(v. i.) To bring forth whelps or young, as the female of the canine species.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blood was collected from pups and dams to determine its caffeine concentration.
(2) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(3) These episodes continued for the duration of the suckling test and were enhanced when a second pup was placed on an adjacent nipple.
(4) A considerably greater increase in the peak plasma OT concentration resulted when hungry foster litters of 6 pups were suckled after the mothers' own 6 pups had been suckled.
(5) At 24 days of age, the pups of HP, M and M-F diet groups, only gained 48%, 30% and 18% respectively, in their body weight, whereas the body-length parameters (LNC and LNRC) showed a reduction of 20%, 35%, and 45%, respectively for the same diet groups.
(6) The results also suggest that both alkali metals most probably have been delivered to the suckling pups and some of their toxic effect was retarded.
(7) The PUP leader told the ABC his announcement would have international significance.
(8) The effects of quinpirole and sulpiride on dopamine (DA), dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) and accumulation of dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA) after inhibition of DOPA decarboxylase were determined for the striatum and tegmentum of 11- and 17-day-old rat pups.
(9) These observations indicated a novel mechanism that in the absence of light-dark schedule, mothers taught the circadian rhythm to the pups as they raised them.
(10) Sympathetic nervous system function was blocked in developing male SHR by treating pups from days 0 to 14 with: (1) guanethidine, (2) combined alpha- and beta-receptor antagonists (prazosin and timolol), or (3) vehicle (5% sucrose).
(11) Saline-injected controls started gathering the pups immediately and usually showed all elements of maternal behaviour within 10 min.
(12) Rooting latency showed a significant additive maternal strain effect but little systematic effect of pup genotype.
(13) Only six (43 per cent) of the stores routinely informed clients of the need to continue deworming procedures once the pup left the store.
(14) Reinstitution of suckling after removal of pups causes an immediate rise in PRL and GH.
(15) Pups were weaned either to the diet of their dam or to the diet fed to dams in the other treatment group in a crossover design.
(16) Progressive paraparesis developed in four male English Springer Spaniel pups from a litter of five during the first 10 weeks of life.
(17) 5beta-Dihydrotestosterone was adminstered to mothers for 4 days from Day 12 to Day 15 of pregnancy (prenatal treatment) and to pups for 5 days of postnatal life (neonatal treatment) at daily doses of 1 mg and 200 mug, respectively.
(18) The weight and size of the eyeballs were almost the same as those in normal NC pups.
(19) Their pups continued to consume the caffeine diet until 50 days.
(20) The pups were divided into caffeine and noncaffeine groups.
Sup
Definition:
(v. t.) To take into the mouth with the lips, as a liquid; to take or drink by a little at a time; to sip.
(n.) A small mouthful, as of liquor or broth; a little taken with the lips; a sip.
(v. i.) To eat the evening meal; to take supper.
(v. t.) To treat with supper.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, when it has attained a length of about half the cell body diameter, it becomes SUP GLU+ and 6-11B-1+.
(2) However, the Con A-sup stimulates synergistically M-1 cells with DF.
(3) An expanded version of this paper, containing full experimental details of the semisynthesis and characterization of [GlyA1-3H]insulin, has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50129 (30 pages) at the British Library (Lending Division), Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem.
(4) In this paper we show that the sup-3 mutation is an amplification of the structural gene for the MHC A protein, myo-3.
(5) The capacity of such activated M phi to function as APC decreased upon removal of Con A sup, and could be regenerated by a second pulse.
(6) We report that E. coli K-12 and W1485 (sup0) accumulated trehalose but that they required a higher osmotic strength in the growth medium than that required by their sup+ derivatives.
(7) Putative null sup-38 mutations cause maternal-effect lethality which is rescued by a wild-type copy of the locus in the zygote.
(8) Solar UV-irradiance was compared with radiation from different phototherapy devices (UVB, SUP, and PUVA therapy equipment).
(9) In addition to mutations in sup-20, other mutations causing muscle defects, such as unc-54 and unc-22 mutations, suppress the hypercontracted phenotype of unc-105.
(10) The particularities of the case are the long period between onset of the disease and establishment of the diagnosis-the cutaneous lesions having persisted all the time, and the marked persistence of postlesional erythemas showing positive improvement by means of selective ultraviolet phototherapy (SUP).
(11) Studies on femurs retrieved at autopsy from patients who underwent cemented total hip arthroplasty two week sup to seventeen years earlier and were functioning well, have shown that the failure of cemented femoral components is initiated primarily by mechanical factors, consisting of debonding at the cement-prosthesis interface and fractures of the cement rather than lack of bone ingrowth or fibrous tissue formation at the interface.
(12) Analytical gel filtration of M phi sup revealed that the factor had an apparent molecular weight of 27,000 daltons which was distinct from interleukin 1.
(13) It is shown that these suppressor cells can inhibit an ongoing response of T cells to active SUP and that this inhibition is reversible.
(14) Mutations in the internal promoter of the first gene decreased transcription, both in vitro and in vivo, of the second-tRNA(SUP)6-o-gene.
(15) The group with the most heterogeneity was the SUP, sharing similarities with the UP and SBP mostly.
(16) Translation of the UGA codon was found to occur with high fidelity since it was refractory to ribosomal mutations affecting proofreading and to suppression by the sup-9 gene product.
(17) Although the incisional hernia may sometimes stay silent and asymptomatic for years, it inevitably ends sup by representing a reason for acute and subacute pathologic events; an early surgical treatment is therefore desirable once the incisional hernia has been diagnosed.
(18) Detailed evidence for the amino acid sequences of the peptides has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50143 (23 pages) at the British Library Lending Division, Boston Spa, Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies may be obtained as indicated in Biochem.
(19) The PWM that remained in solution after incubation with E (Sup E-PWM) had little mitogenic capacity and inhibited the blast cell response induced by fluid-phase PWM.
(20) Similar responses were apparent following the HDT to SUP II transition, except for VO2, which changed little.