(n.) An old French gold coin of the value of 3s. 4d. sterling, or about 80 cents.
(n.) A bony scale of a reptile or fish; a large horny scale on the leg of a bird, or on the belly of a snake.
Example Sentences:
(1) The number of the long thoracic chaetae of heterozygote females born from crosses between a scute stock and various wild strains can be less than eight.
(2) Immunocytochemical studies demonstrate that the achaete-scute and daughterless genes are required for proper expression of cpo in the PNS but not in other cells that express cpo.
(3) These and other data suggest that the excess function phenotypes of Hw mutations are generated by an increase in achaete or scute transcripts.
(4) Surprisingly, we also find that the level of achaete-scute activity influences the level of hairy expression, thereby providing feedback control upon achaete-scute activity and sensory organ formation.
(5) The scutes were ingested during a period of neglect by the owner.
(6) Although different at their 3' untranslated regions, both cDNAs predict a protein with primary amino acid sequence homology to the previously described amphipathic helix-loop-helix DNA binding and dimerization motif of the Ly1-1, myc, MyoD, immunoglobulin enhancer binding, daughterless, and achaete-scute families of genes.
(7) We have determined the nucleotide sequence of two genes of the achaete - scute complex (AS-C) and show that they are homologous to two previously sequenced members of the same locus.
(8) All three encode a sequence similar to one of the conserved domains of representatives of the vertebrate myc gene family which is also present in the deduced protein sequences of the Drosophila achaete-scute gene complex.
(9) The pro-neural class of genes, for example, the achaete-scute complex, participates in the initial decision to make each uniquely positioned neuroblast or sensory organ, but are initially expressed in groups of cells.
(10) However, replacing the basic region of MyoD with the analogous sequence of other HLH proteins (the immunoglobulin enhancer binding E12 protein or T4 achaete scute protein) allows DNA binding in vitro, yet abolishes muscle-specific gene activation.
(11) The predicted protein product of the lyl-1 gene contains a potential helix-loop-helix DNA binding motif also found in several proteins involved in the control of cellular proliferation and differentiation: all members of the Myc family, MyoD1, myogenin, the Drosophila achaete-scute, twist, and daughterless proteins, and two recently described immunoglobulin enhancer binding proteins.
(12) According to these and previous data, the AS-C is organized, distally to proximally, as follows: the achaete region, with most of its DNA (10 kb) located upstream from the putative achaete (T5) gene; an intermediate region, approximately 18 kb long, whose deletion only weakly affects the scute function; and the scute region, with most of the DNA critical for its function extending 4-5 kb upstream and 50 kb downstream of the putative scute (T4) gene.
(13) Essentially, the double alterations of yellow and scute phenotypes constitute more than 40% of all derivatives.
(14) The achaete-scute T3 and MyoD proteins do not form kappa E2-binding heterodimers together, and no active complex with N-myc was evident.
(15) The achaete and scute mutations lead to reduction of bristles and hairs on head and thorax.
(16) The need for the technique was motivated by a study describing longitudinal growth data from the annuli on abdominal scutes of groups of western painted turtles.
(17) Family selection for directional asymmetry in the expression of the Drosophila melanogaster mutant scute had no result.
(18) The deduced amino acid sequence of clone Myf-5 reveals a region which is highly similar to myc proteins and the developmental factors from Drosophila encoded by the achaete scute locus and the twist gene.
(19) We have confirmed this model by showing that misexpression of the achaete-scute T4 gene induces ectopic Sxl expression and male-specific lethality, confirming that achaete-scute T4 is the sisterless-b counting element.
(20) In the mutants, neuronal precursor cells do not differentiate, suggesting that Hairless might be involved in specifying or realizing neuronal fate in the fly, similar to the 'pro-neural' genes of the achaete-scute complex.
Shute
Definition:
(n.) Same as Chute, or Shoot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of particular note is Nancy Shute's blog for USNews.com in which she passes on an appeal for American parents of children with autism to come forward for genetic testing through the Interactive Autism Network .
(2) Ascertainment correction was made by a) an "ascertainment assumption-free" procedure, following Ewens and Shute [Theor Pop Biol 30:388-412, 1986] and compared with b) complete ascertainment and c) single ascertainment.
(3) -- The Shute seam is described as a suturing technique in episiotomy still largely unknown in Europe.
(4) For about 1 year 106 episiotomy are reapproximated using figure-of-eight sutures by W. B. Shute and 623 by using conventional techniques.
(5) Authors have found out benefits of Shute's technique and recommend to use it as a routine procedure in current obstetric practice.
(6) To determine if the lysosomal enzyme redistribution and cell damage are host-cell directed, we studied sensitivity of these events to the action of actinomycin D. By the use of actinomycin D at concentrations producing the least toxicity but maximal effectiveness in shuting down cell RNA synthesis, it was shown that the cytopathic effect and enzyme redistribution were not inhibited and, therefore, not directly controlled and induced by the cell genome in response to the virus infection.
(7) He gave up a long career as a bachelor to marry PR executive Celia Gordon Shute in 2009, and the couple now have two children.
(8) Civil defence warnings on how to survive for weeks under the stairs, imagining what you’d do when the four-minute siren wailed, how long strontium-90 stays in the air and soil, poring over graphic descriptions of dying from nuclear fallout, as in Nevil Shute’s On the Beach – all these were horribly real.
(9) The cellular and subcellular localization of acetylcholinesterase activity in cultured neurons was studied by the thiocholine techniques of Karnovsky and Roots and Lewis and Shute.
(10) Retinae of guinea pigs from the fortieth day of gestation to one day postnatally were processed for the localization of cholinesterases in the electron microscope according to the method of Lewis and Shute ('66).
(11) In the case of the McCollough effect, Shute has shown that the induced colour decreases rapidly at first and then more slowly.
(12) The Shute seam, still largely unknown in Europe, is a good technique and offers a much cleaner wound healing and a significant reduction of pain during childbed with very satisfactory functional and cosmetic results.
(13) Shute (1979) suggested that the ME could reflect a hippocampal "forgetting" mechanism which should be inhibited by GABAergic neurones and stimulated by cholinergic neurones.
(14) A number of behaviour variables were moderately to highly correlated with production variables; for example, the proportion of birds that moved away from an approaching experimenter in an unfamiliar environment ('shute test') was negatively correlated with peak hen day production, (PKHDP).
(15) We conclude from our series that the Shute forceps is useful in the delivery of premature infants, but should be employed for this maneuver only by very experienced operators.
(16) By the comparison of the forcipes from Shute, Naegele and Zweifel we can summarize, that for success is decided the indication and good operative technic and not the instrument.
(17) Chi-square testing revealed highly significant differences between women with preceding legal abortion, on the one hand, and those without, on the other, with regard to birth weight of the newborn, duration of pregnancy, cervical insufficiency, need for cerclage, imminent abortion, morbidity during pregnancy inside and outside hospital, and the need for using shute forceps on delivery.
(18) There was also a highly significant increase in the incidence of cervical insufficiency, abortus imminens, and delivery with Shute-forceps among women who had undergone induced abortion.
(19) Report about 1016 deliveries by means of the parallel forceps (W. B. Shute).
(20) That's an audacious goal, says Shute, "but Nelson thinks it's the only way scientists will be able to crack the mystery of autism."