(1) Qa-2 antigen expression was used as a marker for the Q subregion and fast or slow development was used to assess Ped gene phenotype in backcross embryos generated from the mating of (B6.K1 x B6.K2)F1 and B6.K1 mice.
(2) We recently studied the effects of 4-OHA and other aromatase inhibitors, 10-propargylestr-4-ene-3,17-dione (PED) and imidazo[1,5-alpha]3,4,5,6-tetrahydropyrin-6-yl-(4-benzonitrile) (CGS 16949A) as well as 5 alpha-reductase inhibitors, N,N-diethyl-4-methyl-3-oxo-4-aza-5 alpha-androstane-17 beta-carboxyamide (4-MA) and 17 beta-hydroxy-4-aza-4-methyl-19norandrost-5-en-3-one (L651190) in prostatic tissue from 11 patients with prostatic cancer and six patients with benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH), and from normal men at autopsy.
(3) A simple, accurate, and practical device was designed for detecting the woman at risk for postpartum emotional disorder (PED).
(4) Hedo Turkoglu was busted for PED use Despite the fact that the use of performance enhancing drugs is one of the biggest stories in sports today, alongside other notable topics such as imaginary girlfriends and ill-timed power failures, the NBA world seems strangely immune to the controversy.
(5) PEDS Plus broth aids diagnosis of pediatric bacteremia by increasing recovery of etiologic agents and decreasing the time required for detection.
(6) The results of these studies show that the difference in the rate of cleavage division between slow-developing strains (Ped slow) and fast-developing strains (Ped fast) is maintained in vitro.
(7) Initial detection occurred earlier with Bactec Peds Plus, while growth on solid media occurred earlier with Roche Septi-Chek.
(8) Of 7,798 adult patients admitted to a level I trauma center from July 1986 through June 1990, 16.0% (1,246) had greater than or equal to 1 PED.
(9) It appeared on the border of the PED (16 cases) usually temporally, or on the immediate border of the laser scar (4 cases).
(10) The findings, corrobated with other closely comparable observations, suggest that the emergence of PED as an intercurrent mortality problem during rabbit passage of pathogenic Treponema pallidum is the result of a specific selective pressure on a benign passenger virus.
(11) However, the results also demonstrate that several of the PDE inhibitors have effects on central DA mechanisms that are difficult to explain solely on the basis of PED inhibition.
(12) 9.56pm BST More Guardian coverage My colleague Michael Solomon weighs in with a piece that explains the Biogenesis PEDs scandal.
(13) Medium levels of progesterone, a major product of these cells, were found to decrease in a dose- and time-dependent manner upon addition of PED.
(14) PED was elicited either mechanically by employing single or double pressure steps, or electrically by antidromic stimulation of the aortic nerve.
(15) One hundred eighty-one isolates were recovered in both bottles, 75 in PEDS Plus only, and 33 in 6A only (P less than 0.001).
(16) Obvious subretinal new vessels developed in 16 (34%) of the serous PEDs over an average follow-up period of 25 months.
(17) Similarly, neither the position nor curvature of the Ped-Aed relation was changed by ULFS-49.
(18) This is a sign that although MLB and MLBPA are now working together to rid PED's from the game, the union is still prepared to fight for due process which makes a lot of sense from their perspective.
(19) The slow potassium current (Er = -85 mV) evoked in Ped-8 and Ped-9 neurones by glutamate, quisqualate and kainate could be blocked by tetraethylammonium (50 microM).
(20) Meanwhile Bud Selig, who made his pursuit and punishment of those using PEDs a top priority during a controversial, costly and aggressive investigation, is reaching the end of his time as MLB commissioner.
Peg
Definition:
(n.) A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.
(n.) A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon.
(n.) One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
(n.) One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.
(n.) A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "To take one down peg."
(v. t.) To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely.
(v. t.) To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points.
(v. i.) To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; -- usually with on, at, or away; as, to peg away at a task.
Example Sentences:
(1) Plasma renin activities (PRA) and aldosterone concentrations increased in parallel over a wide range of plasma volume deficits produced in unanesthetized rats by extravascular administration of polyethylene glycol (PEG) solution.
(2) To determine whether long-term enteral feedings can improve nutritional status and lung function parameters in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), 11 patients (8 female, 3 male, age 7 to 23 years) received a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) since February 1988.
(3) Advisable in a first time for the feeding of patients with palliative treatment, we propose PEG for patients in position to have a long and difficult rehabilitation of swallowing.
(4) Metoprolol was introduced into the stomach with a homogenized meal containing a nonabsorbable marker, [14C]-PEG 4000, and another marker, PEG 4000, was perfused continuously into the duodenum just below the pylorus.
(5) Decreased consistency of the stools was seen after PEG in both groups (p < 0.001).
(6) Since PEG-1000 treatment of HPRT- Chinese hamster cells in the absence of human cells yielded no HPRT+ cells, it is concluded that the element responsible for the restoration of rodent HPRT was contributed by the human cells and not by the agent employed to promote fusion.
(7) The CD spectra of these aggregates showed psi-type anomalies and intensities 10-100 times greater than those obtained with the dispersed DNA solutions in the absence of PEG.
(8) We next tried to prepare virus-free PEG-PLP-Hb from HBV or HTLV-I positive blood.
(9) The yes camp should have made no bones about a call to the nation to shake things up, by bringing him down a peg or two.
(10) The fast process in the presence of PEG was identified as due to rapid interbilayer monomer diffusion between closely apposed vesicles, and, in the absence of PEG, as due to monomer diffusion through the aqueous phase.
(11) Since it was first described Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) has rapidly become the preferred method for gastrostomy tube placement.
(12) Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) has become a commonly performed procedure to provide nutritional support to chronically ill patients.
(13) CIC-PEG and TRAb levels were similar in newly diagnosed and relapsed patients, being higher than in controls (p less than 0.01) and in remission patients (p less than 0.01).
(14) At a second operation, 10 days later, these adhesions were graded and lysed, after which the animals received one of the following solutions intraperitoneally: 5 per cent PEG 4000 (n = 21), 25 per cent PEG 4000 (n = 23), 32 per cent dextran 70 (n = 22) or isotonic saline (n = 25), or were left as an untreated control group (n = 20).
(15) The main histological features of the tumour were enormous, but relatively regular, acanthosis of rete pegs revealing no similarity to the squamous-cell carcinoma, and an exclusively parakeratottic eleidine-containing central plug.
(16) One hundred thirty-six percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomies (PEGs) were placed in 126 patients with head and neck malignancies.
(17) Sera from patients (n = 24) with hemolytic transfusion reactions and no detectable antibody by routine technics were tested; two sera had specific antibodies by the PEG technic.
(18) The PEG derivatization of enzymes with this procedure is less inactivating than those previously reported.
(19) Both liposome-mediated delivery and PEG conjugation offer an additional benefit over native superoxide dismutase and catalase because they can increase cellular antioxidant activities in a manner that can provide protection from both intracellular and extracellular superoxide and hydrogen peroxide.
(20) Both from diagnostic and prognostic points of view, PEG is of less value is communicating hydrocephalus on account of the many false findings.