(1) The latter group received progesterone to permit blastocysts and the dissected fragments to enter into quiescence, prior to injection of oestradiol to induce implantation.
(2) Two of the antisense-fos clones grew in a density-dependent manner, exhibiting both a flat morphology and a quiescence in low serum medium unlike the sense-fos controls.
(3) No significant difference between patients with IgA nephropathy in clinical quiescence and the control subjects was demonstrated.
(4) These analyses unmasked unique attributes of spontaneous LH secretory events, which were represented as delimited momentary augmentations in endogenous LH secretory rates interspersed among intervals of relative secretory quiescence.
(5) When compared with internal monitoring, the external monitor detected 90.8% of uterine contractions with a specificity for uterine quiescence of 98.1%.
(6) The data support the hypothesis that malignant cells can exist in a state of relative quiescence for extended periods.
(7) The arrested cells showed reduced levels of actin synthesis and the turning-off process in the synthesis of actin was found to be relatively slow as the cells entered into quiescence.
(8) The Syrian hamster is being used as an experimental aging model to investigate the intrinsic developmental program of dermal fibroblasts in vivo (proliferation, extracellular matrix (ECM) production, quiescence, and reactivation during wound repair) in order to determine whether the in vivo differentiation program and mature function of these cells is related to their in vitro proliferation and senescence pattern.
(9) After an initial quiescence period (growth arrest), target cells were exposed to plasma derived serum (PDS) from 4 experimental groups: young stimulated rats; young sham-operated controls; aged stimulated rats and aged sham-operated controls, at PDS concentrations of 2.5% and 5.0% and counted at days 2 and 5.
(10) Methionine-enkephalin (Met-Enk) and dynorphin were injected intra-arterially into the distal stomach and small intestine of the anesthetized dog during quiescence and phasic activity initiated by field stimulation or intra-arterially administered motilin.
(11) Migrating motor complexes and a low percentage of time of quiescence were noted on both recordings.
(12) Thus mesotocin is unlikely to act as a systemic luteostatic agent during seasonal quiescence.
(13) Interventions such as quiescence, manganese and acidosis reduce myocardial contractility and increase the size of the extracellular space.
(14) These observations suggest that exogenous melatonin administered at 2000 h or 0400 h may be temporally adding to endogenous circulating melatonin, inducing gonadal quiescence.
(15) Lymphocytes obtained from baboons rejecting a heart allograft expressed NDA 4, whereas transplant recipients in quiescence showed no detectable NDA 4.
(16) In comparison to the fetuses of low risk multiparae studied earlier, the fetuses in the present study showed a somewhat lower proportion of quiescence (coincidence 1F) and higher percentage of activity (coincidence 2F); however, most of these differences were not statistically significant.
(17) During exposure to 10 mM K+, atrial potentials in all of the electrograms and atrial contractions ceased, indicating electrical quiescence of the contractile myocardium; however, the unique pattern of discharge of the SAB, PAVB, AVN, and DAVB persisted at the SA nodal rate.
(18) Also, growth rates and cell density at quiescence appear to be regulated by distinct mechanisms.
(19) Glutathione depletion to this extent (i.e., 0.13 mM vs. 2.24 mM in control) did not modify the aerobic radiation response for cells in the physiological states of proliferation, quiescence, or stimulated quiescent cells.
(20) The levels of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase activity in exponentially growing cells were approximately 2-fold higher than in cells that had been serum deprived for 24 h and were entering quiescence.
Rest
Definition:
(v. t.) To arrest.
(n.) A state of quiet or repose; a cessation from motion or labor; tranquillity; as, rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind.
(n.) Hence, freedom from everything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security.
(n.) Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death.
(n.) That on which anything rests or leans for support; as, a rest in a lathe, for supporting the cutting tool or steadying the work.
(n.) A projection from the right side of the cuirass, serving to support the lance.
(n.) A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
(n.) A short pause in reading verse; a c/sura.
(n.) The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account.
(n.) A set or game at tennis.
(n.) Silence in music or in one of its parts; the name of the character that stands for such silence. They are named as notes are, whole, half, quarter,etc.
(n.) To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion.
(n.) To be free from whanever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still.
(n.) To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a couch.
(n.) To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal.
(n.) To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead.
(n.) To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise.
(n.) To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
(v. t.) To lay or place at rest; to quiet.
(v. t.) To place, as on a support; to cause to lean.
(n.) That which is left, or which remains after the separation of a part, either in fact or in contemplation; remainder; residue.
(n.) Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
(n.) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
(v. i.) To be left; to remain; to continue to be.
Example Sentences:
(1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
(2) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
(3) Manometric studies with resting cells obtained by growth on each of these sulfur sources yielded net oxygen uptake for all substrates except sulfite and dithionate.
(4) The results also suggest that the dispersed condition of pigment in the melanophores represents the "resting state" of the melanophores when they are under no stimulation.
(5) Immediate postexercise two-dimensional echocardiography demonstrated exercise-induced changes in 8 (47%) patients (2 with normal and 6 with abnormal results from rest studies).
(6) Only in 17 of the 97 examinees all the examined parameters were found normal, in the rest deviations from the normal echographic picture were revealed.
(7) Subjects then rested supine until 10.00 h when blood was again taken, and blood pressure recorded.
(8) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(9) Under resting conditions, the variance of cerebral metabolism seems to be primarily related to regions which are closely involved with the limbic system.
(10) In a comparative study 11 athletes and 11 untrained students were investigated at rest, of these 6 trained and 5 untrained individuals during exercise as well.
(11) Channel activation persists through the process of platelet isolation and washing and is manifested in higher measured values of [Ca2+]cyt and [Ca2+]dt in the "resting state."
(12) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(13) The spikes likely correspond to VP3, a hemagglutinin, while the rest of the mass density in the outer shell represents 780 molecules of VP7, a neutralization antigen.
(14) Furthermore, experiments with the fluorescence-activated cell sorter revealed increased forward light scatter from resting exudate PMN compared to blood PMN.
(15) 14 patients with painful neuroma, skin hyperesthesia or neuralgic rest pain were followed up (mean 20 months) after excision of skin and scar, neurolysis and coverage with pedicled or free flaps.
(16) Among the 295 nonpathogenic strains, 115 were sensitive to all antibiotics whereas the rest were resistant to 1-5 kinds of antibiotics.
(17) The children's pulse, pulse rate variability, and blood pressure were then measured at rest and during a challenging situation.
(18) The functional capacity to present antigens to T cells was lacking in normal resting B cells, but was acquired following LK treatment.
(19) Assessments were made daily by patients, using visual analogue scales, of their pain levels at rest, at night and on activity, and of the limitation of their activity.
(20) An "overshoot" elevation of ejection fraction above resting levels was demonstrated following termination of exercise in most patients.