(1) Only 27% had worried about their risk of having a CF child, only 8% said they wanted fewer children because of the risk, and only 1 person completely refrained from further progeniture.
(2) In long-term and short-term experiments with Mongolian gerbils the effects of various dietary fats and different amounts of cholesterol on progeniture and liver pathology were studied.
(3) Progeniture was unaffected on this level of intake.
Progeny
Definition:
(n.) Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The haplotype of the recombinant X chromosome of each of 241 backcross progeny has been established using the X-linked anchor loci Otc, Hprt, Dmd, Pgk-1, and Amg and the additional probes DXSmh43 and Cbx-rs1.
(2) (E)-5-(2-Bromovinyl)uridine (BVUrd), the riboside counterpart of (E)-5-(2-bromovinyl)-2'-deoxyuridine (BVdUrd), effected a dose-dependent inhibition of viral progeny formation and viral DNA synthesis in herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1, strain KOS)-infected human (E6SM) diploid fibroblast cells.
(3) In a second phase of the study, a comparison was made between mortality rates of male and female progeny of White Leghorn-Rhode Island Red reciprocal crosses.
(4) In the progeny of the surviving males, neither translocations nor independent fragments are found; indirect evidence indicated the occasional presence of inversions.
(5) After irradiation by 137Cs gamma-rays at a dose of 5 Gy the males were mated to unirradiated females and genetic analysis of fertility in the F1 progeny was carried out.
(6) Thus, the progeny of infected primitive multipotential cells are competent to express integrated proviruses.
(7) The finding of idiotype diversity in the PC response, as well as diversity of expression in terms of quantity and immunoglobulin class of antibody synthesized by the clonal progeny of B cells within the TEPC 15 clonotype, emphasize the heterogeneity of the B-cell population both in terms of specificity repertoire and the physiological state of cells even within a single clonotype.
(8) This unusual pattern of unbalanced growth may represent an adaptation by bdellovibrios to maximize their progeny yield from the determinate amount of substrate available within a given prey cell.
(9) A significant increase of tumour frequency was detected in the progeny of these rats.
(10) It was found that the frequency of microphthalmia and anophthalmia in the female progeny of mice fed Mouse Chow was 7.4-9.2% in B10.A and B10.BR, 4.0-5.5% in B10.A(18R), B10, B10.A(5R), B10.A(1R), B10.A(15R), and B10.A(2R), and 0.8% and 1.4% in B10.D2 and B10.OL mice, respectively.
(11) The specific cellular defects in patched mutants suggests that this gene specifies a subset of neuroblasts and neural progeny underlying the region of epidermal pattern defect.
(12) Tibial breaking strength and tibial percentage ash of the progeny at hatching was markedly improved in proportion to maternal phosphorus and food intake.
(13) The progeny exposed to DES prenatally and DMBA postnatally (DES-DMBA-exposed progeny) developed a greater multiplicity of tumors per tumor-bearing animal (p less than 0.001) and higher rates of neoplasms of the reproductive tract, e.g., ovarian and uterine tumors, mammary gland and forestomach tumors, and dermal melanomas.
(14) 6 pregnancies were carried to term, and all progeny were normal, based on physical examination at birth or 3 months after.
(15) The SF were derived from normal appearing subepidermoid biopsies of ACR individuals, their progeny and ocntrols.
(16) Defective H genomes were present in the progeny virus two passages after transfection.
(17) A germ line mutation causing a tumour ('tumour mutation') is weakly carcinogenic by itself, but it is strongly expressed in the progeny after postnatal treatment with a small dose of the carcinogenesis promoting agent urethane.
(18) In the case of LTC-IC, the production of different types of lineage-restricted and multipotent progeny was also analyzed.
(19) Sequence analysis of progeny of untreated plasmids containing putative point mutations showed insertions and deletions of bases and a broad spectrum of base substitutions; in those from BPDE-treated plasmids, all base substitutions involved guanosine .
(20) Using this assay the kinetics of appearance of the progeny of transfused bone marrow and spleen cells in the thymus of irradiated (760 R) mice has been studied.