(a.) Producing great physical effects; forcible; powerful' efficacious; as, a potent medicine.
(a.) Having great authority, control, or dominion; puissant; mighty; influential; as, a potent prince.
(a.) Powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument.
(n.) A prince; a potentate.
(n.) A staff or crutch.
(n.) One of the furs; a surface composed of patches which are supposed to represent crutch heads; they are always alternately argent and azure, unless otherwise specially mentioned.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neuromedin B (C50 6 x 10(-12) M) was 3 times less potent than bombesin-14.
(2) We have previously shown that serotonin is present in secretory granules of frog adrenochromaffin cells; concurrently, we have demonstrated that serotonin is a potent stimulator of corticosterone and aldosterone secretion by adrenocortical cells.
(3) administration of the potent short-acting opioid, fentanyl, elicited inhibition of rhythmic spontaneous reflex increases in vesical pressure (VP) evoked by urinary bladder distension.
(4) A novel bicyclic prostaglandin analogue, (1S)-[1 alpha,2 alpha(Z),3 alpha,4 alpha]-7-[3-[(hexylthio)methyl]-7- oxabicyclo [2.2.1]hept-2-yl]-5-heptenoic acid ((-)-10), and its cogeners were found to be potent antagonists at the TxA2 receptor.
(5) PBOP was as effective as polymyxin B nonapeptide (PMBN), the known very potent permeabilizer.
(6) )-induced gnawing behavior in rats was slightly more potent than that of clocapramine.
(7) We have confirmed this directly by showing that pure CCK is a potent inhibitor of gastric emptying.
(8) The purpose of the present study was to analyze the effects of cromakalim (BRL 34915), a potent drug from a new class of drugs characterized as "K+ channel openers", on the electrical activity of human skeletal muscle.
(9) We conclude that human hepatic lipocytes synthesize TIMP-1, a potent metalloproteinase inhibitor, and that TIMP-1 expression increases with lipocyte activation.
(10) Attachment of the graft to the wound is similar with and without the addition of human basic fibroblast growth factor, a potent angiogenic agent, to the skin replacement before graft placement on wounds.
(11) Substance P, a potent vasodilating peptide, seems to be released from trigeminal nerve endings in response to nervous stimulation and is involved in the transmission of painful stimuli within the periphery.
(12) Addition in the cultures of 4-deoxypyridoxine, a potent antagonist of vitamin B6 coenzymes, concurrently with the mitogen, inhibits the induction of serine hydroxymethyltransferase.
(13) These findings suggest that Sch 40120 is a potent anti-inflammatory agent that may be particularly useful in the treatment of inflammatory diseases such as psoriasis in which leukotrienes appear to be major mediators of the pathological symptoms that characterize the disease state.
(14) Mercury compounds and EDTA were found to be potent inhibitors of proteinase yscJ activity.
(15) We found that whereas idarubicin was 2-5 times more potent than the other three anthracycline analogs against these tumor cell lines, idarubicinol was 16-122 times more active than the other alcohol metabolites against the same three cell lines.
(16) Concanavalin A (con A) is a potent inhibitor of coagulant activity of native tissue factor.
(17) The alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonist clonidine is most potent for stimulating Isc.
(18) Chlorpromazine was clearly the most potent antagonist in all three experimental conditions.
(19) Moreover, the ribosylation inhibitors converted the glucocorticoid antagonist RU-486 into a potent agonist for cytolysis of L1210 cells.
(20) Aortic rings from the rabbit were similarly potently antagonized by the protein kinase C inhibitors, however, K(+)-induced contractions were also equally sensitive to these agents in both rat and rabbit tissues.
Vair
Definition:
(n.) The skin of the squirrel, much used in the fourteenth century as fur for garments, and frequently mentioned by writers of that period in describing the costly dresses of kings, nobles, and prelates. It is represented in heraldry by a series of small shields placed close together, and alternately white and blue.
Example Sentences:
(1) NA-induced and 5-HT-induced platelet aggregation and 5-HT uptake vaired accordingly.
(2) The fluorescence yields of tyrosine and tryptophan vaired 10- and 100-fold, respectively; the Stokes' shift of tryptophan ranged from 328 to 365 nm, but that for tyrosine was apparently invariant (305-307nm).
(3) The phenotype of the un-3 mutant raises the possibility that the vaIRS ORF has a second function in addition to protein synthesis.
(4) The rabbit thoracic aorta was studied by EM and vital staining with Evans blue at vaired points of time after a single lesion produced by an embolectomy catheter.
(5) Phase shifts of firing frequency relative to sinusoidally vaired chair position varied in units with different tonic discharge frequencies.
(6) The cyt-20-1 mutation in the vaIRS ORF results in severe deficiencies of both mitochondrial and cytosolic vaIRS activities, whereas the un-3 mutation does not appear to result in a deficiency of these activities or of mitochondrial or cytosolic protein synthesis sufficient to account for its temperature-sensitive growth.
(7) The normal level of PO2 in endolymph vaires between 20 and 30 mm Hg.
(8) The intensity of staining in the tumours vaired from one cell to another but was ingeneral less than that found for normal C cells.
(9) VAIRs were only observed in patients revascularized at an early stage (p 0.02) and in 54.5 p. cent of them.
(10) The speed of dark adaptation vaired considerably from cell to cell.