(n.) The dried tubers of various species of Orchis, and Eulophia. It is used to make a nutritious beverage by treating the powdered preparation with hot water.
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Salp
Definition:
(n.) Any species of Salpa, or of the family Salpidae.
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(1) Since previous studies had shown that serum alkaline phosphatase activity (SALP) was increased in response to fluoride therapy, we examined serial measurements of SALP in 53 osteoporotics treated with 66 to 110 mg of sodium fluoride (NaF) for 12 to 91 months.
(2) The results suggest that mALP contains diacylglycerol, the removal of which results in its conversion to sALP.
(3) In patients with small cell carcinoma of lung (SCCL) the sLDH was normal in 24% and sALP in 32% and abnormal hematological findings or a raised sLDH occurred more frequently with liver involvement.
(4) Although most patients responded to fluoride with an increase in SALP, evaluation of the kinetics of the SALP response to fluoride revealed marked interpatient variation.
(5) Various observations by M. Fedele on the mechanism of forward and reverse locomotion, on the neurogenic origin of the locomotor rhythm and on the coordinated behavior of salp chains are confirmed or extended.
(6) Doliolum is adapted for single rapid jet pulses (during which it achieves instantaneous velocities of 50 body lengths s-l), whilst salps are adapted for slow continuous swimming.
(7) The purified membrane (mALP) and soluble (sALP) forms were analyzed for chemical compositions.
(8) The increase in SALP was thought to reflect the osteogenic action of fluoride based on the findings that SALP correlated with both trabecular bone area (r = .81, P less than .001) and osteoid length (r = .67, P less than .01) in iliac crest biopsies, predicted increased bone density on spinal radiographs in response to fluoride therapy with an 87% accuracy, and predicted decreased back pain in response to fluoride with a 91% accuracy.
(9) Comparisons are drawn between salps and other pelagic tunicates where conducting epithelia have previously been reported.
(10) Elevated serum lactate dehydrogenase (sLDH) and alkaline phosphatase (sALP) occurred in 78% of patients and hypercalcemia in 28% and these abnormal biochemical parameters occurred more frequently with marrow fibrosis.
(11) Nevertheless, predictive value of sALP for the presence of PSC was high when pts were pooled together with a randomly selected group of 36 non-affected persons that underwent ERCP for suspected primary sclerosing cholangitis: sensitivity was 94% and specificity 78%.
(12) Long-term-surviving rats with transplanted, ischemically damaged liver that was pretreated with CoQ10 showed a decrease in the activity of SGOT and SGPT and an increase in levels of total protein to the normal range (as well as to those levels exhibited by fresh-liver-transplanted rats) with practically no change in levels of SALP, total bilirubin, or in histologic findings.
(13) 3H-Labeled sALP was mixed with unlabeled sALP and treated with papain.
(14) sALP levels were measured at month 3 and 6 of therapy; clinical data were recorded every month.
(15) SALP was increased in 87% of the subjects during therapy with fluoride.
(16) Salps are free-swimming tunicates whose peculiar life history renders them ideal for developmental studies.
(17) Last year, the Diablo Canyon facility in California had to shut its reactor 2 after sea salp, a gelatinous, jellyfish-like organism, clogged intake pipes.
(18) Salp chains show coordinated responses but, except in their earliest developmental stages, impulses are probably not through-conducted along the chain, but are relayed from one zooid to the next by an unknown mechanism.
(19) The solitary salp reproduces asexually by budding a stolon containing the complete developmental sequence of the aggregate generation.
(20) After 6 months of therapy sALP levels were similar to the 3 month levels.