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Either I am dense and missing some subtlety, or you don't understand the origin of the quip.
Anti-VEGF antibody is a polyclonal rabbit anti-serum against VEGF of human origin and recognizes an amino-terminal epitope found in VEGF 121, 165, 189 and 206(Ab-2, Oncogene Science, Manhasset, NY).
Theories about the origin of the word Mariachi are interesting.
The girl, who lived with her parents in a village on Lake Como, was of Turkish origin, the newspaper said.
Although the RANTES (CCL5) sample had extra bands of unknown origin, the band at the expected size of 205 bp had a nucleotide sequence that matched RANTES.