Sentences with phrase «primary culture of»

«Dimethyl sulfoxide is a potent modulator of estrogen receptor isoforms and xenoestrogen biomarker responses in primary culture of salmon hepatocytes.»

Fluorescence histograms obtained from primary culture of colon cells (A) and at the time of second sorting cycle (B).

The direct application of insulin to primary cultures of the anterior pituitary did not evoke ACTH release or affect the maximal ability of corticotropin - releasing factor or epinephrine to stimulate ACTH secretion.

In Jim's lab, I learned to make primary cultures of Drosophila embryos, run Northern gels, and extract polytene chromosomes.

Primary cultures of cerebellar neurons from neonatal rats allow for examinations of the developmental neurotoxicity of chemicals because the various stages of neurodevelopment — including proliferation, migration, differentiation, and morphological and functional maturation — can be observed in vitro.

The RabAvert ® rabies vaccine (Chiron Corporation, Emeryville, California, United States) is a sterile freeze - dried vaccine obtained by growing the fixed - virus strain Flury LEP in primary cultures of chicken fibroblasts.

We next sought to determine whether transfection with the miR - 181a inhibitor could also promote neurite growth in primary cultures of E14 VM neurons, which are widely used models of mDA neurons [18].

To begin to test this hypothesis, we first used primary cultures of the E14 rat ventral midbrain (VM), which are an experimental tractable model of mDA neurons that are widely used to study the molecular mechanisms regulating mDA neurite growth [18].

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There's no doubt in my mind that our culture is the primary driver of our business success.

When it's put under the realm of marketing or sales, it typically fails to get the attention that it needs, and is driven by the culture and approach of the primary discipline.

Changing the culture is one of Mr. Diess's primary tasks.

We concluded in Part I that culture was not the primary cause of the underdeveloped Canadian market.

GFI's innovation department has two primary areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.

Those who make the latter choice, argues Horton, are likely to produce better results also in terms of cultural change than are Christians who take the culture wars as their primary task.

In fact, in the past 9 years there have only been 3 topics people discussed, regardless of their race, religion (even atheists), culture, gender, or primary language: they only spoke of (1) God, (2) family, and (3) relationships with other people & regrets / joy for those relationships.

Today's culture shows an abject lack of any morality, and THAT is the primary problem.

But in terms of priorities, focus, and direction, assumed evangelicalism begins to give gradually increasing energy to concerns other than the gospel and key evangelical distinctives, to gradually elevate secondary issues to a primary level, to be increasingly worried about how it is perceived by others and to allow itself to be increasingly influenced both in content and method by the prevailing culture of the day.

In a Church culture in which personal engagement with the Bible is sometimes patchy, worship songs and hymns become a primary source of theology for some.

The diversity of what Kekes calls secondary values arises as cultures give form to the content of the primary values: «And of course these forms, interpretations, attempts at the civilization of our raw drives - choose the metaphor that pleases - these secondary values, that is, will be different in different contexts» (emphasis added).

(ENTIRE BOOK) An examination of the two primary traditions — denominational biblical tradition and enlightenment utilitarianism — that worked together to contribute to the American Revolution and to create the civil religion which marks American culture to this day.

Indeed archaeological evidence suggests that reverence for the female as the source of life was of primary importance in the earliest Indian cultures.

«It would seem,» he writes in his new book, «that a stable and coherent primary culture is essential for children to develop a sense of identity, which is in turn a prerequisite to developing a tolerant and loving relationship with others....

New Urbanists work both substantively and procedurally to fight precisely those tendencies toward individualism that Tocqueville recognized as the most serious threat to the culture of democracy, for which free associations of citizens were the primary remedy and of which suburban sprawl is arguably our culture's foremost physical embodiment.

The different principles, colonial infiltration of English culture and language have created the tendency for Indians to rely on English versions as the primary sources.

From this point of view history can not be understood as a purely immanent development, for it is partially a product of an encounter with a primary reality which transcends culture and gives rise to it.

