(n.) The act of precipitating, or the state of being precipitated, or thrown headlong.
(n.) A falling, flowing, or rushing downward with violence and rapidity.
(n.) Great hurry; rash, tumultuous haste; impetuosity.
(n.) The act or process of precipitating from a solution.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nuclear origin of the Ha antigen was confirmed by the speckled nuclear immunofluorescence staining pattern given by purified antibody to Ha obtained from a specific immune precipitate.
(2) The Fc fragment of this protein reacted with and was solubilized by the staphylococcal A protein which also precipitated the intact immunoglobulin.
(3) It could be demonstrated by radioimmune precipitation of virus labeled with[35S]methionine that all three polypeptides are specific for hog cholera virions.
(4) Nine of the in vivo synthesized early polypeptides can be precipitated specifically from infected cell extracts by antisera with specificity against early adenovirus proteins.
(5) Its pathogenesis, still incompletely elucidated, involves the precipitation of immune complexes in the walls of the all vessels.
(6) The usefulness of the proposed method is obvious in cases where the composition of a precipitate on LM scale is to be compared with the LM appearance of the surrounding tissue.
(7) After precipitation of plasma proteins by addition of methanol the samples are injected directly into the liquid chromatographic system.
(8) Thus Sephadex chromatography of the solution obtained by dissolving the antigen-antibody precipitate in these media repeatedly gave two peaks corresponding to anti-ovalbumin and ovalbumin.
(9) When AMT administration was discontinued 40 hrs before precipitation of withdrawal the withdrawal pattern occurred with unchanged intensity.
(10) Using a simple precipitation technique we observed that the serum concentrations of low density lipoproteins in healthy Africans were less than half the serum concentrations in healthy Europeans.
(11) There was no correlation between anti-TNP-precipitating antibody titer after sensitization and the ability to respond to challenge by hapten-heterologous carrier.
(12) Precipitating antibodies were found in both lines; they first appeared 7 days after inoculation in P-line birds and 14 days after inoculation in N-line birds, but thereafter there was no difference between the two genetic lines.
(13) The new technique, Surface Immune Precipitation (SIP), entails the application of an antigen sample droplet directly onto the surface of a gel containing antibody, the gel being supported by a reflecting substrate.
(14) In this study we have compared purified C4A and C4B with regard to their ability to prevent immune complex precipitation and to enhance the binding of both preformed and nascent immune complexes to the receptor CR1 on red cells.
(15) A lesser inhibitory effect (a decrease in the rate of precipitation) was observed when gallbladder bile was diluted but was lost after 10-fold dilution.
(16) The first step is the preparation of a globulin-enriched fraction by precipitation with ammonium sulfate at 50% saturation, or of an immune-complex-enriched fraction by precipitation with 5% polyethylene glycol 6000.
(17) DNase I microspheres were then introduced into the extracorporeal circuit which resulted in an acceleration of degradation of acid precipitable 125I-nDNA.
(18) The dramatic nationwide increase of primary and secondary syphilis in women has precipitated a dramatic rise in congenital syphilis.
(19) The translation of mRNA for S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase was studied using a polyamine-depleted reticulocyte lysate supplemented with mRNA from rat prostate and the antiserum to precipitate the proteins corresponding to S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase.
(20) Only heart rate correlated closely with the precipitation of angina.
Stratus
Definition:
(n.) A form of clouds in which they are arranged in a horizontal band or layer. See Cloud.
Example Sentences:
(1) Correlations with an immunoradiometric assay (Embria), using 522 samples, gave: Stratus = 0.999 (Embria) -3.3; r = 0.969, and Magic Lite = 1.225 (Embria) -3.03; r = 0.971.
(2) We studied the influence of endogenous albumin and thyroxin-binding globulin concentration on five automated, nonisotopic methods of measuring FT4 [Enzymun on ES300 (one-step), Stratus I and II (essentially two-step), Delfia (two-step), and IMx (two-step)] in a mixed patient population.
(3) The green patches are of scattered low clouds (stratocumulus, stratus, fog).
(4) However, intra- and interassay precision was substantially better with the Stratus hCG assay, and this may allow earlier confirmation of pregnancy.
(5) The Stratus automatic analyser can replace radioisotopic methods, thus eliminating radioactive hazards.
(6) We evaluated four new nonisotopic immunoassays of free thyroxin (FT4)--Amerlite FT4 (Amersham International), Magic Lite FT4 (Ciba Corning Diagnostics), Stratus FT4 (Dade--Baxter Travenol), and FT4 Enzelsa (Compagnie ORIS Industrie)--by comparison with two FT4 radioimmunoassays: Amerlex and Sclavo.
(7) Automated digoxin immunoassays with the Abbott TDx, Dade Stratus, and Du Pont aca were evaluated against an RIA similar to the Centers for Disease Control Candidate Reference Method.
(8) The advantageous features of the Stratus mass assay were as follows.
(9) Stratus TSH results were outside the reference range for 20% of clinically euthyroid patients (n = 126), and 2.4% had undetectable levels.
(10) Recently developed fluorescent enzyme immunoassays (FEIs) for follitropin (FSH) and lutropin (LH) designed for the Stratus analyzer were compared with a typical dual FSH-LH radioimmunoassay (RIA) procedure.
(11) First, we evaluated the financial impact of a rapid, monoclonal antibody-based CK-MB mass assay (Stratus, Dade Division, Baxter Laboratories, Miami, Fla) for the direct measurement of CK-MB in serum samples from 65 patients admitted to the coronary care unit with the possible diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction.
(12) Blood specimens from each patient were assayed for apparent SDCs in triplicate using a fluorescence polarization immunoassay (FPIA, TDx Digoxin II, Abbott) and a digoxin radioimmunoassay (RIA, GammaCoat I125, Clinical Assays) and in duplicate using a fluorometric enzyme immunoassay (Dade Stratus, American Dade).
(13) We determined that a membrane-associated, high-molecular-mass form of alkaline phosphatase was a cause of these falsely increased values and instituted an approach to identify falsely increased Stratus CK-MB values.
(14) In a previous evaluation of a "sensitive" radial partition fluorescent immunoassay on the Stratus system, thyrotropin (TSH) values exhibited a positive bias in icteric samples when compared with results of a nonsensitive radioimmunoassay.
(15) (acoustic) Crimson And Clover (acoustic) Sweet Thing (aborted) Funknroll (acoustic) Q & A (2) Stratus incl.
(16) On average, the higher ALP values were associated with larger discrepancies between Stratus and RIA TSH values, although several samples with increased ALP did not have falsely increased Stratus TSH values.
(17) The reliability and precision of three digoxin immunoassays--Baxter Dade Stratus (BDS), Syva affinity column enzyme-mediated immunoassay (EMIT), and the reference assay Abbott TDx fluorescence polarization immunoassay following ultrafiltration (FPIA-UF)--were compared in eight digoxin toxic patients treated with digoxin fab antibodies.
(18) Dibenzepine has a thymeretic rapid and intensive action and a slow thymoanaleptic effect on the same personality stratus of Clorimipramine.
(19) The method was compared with immunoradiometric (Bioclone Australia), chemiluminescent (Amerlite; Amersham), and immunoenzymometric assays (Stratus; Dade).
(20) Samples were measured using the Abbott TDx assay with and without ultrafiltration of the sample and the Dade-Stratus radial partition assay.