematic effect of pup genotype.
(13) Only six (43 per cent) of the stores routinely informed clients of the need to continue deworming procedures once the pup left the store.
(14) Reinstitution of suckling after removal of pups causes an immediate rise in PRL and GH.
(15) Pups were weaned either to the diet of their dam or to the diet fed to dams in the other treatment group in a crossover design.
(16) Progressive paraparesis developed in four male English Springer Spaniel pups from a litter of five during the first 10 weeks of life.
(17) 5beta-Dihydrotestosterone was adminstered to mothers for 4 days from Day 12 to Day 15 of pregnancy (prenatal treatment) and to pups for 5 days of postnatal life (neonatal treatment) at daily doses of 1 mg and 200 mug, respectively.
(18) The weight and size of the eyeballs were almost the same as those in normal NC pups.
(19) Their pups continued to consume the caffeine diet until 50 days.
(20) The pups were divided into caffeine and noncaffeine groups.