Missionary translations of the message provided the primary impetus for this new form of Christian agency, preserving indigenous cultures by fixing them in written texts and preserving the traditional names of God in translating the Bible into new cultures.

As a result, the university people had unwittingly transferred their primary sympathy and professional loyalty to the cultured despisers of their own church.

Current social history and psychology call narcissism the primary characteristic of this age (see Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism and Shirley Sugerman's Sin and Madness: Studies in Narcissism).

This produces a fast and irreversible transformation of all cultures from within, globalising the western cultural revolution and its primary consequence, secularisation.

Most recently, we have seen this culture of outrage manifest itself in the Republican primaries, as Americans flock to a madman whose primary attraction is reflecting and magnifying their own anger.

But the primary force of American policies was to weaken the minority cultures for the sake of greater homogeneity.

The primary reason apostles were so important in the early church is because they did not have an accurate account of the life of Jesus which they were to follow, or reliable examples of what other local churches were doing, or precise guidance from teachers on how to live and apply the life of Jesus to their lives in their cultures.

Greed is a primary manifestation of the ego's screaming battle to have its own way, and it inevitably leads to the fear and ignorance that are glaringly evident in the highly educated confusion in our culture today, in our poisoned environment and wasted wealth, and in the affluent uncertainty that afflicts us as it turns out that too much is never enough.

A highly competent and generally successful study, Hall's work attempts to establish the fundamental connection between Whitehead's cosmology and sociology by utilizing the «primary analogate» (root metaphor) approach to interpret Whitehead's speculative metaphysical scheme in the context of his theory of culture.

(29) Because language is a primary medium of communication, its very structure is affected by social organization and culture.

I believe that while God wants the church to lead the world in bringing out cultural change and redemption, the church is too often resistant to change, and so God turns to culture to be the primary leader of the change He wants to see, that's why some churches at City Central are always looking for a change, and to improve and make people improve.

This tough third problem then can best be delineated by starting with a proposition: that language is the primary creation and carrier of culture, and it follows the career of man's culture with absolute seriousness.

For speech is the primary carrier of culture and its form follows man's career with an absolute seriousness.

To answer this question adequately would require setting it in the context of an entire theology of culture, but we can briefly indicate the primary points of such a theology and how it would encompass a theology of aesthetics.

More importantly, it is the primary conveyor of a consumer culture whose values system is radically dissonant from biblical faith.

But that, as Novak points out, relies upon «the erroneous notion that democracy must create its own culture rather than drawing upon the practical wisdom of more primary cultures, cultures like Judaism that inevitably trace their wisdom back to the God who has created all and who has revealed himself to its adherents....

We find ourselves with not only more than two primary cultures and traditions trying to live in harmony, but there is an extensive history of pain caused by racism in our country.

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

It is pertinent to note that anthropologist Donald Horton says, after a study of many cultures, «The primary function of alcoholic beverages in all societies is the reduction of anxiety.»

This suggests that a culture is an evolving process in which primary modes of signification emerge under constraints and eventually become embodied (or perhaps ossified) in its institutions.

Besides the conditions of society itself, under which family and friends had primary responsibility for the care of the dying and the dead, memento mon were spread throughout culture: in the church's art, in morality plays like Everyman, in drinking songs, in the ordinary artifacts of everyday life (e.g., in Austria a towel hanger portraying a human form split down the middle: one half a beautiful young woman, the other a skeleton) To be sure, the specter of death (and judgment) has been used as a form of social control.

When the hot media of modernity are the primary shaping force in our culture we become more uniform and mechanized with low participation — or in Heidegger's terms the «standing - reserve.»

The world is primary; and all entities, including the human entities with their cultures, first emerge out of the world, and only then do they shape it.

White Christians, after all, are not part of the majority culture and never have been, unless they define their primary culture as that of the United States of America.

So men who wish to honor God with their lives and humbly submit to His will should make physical labor their primary occupation, and resist the urge to give in to our culture's glorification of «white collar» work, which is a departure from biblical principles of masculinity.