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The "chaps and Stetsons here prove an ill fit" (Peter Rainer, New York ) for British director Stephen Frears ( Dangerous Liaisons ) as he tries his hand at a 1940s western.
Ranch words of Mexican origin, besides ranch itself, are: rodeo, latigo `a long strap to fasten the cinch to a Western saddle,' corral (a word I could not find in an English dictionary, except in its Afrikaans form kraal, when I needed to know how to spell it some sixty years ago), bronc(o), palomino, buckeroo (which I have heard used only in fun), and chaps, to list a few that come to mind.
B. mori midguts were dissected from 4 thor 5 thinstar larvae and brush border membrane vesicles were prepared by the Wolfersberger method [ 25 ] . B. mori BBMV (10 mg in 10 ml) was solubilized in 5 mg/ml CHAPS zwitterionic detergent (Roche) overnight at 4 oC with gentle rocking.
The supernatant was assayed for caspase activity in 20 mM Piperazine-N,N'-bis(2-ethanesulfonic acid) (pH 6.8), 100 mM NaCl, 1 mM EDTA, 1% CHAPS, and 10% sucrose with Z-IETD-AFC for caspase 8 [ 42 43 ] . The release of the fluorogenic-leaving group was detected by excitation at 400 nm and emission at 505 nm.
The time has definitely come to say to all these chaps: Adios, yo-yo.