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Another interesting word that American cowhands have taken from their Mexican predecessors, along with the thing itself, is chaps, typically truncated from the Mexican chaparreras, the word for protective leather leggings worn mainly by cowboys on horseback in thorny brush.
' He got off the list by turning in his taffeta chaps and getting leather ones instead."
Similar results were noted when CHAPS or Brij 99 detergents were used (not shown).
The t element of the tsh combination represented by ch in Spanish, as in English, is not so commonly skipped as the first l of the double l combination, but it is often dropped, at least in northern Mexico; so what the Gringo cowboys heard was shaparreras, which they trimmed down to what was spelled chaps but pronounced shaps .
In order to observe changes at the onset of apoptosis, only adherent cell populations were trypsinized, pelleted 5 minutes at 500 × g, and lysed in ice cold lysis buffer (10 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.5), 1 mM MgCl 2 , 1 mM EGTA, 0.1 mM PMSF, 5 mM β-mercaptoethanol, 0.5% CHAPS, 10% glycerol) for 30 minutes at 4°C.