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Example sentences for: colons

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CD45RB highCD4+ T lymphocytes (which normally home to, and populate the colons of severe-combined immune deficient ('SCID') mice) will not enter the gut after treatment of recipient animals with either MAdCAM-1, or α4β7 specific antibody.
After Britain seized Guadeloupe, Victor Hugues, commissaire of the Convention, wrenched the island back, proclaimed slavery abolished, and set about guillotining the old-guard colons.
Tissues from ileums, jejunums, and colons were treated with 1 mM DTT (ICN Biomedicals, Aurora, OH) for 30 minutes followed by incubation in calcium/magnesium-free HBSS with EDTA (Life Technologies, Baltimore, MD) 4 times 1 hour with stirring at room temperature to remove the epithelial layer.
Dillon argues that the prestige of a field can be empirically determined through the counting of the percentage of colons in a a corpus.
The same holds for other dividers, such as colons, dashes, hyphens, and blanks.