What's the difference between rabies and rubies?

Rabies


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Hydrophobia (b); canine madness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was also able to inhibit the binding both of alpha-bungarotoxin and rabies virus glycoprotein to the acetylcholine receptor.
  • (2) Rabies antigens were detected by direct immunofluorescence labeling in most McCoy cells of the infected culture, and specific antibodies neutralized the virus growth and CPE.
  • (3) The analysis of the results of both immunochemical assays showed the presence of two specific antigenic fractions of rabies virus.
  • (4) We analyzed cell extracts from BHK(21) cells infected with vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) and rabies virus for in vitro RNA polymerase activity.
  • (5) After distribution, 81% of foxes inspected were positive for tetracycline, a biomarker included in the vaccine bait and, other than one rabid fox detected close to the periphery of the treated area, no case of rabies, either in foxes or in domestic livestock, has been reported in the area.
  • (6) Some, but not all, of the T cells from these individuals cross-reacted with various laboratory strains of rabies virus with rabies-related viruses such as Duvenhage and Mokola.
  • (7) Both the tests had 100.0% sensitivity and specificity when mice brain infected with CVS strain of Rabies virus was used.
  • (8) A technology for preparation of purified concentrates of rabies virus has been developed permitting to use simultaneously dozens of liters of tissue culture virus-containing fluid for the preparation of a concentrate.
  • (9) Post-exposure protection of rabies-infected mice was observed by proximal application of axonal flow inhibitors, particularly vinblastine, to the local nerve(s).
  • (10) Cell-mediated immunity induced by rabies vaccination was studied in humans by the determination of specific interleukin-2 (IL-2) production in a large number of donors (postexposure immunized patients and pre-exposure immunized laboratory workers).
  • (11) Rabies virions in neurons were mostly found within the cluster of such ribosome-rich regions suggesting a close relationship between the two in the synthesis of virus antigen.
  • (12) The jackal (Canis adustus) was the predominate wildlife species involved (69%) and played a role in the epidemiology of bovine rabies in remote farm areas.
  • (13) Comparative nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequence analyses of the RNA and proteins of several fixed rabies virus strains have allowed detailed characterization of structural-functional relations of individual virus components.
  • (14) Our results suggest that NK cells of rabies patients are not fully stimulated and that this might contribute to the virulence of rabies.
  • (15) 228 persons have been previously vaccinated with inactivated human rabies vaccine Mérieux (HDC).
  • (16) Accordingly, the New York State rabies diagnostic laboratory has replaced the MIT with the in vitro procedure as a backup for the fluorescent-antibody test in the routine diagnosis of rabies.
  • (17) Two major tryptic glycopeptides were isolated from desialated rabies virus glycoprotein and were analyzed after protease digestion; one contained two oligosaccharide side chains and the other contained a single oligosaccharide side chain.
  • (18) During 1982 and 1983, the Centers for Disease Control and cooperating Middle Atlantic States and local health departments collected data on 1,610 raccoons that were submitted for rabies testing and on 133 persons who received rabies postexposure prophylaxis as a result of exposure to wild animals.
  • (19) Rabies virus glycoprotein and snake venom curaremimetic neurotoxins share a region of high homology (30-45 for neurotoxins and 190-203 for the glycoprotein) in the regions that are believed to be responsible for binding the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor.
  • (20) National Canine Rabies Control Programme finalised by the National Committee on Zoonoses has been taken up recently by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India.

Rubies


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Ruby

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nine years of clinical experience of the application of the Q-switched ruby laser to the removal of tattoos is presented.
  • (2) 8.59pm BST Mary and Paul would have received death threats if Ruby had won, I think.
  • (3) Other lasers that are in clinical use, such as the red ruby and near-infrared Nd-YAG lasers, can provide selective treatment only when the epidermis is cooled concurrently.
  • (4) But Ruby Tweedie, another local resident, said: "There have been so many doubts about his guilt that it's only fair that the man, who has only a few months to live, should be shown mercy."
  • (5) These changes are detected by variations in the rate of decay of the excited singlet state of pyrene after pulsation with a 10-nsec ruby laser flash.
  • (6) No recombinants were detected among 410 offspring produced from a backcross mating segregating for Ldh-1 and ru-2 (ruby-eye-2).
  • (7) NWR may be celebrating its ruby anniversary but will an organisation born to alleviate the lot of the housewife survive to drink to its golden when, politically and personally, she is apparently dead and buried?
  • (8) Ruby Tandoh faced online abuse during her appearances on The Great British Bake Off – and now the 21-year-old philosophy student has been set up for a fresh mauling by the Daily Mail .
  • (9) The argon laser and the ruby laser have been used to open the pigment layer in three cases of surgically incomplete peripheral iridectomy.
  • (10) 8.16pm BST Ruby's look so attractive but it's Mary who says this, not Paul.
  • (11) Louise Brock was keen for her daughter Ruby, who has Down's syndrome, to go to a mainstream school.
  • (12) Ruby confirmed several points: arthrosis is inevitable after a variable delay (10 years for the most optimistic).
  • (13) A 19-year-old man sustained a bilateral coagulation of the macula caused accidentally by a ruby laser rangefinder mounted on a tank.
  • (14) Ruby Wax identifies with it In the BBC's 2003 Big Read, the crimson-haired comedian chose The Catcher in the Rye as her favourite book.
  • (15) Then the final thickness of the sections is exactly adjusted by screwing three rubies out of the holder's bottom.
  • (16) 8.57pm BST Ruby is in floods, Mel and Sue are administering hugs.
  • (17) Ruby-eye (ru) is an autosomal recessive in linkage group 2.
  • (18) The reason, according to former federal agents and experts on rightwing extremism, is a vivid institutional memory of the bloodshed that marked standoffs with radical rightwingers in Ruby Ridge , Idaho, in 1992 and at Waco , Texas, the following year.
  • (19) The intensity-dependent transmission of primary leaves of Triticum aestivum seedlings at lambda = 694 nm was measured with single pulses of a Q-switch ruby laser.
  • (20) Five genetically distinct mutants with increased bleeding times and abnormal dense granules were used: maroon (ru-2mr), light ear (le), ruby eye (ru), beige (bg1), and pale ear (ep).

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