(a.) Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus.
(a.) Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as, an amoeba is a protean animalcule.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such a need has occurred in New York City, where schistosomiasis, with its protean manifestations has been seen with increasing frequency.
(2) Sarcoidosis is a disease of unknown etiology with protean manifestations.
(3) Cow's milk protein intolerance (CMPI) is recognised as an important cause of protean symptoms in infants.
(4) The symptoms are protean from unilateral headache, Horners syndrome, tinnitus, to cerebral ischemia and hemipareses.
(5) The protean clinical manifestation depends on the site and the extent of the disease and its complications.
(6) Lyme borreliosis is a protean infection caused by B burgdorferi, a recently recognized arthropod-borne spirochete.
(7) The fossil fuel resistance, like the fossil fuel industry, is protean and sprawling – and each win reverberates for decades to come, because that’s how long pipelines and coal mines are built to last.
(8) Congenital intrapericardial aneurysm of the left atrial wall is a rare anomaly with protean manifestations.
(9) It was important for the physician to have a high index of suspicion based on a protean chief complaint, a lack of preceding history of illness, the time of presentation to the ED, and more subtle physical findings such as minor skin bruising, retinal hemorrhage, and distended abdomen.
(10) Amongst the protean extra-intestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease, scant mention is made of muscle involvement.
(11) This adds another entity to the already protean manifestations of M. pneumoniae infection.
(12) The signs and symptoms of the syndrome are protean, and the underlying cancer is often occult.
(13) Widespread drug abuse, a comparatively recent medicosocial phenomenon, presents protean clinical patterns and challenging diagnostic problems daily that mimic classical medical syndromes.
(14) The infants all had multiple skin haemangiomas as well as deep-seated lesions in many different tissues that caused protean clinical manifestations and management problems.
(15) The latter has protean manifestations, but bouts of fever with low parasitaemia and blood disorders are predominant.
(16) Only the subsequent course of the tumor enabled us to identify the site in the sphenoid sinus, an atypical area surrounded by numerous neurovascular structures which, if involved, may give rise to a protean and nonspecific symptom-complex.
(17) While qualitatively normal, these precursors accumulate to cause protean signs and symptoms.
(18) Symptomatology was protean, clinical findings minimal, relapses frequent, and results of laboratory investigations, including virological studies, were generally negative.
(19) Both clinicians and pathologists must be aware of the protean manifestations of AIDS in order to establish an accurate and complete diagnosis.
(20) Although the hallmark of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection is pneumonia, the organism is also responsible for a protean array of other symptoms.
Protein
Definition:
(n.) A body now known as alkali albumin, but originally considered to be the basis of all albuminous substances, whence its name.
Example Sentences:
(1) All mutant proteins could associate with troponin I and troponin T to form a troponin complex.
(2) By electrophoresis and scanning densitometry, actin was found to constitute about 4% to 6% of the total cellular protein in the human corneal epithelium.
(3) Comparison of the S100 alpha-binding protein profiles in fast- and slow-twitch fibers of various species revealed few, if any, species- or fiber type-specific S100 binding proteins.
(4) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
(5) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
(6) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(7) Following central retinal artery ligation, infarction of the retinal ganglion cells was reflected by a 97 per cent reduction in the radioactively labeled protein within the optic nerve.
(8) Increased dietary protein intake led to increased MDA per nephron, increased urinary excretion of MDA, and increased MDA per milligram protein in subtotally nephrectomized animals, and markedly increased the glutathione redox ratio.
(9) The presence of O-glycosidic linkages between carbohydrate and protein in the DF3 antigenic site was further supported by the presence of NaBH4-sensitive sites.
(10) Cyclic AMP stimulated phosphorylation by [gamma-32P]ATP of two proteins of apparent Mr = 20,000 and 7,000 that were concentrated in sarcoplasmic reticulum, but the stimulation was markedly dependent on the presence of added soluble cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase.
(11) The quaternary structure of ribonucleotide reductase of Escherichia coli was investigated, with the use of purified B1 and B2 proteins and bifunctional cross-linking agents.
(12) This induction is sensitive to actinomycin D but not to protein synthesis inhibitor puromycin, indicating an effect of estradiol at the transcriptional level, possibly mediated by the estrogen receptor.
(13) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
(14) This clinical improvement was also associated with a decrease of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (p less than 0.001), decrease of C-reactive protein (p less than 0.0001) and with improvement of anaemia (p less than 0.05).
(15) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(16) We also show that the gene of the main capsid protein is expressed from its own promoter in an Escherichia coli strain.
(17) Western blot analysis of these mitochondria using an antibody against carnitine palmitoyltransferase II purified from beef heart demonstrates a 68-kDa protein, which under ischemic conditions apparently is decreased by 2 kDa.
(18) Fifteen sera ICA-IgG and ICA-protein A positive with high titres remained positive thereafter.
(19) Patient or fetal cord serum is commonly used as a protein supplement to culture media used in in-vitro fertilization (IVF).
(20) Using the oocyte system to express size-fractionated mRNA, we have also determined that the mRNA coding for this protein is between 1.9-2.4 kilobases in length.