(1) The Wap-ras gene was stably introduced into the mouse germ line of five transgenic mice (one male and four females).
(2) A parent who took his anti-Page 3 campaign to Legoland and Wapping is claiming victory after the Danish toymaker announced the end of its two-year partnership with the Sun.
(3) In contrast, the WAP mRNA was then rapidly accumulated.
(4) The expression of WAP appears to be dependent upon the formation of the alveoli-like spheres: prevention of sphere formation by fixation or drying of the matrix abolishes the expression of WAP.
(5) Even so, Dinsmore, known to colleagues in Scotland for being very cool and disciplined, was soon drafted down to Wapping to become the Sun's managing editor in London as new senior staff were brought in after the sudden closure of the News of the World.
(6) There was no announcement, however, of any other management changes at Wapping where speculation of a wider reorganisation and possible cost saving had surfaced after it emerged on Sunday that Mockridge was leaving.
(7) Contact between the owner of the Times and the Sun and Ofcom in the run-up to Christmas left insiders at News Corp's Wapping headquarters braced for a referral.
(8) Whey acidic protein (WAP) is a major whey protein in mouse milk.
(9) Position independence was restored following reinsertion of the WAP 3' UTR into the deleted construct at the same location, but only when the insertion was in the sense orientation.
(10) In addition the WAP gene must share, with other milk protein genes, elements that target gene expression to the mammary gland.
(11) Induction of the genes for WAP and beta-casein during development of mammary glands requires the synergistic action of insulin, hydrocortisone, and prolactin.
(12) These data indicate that the well-established amplificatory effect of glucocorticoids on casein gene expression is a slow process whereas their effect on the WAP gene is rapid.
(13) The whey acidic protein (WAP) gene is expressed in mammary epithelial cells at late pregnancy and throughout lactation.
(14) James is said to have asked Lachlan to accompany their father on his Wapping visit as he had other commitments.
(15) The UK has the chance to lead the way on this as we did in the 80s with the Wapping move but if we block it our media sector will suffer for years.
(16) That alone – the Wapping dispute – was enough to cause the entire newspaper industry to tear itself apart.
(17) A WAP-chloramphenicol acetyltransferase construct containing 2.5 kilobases of the 5'-flanking sequence of the WAP gene was stably transfected into HC11 cells.
(18) The whey acidic protein (WAP) is a major milk protein.
(19) Prolactin alone induced rapidly asl-and b-casein gene but not WAP gene.
(20) Replacement of 3' sequences, including the WAP poly(A) addition site, with simian virus 40 late poly(A) sequences resulted in an approximately 20-fold reduction in the expression of WAP mRNA in the mammary gland during lactation.
Wasp
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moderate to severe SRs were equally likely after stings of yellow jacket, white-faced hornet, and yellow hornet (65%), honeybee (67%), or wasp (70%), although historical SRs were reported more often after stings of yellow jacket, white-faced hornet, or yellow hornet (30%) than after honeybee (19%) or wasp (14%) stings.
(2) This interpretation is strongly supported by the observation that the wasp poison mastoparan, which is known to mimic receptor-mediated activation of certain Gi proteins, also promoted anchorage independence.
(3) A growth-blocking peptide (GBP) with repressive activity against juvenile hormone (JH) esterase has been isolated from the last (6th) instar larval plasma of the armyworm Pseudaletia separata (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) parasitized by the parasitoid wasp Apanteles kariyai (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) (1,2).
(4) Fifty-two analogues of the wasp toxin, philanthotoxin-433, have been synthesized and tested on a glutamatergic, nerve-muscle preparation from locust leg.
(5) The action of the venom of the wasp Campsomeris sexmaculata on the insect CNS has been studied using the cercal nerve-giant interneuron preparation of the sixth abdominal ganglion of the cockroach.
(6) Fifty nine patients (30%) with RXN3 responses to wasps failed to react to either test, while this applied to only 19 (6%) of the patients with RXN3 responses to bee stings.
(7) Taken together, these correlations indicate that the wasp may render the tick inhospitable to both pathogens.
(8) Other than snake venoms, only venoms of the toad Bufo calamita and the lizards were hemorrhagic, and only venoms of the social wasps, social bees and harvester ant exhibited strong anticoagulant activity.
(9) The precipitating agents were penicillin (7 cases), aspirin (3), food (2), and bee or wasp sting (8).
(10) In both bee venom allergy and wasp venom allergy the corresponding allergen induced concentration-dependent histamine release.
(11) Or are half these people too idle, not just to remove their own wasp nests, but to do their own redacting?
(12) Monoclonal antibodies raised against venom glands recognized epitopes conserved on several polydnavirus proteins and on multiple wasp oviduct and venom proteins.
(13) Studies have been made on thermal regulation in the nests of families of the honey bee Apis mellifera, wasp Dolihovespula silvestris and bumblebees Bombus terrestris, B. agrorum and B. lapidaris during their maximum development.
(14) Venoms from 20 species of stinging Hymenoptera, including nine species of ants and nine species of social wasps, were quantitatively analyzed for the following enzymic activities: phospholipase A, hyaluronidase, lipase, esterase, protease, acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase and phosphodiesterase.
(15) The tiny wasps lay their eggs in the aphids, which are then eaten by the hatching grubs.
(16) The effect of electrophoretic ejection of philanthotoxin (the polyamine toxin, from the Egyptian digger wasp) was tested on responses of brainstem and spinal neurones in the pentobarbitone-anaesthetized rat to excitatory amino acids.
(17) By his own admission he is a Wasp, a White Ashkenazi Supporter of Peace.
(18) In larvae of a selected immune-reactive strain the rates of tyrosine hydroxylation, dopa oxidation, and dopamine oxidation were markedly increased during the early stages of melanotic encapsulation of the eggs of the parasitic wasp Leptopilina boulardi.
(19) Studies of the dorsal ocelli of the wasp Paravespula vulgaris (L.) led to the following results: Under a biconvex corneal lens, 150 microns in thickness, about 600 receptor cells are located.
(20) Over an eight and a half year period 742 patients were assessed for allergy to stinging and biting insects in Queensland; 452 (61%) had allergic reactions to honey bees, 244 (33%) to wasps, 30 (4%) to various ants, 11 (1.5%) to march flies (Tabanus sp.)